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Hi Walter and List
Maybe this is something the IMCA can help with
along with the meteoritical society, we could supply the institues around the
world with the names and contacts of those poeple willing to be known by such
places. Even photographs. In this way the institues would have a record of known
researchers, dealers and collectors in an electronic format thats easy to
access. This would hamper some of these thefts, surely wouldn't stop them, but
at least it would give the institues something to work from and maybe make
easier these trades for research.
Although I doubt I will ever get to most of these
places, it would be nice to know that the curators would be able to tell who I
was from someone else posing as me.
And, this would be an easy enough project, much
easier than trying to track down and bring to justice the black
marketeers.
Mark
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Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 11:32
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Page
Translated
Hello Everyone,
Many thanks to Sergey Vasiliev, who translated
the page for me and has given me permission to post his translation to the
list.
... In 1991 in Australia was found 350 grams
ureilite Nullarbor 010. 1 gram of it was
sent to Max Plank Institute for analysis. The rest was lost. Two years later
"well known cheater" Ron Farrell said the new meteorite was found. That was
also ureilite with the only weight of 349 grams. Farrell said that it was
found in Mexico. Meteorite got the name Nuevo Mercurio (b). Two stones (1g
from australia and another from Mexico) had suspected the same structure,
texture and composition. Most of scientists thought that there are two
pieces of the same stone. That story is not the best of Farrell's stories. In
1995 that man showed up in Egypt museum. He said that he is from Yale
University and he would like to get two museum specimens (both from
Mars) for detail study - the price for both is more than two million
dollars. He had luck to get those stones. Finally the Egyptian authorities
found out that the man with name Farrell is not working in Yale and never
did. Something like: Meteorite business is so
profitable that those kind of frauds had been
done [sorry but my Czech is not perfect also
;-)] Only for the last three years there were six "martian"
meteorites (all from privat collections) recognized as Eath basalts.
Something like: The thiefs doesn't care about it.
[I have no idea why this sentense is here but it is also
translation from another sourse - one of those: CA M`INT�RESSE Paris; FOCUS,
London]. For the same period of time that was reported 128
stolen meteorites. On the Paris meteorite exhibition in 1996 two meteorites
were stolen: one from Mars and one from Moon. The one from the moon belongs to
National Institute of Polar Research (Tokyo). Something like:
Farrell also tryed to get a piece like that. In 1997 he went to
Rio de Janeiro National Museum where he tryed to exchange small meteorite
(priced at $29,000) for the Eath rock. He was catched at the airport. Stolen
meteorite was in his boot. That is a funny one:
And even he was judged for two years in jail, he got a chance to
escape and now he is hiding somewhere.
That's it.
Sergey
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