[meteorite-list] Re: india meteorite fall
From: harlan trammell <skyrox_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:26 2004 Message-ID: <BAY1-F147rMh0R1hY55000038d9_at_hotmail.com> <html><div style='background-color:'><DIV> <P>savory! grab some skyrox and enjoy the ride home!<BR><BR></P></DIV> <DIV></DIV>>From: Michael Farmer <METEORITEGUY_at_YAHOO.COM> <DIV></DIV>>To: harlan trammell <SKYROX_at_HOTMAIL.COM>, meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com <DIV></DIV>>Subject: Re: india meteorite fall <DIV></DIV>>Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 09:19:36 -0700 (PDT) <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>>Oh Harlan, how I crave some good old steaks! Of <DIV></DIV>>course, beef is NOT on the menu here. I must say <DIV></DIV>>though, that the food is among the best I have ever <DIV></DIV>>eaten. Iwas terried of this trip for one reason, I <DIV></DIV>>HATE CURRY! However, it seems that curry is not on the <DIV></DIV>>menu so much in Orissa, GIANT prawns from the Bay of <DIV></DIV>>Bengal are however, and I mean huge, the last 3 days I <DIV></DIV>>have eaten nothing but prawns, the size of Main <DIV></DIV>>Lobsters, these would cost at least $40 to $50 at <DIV></DIV>>home, and here I pay about $4 for plate of prawns so <DIV></DIV>>large that I can't even finish them, and I am a large <DIV></DIV>>guy who can eat alot of prawns! Gerlic prawns, spicy <DIV></DIV>>pepper prawnes, black pepper prawns, you name it, I <DIV></DIV>>have loved every bit of food I have eaten here. But <DIV></DIV>>beef would sure taste good, and there are so many cows <DIV></DIV>>around........ hmmmmm, I have a knife and a rock. <DIV></DIV>>Anyway, I am not the least bit sick, which also shocks <DIV></DIV>>me since I brought a huge amount of medicine for <DIV></DIV>>diorhea, seems to be not needed. <DIV></DIV>>Mike Farmer <DIV></DIV>>--- harlan trammell <SKYROX_at_HOTMAIL.COM>wrote: <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>>--------------------------------- <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>>thanx 4 the stories! sounds like you need a good <DIV></DIV>>airboat and a tommy gun w/ a drum clip! hope you <DIV></DIV>>find more skyrox- you have definitely paid the price. <DIV></DIV>>this kow talk makes me wanna go get a steak. <DIV></DIV>>headed to ruth's chris as a result of your stories <DIV></DIV>>to get a fix. nice to read your post for those of us <DIV></DIV>>who will never go. there seems to be lots of <DIV></DIV>>electronic diarrhea on this list now instead of <DIV></DIV>>skyrock talk anf your posts breath liife back into <DIV></DIV>>the list. good luck and thanx again.>From: Michael <DIV></DIV>>Farmer <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> >From: Michael Farmer <DIV></DIV>> >To: meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com <DIV></DIV>> >Subject: [meteorite-list] India Meteorite Report from <DIV></DIV>>the scene <DIV></DIV>> >Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 22:53:26 -0700 (PDT) <DIV></DIV>> > <DIV></DIV>> >Hi everyone, internet here is little better than <DIV></DIV>>smoke <DIV></DIV>> >signals, it has taken me almost 2 hours to go through <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> >50 emails, so slow, and Matteo's crying like a 2 year <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> >old baby. Matteo, shut the hell up, PLEASE, if I see <DIV></DIV>> >another email about "Other people is make prices <DIV></DIV>>ruin" <DIV></DIV>> >I will have to beat the hell out of you when I see <DIV></DIV>>you <DIV></DIV>> >(Just kidding, but only a little). <DIV></DIV>> >OK <DIV></DIV>> >I am in the strewnfield. <DIV></DIV>> >I have a small piece of the meteorite. IT is an H <DIV></DIV>> >chondrite and similar to Zag, veining and <DIV></DIV>> >slickensides. <DIV></DIV>> >There is EXTREME flooding here, all parts are under <DIV></DIV>> >water, there is NO HOPE of recovering more material <DIV></DIV>> >unless it is simply in a village and not known about <DIV></DIV>> >yet. the strewnfield is some miles long, traveling <DIV></DIV>> >between two villages that the local assured me were <DIV></DIV>> >only 5 km apart by air took over 2 hours by road (if <DIV></DIV>> >you can call it that). India is beautiful and <DIV></DIV>>horrible <DIV></DIV>> >at the same time. The road is covered with untold <DIV></DIV>> >thousands of people, dogs, cows, goats, etc, NONE of <DIV></DIV>> >which move or are even slightly annoyed by the <DIV></DIV>> >incessant use of the horn, we actually ran over a <DIV></DIV>>dogs <DIV></DIV>> >foot yesterday, he would not move until the car ran <DIV></DIV>> >right over him. I felt sorry for it but then again if <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> >anything is that stupid..... <DIV></DIV>> >I also wish I had a gun with me, to put some of the <DIV></DIV>> >stupidist creature on the planet (The cow) out of <DIV></DIV>> >their misery (or