[meteorite-list] GOLD BASIN RESULTS!!!!

[Mark Bostick]

Hello Everyone again, And now the moment we have all been waiting for.....(drum roll please.....) THE RESULTS OF THE MARK IS FEELING BETTER GUESS I"LL GIVE AWAY A GOLD BASIN THING.......... Frank Chessey nominated Bob Verish. Which is this spiret I could nominate Donald O'Keefe, who has been leaving around the strewfield waiting for retirement. Sounds like a way to kill a few years before the pension checks....:-) Mike Farmer and Bob Verish nominated Skip Wilson. Who has done much for our interest and seems well liked by all. Who I do not believe I ever met (go to Denver and Tuscon and try remembering everyone's face that you were not introduced to). And who is closest to there collection......(that answered)..... 1. Mike Farmer - 4 miles - Cat Mountain - with an honorable mention of Udal Park - 5 miles 2. Matt Morgan. 6 miles - Bear Creek Iron - Co 3. Gordon Trone 8 miles - Williamette 4. Me (Wichita, Kansas) - ~10 miles - Belle Plaine, Kansas 5. Ken Newton (Lehigh Acres, Fl.) - 20 miles - Bonita Springs - Fla, 6. Steve Witt (Lake Station) 35.5 miles - Hamlet 7. Greg Redford (Fairfax, Va.) 100 miles - Stauton, Va. Including one e-mail sent to the wrong person and fowarded to me and one DAT file I wouldn't/couldn't open. And so the winner is....Judges......(pause)..... (pause again)....(you know suspence)..... 1. SKIP WILSON!!!! 2.. Honorable mention goes to fellow IMCA member Gordon Trone for living closest to the Willamette, the meteorite I would take if I could just one. "I live about 8 miles from where the Willamette was found...same county. I have a small but expensive, piece of it in my collection." Gordon Trone. 3. Honorable mention also goes to Greg Redford who is the furtherest from his collection! (again that answered). 4. To fellow IMCA member Jeff Kuyken, who gave my favorite reply. "I've got a few within a 90 odd minute drive. How's Cranbourne (~30km), Willow Grove (~90km) and Murchison (~150km)? Just for interest; there's a road in Murchison called Meteorite Street!" Jeff Kuyken. I tried to get a street maker to produce some Meteorite Street and a Impact Lane sign for me but he only wanted to to do drives and wouldnt do otherwise (really). 5. And Finally Dean Bessey. For living in Canada and therefore gets a handycap. Just think hoq boring this might have been had we all lived in Canada. For their efforts, (not the sign-maker) they win consulation prices of a free Oum Rockba meteorite!!!! If someone would foward Skip's address or if one of the list members that knows him would like to be a go between please send me your address. Honorable mention winners should also send me their address to claim their prizes. And now a little more serious.. I would like to thank Jim Kreigh and Ingrid Monrad for there field work on the meteorite and the great dinner they held for us in Tuscon this year. There was a lot of money put out to make this possible and it was really enjoyed by all. Where else could I have eat with Robert Hagg and the Labennes while they are talking about finding moon meteorites. Both where very pleasant to me and others and we very much appreciate it. Thanks again!  I would like to note here that Jim Kreigh is still working on mapping the strewfield. If anyone has cordinates they have taken and have not given them to him, please e-mail him with that information. If anyone has a very strange Gold Basin piece. Please e-mail a photo to Robert Vernish or someone like for their opinon.   Mark Bostick "The Big Collector" (PS: Maybe I'll just stick with name that tune from now on.....:-)