[meteorite-list] India Meteorite Report from the scene

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:24 2004
Message-ID: <20031010061100.8503.qmail_at_web20903.mail.yahoo.com>

Yeah, right, SHOW ME, that is what I say, Matteo, I
will hound you inceesently about this little lie you
just told. Anyway, it shows what a coward you are,
what, not man enought to take the risks like I do, to
go see where meteorites fall, or are you taking
Caspers place as the money hunry dealer, not the
slightest interested in the story as you are in making
money. That Matteo, is what makes you and I so very
different. I hope you enjoy opening your package
should it actually arrive, I will look at my 13 gram
piece, smile remembering buying it from the finder in
the village that before yesterday, I never knew
existed, in a beautiful and very strange place.
Matteo, have you ever left Italy?
Mike Farmer
--- M come Meteorite Meteorites
<mcomemeteorite2000_at_yahoo.it> wrote:
> I am underr contact for buy 1 kilos of material, and
> all from my home, not come in India
> .....SHHHHHHHHHHH
>
>
> --- Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone, internet here is little better than
> > smoke
> > signals, it has taken me almost 2 hours to go
> > through
> > 50 emails, so slow, and Matteo's crying like a 2
> > year
> > old baby. Matteo, shut the hell up, PLEASE, if I
> see
> > another email about "Other people is make prices
> > ruin"
> > I will have to beat the hell out of you when I see
> > you
> > (Just kidding, but only a little).
> > OK
> > I am in the strewnfield.
> > I have a small piece of the meteorite. IT is an H
> > chondrite and similar to Zag, veining and
> > slickensides.
> > There is EXTREME flooding here, all parts are
> under
> > water, there is NO HOPE of recovering more
> material
> > unless it is simply in a village and not known
> about
> > yet. the strewnfield is some miles long, traveling
> > between two villages that the local assured me
> were
> > only 5 km apart by air took over 2 hours by road
> (if
> > you can call it that). India is beautiful and
> > horrible
> > at the same time. The road is covered with untold
> > thousands of people, dogs, cows, goats, etc, NONE
> of
> > which move or are even slightly annoyed by the
> > incessant use of the horn, we actually ran over a
> > dogs
> > foot yesterday, he would not move until the car
> ran
> > right over him. I felt sorry for it but then again
> > if
> > anything is that stupid.....
> > I also wish I had a gun with me, to put some of
> the
> > stupidist creature on the planet (The cow) out of
> > their misery (or ignorant bliss) whichever it is.
> > There are thousands of them, laying in the roads,
> > cars
> > just go around them whereever possible.
> > the entire area is flooded, and I mean bad,
> > hundreds
> > of thousands of miles under water, looks like the
> > ocean with small patched of trees and huts
> standing
> > out of it. Roads are almost not more than small
> > trails
> > with everyone and everything blocking them.
> > Most of the meteorite has been taken by the
> police,
> > I
> > am working on tracking down a couple of pieces,
> but
> > it
> > looks hopeless as it takes me 6 hours to get to
> the
> > area even though it is only 70 miles away, the max
> > spees is about 10 miles an hour on the highway and
> > about 2 miles an hour on the village route.
> > these are small villages, I mean aobut 10 familes
> > each, no electricity, nothing more than some mud
> > huts
> > in a land of mud. I had to go on motorcycle for a
> > few
> > miles last night with a spectacular lightning show
> > in
> > the distance, it was the most eery and beatiful
> > drive
> > I have ever taken, the flooded swampland, cool
> wind,
> > nice people and all made me fell like I was in
> some
> > sort of 16 th century expedition. When we got to
> > the
> > village, the people showed me where a 6-8 kilo
> stone
> > fell, coming down right down the slanted roof of a
> > hut, denting in the grass roof and making a large
> > crater at the base of the hut. That stone was
> taken
> > 2
> > days ago, but I have two competing guys traking
> down
> > the person who took it, to get it for me. We will
> > see
> > if this hut smasher comes home with me. I do have
> a
> > 13
> > gram fragment of it, (They smashed it). The
> > meteorite
> > is like Zag, large veins and slickensides.
> > The 6 hour trip back to town last night was the
> most
> > harrowing of my life, I would say at least 50 near
> > head on collisions with giant trucks, busses, all
> > without lights, cars on the wrong side of the
> road,
> > washed out roads, cows of course (and they would
> > much
> > rather drive off a cliff and die than kill a cow
> > here!).
> > there should be hundreds of stones, but it is all
> > rivers and swamps and rice paddies, all under
> > several
> > feet of water, so virtually none will be
> recovered.
> > I saw photos of the 5 kilo stone, very nice.
> > Anyway, sorry for the format of this email, but
> > using
> > the computer here is not easy.
> > Anyone thinking of coming to get some, forget it,
> > as
> > it is, with my 13 gram piece, i will have paid
> over
> > $400.00 gram for my piece! But I will have
> memories
> > of
> > a lifetime of this hunt, which doing it alone, I
> > already consider by far my most exotic and
> > interesting.
> > the people in the villages do not speak english or
> > Hindi, but Orissi, a local tribal language.
> > the meteorite fell only about 1/2 mile from the
> Bay
> > of
> > Bengal (but now it seems to be in the Bay of
> bengal
> > with everything under water anyway).
> >
> > I will post more info as soon as I can.
> > Mike Farmer
> > Meteorite Hunter
> > Writing from Orissa India.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Received on Fri 10 Oct 2003 02:11:00 AM PDT