Incredibly, today we took possession of our Sikhote Alin specimen that was stolen out of the the Institute of Meteoritics museum over the holiday break. Tomorrow it will be flying home with one of our staff as carry-on, and a UNM police escort will be waiting at the Albuquerque Sunport to bring it back to the main campus. This speedy recovery could not have happened without the generous help of some amazing people in the meteorite community. I will give a full account of this whole story soon, and praise those who were instrumental in the recovery, but there is still an ongoing police investigation, so the details will probably have to wait until next week.
Happy New Year! -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577 Email: a...@unm.edu http://epswww.unm.edu/iom/pers/agee.html ______________________________________________ HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
