Great job Mike!
What an adventure, just another feather in your cap.. like a Peacock
feather!
I'd like to address the 'value' issue if I may.
Meteorites are worth what someone will pay, period.
Some people will pay great sums for an object that another would
dismiss. I've heard the talk a plenty about whether or not a price is
justified, especially about new falls. If Mike makes a million dollars
on this (which he probably won't,) good for him! Don't forget that
meteorites are one of the rarest things on the planet, and are in my
opinion extremely undervalued in most instances. If people collected
meteorites like they do baseball cards they'd be worth hundreds per
gram for the least desireable of space debris.
Pay is usually tied to the service performed, the floor sweeper is
making the least because anyone can do his job, etc.. I ask this
question. How many people can you call up to go get you the latest
Meteorite Fall? These guys are NOT in the phone book!
Mike has what I call the "Spirit of The Dog" and deserves to be paid
what someone will pay for his space treasures.
Sincerely,
Larry Atkins
IMCA # 1941
Ebay alienrockfarm
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Farmer <[email protected]>
To: meteorite-list <[email protected]>; Shawn Alan
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tue, Aug 23, 2011 7:33 pm
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Kenya Fall & Hammers
Wow, it would sure be nice to ever see that kind of money. Sadly that
is not
even close to reality.
Try it sometime and find out what is involved.
Michael Farmer
PS, why not go for $1000 per gram and net a billion?
--- On Tue, 8/23/11, Shawn Alan <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Shawn Alan <[email protected]>
Subject: [meteorite-list] Kenya Fall & Hammers
To: [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, August 23, 2011, 4:54 PM
Hello Listers
Way to go Mike :) on the recovery of the meteorites from
the Kenya fall... 11.7kg in total not bad. I did the math
and if you sold them at $50 a gram across the board thats
$585,000 even if you sold them at $25 a gram thats $292,500.
Thats not bad for a few days of work and about $15,000 to
$20,000 in expense.
I need to change my day job and fly to third world counties
and buy meteorites from the locals when meteorite falls
happen.
I wonder whats the going rate for compensation to the
locals for ordinary chondrities found by them? And I wonder
if they know how much they are worth? Cause I bet they can
be bought for pennys or a few bucks compared to finds in the
USA or else where in developed countries.
At any rate, will be exciting to see what the
classification will be and if any new discoveries come from
this fall.
GOT TO COLLECT THEM ALL
Shawn Alan
IMCA 1633
eBaystore
http://shop.ebay.com/photophlow/m.html
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Jim Wooddell nf114ec at npgcable.com
Tue Aug 23 17:48:13 EDT 2011
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This is from Mike...
Trying to get this to the meteorite list but tried more
than 30 hours ago
with no response from Art.
This email is premature due to circumstances out of my
control sadly.
I am announcing the recovery of over 11.7 kilograms of the
new Kenya
meteorite fall from 16 July, 2011.
I saw the news of the fall on 17 July, and purchased a
ticket to Kenya about
4 hours later. I arrived in Kenya on 20 July, and on the
morning of 21
July, less than 125 hours after the fall, I had more than a
kilo in hand.
Upon arriving at the fall location, I met a guy who knew a
girl who saw a
stone land only 5 feet from her in a coffee field while
working at ~10:30 am
when the explosions rocked the sky. It was cloudy at the
fall site so no one
saw anything, just heard massive explosions and then loud
whistling and
sounds that most described as gunfire.
Moments after buying that stone, I went to another house of
a boy who found
a 777 gram stone in a coffee field about 30 minutes after
the fall.
I stayed 9 days in Kenya, purchasing 10.5 kilos of stones,
including the as
of now main mass of 3.5 kg. The first stone that was
reported on the news
weighs less than 2.5 kg, not 5 kg reported.
Most interesting about this fall is that it also has 3
seperate
hammerstones!
First is a househitter that smashed through a metal house
roof. I paid to
have the rooftop cut out and purchased several fragments of
the meteorite,
including more on this trip.
Second was a stone that weighed more than 350 grams which
went through the
roof of a greenhouse, and was witnessed by a man working
there, it smashed
into a metal growing table and exploded into hundreds of
pieces. I have all
of that one and the plastic hole where it was cut out to be
patched.
Third is another greenhouse smasher from the same complex,
found only 3
days ago by workers moving plants out. It broke into
several pieces
virtually all of which Greg Hupe and I recovered. It has
been subjected to
high humidity for a month.
I have built a strewnfield map of all but 3 pieces, with
exact locations.
I returned almost two weeks ago for round two with Greg
Hupe. We were able
to purchase only an additional 6 stones totalling 1150
grams.
This fall is not thick, despite intense searching by
hundreds of people who
need the money very badly, they have found little.
We hired 25 workers for the last two weeks, working from 8
am to 6 pm
scouring the bushland, cornfields, banana plantations, and
coffee fields,
without a single recovery from them. I hunted and walked a
great many miles
myself with no finds. This was a large fall but seems to be
very spread out
and large areas are either not huntable or are under heavy
cultivation as
harvest and tilling is going on now.
I have already sold several large pieces of this meteorite,
I will have some
for sale, but less than 1 kg.
I will be building a page about it in the next 48 hours as
I am in London
now, on my way home. It is already in the lab under study,
thin sections on
the way and from my own observations I think this meteorite
will likely be
an L4 or 5.
It has no brecciation or veining other than what I suspect
are some metal
veins seen from the outside, have cut nothing.
Expect to hear more from me as soon as I get rested up and
get my site
ready.
There will be little of this available, mostly small
fragments, I may have
one or two larger stones available, 279~ g and 313~ gram
100% complete, but
not cheap!
Expenses were more than $1000 per day not including
airfare. Nobody works
for free in Kenya, to get them to move, money had to come
out.
In their own words " I need to be properly motivated".
Heard that exact
phrase more than once.
Michael Farmer
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From: "Meteorite Mania!" <meteoritemania at
gmail.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 2:04 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Kenya Fall & Hammers
> Where is all the talk about the newly recovered Kenya
fall with
> multiple hammers?
>
> The list should be on fire right now...and where are
the pictures?
> We're itching to see fresh crust.
>
> Well done Michael, keep up the good work.
>
> Ty
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