From: marc.d.fr...@jpl.nasa.gov
To: rsvp...@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:17:50 -0800
Subject: Post to list?
Pete, could you do me a favor and post this to the list? I haven’t been able
to post for a couple of years now, with no explanation as to why.
Cheers,
MDF
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
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