[meteorite-list] New househitting meteorite fall from Mexico
From: Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 12:22:32 -0400 Message-ID: <CAKBPJW-ewun2EkdqqVw9mjQSi5BPRk2wWrM5uvbj-Vuzht85UA_at_mail.gmail.com> Awesome score! Is this going to be officially recognized as a fall by the Meteoritical Society? I'm curious because now I need to update my recent falls page - http://www.galactic-stone.com/pages/falls There are three other hammer falls from 2007 - Cali - which Mike Farmer is very familiar with. ;) Carancas - the Peruvian crater-maker. Mahadevpur - India. PS - the first link you posted tries to open as an octet-stream file, and I couldn't get it to open properly. Best regards, MikeG -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Galactic Stone & Ironworks - Meteorites & Amber (Michael Gilmer) Website - http://www.galactic-stone.com Facebook - http://tinyurl.com/42h79my News Feed - http://www.galactic-stone.com/rss/126516 Twitter - http://twitter.com/galacticstone EOM - http://www.encyclopedia-of-meteorites.com/collection.aspx?id=1564 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On 9/1/11, Michael Farmer <mike at meteoriteguy.com> wrote: > Hello all, one week after getting stones in Kenya last sunday I bought > pieces of my househitter from Muguga which had been sent all night by bus > from Mombassa, I flew to Mexico and this sunday bought another stone, a > househitter from San Juan Ocotan, Zapopan, Guadalajara. > > This meteorite 1,369 grams. This location is on the edge of the city, next > to a massive air force base. > > It fell in September 2007, exact date unknown. It fell at ~3:00 am and > smashed through a very poor house which had a tile roof covered with a tarp > and smashed into mud bricks. The stone still has marks of the blue tarp, and > the tile and mud bricks embedded in the stone. It was used for two years to > hold open a shop door by the homeowner and seen by another man who > recognized it as something special and acquired it. He finally emailed me > asking if it was a meteorite. > > I flew to Guadalajara and bought it this weekend. It is in perfect > condition, never damaged or cleaned thankfully, and while the owners family > wanted to smash it to see inside, he never did! > > > > Quite a score, a Mexican hammerstone that appears to be a L or LL3! > > Not for sale > > > > > > > http://meteoriteguy.com/guadalajara > > > > http://meteoriteguy.com/mexicometeorite.JPG > > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >Received on Thu 01 Sep 2011 12:22:32 PM PDT |
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