It was obvious from the moment I saw it. Like fake lions in the zoos, fake artifacts in the museums, now China is experiencing fake meteorite boom. Michael Farmer
Sent from my iPhone On Aug 16, 2013, at 6:00 AM, Bofang Li <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Listees, > Today I got the info from Dr. Zhao Xuchao (PhD from IGGCAS, MetSoc > member) that the stone fragments collected near the Xinjiang crater > (formly called fallen on July 31th), have confirmed not the meteorite > by Professor Lin Yangting (IGGCAS, member of the Nomenclature > Committee). The tested samples at IGGCAS are provided by an amateur > meteorite enthusiast named Rex who claimed had found "CO Carbonaceous > Chondrite" in this crater several days earlier on a videos, but > actually the samples are burnt clay or limestone with dark crust. News > reports regarding this event several days earlier also commented that > Zhang Baolin from Beijing Planetarium claimed he got a donation from a > local collector which is an achondrite meteorite, and the truth is > Zhang Baolin got a HED achondrite slice from a collector who is in > Urumuqi (over a thousand kilo-meters from the crater), and the HED > slice from the news picture looks like a NWA. Now, we can say, as some > of our listees had pointed out earlier, the crater is not caused by a > crashed meteorite. > Regards! > Bryan > --------------- > MetSoc member > IMCA #1371 > www.meteoritegarden.com > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
