All I have found is a rattlesnake. The fragments I have I bought. Heavy rain all night last night, but clear from now on. Perhaps today I'll get mine. Michael Farmer
Sent from my iPhone On Apr 26, 2012, at 8:11 AM, "Stuart McDaniel" <actionshoot...@carolina.rr.com> wrote: > Congrats on finding what you have found. > > > > > ***************************** > Stuart McDaniel > Lawndale, NC > Secr., > Cleve. Co. Astronomical Society > > IMCA #9052 > Sirius Meteorites > > Node35 - Sentinel All Sky > > http://spacerocks.weebly.com > > ********************************* > -----Original Message----- From: Michael Farmer > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:14 AM > To: meteoritelist meteoritelist > Subject: [meteorite-list] Sutter's Mill meteorite hunt > > Day two of the meteorite hunt ended with no new finds other than a few > fragments of the parking lot specimens here in California. Many people are > here, some new faces, most well known, all hunting for the fall of a > lifetime, a CM2, only California's third fall. > I walked many miles today, with nothing to show but sore feet, but i did buy > out ~1gram of fragments recovered from the parking lot piece found by Dr. > Jeniskens. more pieces were scattered in the lot. > Sadly this rarest of rare meteorites fell in one of the toughest terrains I > have ever had the displeasure of searching for meteorites in. As of right now > less than 15 grams has been found despite large scale search. Of course that > could change at any moment with the right find. > So far it has been fun, i almost stepped on small rattlesnake today, so be > careful, he did not rattle. Police were involved in a couple of hunters day > for innocent reasons, seems landowners called cops even when hunters had > permission, people are kind of private up here, and park rangers were getting > interested in people hunting for rocks. It could get interesting really fast > with tomorrow's barrage of news that is coming down the pike. > Still, this is one of the rarest falls on my lifetime, and worth working > oneself nearly to death to try and find. i hope as much as possible is > recovered for the science that can be done. > Congrats again to Robert Ward for finding the first smallest needle in the > worlds largest haystack, something that 50 people today did not duplicate. > Michael Farmer > > > Michael Farmer > > Sent from my iPad > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
