Hallo,
und hier ein aktueller Bericht von Mike Farmer
Gruß
Hanno
Day two of the meteorite hunt ended with no new finds other than a few fragments of the parking lot specimens here in California. Many people are here, some new faces, most well known, all hunting for the fall of a lifetime, a CM2, only California's third fall.
I walked many miles today, with nothing to show but sore feet, but i did buy out ~1gram of fragments recovered from the parking lot piece found by Dr. Jeniskens. more pieces were scattered in the lot.
Sadly this rarest of rare meteorites fell in one of the toughest terrains I have ever had the displeasure of searching for meteorites in. As of right now less than 15 grams has been found despite large scale search. Of course that could change at any moment with the right find.
So far it has been fun, i almost stepped on small rattlesnake today, so be careful, he did not rattle. Police were involved in a couple of hunters day for innocent reasons, seems landowners called cops even when hunters had permission, people are kind of private up here, and park rangers were getting interested in people hunting for rocks. It could get interesting really fast with tomorrow's barrage of news that is coming down the pike.
Still, this is one of the rarest falls on my lifetime, and worth working oneself nearly to death to try and find. i hope as much as possible is recovered for the science that can be done.
Congrats again to Robert Ward for finding the first smallest needle in the worlds largest haystack, something that 50 people today did not duplicate.
Michael Farmer
