[meteorite-list] Fwd: First Alabama stone found!

From: Michael Farmer <mike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 09:44:38 -0700
Message-ID: <B96AAE5E-A66C-4B61-A1B1-ED71DAC874F8_at_meteoriteguy.com>

Congrats to the guys in the field, proving how valuable that Marc Fries and Rob Matson's work is. Nothing can compare to boots on the ground, but that radar data sure makes it faster:)
I saw the stone via email last night and could hardly contain myself. Beautiful meteorite, long time in coming for Alabama. I am so happy that the USA has now been graced with four recovered falls this year, and hoping a few mo make it down before Tucson show. I was with Jerry in Battle Mountain when he found a 52 gram stone under a bush, he worked hard and they deserve the recognition for finding Alabama's first meteorite fall in more than 50 years!

Michael Farmer

Sent from my iPad

On Nov 4, 2012, at 9:13 AM, Marc Fries <chief_scientist at galacticanalytics.com> wrote:

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> Hi List,
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> ( Marc Fries was kind enough to host/post this to the list for me since I can't send photos thru the List) Please see the exciting news below, as well as a couple of photos of the stone.
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> I am happy to have the pleasure of being able to announce that the first stone from the new Alabama fall last Tuesday, Oct 30th has been found!
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> A big CONGRATS to the team members Stephen Beck, Tommy Brown and Jerry Hinkle on their beautiful find late yesterday evening (11-3-12), almost exactly 4 days to the hour from the time of the fall. Great job, guys!
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> No exact weight available yet, but best guess is near 60grams. Appears to be an OC, possibly brecciated. This particular specimen has a prominent metal vein on one corner.
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> Also a big THANK YOU to Marc Fries, Jeff Fries, Rob Matson, and Jake Schaefer for their fantastic work with the radar! Most List members probably know that Jerry and I have been meteorite-hunting partners for over 20 years now. We had just subscribed to Galactic Analytics on Friday, 11-2. I had to work this weekend and couldn't join him (my wife said I should have asked someone to work for me- she was right... again ;-) on this hunt, but Jerry headed to Alabama Sat. morning with the maps, and by the end of the day, a meteorite was in hand! Now if that isn't a great testimony to the value of the GA radar map service, I don't know what would be. Great job by you guys, too!
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> Now for a little back ground on the other members of the team and the story of how these guys got together to find a "find-of-a-lifetime".
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> Stephen Beck is a good friend of mine who has several very interesting hobbies and a very successful practice, but meteorite hunting is something he had never actually got to do. Ironically, I had told him less than two weeks ago that the next time I went on a hunt I would definitely invite him. How were we to know that it would only be a few days before HE would be contacting me about his local news station there in AL describing a tremendous fireball that evening, complete with sonic booms. Not 5 minutes later, another friend sent me an email saying that Mike (Farmer) had just called him from Germany saying he had just learned of the fall and that there were almost certainly stones on the ground there. I told Jerry about it and since he's living the good life now and had plenty of time to go, he started making plans to go Sat morning. We arranged for him to meet up with Stephen and his
> friend, Tommy Brown, who knew the area well. When they found the stone, they sent me a photo and I forwarded it to Mike. No doubt about it!
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> (see the photos of the stone that Marc is hosting for us)
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> Best wishes,
> Robert Woolard
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> Howdy, all - Marc Fries writing now...
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> I have started up a gallery of meteorite photos on the Galactic Analytics web page! I want to fill this gallery with pictures of meteorites that we help you recover. I need to figure out how to add labels with the meteorites' names and the names of the finder/owner, but here it is in a simple state for now. This page will remain open to the public and will not need a subscription to view.
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> Pictures are available here:
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> http://www.galacticanalytics.com/meteorite-pictures/
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> Congratulations to Stephen Beck, Tommy Brown, Jerry Hinkle, and Robert Woolard for making the FIRST find of this fall! We are calling this meteorite Add001 for now, but we may change the name (but not the number!) if the name submitted to the Nomenclature Committee is different from "Addison".
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> Congratulations again!
> Marc Fries, Rob Matson, Jake Schaefer and Jeff Fries
> Galactic Analytics LLC
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Received on Sun 04 Nov 2012 11:44:38 AM PST