An interesting aside: Correo and Suwanee Spring were the first
meteorites I classified. I went looking for more specimens one hot
summer day back in 1979 or 1980 but found nothing.
Alan Rubin
Quoting Robert Woolard <meteoritefin...@yahoo.com>:
Hi List,
I hope you will indulge me with regard to this email concerning a
full-circle, or pay-it-forward, moment I was so happy to be a small
part of.
Back in early December, I was contacted by a self-described
"amateur weekend meteorite hunter" named Del Waterbury. He explained
that he had read a post I made to the List in 2002 about the Correo
strewnfield, and my August, 2007 Meteorite magazine article, "Let's
Go, Correo!". He said that he had wanted to hunt there, but was not
having much luck in finding any helpful info concerning the details
of the strewnfield, such as size or orientation. He very politely
asked me if I would mind helping him.
How could I refuse? Especially when I was in his place, 16 years
ago, when I contacted two veteran Correo hunters, Robert Haag and
Steve Schoner, asking them for help with the same questions. As they
did for me, I happily shared anything I knew about the site. Del
graciously thanked me for my help and said he would send me an email
after the hunt with all the details of the result.
Well, tonight I received a very nice email from Del. I was
thrilled to see that he actually was successful. In only one day of
hunting, he found 2 fragments of Correo! The first was a 5 grammer,
and very close by, a 2 gram specimen. True to his word, Del sent me
photos of his finds, along with his appreciation for my help. That
certainly made my day. And... he provided me the opportunity to
"pay-it-forward"... "it" being the kindness that I had been shown
all those years ago.
Correo is not the same place it was 16 years ago. There were only
a handful of scattered house back then. A major section of the
strewnfield is now occupied by a small community! I had wished Del
the best earlier, but deep down I felt the odds were against him.
But Del came thru. He went.... and he found!
I am very humbled and thankful to Del for sharing the excitement
of his finds, and for giving me the chance to come full circle with
Correo. And, thanks to you, Steve and Robert, for starting this
whole process to begin with.
Sincerely,
Robert Woolard
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