Hi everyone.
Well, it is 12:24 am here in Moss Norway, and I just came up from some heavy
drinking with a heck of a batch of meteorite hunters. We have Robert Ward,
Robert Haag, and myself representing the USA. Moritz Karl, Alexander Gehler,
Rainer Bartowtzewich (sp?) and Thomas Kurtz from Germany here tonight. WE saw
many others today and yesterday though, even Poland was well represented. None
from France, or Austria, or the UK though.
Now, on to the meteorite! It IS A CO, Carbonaceous. NO DOUBT unless
it gets some wierd exception in classification. So I was right, as were many
others who guessed CO2 or CO3. It is a meteorite that will take your breath
away! It also had the misfortune of falling in one of the worst imaginable
places for searching! This area is of course, absolutely beautiful, fjords,
trees, endless berrys to eat like strawberrys, blueberrys, and raspberrys, lots
of tall, blonde women, and it is not 400,000 degrees like Tucson right now.
What is wrong is that it is high growing season, so every flat surface is being
farmed with full grown wheat, barley, peas, cabbage, etc. Every other surface
is extremely heavy forest with deep layers of moss that you sink in, lakes,
swamps, or fjords full of cruise ships. Their is absolutely no place to easily
search other than a few parks and shopping centers and industrial sites.
>From the siye of the fireball, it is certain that there are many pieces, but
>highly unlikely that much will be found other than by locals in their yards,
>and most locals are on vacation and not here.
So to end so that I can get some sleep for the first time in 3 days, there is
little news to report so far other than Norway got lucky with a fabulous new
CC. Now it is time to feed the mosquitoes while I sleep for the few hours of
darkness there is in this part of the world at this time of the year.
Michael Farmer
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