Apologies for the re-post...I sent the first without a proper Subject line and introduction. Posted on behalf of Marc D. Fries...
________________________________ > From: marc.d.fr...@jpl.nasa.gov > To: rsvp...@hotmail.com > Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:17:50 -0800 > Subject: Post to list? > > > > > > > > Howdy > > > > I’ve just returned home from a one-day, solo scramble at West. I went with > the goal of making a rough map of the strewn field to complete a project I’ve > been working on, and hopefully to find some meteorites. I can claim victory > on the first point, but not on the second. What I can do here is report on > what the conditions are like at present. > > The weather was beautiful while I was there – clear, somewhat windy, and > chilly. I wore a fleece top, jeans and long, lightweight underwear and was > good to go all day. I started with a short recon of the area on Saturday > evening and spent all day Sunday searching and talking with the locals. The > locals were marvelous – one couple gave me free reign to search their > property and a guided tour around to see the households that reported sonic > booms and even flickering lights, and to point out land where meteorites had > been collected. A few landowners didn’t want anyone on their property, and a > couple of those lay directly astride the fall line. That’s too bad, but from > what I could make out the various meteorite hunters were doing a good job of > respecting their privacy. All in all, the locals were marvelously helpful and > friendly. I don’t know what Mike Farmer was talking about with his problems > with them. I suspect that the real problem wasn’t how close they are to Waco > as he said, but rather how close they were to Mike Farmer. > > I also met the dog. You know which one I mean! > > There were a few groups working “on contract” with the locals to search land. > I didn’t join in, as I wanted to cover a lot of ground in other ways. I did > search along the various roads that cross the strewn field, and received > comments from passers-by several times to the tune of, “you should have been > here yesterday – there were twenty people where you’re standing!”. Great. In > the end, no meteorites for me. This time. ;-) > > Oh, and the koloches were wonderful. Hadn’t had one in years! > > > > So, good luck to those out there now – I’m jealous and seriously want to go > put a boot in various yahoos here at work who won’t give me time and > resources to join in. Apparently NASA doesn’t count finding meteorites as an > especially important endeavor. Quite a comment there. > > > > Best of luck to you all in West, but leave some for me! ;-) > > > > Cheers, > > Marc Fries > > > _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Messenger. Multitasking at its finest. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/messenger.aspx ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
