[meteorite-list] Photos of Holbrook Anniversary Hunt & Finds

From: Regine Petersen <fips_bruno_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:16:10 +0100 (BST)
Message-ID: <1311070570.92732.YahooMailClassic_at_web27001.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Absolutely amazing and nice photos, too!
Congratulations to all.

Regine


--- Erik Fisler <phxerik at yahoo.com> schrieb am Di, 19.7.2011:

> Von: Erik Fisler <phxerik at yahoo.com>
> Betreff: [meteorite-list] Photos of Holbrook Anniversary Hunt & Finds
> An: "Meteoritelist" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Datum: Dienstag, 19. Juli, 2011 09:04 Uhr
> Hello All,
>
> It was a pleasure to watch so many hunters make so many
> finds at Holbrook for
> the group hunt!? I was very happy to be asked to help
> guide hunters for the
> group hunt. I spent 5+ hours of my 19 hours in the field
> over
> Friday/Saturday/Sunday instructing hunters on where to hunt
> and what to look for
> and I can say it was awesome watching them grin when I
> verified their finds.?
> Kudos to Jim and Ruben for doing most of the behind the
> scenes organizing for
> the hunt.? There is a lot of patience involved with
> juggling 50 people and those
> who really listened walked away with the knowledge to find
> something that day or
> in the future.
>
> My finds from Friday and through the morning Saturday
> consisted of 3
> individuals, 2 fragments and a piece that was just fusion
> crust all for a total
> of less than 2 grams and my father was kicking my
> butt!!? After spending most of
> my morning driving back and forth from the hotel room to
> the strewn field and
> guiding hunters I decided to pick up my father and the
> small group he had taken
> on a hunt.? He asked me where I wanted to hunt and I
> told him I had seen Moni
> and Bob moving towards a flat in the middle of the north
> side and I wanted to
> beat them too it so we headed to the spot I had my eye on
> with the family he was
> guiding and began to search.? That's when I found a
> few fragments with in a few
> centimeters from each other stuck in the clay on the
> surface.? I had my dad
> drive the truck over so I could bring out the shovel and
> sieve, (as we had plaid
> the fragment game before....).? A few people
> surrounded as I slowly and
> carefully broke up the clay into the sieve.? I had
> about fifty grams in
> fragments when my shovel clinked against a much bigger
> piece in the ground and
> everyone froze with excitement.? That's when I pulled
> out the 240 gram
> piece!!!!!!!! It took about an hour and a half to recover
> the 160 grams in
> fragments and the 240 gram stone for a total of a 400 gram
> find. As far Holbrook
> goes, besides Larry's whopper, I haven't heard of that big
> of a find in the last
> few decades.? Ontop of that Richard had another mongo
> find of 47 grams which is
> extremely rare for Holbrook in 2011. Together we have over
> 500 Holbrooks with a
> 90% of them individuals, average size 1-2 grams and before
> that point my biggest
> was 23 grams and my father had found one around 30+ grams.
> It amazes me that
> there was a 400g find and a 47g find along with soooo many
> other stones all
> found in the same day, regardless if there were fifty
> hunters or 1000 hunters.
>
> Anywho... here is a link to the photos.? I uploaded
> them to my new Google+
> account which is linked to Picasa.? For those of you
> who don't know, Google+ is
> a networking site by Google that is still under testing and
> is only available to
> those invited by people who are testing it, for now
> anyway.? So if anyone wants
> to try Google+ shoot me an email and I'll shoot you an
> invite. Also since this
> is my first time using it to host an album it would be
> great if I got some
> reviews on how easy/difficult and how good/bad it is to
> decide if I'll use it
> again.
>
> Photos:
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/104550188270087713656/albums/5630939129597014113
>
>
> Thanks!
> [Erik]
>
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