In "Seized Sikhote Alin 176kg", http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2005-September/177641.html , Meteoryt.net wrote: "They say that this meteorites have numbers, so its possible that they was stealed from any collection."
and in "Seized Meteorites - report", http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2005-September/177646.html , Stan wrote: "What you should be doing now is making every effort to finding out what the story is behind these meteorites - if they arent stolen then there is a good chance that they will be auctioned off as seized assets, at least thats how things work here in the us." According to a Russian geologist with whom I shared the URL for the Polish customs report and has investigated this matter, the numbers indicate that some of these meteorites quite likely were stolen from the Laboratory of Meteoritics at the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry in Moscow. If these meteorites were stolen from them, it is quite likely that the Russian government will make a formal request that they be repatriated / returned to them Best Regards, Paul Baton Rouge, LA __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
