Hello Adam > The Park Forest splash forms were never sold because they were never tied to > the March 26th event even though they were found at two impact sites. > Interestingly, other List members located some of the same forms weeks > later. Colby Navoro, a very religious person whose house was penetrated also > witnessed the collection of these splash forms in her house. Their oxygen > isotopes plot with the CI parent body not the L body. A paper is still
What spash forms, you mean impactites? Can u send any pictures ? > Shirokovsky on the other hand is a man-made object once being fraudulently > passed off as a meteorite. Do you remember the fake scientific paper that > was being distributed with it at the Tucson show where this stuff was first > unleashed on an unsuspecting audience? The etch clearly shows that somebody > ground up metallic material (possibly a nickel-bearing engine block), dumped > in olivine crystals, mixed up the two and then heated it to the eutectic > stage. This would explain how the olivine and metal mixture kept a somewhat > heterogeneous appearance. This is all about personal preferences in collecting. I will never buy brick fragment only becouse it comes from Nininger, Barringer, Haag, Altmann :-D or Pilski house/lab etc. But many other people will do. But I have 2 big and nice specimens only becouse how they looks like. The same why I some time ago invest in 2kg Putorano and spend many hours cutting it to nice slices. > Apparently a lot of collectors could care less about Shirokovsky being a > fake that was created to generate a profit and enjoy the man made material. > I was expressing my belief that it could be created for about 10 cents a > pound. To each his own but I would never knowingly support this kind of > fraud. Material is worth as much as buyers want to pay. On ebay average price is 1.5-2$/g so it looks like this is worth this money. Also becouse its only one unique specimen. If someone make better, nicest pallasite-wrong and sell it for 0.2$ then Shirokovsky will be have no chances :)) OK Everyone buying what he like. For some people Camel "kaka" is worth more than gold :-D -----[ MARCIN CIMALA ]-----[ I.M.C.A.#3667 ]----- http://www.Meteoryt.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.PolandMET.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.Gao-Guenie.com GSM +48(607)535 195 --------[ Member of Polish Meteoritical Society ]-------- ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
