Auh, contraire there dear Elton....Mr. Verish, and a large following of
recreational meteorite hunters in the western states have already
practiced meteorite recovery on public lands and the Smithsonian, Dr.
McCoy I believe have accepted that meteorite hunters in the field do
have the ability to preserve the scientific value of such information
and to react as recreational meteorite hunters as now is presently
approved......I am the Wyoming team leader scary as that is!
Dave Freeman
Green River Resource Area
SW Wyoming
Mr EMan wrote:
Problem is David they failed to map the entire field
-- just the lake and they didn't recover all the
mapped fragments, or so I am lead to believe. I think
there were less than 6 plots on land( all adjacent to
the shore) out of what 300? plots on the lake surface.
Yes perhaps we can project the map and then look for
large spots of mud which were meteoritical materials.
Especially what would have been a car sized main mass.
At most we have a slice of the field with no
orientations other than satellite tracking. Was this
down center line or on the southern fringe? It has
been a few years but I think this lake runs North
South along it's axis which is perpendicular to the
apparent fall line.
The lesson which should have been learned is that when
these happen there should be be a list of willing and
able warm bodies willing to deploy to the location to
do the science and keep to any agreements that the
Chief Scientist implements. In this case all the
volunteers were ignored and their offers declined.
If we ever have a fall on US Government lands we will
take years to get a plan approved for there is no
provision even at the Smithsonian for establishing a
reaction team.
We will then lament that loss as well for the rest of
our lives.
Elton
--- David Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But Michael, think of the potential value that the
strewn field map may
provide us someday (I know I'm not smart enough to
imagine it). Maybe
Richard and Roland could spell out for us the great
importance of such a
map.
David
Michael Farmer wrote:
... You can all forget about recovery of more
Tagish Lake meteorites. The Canadians lost it all
when
they closed off the site to all but a few people,
who
took two months to make a neat little map of
locations
of pieces frozen into the ice, then lost them all
when
a fast thaw came along. Great job scientists, you
lost
99% of the rarest meteorite fall on the planet
because
you wanted to keep it all secret and to
yourselves....
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