Free Coffee

This weekend only, everyone that walks in the door at Edna’s get a free cup of coffee and a club sandwich. This gift courtesy  Marsha Sims and her incredible Christmas find. Using video recordings of various  meteor showers and some math well above what any of us at the Press ever conquered, she managed to isolate some likely meteor strike areas. For her efforts, she was rewarded with not only a handful of chondrite specimen, but an fine octohedrite the size of a softball as well as several carbonaceous specimen that university researchers paid her quite handsomely for.

When asked whether she would sell the Iron-Nickel meteorite, she said “Oh, heck no! [I’ve] Never found nothing that tops this sweetie. I mean, unless I maybe find something even better next time. I mean, the Dutch collectors are wild about these. Eat em up.”

Will there be a next time? Marsha says “Most Definitely.” In the meantime, she is revising her numbers and brushing up on all manner of computer modelling in order to improve the results of her searches. If you would like to join her on one of her excursions, you may want to get in good with her now. However, as she told us, it requires the ability to jump  fences, stare down angry livestock, and use a shovel without the aid of a flashlight. “Those afraid of the occasional misdemeanor trespassing charge need not apply, darlin’.”