[meteorite-list] Sutter's Mill meteorite hunt

From: Stuart McDaniel <actionshooting_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:11:39 -0400
Message-ID: <20FF544B085F4CA880ED3EEBF06B7C6B_at_StuartMcDaniel>

Congrats on finding what you have found.




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Stuart McDaniel
Lawndale, NC
Secr.,
Cleve. Co. Astronomical Society

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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Farmer
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:14 AM
To: meteoritelist meteoritelist
Subject: [meteorite-list] Sutter's Mill meteorite hunt

Day two of the meteorite hunt ended with no new finds other than a few
fragments of the parking lot specimens here in California. Many people are
here, some new faces, most well known, all hunting for the fall of a
lifetime, a CM2, only California's third fall.
I walked many miles today, with nothing to show but sore feet, but i did
buy out ~1gram of fragments recovered from the parking lot piece found by
Dr. Jeniskens. more pieces were scattered in the lot.
Sadly this rarest of rare meteorites fell in one of the toughest terrains I
have ever had the displeasure of searching for meteorites in. As of right
now less than 15 grams has been found despite large scale search. Of course
that could change at any moment with the right find.
So far it has been fun, i almost stepped on small rattlesnake today, so be
careful, he did not rattle. Police were involved in a couple of hunters day
for innocent reasons, seems landowners called cops even when hunters had
permission, people are kind of private up here, and park rangers were
getting interested in people hunting for rocks. It could get interesting
really fast with tomorrow's barrage of news that is coming down the pike.
Still, this is one of the rarest falls on my lifetime, and worth working
oneself nearly to death to try and find. i hope as much as possible is
recovered for the science that can be done.
Congrats again to Robert Ward for finding the first smallest needle in the
worlds largest haystack, something that 50 people today did not duplicate.
Michael Farmer


Michael Farmer

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