[meteorite-list] New househitting meteorite fall from Mexico

From: Michael Farmer <mike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 09:24:55 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <1314894295.14388.YahooMailClassic_at_web1109.biz.mail.sk1.yahoo.com>

It will be submitted and classified like every other meteorite, not sure why it would not be accepted, have all data needed.
Will be building a page about it as soon as I can, a little tired with more than 45000 miles flown in the last month.

Kihum Wiri (proposed name of the Kenya fall) is an L6, submitted yesterday for nomcom approval. Also a househitter.
Michael Farmer

--- On Thu, 9/1/11, Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New househitting meteorite fall from Mexico
> To: "Michael Farmer" <mike at meteoriteguy.com>
> Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Thursday, September 1, 2011, 10:22 AM
> 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
>
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> 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
> >
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