Great stones, Michael. Thank you for sharing! The first link only works if you add .jpg to it: http://meteoriteguy.com/guadalajara.jpg
-Michael in so. Cal. On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Michael Farmer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello all, one week after getting stones in Kenya last sunday I bought pieces > of my househitter from Muguga which had been sent all night by bus from > Mombassa, I flew to Mexico and this sunday bought another stone, a > househitter from San Juan Ocotan, Zapopan, Guadalajara. > > This meteorite 1,369 grams. This location is on the edge of the city, next to > a massive air force base. > > It fell in September 2007, exact date unknown. It fell at ~3:00 am and > smashed through a very poor house which had a tile roof covered with a tarp > and smashed into mud bricks. The stone still has marks of the blue tarp, and > the tile and mud bricks embedded in the stone. It was used for two years to > hold open a shop door by the homeowner and seen by another man who recognized > it as something special and acquired it. He finally emailed me asking if it > was a meteorite. > > I flew to Guadalajara and bought it this weekend. It is in perfect condition, > never damaged or cleaned thankfully, and while the owners family wanted to > smash it to see inside, he never did! > > > > Quite a score, a Mexican hammerstone that appears to be a L or LL3! > > Not for sale > > > > > > > http://meteoriteguy.com/guadalajara > > > > http://meteoriteguy.com/mexicometeorite.JPG > > ______________________________________________ > 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
