[meteorite-list] Louisiana fall

[Michael Farmer]

I will give a little information, not much, if you want more, go there and find out, spend the $$$ to do so. I was in Arkansas so luckily I just hopped a commuter plane with Gary Loyd and had a blast on Bourbon Street. Anyone who thinks that only Mardi Gras is party time needs to rethink that assumption, the party never stopped there.      There is a meteorite, it fell and crashed  a guy's home, unfortunately he threw the desk that it smashed, and the house debris including alot of meteorite pieces in the trash that day while cleaning up the mess. The damage has all been repaired so there are no house smasher artifacts to get, no cool holes to cut out and preserve, and last but far worse than anything else, he left almost all of the meteorite under the house in the damp New Orleans dirt under the house, for the last week, and yesterday while trying to get under, found that the meteorite actually damaged a water pipe and flooded under the entire house.     I told him Saturday to get under there and of course volunteered, to no avail, now the meteorite sat there a week in water, and is severely damaged.     He did recover 1.5 kilos of fragments from the floor and they are ok. This meteorite is EXTREMELY fragile, like Bjorbole or Saratov, Chondrite (low metal) turns to dust while handling it.     As far as the stuff that was been covered in either water or sewage (I don't know if it was a water line or the sewage line that was damaged)  it will be very highly damaged and perhaps melted by now. I will know alot more tomorrow night.     There will be very little to go around if any at all. Please don't ask me for pieces until I offer them for sale.     This could have been another spectacular fall, but he didn't know about meteorites so most data was lost and the destruction repaired without measurements or even photos!   Mike Farmer