Oh, and the article was from almost a year ago... Way to go McCartney...
I'm done making a fool of myself now... > 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