Ooops, maybe not. Now that I read the article more closely it says... "Questions also remain over where the incident occurred. It was initially reported that it happened just after the Auckland-bound aircraft entered New Zealand airspace.
But Lan Chile said yesterday the flaming object was seen a few minutes before reaching New Zealand airspace." The picture of the meteorite distracted me :-) Phil > 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 > ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list