Hello Walter and list,
That's what I meant by "colorful history". Don't remember the all details but it was a bold "daylight" theif who walked out of the museum and left a dummy in it's place. Forgot how he was caught. The mass mass was recovered, I suppose.
Ok, that is not why I'm interested in Angra dos reis. After reading about NWA 011 (see: http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/April03/asteroidalLava.html ) I learned that beside being the angrite namesake, it considered to have a unique parent body or distinct part of same than all the other angrites.
Hope that little piece of shared information doesn't pique everyone's interest and eventual cost me. So everybody count backwards from one hundred and repeat after me. "Angra? I don't need no Angra....Angra? I don't need no...."
Howard Wu
PS. Failing that, how many want to go in on a five G half gram meteorite?
Walter Branch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Everyone,Someone correct me if I am wrong but wasn't Angra dos Reis the meteorite that a certain dealer from the US tried to steal a few years ago, down in South America.-Walter------------------------------------------
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