Hey there,
The country is the United States. The Wine country referred to is
Oregon... They have 15 wine regions in the state. There was a recent
Fall up there that no one seems to be talking about much on list or
anywhere for that matter. The Washington/Oregon Meteor that was seen
all across the northwest on February 19th which come to think of it
just happens to be perfect timing given the time frame for the
"Return from a New Fall." and the "spent 2 weeks down there". Plus
the entire area up there where the meteorite is supposed to have
impacted is nothing but agricultural area with mountains to the Southeast.
The "down there" is simply a misdirection... ;) clever
Maybe I'm wrong but that's my guess...
Eric
www.MeteoriteWatch.com
www.MeteoiritesUSA.com
P.S. NICE ROCKS! Beautiful... I want one... ;)
At 12:36 PM 3/7/2008, you wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: "mccartney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:12:12
To:<[email protected]>
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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