A great big CONGRATS to you guys for your hard work and your success!!! Mike had shared the news from his 1st trip with me earlier, but I am just now able to hear about the finds from "trip 2" as I too am out of the country and have been without Internet access for the last few days. ( Not meteorite hunting this time. :-)
Anyway, like I said, congrats on another great successful recovery, Mike! Thanks for sharing the story with us all. Robert Woolard Sent from my iPhone On Aug 24, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Michael Farmer <[email protected]> wrote: > A little more background on the fall, > > First want to thank Greg Hupe who went with me for trip #2 less than a week > after trip one. I wanted to get more money, get the first stones home safe > and in the lab and back to Kenya. I had to cancel another trip planned for > months with Greg, so only proper thing to do was invite him. He was most > accomodating of the rapid change in continents we were going to visit when he > saw the stones I got from the first trip. > > Congrats to Robert Ward who also recovered a stone in the field, saving it > from sure destruction under tropical rains. > > > We had a lot of fun, we also worked our asses off, dawn to dark, endless > hours of every day stuck in traffic jams just to reach the strewnfield. > Cobras, yes, I am not kidding, Greg had close encounter with a Cobra that > stood up and scared one of our workers nearly to death, he ran from the > field, Greg went to see it but it went down a hole before he saw it. Place > crawling with snakes, I was of course in shorts:) so after the worker came > screaming to the car, I left the field myself for safer quarters. > > The people were nice, the secret police found us, threatened us, got to the > point and demanded their cut of the payday to allow us to work. The usual in > Africa, another day, another shilling. > > I paid great money to the locals, either for stones or for workers and > supervisors to monitor the workers, money none of them could refuse, most of > them got a year or years of salary for stone worthless to them, changed their > lives. For example the woman who sold me the 3.5 kg stone bought cows and > pigs, went back to give her photos I promised her, she told me she invested > some of the money in livestock, she bought 4 piglets and told me in a year > she would have 20 pigs. she could not afford a single pig before that > meteorite fell and like a gift from heaven, she got more money than she had > ever seen in her life. I will not sell it. > > More than one month after the fall, hundreds of deperately poor people > searching, 11.8 kg has been found plus the ~2.5 kg original mass. > I thought more would be found, but not so easy. > > I flew 39,224 miles, spent more than $28,000 on expenses, went on safari, saw > things I have never seen, and recovered a meteorite for science and > collectors alike. > > Hopefully this is a good thing, but sadly I am sure some will try to destroy > my work. > Thanks for the support from those who like what I do to get you the things in > your collections. > > Trying to work on a webpage, but my computer will have none of it, so giving > up for the day. Will try again tomorrow. > Michael Farmer > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
