Guido,
If there was ever a doubt that you are a true count this newest discovery
confirms indeed that you get divine intervention on your hunts.
First you find the largest Chondrite ever found in Nevada. Now you find the
allusive Cat MT. Pairing.
It is my understanding that this is THE FIRST confirmed pairing of Cat MT.
The earlier mentioned pecan size example has never been officially verified and
therefore likely does not exist.
The part about Shirley Wetmore's identification is true.
Shirley talked the dude into chipping off a tiny piece and X rayed it and
confirmed it was largely made up of forsterite a form of olivine.
With this revelation she was able to regain the attention of David Kring who
had previously seen the whole rock and was one of many who had previously
decided it was slag based on an exterior examination alone.
Without Shirley's aid . This rock would likely still be considered slag.
I have personally hunted there dozens of times and obviously knew what to look
for as I had seen the original Cat MT in person many times before.
I shared this very secret ( at the time) find location with the Johnson's and I
was with them ( Dave and Jerome) when they each found a separate half of the
Snyder Hill find. Dave found the first half on one side of the hill and Jerome
found the other half a short time later on the other side of the hill.
It seems it had landed on top of the hill , broke into two pieces. One went
west and the other east and when found and reunited they fit perfectly back
together. Interestingly it too is an L5 but, not an IMB. Could it be from the
same fall? Maybe it is based on what we now know about Almahata sitta and how
many different types can fall together.
Guido, I don't know how you do it but you do it well. Congrats again.
Carl
Meteoritemax
--
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty
is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote".
---- Count Deiro <countde...@earthlink.net> wrote:
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