[meteorite-list] Claimed find on Crown Land in Canada

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 22:10:01 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <512829.91445.qm_at_web110202.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

I am not there so I have no idea of the strewnfield. 1o kilometers
Is not the same as hundreds.
All the bs makes it a perfectly normal fall though.
Wait till you get anal-probed at the airport tomorrow. Dotnt be surprised if they have a trap waiting for you.
Mike

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Michael


On Dec 5, 2008, at 10:54 PM, "McCartney Taylor" <mccartney at blackbearddata.com> wrote:

Its total BS. The nearest crown land is sideways 10km. Not along the axis, simply the nearest crown land where someone who stole a rock off Ian Mitchell ranch could claim it and keep it.

Mike you didn't believe the Cali, Columbia finds that were hundreds of km away in FARC territory either?...

Most claim it hit a roadway. Its going to be a chronic claim from here on. The 13kg mass was originally claimed to be a roadway find, until Dr. Hilebrand browbeat the finder to give it back to Alister Mitchell who's land it was stolen from. That confrontation occurred at our hotel a few days before we got there.

Just to clarify.

-mt

-------- Original Message --------
From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 11:45 PM
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com, mccartney at blackbearddata.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] McCartney's News from the Canadian Fall

Man, I wish I was there, but with just returning from a 23 day expedition to the other side of the planet and going to Japan Monday, I had no chance to make it.
You say pieces are claimed 10 km away, that should be no problem, that is 6 miles, a normal strewnfield is that large, and of course, could be triple that for a truly huge fall, which this has the earmarks of. I envy you guys today though, not the cold part, but the finding of new fall stones, that gets my heart racing!
Mike




--- On Fri, 12/5/08, McCartney Taylor <mccartney at blackbearddata.com> wrote:

From: McCartney Taylor <mccartney at blackbearddata.com>
Subject: [meteorite-list] McCartney's News from the Canadian Fall
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Date: Friday, December 5, 2008, 10:02 PM
The hunting is over, 5-10 cm of snow is predicted tonight.
More fell last night. Searching is all but impossible at
this point. The weather has been abnormally snow free up
till this week.

We have had the luck of securing 5% of the strewnfield. We
also had the luck of a really great landowner at that.
We've had to forfeit a sizable portion of our finds to
this land owner, who fully deserves it for his co-operation
with us. In fact, he deputized us to police his property
and kick off the plethora of trespassers that was rampant
after the news aired locally.

The stone looks like an H6, but I'm not qualified to
make a call on that. I do know that we're seeing alot
of secondary crust, so perhaps this thing blew high? Sonny
spotted some veining in some of his stones. I've
managed to mainly find fully crusted individuals.

I want everyone to know, my luggage was lost coming into
Canada. So I searched in -22 Celsius with the clothes on my
back that I wore on the plane. If you think you are a
meteorite hunter, you will know when you crawl on your hands
and knees looking for pee sized meteorites in -22C.
You'll either cut it, or go home. Me...I'm still
here.

The fall looks big. But after today, the material coming
out is going to stop. Most of the material we saw recovered
was stolen. It will be claimed 'roadway'. I even
heard of some falling on crown lands 10 km away!

Interviews done indicate 15 'pops' when the
fireball blew. It was a hell of a show, I hear. One person
recalled his tin roof sounding like it was hit by hail
stones.

My best guess on TKW is about 35kg of which 30kg is in the
hands of the Mitchell family/Dr Hildebrand. The Mitchell
have expressed no interest in selling. The few locals who
have offered material for sell are asking so much I
can't touch it. Its that bad.

Today we were interviewed by Canadian Broadcasting. Sonny
did well in expressing space enthusiasm, while I did a short
stint on the science and ballistics of the fall. Then we
took the camera guy hunting. To my stunned eyes, we
stumbled on a meteorite while walking 20m forward to find a
shoot spot. That was caught on film. (68grams) Then within
20m we found a tiny 2nd one. Frilling amazing. They made a
wrap because they were freezing and left. What totally
killed me, was when I went back to hunting, I noticed the
camera guy had STEPPED on another meteorite, about 25g.
LOL! Funny funny.

best
-mt


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