This scientist could only make it there for one and a half days, on my own dime, and would have loved to stay. A downside of our profession is that most of us have to account for our (fairly pricey) time and don¹t have much in the way of flexibility.
I¹m very interested in seeing the tally from this fall. Even better would be a detailed strewn field map with locations and masses, but even a rough depiction of the strewn field long axis (axes?) would be great stuff. Seems to me that a downside of your profession is that that information is used to support yourselves and so becomes proprietary. I understand that, but it is a real loss scientifically speaking. Cheers, Marc Fries On 3/3/09 9:06 PM, "Michael Farmer" <meteorite...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > I join Robert in requesting an exact stone count and weight tally in order to > get this fall as close as possible to exact number of stones and TKW. > > I have the following > > Woolard 7 = 407g > Wesel 10 = 255g > Farmer 23 = 531.6g > > I know that more than 45 meteorite hunters showed up in the field, so come on > guys, lets get the tally done as fast as possible so we can firm up the TKW on > this fantastic new fall. > > Let's show the scientists that we as collectors can compile data and properly > record a new fall all by ourselves. By the way, the one thing I never did run > into down there was a single scientist. > Pity, some of them hate collectors and dealers, but when a fall occurs, they > are nowhere to be seen or collect a stone and rush off to the lab forgetting > that there are hundreds if not thousands of other stones left to rot. > > Michael Farmer > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list