[meteorite-list] Twice Blessed Yankee Lobsterman

From: David Gunning <davidgunning_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:43:45 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <3852.69.50.53.154.1285710225.squirrel_at_webmail.fairpoint.net>

Greetings to all from this brand new list newbie. Wondering if anyone
has any info on a Maine coastal double meteorite "find" at Round Pond,
Maine, that occurred several years ago?

Seems a lobsterman was hauling his lobster boat up the public boat ramp
and out of the water for the winter season, back in 1953. Happening to
glance down at the ground at his feet and spied a 5 lb. 10 oz. meteorite
quietly sunning itself on the rocky beach. A remarkable find and made
all the more remarkable, perhaps, by the fact that the same lobsterman,
16 years later in 1969, hauling the same boat out of the same harbor, at
the same public boat ramp, glanced down at his feet and found another
meteorite, a 6 lb. 4 oz. beauty sunning itself, as well, midst the great
slabs of metamorphosed granite and gneiss. Maine's only double meteorite
find.

I am trying to find-out what type and classification those two coastal
sun bathing lobster loving meteorites are (were) and their eventual fate.

Anyone knows the ultimate disposition of these two missing Maine
lobsterized meteorites, please pass the butter, and let me know. Thanks.

Best wishes,

Dave Gunning
Received on Tue 28 Sep 2010 05:43:45 PM PDT