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"McCartney Stone" - 17 grams
Top view - McCartney sold his first find into our collection!
Date: 01/01/00
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"McCartney Stone" - 17 grams
Side view - notice the silver metal on the crust
Date: 01/01/00
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"McCartney Stone" - 17 grams
Back side - a good look at the secondary crust
Date: 01/01/00
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Michael Farmer and his team
This news photo shows Michael Farmer and his team holding some of their finds - some team members were: Robert Ward, Shauna Russell, Robert Woolard, and Moritz Karl - Photo: Paul Moseley, Star-telegram
Date: 03/28/09
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The "Farmer Stone" in-situ
This is the stone "in-situ" found by Michael Farmer that we eventually puchased for our collection
Date: 03/28/09
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One of the BIG ONES
Michael made one farmer's day by purchasing this huge 1.7 kilo stone for over 10K !! - image courtesy The Waco Tribune-Herald
Date: 03/28/09
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Michael Farmer
Michael lead the charge into the field and established relationships with many of the other "farmers" in the area - in this photo he is posed with the find that we purchased
Date: 03/28/09
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"Farmer Stone" - 6.46 grams
We were able to obtain this stone which was Michael's 10th find - it is another very dark crusted stone with a small break on one end which is dusted with light secondary crusting
Date: 01/01/00
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"Farmer Stone" - 6.46 grams
A side view of this incredible rock
Date: 01/01/00
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Mike Miller
Mike came to Texas and joined the seach - he was one of the early lucky hunters to find a piece over 200 grams
Date: 03/14/09
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"Miller Slice" - 3.4 grams
Mike also gave us another chance to see the inside of one of these beautiful stones. We obtained this great end cut.
Date: 01/01/00
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"Miller Slice" - 3.4 grams
The outside of this stone was not nearly as dark crusted as our other samples
Date: 01/01/00
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Patrick Thompson
Patrick not only came to Texas to successfully find Ash Creek stones - but he also donated some of his finds to Portland State University
Date: 03/24/09
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"Thompson Stone" - 2.33 grams
This very dark crusted stone that we obtained from Patrick gave us our first good look at a broken sample
Date: 03/25/09
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"Thompson Stone" - 2.33 grams
A good look at the natural milky interior of this L6
Date: 03/25/09
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Ruben Garcia
Ruben not only searched for meteorites - he also documented his experiences in several YouTube videos
Date: 02/21/09
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"Ruben Stone" - 8.4 grams
One video showed a fantastic dark stone which Ruben slowly rotated for the camera
Date: 01/01/00
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"Ruben Stone" - 8.4 grams
The back side is a bubbled symphony of fusion. Even after it had already passed through several hands we still managed to puchase it!
Date: 01/01/00
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Rob Wesel
Rob Wesel poses with "Hopper the dog" - Hopper found one of the first meteorite pieces and dropped it on its owner's front porch!
Date: 04/10/09
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"Wesel Stone"
A great broken fragment sample of this fall
Date: 04/10/09
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"Wesel Stone"
The back side of this fragment is pitch black - this one is a little fragile and crumbly compared to our other samples
Date: 01/01/00
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