[meteorite-list] First Meteorite Hunt

From: David Pensenstadler <dfpens01_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:31:19 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <718465.83049.qm_at_web113305.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

You guys live in the Lubbock Supercluster area and are going out to the desert to find meteorites?!

You should be able to walk out your front door and find meteorites!

Dave

--- On Sat, 11/20/10, Abe Guenther <abe.guenther at mnsi.net> wrote:

> From: Abe Guenther <abe.guenther at mnsi.net>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] First Meteorite Hunt
> To: "Todd Smith" <lubbinv at gmail.com>, "meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Date: Saturday, November 20, 2010, 2:34 PM
> 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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