What a coup again! Congratulations!
It should stay intact indeed. Martin -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: "Michael Farmer" <[email protected]> Gesendet: 01.09.2011 18:34:50 An: "James Baxter" <[email protected]> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] New househitting meteorite fall from Mexico > >Yes, perfectly preserved, some scratchmarks where they used a key trying to >scratch it, and they almost smashed it with a hammer to see inside, but the >owner said each time he decided not to mess with it. Thankfully it is intact. >Will cut an end off to classify, but not interested in chopping it up, needs >to be preserved as intact as possible. >Michael Farmer > > > >--- On Thu, 9/1/11, James Baxter <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: James Baxter <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New househitting meteorite fall from Mexico >> To: "Michael Farmer" <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> Date: Thursday, September 1, 2011, 10:28 AM >> Killer! Looks like the day it fell! >> >> Congratulations, >> Jim Baxter >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Michael Farmer" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2011 8:37:36 AM GMT -08:00 >> US/Canada Pacific >> Subject: [meteorite-list] New househitting meteorite fall >> from Mexico >> >> 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 ______________________________________________ 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
