Re: [meteorite-list] nut bag reporting award Wisconsin

2010-04-22 Thread Brian Cox
Mineral Point is the largest town East of Livingston and a big town for tourists to visit and stay in for surrounding tourist attractions. They used it basically in the article since most people in Wisconsin, nor in Illinois, nor Iowa have any idea where Livingston is since it only has 697

Re: [meteorite-list] nut bag reporting award Wisconsin

2010-04-22 Thread Brian Cox
Dirk is correct in his post. If you recall an article by a writer on Sunday, I believe from the Madison Wisconsin paper, where she states and quotes a professor and scientist at the U of Wisconsin at Madison who was accepting specimens and telling farmers to not trust the meteorite collectors

Re: [meteorite-list] nut bag reporting award Wisconsin

2010-04-22 Thread Dennis Miller
: searchingfor...@sbcglobal.net To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:06:33 -0500 Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] nut bag reporting award Wisconsin Mineral Point is the largest town East of Livingston and a big town for tourists to visit and stay in for surrounding

Re: [meteorite-list] nut bag reporting award Wisconsin

2010-04-21 Thread Richard Kowalski
I guess I don't see why you're calling it nutbag or lunacy. While Mineral Point does seem a too far east of Livingston, but the article states a none explicit just west of... 130 grams at $20 per gram = $2600, so the value of thousands sounds reasonable. What am I missing? -- Richard Kowalski

Re: [meteorite-list] nut bag reporting award Wisconsin

2010-04-21 Thread Jeff Kuyken
: Thursday, April 22, 2010 12:23 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] nut bag reporting award Wisconsin I guess I don't see why you're calling it nutbag or lunacy. While Mineral Point does seem a too far east of Livingston, but the article states a none explicit just west of... 130 grams at $20 per

Re: [meteorite-list] nut bag reporting award Wisconsin

2010-04-21 Thread Greg Stanley
I'm confused, this actually could be important information leading to the size and shape of the strewn field.  Also, just West is vague, so we do not know exactly were it was found. This is and odd quote, Magnets stuck to the rock easily— the first time Dutch has seen that in 33 years on the