I was going to guess Chile as well. Maybe somewhere between Santiago and New Zealand.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10431624 Phil >>From Texas: Down there? Vineyard? ---> Chile? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "mccartney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 8:12 PM > Subject: [meteorite-list] New Fall > > >> 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 >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> http://www.meteoritecentral.com >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com >> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
