ha.. I love how McCartney makes it into a game..
congrats on your finds.

-Leigh Anne


--- mccartney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I've just returned from a new fall.   It looked like
> everyone missed this fall, so I went. 
> 
> I spent 2 weeks down there  hunting down stones, and
> canvasing the area house by house.  Its mainly
> agricultural land and dominated by vineyards. 
> Unfortunately, there is never plowing in vineyards,
> so no more stones will be found. (maybe 1 or 2 in
> the coming years)  Most of my time was spent in
> public outreach and teaching people how to identify
> stones. 
> 
> TKW is 5 kg at this time.  I recovered 2.3kg.  Looks
> like an H4 or H5 Ordinary Chondrite.
> 
> Conditions were not good for recovery, almost all
> stones punched into the soft ground 1/4 meters. 
> Those stones that were recovered were because they
> hit near someone or hit a road.
> 
> http://texasmeteoritelab.com/x/img_1241.jpg
> http://texasmeteoritelab.com/x/img_1299.jpg
> http://texasmeteoritelab.com/x/img_1257.jpg
> 
> I've got to get my saw up and running and cut
> specimens in the next few days. I'll post more
> details later.
> 
> Anyone want to guess which country the fall was in?
> 
> -mt
> 
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