[meteorite-list] New Fall

From: Meteoriteshow <meteoriteshow_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 08:18:23 -0000
Message-ID: <005401c8802b$d1ff7cf0$0200000a_at_T42>

Hi,

WELL DONE!

My guess is somewhere in Europe where vineyards can be found, such as France
(as Zelimir mentioned), Italy, Spain, Greece, Germany, ...
Actually I think of Switzerland.

What should the winner win? A slice of the New Fall?!!!

Actually for cutting it, i also always used water with stony meteorites,
then putting them in the oven at about 50?C for drying them immediately
after rincing and never got any rusting problem. I only used alcohol when
cuting my C4 with a wire saw.

Well done again and all the best.

Frederic Beroud
www.meteoriteshow.com
IMCA #2491


----- Original Message -----
From: "mccartney" <mccartney at blackbearddata.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 7:12 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] New Fall


> I've just returned from a new fall. It looked like everyone missed this
> fall, so I went.
>
> I spent 2 weeks down there hunting down stones, and canvasing the area
> house by house. Its mainly agricultural land and dominated by vineyards.
> Unfortunately, there is never plowing in vineyards, so no more stones will
> be found. (maybe 1 or 2 in the coming years) Most of my time was spent in
> public outreach and teaching people how to identify stones.
>
> TKW is 5 kg at this time. I recovered 2.3kg. Looks like an H4 or H5
> Ordinary Chondrite.
>
> Conditions were not good for recovery, almost all stones punched into the
> soft ground 1/4 meters. Those stones that were recovered were because
> they hit near someone or hit a road.
>
> http://texasmeteoritelab.com/x/img_1241.jpg
> http://texasmeteoritelab.com/x/img_1299.jpg
> http://texasmeteoritelab.com/x/img_1257.jpg
>
> I've got to get my saw up and running and cut specimens in the next few
> days. I'll post more details later.
>
> Anyone want to guess which country the fall was in?
>
> -mt
>
>
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Received on Fri 07 Mar 2008 03:18:23 AM PST