Absolutely amazing and nice photos, too! Congratulations to all. Regine
--- Erik Fisler <[email protected]> schrieb am Di, 19.7.2011: > Von: Erik Fisler <[email protected]> > Betreff: [meteorite-list] Photos of Holbrook Anniversary Hunt & Finds > An: "Meteoritelist" <[email protected]> > Datum: Dienstag, 19. Juli, 2011 09:04 Uhr > Hello All, > > It was a pleasure to watch so many hunters make so many > finds at Holbrook for > the group hunt! I was very happy to be asked to help > guide hunters for the > group hunt. I spent 5+ hours of my 19 hours in the field > over > Friday/Saturday/Sunday instructing hunters on where to hunt > and what to look for > and I can say it was awesome watching them grin when I > verified their finds. > Kudos to Jim and Ruben for doing most of the behind the > scenes organizing for > the hunt. There is a lot of patience involved with > juggling 50 people and those > who really listened walked away with the knowledge to find > something that day or > in the future. > > My finds from Friday and through the morning Saturday > consisted of 3 > individuals, 2 fragments and a piece that was just fusion > crust all for a total > of less than 2 grams and my father was kicking my > butt!! After spending most of > my morning driving back and forth from the hotel room to > the strewn field and > guiding hunters I decided to pick up my father and the > small group he had taken > on a hunt. He asked me where I wanted to hunt and I > told him I had seen Moni > and Bob moving towards a flat in the middle of the north > side and I wanted to > beat them too it so we headed to the spot I had my eye on > with the family he was > guiding and began to search. That's when I found a > few fragments with in a few > centimeters from each other stuck in the clay on the > surface. I had my dad > drive the truck over so I could bring out the shovel and > sieve, (as we had plaid > the fragment game before....). A few people > surrounded as I slowly and > carefully broke up the clay into the sieve. I had > about fifty grams in > fragments when my shovel clinked against a much bigger > piece in the ground and > everyone froze with excitement. That's when I pulled > out the 240 gram > piece!!!!!!!! It took about an hour and a half to recover > the 160 grams in > fragments and the 240 gram stone for a total of a 400 gram > find. As far Holbrook > goes, besides Larry's whopper, I haven't heard of that big > of a find in the last > few decades. Ontop of that Richard had another mongo > find of 47 grams which is > extremely rare for Holbrook in 2011. Together we have over > 500 Holbrooks with a > 90% of them individuals, average size 1-2 grams and before > that point my biggest > was 23 grams and my father had found one around 30+ grams. > It amazes me that > there was a 400g find and a 47g find along with soooo many > other stones all > found in the same day, regardless if there were fifty > hunters or 1000 hunters. > > Anywho... here is a link to the photos. I uploaded > them to my new Google+ > account which is linked to Picasa. For those of you > who don't know, Google+ is > a networking site by Google that is still under testing and > is only available to > those invited by people who are testing it, for now > anyway. So if anyone wants > to try Google+ shoot me an email and I'll shoot you an > invite. Also since this > is my first time using it to host an album it would be > great if I got some > reviews on how easy/difficult and how good/bad it is to > decide if I'll use it > again. > > Photos: > https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/104550188270087713656/albums/5630939129597014113 > > > Thanks! > [Erik] > > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
