From Texas: Down there? Vineyard? ---> Chile?
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From: "mccartney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 8:12 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] New Fall
I've just returned from a new fall. It looked like everyone missed this
fall, so I went.
I spent 2 weeks down there hunting down stones, and canvasing the area
house by house. Its mainly agricultural land and dominated by vineyards.
Unfortunately, there is never plowing in vineyards, so no more stones will
be found. (maybe 1 or 2 in the coming years) Most of my time was spent in
public outreach and teaching people how to identify stones.
TKW is 5 kg at this time. I recovered 2.3kg. Looks like an H4 or H5
Ordinary Chondrite.
Conditions were not good for recovery, almost all stones punched into the
soft ground 1/4 meters. Those stones that were recovered were because
they hit near someone or hit a road.
http://texasmeteoritelab.com/x/img_1241.jpg
http://texasmeteoritelab.com/x/img_1299.jpg
http://texasmeteoritelab.com/x/img_1257.jpg
I've got to get my saw up and running and cut specimens in the next few
days. I'll post more details later.
Anyone want to guess which country the fall was in?
-mt
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