[meteorite-list] Full Circle With Correo

From: aerubin at ucla.edu <aerubin_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:29:39 -0800
Message-ID: <20110204222939.59003fq5atwpl6qs_at_mail.ucla.edu>

An interesting aside: Correo and Suwanee Spring were the first
meteorites I classified. I went looking for more specimens one hot
summer day back in 1979 or 1980 but found nothing.
Alan Rubin

Quoting Robert Woolard <meteoritefinder at yahoo.com>:

> Hi List,
>
> ? I hope you will indulge me with regard to this email concerning a
> full-circle, or pay-it-forward, moment I was so happy to be a small
> part of.
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> ? Back in early December, I was contacted by a self-described
> "amateur weekend meteorite hunter" named Del Waterbury. He explained
> that he had read a post I made to the List in 2002 about the Correo
> strewnfield, and my August, 2007 Meteorite magazine article, "Let's
> Go, Correo!". He said that he had wanted to hunt there, but was not
> having much luck in finding any helpful info concerning the details
> of the strewnfield, such as size or orientation. He very politely
> asked me if I would mind helping him.
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> ? How could I refuse? Especially when I was in his place, 16 years
> ago, when I contacted two veteran Correo hunters, Robert Haag and
> Steve Schoner, asking them for help with the same questions. As they
> did for me, I happily shared anything I knew about the site. Del
> graciously thanked me for my help and said he would send me an email
> after the hunt with all the details of the result.
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> ? Well, tonight I received a very nice email from Del. I was
> thrilled to see that he actually was successful. In only one day of
> hunting, he found 2 fragments of Correo!? The first was a 5 grammer,
> and very close by, a 2 gram specimen. True to his word, Del sent me
> photos of his finds, along with his appreciation for my help. That
> certainly made my day. And... he provided me the opportunity to
> "pay-it-forward"... "it" being the kindness that I had been shown
> all those years ago.
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> ? Correo is not the same place it was 16 years ago. There were only
> a handful of scattered house back then. A major section of the
> strewnfield is now occupied by a small community! I had wished Del
> the best earlier, but deep down I felt the odds were against him.
> But Del came thru. He went.... and he found!
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> ? I am very humbled and thankful to Del for sharing the excitement
> of his finds, and for giving me the chance to come full circle with
> Correo. And, thanks to you, Steve and Robert, for starting this
> whole process to begin with.?
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> ? Sincerely,
> ? Robert Woolard
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Received on Sat 05 Feb 2011 01:29:39 AM PST