[meteorite-list] Louisiana fall

From: M come Meteorite Meteorites <mcomemeteorite2000_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:18 2004
Message-ID: <20031001051323.99776.qmail_at_web10309.mail.yahoo.com>

how much? $200/gr. and after is available on ebay for
$8/gr.?
This time I waith, no other Park Forest mistakes I
want...

Matteo

--- Michael Farmer <meteoritehunter_at_comcast.net>
wrote:
> I will give a little information, not much, if you
> want more, go there and find out, spend the $$$ to
> do so.
> I was in Arkansas so luckily I just hopped a
> commuter plane with Gary Loyd and had a blast on
> Bourbon Street. Anyone who thinks that only Mardi
> Gras is party time needs to rethink that assumption,
> the party never stopped there.
>
> There is a meteorite, it fell and crashed a
> guy's home, unfortunately he threw the desk that it
> smashed, and the house debris including alot of
> meteorite pieces in the trash that day while
> cleaning up the mess. The damage has all been
> repaired so there are no house smasher artifacts to
> get, no cool holes to cut out and preserve, and last
> but far worse than anything else, he left almost all
> of the meteorite under the house in the damp New
> Orleans dirt under the house, for the last week, and
> yesterday while trying to get under, found that the
> meteorite actually damaged a water pipe and flooded
> under the entire house.
> I told him Saturday to get under there and of
> course volunteered, to no avail, now the meteorite
> sat there a week in water, and is severely damaged.
> He did recover 1.5 kilos of fragments from the
> floor and they are ok. This meteorite is EXTREMELY
> fragile, like Bjorbole or Saratov, Chondrite (low
> metal) turns to dust while handling it.
> As far as the stuff that was been covered in
> either water or sewage (I don't know if it was a
> water line or the sewage line that was damaged) it
> will be very highly damaged and perhaps melted by
> now. I will know alot more tomorrow night.
> There will be very little to go around if any at
> all. Please don't ask me for pieces until I offer
> them for sale.
> This could have been another spectacular fall,
> but he didn't know about meteorites so most data was
> lost and the destruction repaired without
> measurements or even photos!
>
> Mike Farmer


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Received on Wed 01 Oct 2003 01:13:23 AM PDT