[meteorite-list] First Meteorite Hunt

From: Abe Guenther <abe.guenther_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:34:19 -0500
Message-ID: <3752D40A-BC2E-497C-91B6-2F8AD6C41D3D_at_mnsi.net>

No way. Lubbock? I used to live in Seminole between Lubbock and
Odessa. I still have sister that lives in Lubbock.
Thanks for your response and I'm glad you enjoyed the story!
Cogratulations on your find too. I can't wait to read about it when I
get on my computer.
Abe Guenther

Sent from my iPhone

On 2010-11-20, at 2:18 PM, Todd Smith <lubbinv at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Abe !
>
> What a great story. I live in Lubbock, Tx and found the New Deal
> Meteorite this year :
>
>
> http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/index.php?sea=New+deal&sfor=names&ants=&falls=&valids=&stype=contains&lrec=50&map=ge&browse=&country=All&srt=name&categ=All&mblist=All&rect=&phot=&snew=0&pnt=Normal%20table&code=52094
>
> I was just wondering what part of Texas you grew up in ?
>
> Congrats on a great find!
>
> Todd Smith
>
>
> On Nov 19, 2010, at 8:29 PM, "Guenther" <abe.guenther at mnsi.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi Sonny,
>>
>> I will have to tell my son that I talked to you! I'm sure he will be
>> impressed. He watched Meteorite Men with me and because of that
>> episode that
>> you were on, I was able to convince him to come along. He had heard
>> me for
>> over a year talking about wanting to go meteorite hunting but it
>> was only
>> after that episode that he was excited about it. Because of certain
>> circumstances, he and I have not had the opportunity to take many
>> father and
>> son trips and so it meant a great deal to me when he decided to
>> come. He is
>> a typical cool kid (that age where friends come first) and if you
>> knew him,
>> you would think he's not the type to be interested. I was expecting
>> him to
>> be kind of a spectator but to my surprise he was really into it.
>>
>> I marked the GPS and hope to get out there again in January if all
>> goes
>> well. No telling how well I will do but will be sure to report back.
>>
>> Abe Guenther
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: wahlperry at aol.com [mailto:wahlperry at aol.com]
>> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 8:45 PM
>> To: abe.guenther at mnsi.net; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] First Meteorite Hunt
>>
>> Hi Abe,
>>
>> Great find. You need to go find the rest of them : )
>>
>> Sonny
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Guenther <abe.guenther at mnsi.net>
>> To: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Sent: Fri, Nov 19, 2010 10:26 am
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] First Meteorite Hunt
>>
>>
>> Here is a short story about a first time meteorite hunting
>> experience.I
>> live in an area of Canada that has not yielded any meteorites to
>> speak
>> ofso I knew I needed to look at hotter, dryer areas for the best
>> chance
>> at asuccessful first trip. I did over a year of research and planning
>> before Ifinally made my decision where to go. I read countless
>> success
>> stories andwatched a lot of meteorite hunting shows and videos on
>> YouTube beforenarrowing my search. Almost overwhelmed at all the
>> places
>> I could try, a fewweeks before the much awaited trip I decided on
>> Nevada. Besides the cheapairfare to Vegas, there were lots of success
>> stories near Vegas. I had a fewplaces mapped out in Nevada, Arizona
>> and
>> California that I wanted to huntover the 9 day trip. After finding
>> nothing in 5 days of my lone journey itwas time to pick up my son who
>> flew in to join me for the final 4 days.Considering this was his
>> first
>> time too, I am sure he wasn't too confidentsince his dad hadn't found
>> anything yet. But he and I both knew we weresaving the best place for
>> last! This was the part of the trip we were bothanticipating because
>> our destination several hours away would be to a drylake bed that we
>> knew had yielded some meteorites just recently. Since itwas
>> supposed to
>> be a secret location, we were confident that if there werestill any
>> meteorites left, we would find some.It rained a lot on the way so we
>> were concerned about how bad it might be onthe lake bed. We arrived
>> at
>> the dry lake area near dark so all we wanted todo the first day was
>> figure out how to get to the lake since there were noclear roads to
>> access it. We could hardly wait to get out there the nextmorning
>> bright
>> and early. We finally made it to the lake bed at about 9:00amafter a
>> muddy trek and nearly 2 hours travel from the motel. The rain
>> haddefinitely made it slippery but we were surprises that it wasn't
>> actuallytoo bad on the lake bed itself. The first day didn't yield
>> anything specialexcept a really fun time. My son found a complete
>> dried
>> out coyote skullthat he kept and an arrow head. We also found a
>> several
>> rocks that drew ourmagnets but they were obviously not meteorites
>> because of deep, sharpcavities and what we would soon discover over
>> the
>> next couple of days, thiswas a common rock in the area. We usually
>> parked and then walked for a fewhours at a time and when we started
>> to
>> get tired, we would just drive thetruck during our rests. It was
>> during
>> one of these drives that I happen tolook to my left and noticed
>> what I
>> thought was another cow patty. I stoppedand the first thing I did
>> when
>> I got out was kick it. It didn't move. Idon't remember what I said
>> but
>> my son knew that I was excited aboutsomething. I picked it up and it
>> felt like 5 pounds. It was unusually heavycompared to the other
>> rocks.
>> I had no doubt it would draw the magnet but itwas surprising to see
>> it
>> stick so hard. This was the last hour of the lastday of the trip and
>> all we could think is how lucky we had been to find ourfirst
>> meteorite
>> and to top it off, one so big!When we got home I still thought that
>> we
>> had been on the right lake bed. Ijust couldn't wait to tell everyone
>> about our success! I looked up someonewho has excellent knowledge of
>> meteorites and emailed him the pictures. Hewasn't quite convinced and
>> so he had me take some more pictures. To mydelight, he emailed me
>> back
>> a "congratulations". It was only after doingsome more research about
>> the lake bed that I realized we were 100 miles awayfrom the lake
>> bed we
>> had researched. In a way I am sort of glad we went tothe wrong lake
>> bed
>> but I'm happy we didn't know at the time. I don't know ifwe
>> discovered
>> a new meteorite fall but it is fun to think we did. Ignoranceis
>> bliss.A
>> few pictures:
>> http://aguenthe.mnsi.net/NM1.jpg,http://aguenthe.mnsi.net/NM2.jpg,
>> http://aguenthe.mnsi.net/NM3.jpg,http://aguenthe.mnsi.net/NM4.jpg.Abe
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