Congratulations to The Natural History Museum on a fine acquisition. I am pleased to see that a large piece of Tissint (pronounced like peasant with a "T" instead of a "P") will be preserved and displayed publicly. Thank you, Caroline for clarifying the museum's position on falls/finds from this region.
Kindest Regards, Adam ________________________________ From: Caroline Smith <[email protected]> To: Adam Hupe <[email protected]> Cc: Adam <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 9:14 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Large Tissint donated to the NHM....! Adam Thank you for your kind words. The Museum is delighted to have acquired such an important specimen, both for science and our 4.8M visitors/year to enjoy. To clarify there is no 'politics' involved here. The Museum has a policy (derived from UK and international museum policies and standards) that we cannot acquire meteorites with unclear provenance i.e. NWA meteorites, owing to the issues of potential illicit or illegal movement across borders where permits are required for export and/or specimen movement. With the Tissint meteorite this is NOT the case as it is a well-provenanced specimen from Morocco, which as you know, is a country which does not require permits to export meteorite specimens. I hope this clarifies things. Regards Caroline ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr Caroline Smith Curator of Meteorites and Aurora Fellow Department of Mineralogy The Natural History Museum Cromwell Road London SW7 5BD On 8 Feb 2012, at 17:02, "Adam Hupe" <[email protected]> wrote: > It is great to see that major museums are setting politics aside and waking > up to the fact that most of the world's best specimens are coming out of NWA > these days. > > Kind Regards, > > Adam > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
