[meteorite-list] Kenya Fall & Hammers

From: Michael Farmer <mike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:07:14 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <1314140834.7036.YahooMailClassic_at_web1110.biz.mail.sk1.yahoo.com>

Too bad there is not

--- On Tue, 8/23/11, Greg Catterton <star_wars_collector at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Greg Catterton <star_wars_collector at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Kenya Fall & Hammers
> To: "Jim Wooddell" <nf114ec at npgcable.com>, "Meteorite-List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Date: Tuesday, August 23, 2011, 4:54 PM
> Wow, congrats. This is a big money
> fall.
>
> 10,500 grams recovered at $100 per gram will yield over 1
> million in profit...
>
> Can wait to see pics.
>
> ?
> Greg Catterton
> www.wanderingstarmeteorites.com
> On Ebay: http://stores.shop.ebay.com/wanderingstarmeteorites
> On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/WanderingStarMeteorites
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jim Wooddell <nf114ec at npgcable.com>
> To: Meteorite-List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Cc:
> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 5:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Kenya Fall & Hammers
>
> This is from Mike...
>
> Trying to get this to the meteorite list but tried more
> than 30 hours ago with no response from Art.
>
> This email is premature due to circumstances out of my
> control sadly.
>
> I am announcing the recovery of over 11.7 kilograms of the
> new Kenya meteorite fall from 16 July, 2011.
>
> I saw the news of the fall on 17 July, and purchased a
> ticket to Kenya about 4 hours later.? I arrived in Kenya on
> 20 July, and on the morning of 21 July, less than 125 hours
> after the fall, I had more than a kilo in hand. Upon
> arriving at the fall location, I met a guy who knew a girl
> who saw a stone land only 5 feet from her in a coffee field
> while working at ~10:30 am when the explosions rocked the
> sky. It was cloudy at the fall site so no one saw anything,
> just heard massive explosions and then loud whistling and
> sounds that most described as gunfire.
>
> Moments after buying that stone, I went to another house of
> a boy who found a 777 gram stone in a coffee field about 30
> minutes after the fall.
>
> I stayed 9 days in Kenya, purchasing 10.5 kilos of stones,
> including the as of now main mass of 3.5 kg. The first stone
> that was reported on the news weighs less than 2.5 kg, not 5
> kg reported.
>
> Most interesting about this fall is that it also has 3
> seperate hammerstones!
>
> First is a househitter that smashed through a metal house
> roof. I paid to have the rooftop cut out and purchased
> several fragments of the meteorite, including more on this
> trip.
>
> Second was a stone that weighed more than 350 grams which
> went through the roof of a greenhouse, and was witnessed by
> a man working there, it smashed into a metal growing table
> and exploded into hundreds of pieces. I have all of that one
> and the plastic hole where it was cut out to be patched.
>
> Third is another greenhouse smasher from the same complex,
> found only 3 days ago by workers moving plants out. It broke
> into several pieces virtually all of which Greg Hupe and I
> recovered. It has been subjected to high humidity for a
> month.
>
>
> I have built a strewnfield map of all but 3 pieces, with
> exact locations.
>
> I returned almost two weeks ago for round two with Greg
> Hupe. We were able to purchase only an additional 6 stones
> totalling 1150 grams.
>
> This fall is not thick, despite intense searching by
> hundreds of people who need the money very badly, they have
> found little.
>
> We hired 25 workers for the last two weeks, working from 8
> am to 6 pm scouring the bushland, cornfields, banana
> plantations, and coffee fields, without a single recovery
> from them.? I hunted and walked a great many miles myself
> with no finds. This was a large fall but seems to be very
> spread out and large areas are either not huntable or are
> under heavy cultivation as harvest and tilling is going on
> now.
>
> I have already sold several large pieces of this meteorite,
> I will have some for sale, but less than 1 kg.
>
> I will be building a page about it in the next 48 hours as
> I am in London now, on my way home. It is already in the lab
> under study, thin sections on the way and from my own
> observations I think this meteorite will likely be an L4 or
> 5.
>
> It has no brecciation or veining other than what I suspect
> are some metal veins seen from the outside, have cut
> nothing.
>
> Expect to hear more from me as soon as I get rested up and
> get my site ready.
>
> There will be little of this available, mostly small
> fragments, I may have one or two larger stones available,
> 279~? g and 313~ gram 100% complete, but not cheap!
>
> Expenses were more than $1000 per day not including
> airfare. Nobody works for free in Kenya, to get them to
> move, money had to come out.
>
> In their own words " I need to be properly motivated".
> Heard that exact phrase more than once.
>
> Michael Farmer
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Meteorite Mania!"
> <meteoritemania at gmail.com>
> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 2:04 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Kenya Fall & Hammers
>
>
> > Where is all the talk about the newly recovered Kenya
> fall with
> > multiple hammers?
> >
> > The list should be on fire right now...and where are
> the pictures?
> > We're itching to see fresh crust.
> >
> > Well done Michael, keep up the good work.
> >
> > Ty
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