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Re: Mining for Meteorites - Part 12 of 12
Dear Bernd, and List;
Wyoming has 3 million sheep and a million antelope, they don't eat ants, but
do leave like-meteoritic evidence as well. A case of wrong-meteorwrongs, I
suppose!
Dave f.
Bernd Pauli HD wrote:
> KRAJICK KEVIN (1999) Mining for Meteorites
> (Smithsonian, March 1999, pp. 90 -100):
>
> That is the problem with meteorites. What you see is what you happen to
> get. A few weeks after the Portales fall, I went into the desert with
> David Kring, the University of Arizona meteoriticist. He was looking for
> another missing meteorite, the possible remains of a fireball seen a few
> days before the Portales event. Kring had concentric circles drawn on a
> map southwest of Casa Grande, Arizona, where he figured it went down. We
> walked grids for hours, peering at the bare soil and shoving candidate
> rocks with our feet to chase away scorpions. The rocks we picked up did
> burn our hands, but of course this was because of the heat of the day,
> 105 degrees F. Toward the end, we had covered some fraction of 1 percent
> of Kring’s map. I then spied an unusually black, shiny stone with an
> irregular, meteorite-like shape. I eagerly bent down. It was extremely
> light, not heavy like a meteorite, and it began to crumble in my hand.
> It was the dropping of an animal who had apparently eaten a great many
> ants for breakfast.
>
> Kevin Krajick is writing a book about diamonds - which sometimes arrive
> inside meteorites. Will van Overbeek is based in Texas.
>
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>
> Well, that's all folks ! I hope you liked it or even enjoyed it as much
> as I did.
>
> Best wishes from Germany,
>
> Bernd
>
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