[meteorite-list] Tagish Lake

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:12:25 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <20061221221226.93063.qmail_at_web33111.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

I tried day after day for weeks while in Canada to get
a chance to work with them. I offered to help out, and
be searched every day so that they would know I was
not taking any material. I was laughed at and declined
any participation in this since I was not Canadian.
The map of the strewnfield is just a tiny slice of the
fall area, it was the only area that could be searched
as the mountains there are extremly high and steep,
nevertheless, the map is useless since the stones were
lost, so there is not even a idea of size ditribution
(which in of itself could have been usefull). So
indeed, the map is worthless, simply a bunch of dots
on a paper, nothing more, no weights, no sizes, and a
totally incomplete map.
Mike Farmer
--- Mr EMan <mstreman53 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Problem is David they failed to map the entire
> field
> -- just the lake and they didn't recover all the
> mapped fragments, or so I am lead to believe. I
> think
> there were less than 6 plots on land( all adjacent
> to
> the shore) out of what 300? plots on the lake
> surface.
> Yes perhaps we can project the map and then look
> for
> large spots of mud which were meteoritical
> materials.
> Especially what would have been a car sized main
> mass.
>
> At most we have a slice of the field with no
> orientations other than satellite tracking. Was this
> down center line or on the southern fringe? It has
> been a few years but I think this lake runs North
> South along it's axis which is perpendicular to the
> apparent fall line.
>
> The lesson which should have been learned is that
> when
> these happen there should be be a list of willing
> and
> able warm bodies willing to deploy to the location
> to
> do the science and keep to any agreements that the
> Chief Scientist implements. In this case all the
> volunteers were ignored and their offers declined.
>
> If we ever have a fall on US Government lands we
> will
> take years to get a plan approved for there is no
> provision even at the Smithsonian for establishing a
> reaction team.
>
> We will then lament that loss as well for the rest
> of
> our lives.
>
> Elton
> --- David Weir <dgweir at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > But Michael, think of the potential value that the
> > strewn field map may
> > provide us someday (I know I'm not smart enough to
> > imagine it). Maybe
> > Richard and Roland could spell out for us the
> great
> > importance of such a
> > map.
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> > Michael Farmer wrote:
> > > ... You can all forget about recovery of more
> > > Tagish Lake meteorites. The Canadians lost it
> all
> > when
> > > they closed off the site to all but a few
> people,
> > who
> > > took two months to make a neat little map of
> > locations
> > > of pieces frozen into the ice, then lost them
> all
> > when
> > > a fast thaw came along. Great job scientists,
> you
> > lost
> > > 99% of the rarest meteorite fall on the planet
> > because
> > > you wanted to keep it all secret and to
> > yourselves....
> >
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