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Re: BIG NEW METEORITE 192 Pounds



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> From: mikewren < mikewren@gilanet.com>
> To: meteorite-list@meteorite central.com
> Subject: BIG NEW METEORITE 192 Pounds
> Date: Thursday, November 04, 1999 10:50 AM
> 
> mikewren@gilanet.com
> Michael Cottingham
> PO BOX 727
> Silver City, NM.
> 88062
> 
> 
> 
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> 
> I am pleased to announce my latest meteorite
> discovery/purchase.  It is the NEW L6 Stone
> meteorite from WAGON MOUND, New Mexico.
> It weighs 192.5 POUNDS !!!!! So Cool !
> 
> Back in August of this year (1999), my wife Wren
> and I took a road trip around New Mexico. We 
> would stop at every Post Office and General
> Store in every rural town throughout the state.
> We would place "Meteorite Wanted Posters"
> at each of these stops. We must of placed
> several hundred of these posters during our
> week long road trip.
> 
> These posters tell people
> how to recognize a meteorite and where
> to send a sample(to me). 
> 
> It just so happens that this time it paid off.
> 
> A local person in the town of WAGON MOUND,
> New Mexico saw one of my posters and contacted
> me.
> 
> They sent me a sample and sure enough.....one
> glance told me it was a meteorite.
> 
> I sent the specimen to Alan Rubin at UCLA
> and it has been classified as a L6 Stone
> Meteorite. Shock Stage S2 and its weathering 
> stage is W2. There is a lot of black fusion
> crust on over 3/4 of the specimen and 
> several fist size regmaglypts.
> 
> This specimen weighs more than my
> three children.....combined!
> 
> Here are the details which will appear soon
> in the Meteoritical Bulletin:
> 
> In the spring of 1932 while planting his new field,
> Donald Wiggins discovered a 192.5 pound stone
> meteorite. It was kept in the family until 1999.
> A family member responded to a "Meteorite
> Wanted Poster" that they saw in a local
> restaurant and sold the meteorite to
> Michael Cottingham.
> 
> I will be cutting this cool specimen up
> over the next week or two. I will let
> everyone know how it turns out.
> 
> Just wanted to say that H.H.Nininger's
> methods still work.....
> 
> Best Wishes,
> 
> Michael Cottingham
> 
> 

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