Good luck to you and all the others - and have fun!
Mark

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On Apr 26, 2012, at 8:47 AM, Michael Farmer <m...@meteoriteguy.com> wrote:

> 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
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>> 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
>> 
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