Dear List, The coordinates should not be too difficult to find. Find the family`s phone number by name (meteorite was found within their yard), address or if necessary Berthoud public school, post office, or coffee shop (usually I go to the local barber) and ask. Be POLITE and not pushy!!! Berthoud is/or was a quiet small town. Berthoud is a fairly small area or at least rural enough that word travels quickly. Please resepect land, landowners and the people. Myself being from rural Colorado, country people don`t like trespassers. They don`t like people walking on their land without permission and certainly don`t tolerate driving in their fields (planted or not with crops). Please consider that you will be representing the "meteorite community" and we don`t need another Portales senerio. TRY YOUR BEST TO FIND SOME!!!! Always get permission before entering someone else`s land!!! Colorado does have a no trespassing law and citizens with guns (unlikely you will NOT be shot...but one never knows). Property lines are/are not always marked! And the excuse, "I didn` know that this was your" land won`t fly. DGMW...Coloradoans are generally very nice people....but, you will not know which ones are NOT until it is too late. It is a shame, if true, that the Denver Museum of Natural History and Jack Murphy are not encouraging help to recover more of this stone. I doubt that it is 100% true. If true they probably don`t want "meteorite hunters", ie. sellers, collectors involved. It is also a crime that the Museum has now hidden their meteorite collection from the public and that they have "retired" Jack. The institution only is greedy and seeking a Disneyland attraction (even though it has and once had a very fine collection and curation of its collection). IMHO, Jack is a very serious scientist and has done alot with the Colorado Skywatch and meteorite recovery in Colorado. He is territorial; but nevertheless kind, polite and a genuine person. Thank you for those from Colorado and elsewhere who come to seek this stone. Sincerely, Dirk Ross...Tokyo
P.S> It would be of interest to me if someone would try to verify the soil and conditions (moisture, compaction, type of soil) so that impact penetration depth might lead us to impact velocity at impact. _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list