ignorant bliss) whichever it is. <DIV></DIV>> >There are thousands of them, laying in the roads, <DIV></DIV>>cars <DIV></DIV>> >just go around them whereever possible. <DIV></DIV>> > the entire area is flooded, and I mean bad, hundreds <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> >of thousands of miles under water, looks like the <DIV></DIV>> >ocean with small patched of trees and huts standing <DIV></DIV>> >out of it. Roads are almost not more than small <DIV></DIV>>trails <DIV></DIV>> >with everyone and everything blocking them. <DIV></DIV>> >Most of the meteorite has been taken by the police, I <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> >am working on tracking down a couple of pieces, but <DIV></DIV>>it <DIV></DIV>> >looks hopeless as it takes me 6 hours to get to the <DIV></DIV>> >area even though it is only 70 miles away, the max <DIV></DIV>> >spees is about 10 miles an hour on the highway and <DIV></DIV>> >about 2 miles an hour on the village route. <DIV></DIV>> >these are small villages, I mean aobut 10 familes <DIV></DIV>> >each, no electricity, nothing more than some mud huts <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> >in a land of mud. I had to go on motorcycle for a few <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> >miles last night with a spectacular lightning show in <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> >the distance, it was the most eery and beatiful drive <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> >I have ever taken, the flooded swampland, cool wind, <DIV></DIV>> >nice people and all made me fell like I was in some <DIV></DIV>> >sort of 16 th century expedition. When we got to the <DIV></DIV>> >village, the people showed me where a 6-8 kilo stone <DIV></DIV>> >fell, coming down right down the slanted roof of a <DIV></DIV>> >hut, denting in the grass roof and making a large <DIV></DIV>> >crater at the base of the hut. That stone was taken 2 <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> >days ago, but I have two competing guys traking down <DIV></DIV>> >the person who took it, to get it for me. We will see <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> >if this hut smasher comes home with me. I do have a <DIV></DIV>>13 <DIV></DIV>> >gram fragment of it, (They smashed it). The meteorite <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> >is like Zag, large veins and slickensides. <DIV></DIV>> >The 6 hour trip back to town last night was the most <DIV></DIV>> >harrowing of my life, I would say at least 50 near <DIV></DIV>> >head on collisions with giant trucks, busses, all <DIV></DIV>> >without lights, cars on the wrong side of the road, <DIV></DIV>> >washed out roads, cows of course (and they would much <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> >rather drive off a cliff and die than kill a cow <DIV></DIV>> >here!). <DIV></DIV>> >there should be hundreds of stones, but it is all <DIV></DIV>> >rivers and swamps and rice paddies, all under several <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> >feet of water, so virtually none will be recovered. <DIV></DIV>> >I saw photos of the 5 kilo stone, very nice. <DIV></DIV>> >Anyway, sorry for the format of this email, but using <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> >the computer here is not easy. <DIV></DIV>> > Anyone thinking of coming to get some, forget it, as <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> >it is, with my 13 gram piece, i will have paid over <DIV></DIV>> >$400.00 gram for my piece! But I will have memories <DIV></DIV>>of <DIV></DIV>> >a lifetime of this hunt, which doing it alone, I <DIV></DIV>> >already consider by far my most exotic and <DIV></DIV>> >interesting. <DIV></DIV>> >the people in the villages do not speak english or <DIV></DIV>> >Hindi, but Orissi, a local tribal language. <DIV></DIV>> >the meteorite fell only about 1/2 mile from the Bay <DIV></DIV>>of <DIV></DIV>> >Bengal (but now it seems to be in the Bay of bengal <DIV></DIV>> >with everything under water anyway). <DIV></DIV>> > <DIV></DIV>> >I will post more info as soon as I can. <DIV></DIV>> >Mike Farmer <DIV></DIV>> >Meteorite Hunter <DIV></DIV>> >Writing from Orissa India. <DIV></DIV>> > <DIV></DIV>> > <DIV></DIV>> > <DIV></DIV>> > <DIV></DIV>> >______________________________________________ <DIV></DIV>> >Meteorite-list mailing list <DIV></DIV>> >Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com <DIV></DIV>> >http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>>--------------------------------- <DIV></DIV>> Instant message during games with MSN Messenger 6.0. <DIV></DIV>>Download it now FREE! <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV></div><br clear=all><hr> <a href="http://g.msn.com/8HMBENUS/2752??PS=">Get a FREE computer virus scan online from McAfee.</a> </html> Received on Sun 12 Oct 2003 12:57:32 PM PDT |
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