There have been many rock shops in Oregon over the years that have sold fragments of Canyon Diablo and Odessa iron meteorites. Many of these irons where purchased in Tucson by rock shop owners and Oregon collectors who encountered one of the many old timey meteorite dealers in Tucson like the Schultz brothers or Glenn Huss or HH Nininger or the Sullivans. Lots of mineral dealers also featured the Arizona irons because they were fairly easy to get by stopping at the Meteorite Museum in Sedona on the way to or from The Tucson Show where many rock shop owners go to stop up for the year. Of course there were and still are lots of other ways to come across an old classic iron like Canyon Diablo.
This iron featured on Ebay is obviously a transported C.D. Probably a family heirloom from great grandpa's rock collection. It looks like an older surface found specimen with classic Coconino County, northern Arizona Caliche on it just like most of the specimens collected in the early days by Nininger.
There are only four meteorites found so far in Oregon; Klamath Falls - iron, Sam's Valley - iron, Salem - stone (witnessed fall) and last but not least, Willamette - iron.
Many of we Oregon residents have spent years searching for Oregon meteorite number five. Unfortunately, if a piece of this specimen is sent to UCLA or Cascadia Meteorite Laboratory for testing, it will no doubt be classified as yet another transported Canyon Diablo.
I would like for this to be Oregon's next find. Sadly, it looks like another hoax much like the Port Orford meteorite which turned out to be a transported piece of Imilac brought here to generate a bit of excitement and ended up created what is now considered to be the most sought after (and as yet unfound) meteorite in recorded history. For those of you that don't know the story, it is said to pe a pallasite the size of a prairie schooner!
Cheers, Edwin
From: "GREG LINDH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Norm Lehrman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Eastern Oregon Meteorite on Ebay
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:07:39 -0700
Yeah, a Canyon Diablo with "whiteout".Regards,Geeg----- Original Message -----From: Norm LehrmanSent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 4:52 PMSubject: Re: [meteorite-list] Eastern Oregon Meteorite on EbayMartin,
For an extra thousand dollars, rocks in Arizona could
crawl to Oregon! Maybe this is the beginning of a
migration!
Regards,
Norm
http://TektiteSource.com
--- Martin Altmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> But how did that Canyon Diablo found its way to
> Oregon??
>
> Buckleboo!
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Im Auftrag von Norm
> Lehrman
> Gesendet: Samstag, 17. Februar 2007 23:11
> An: Mike Fowler; [email protected]
> Cc: Mike Fowler
> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Eastern Oregon
> Meteorite on Ebay
>
> Mike & all,
>
> That did look like a winner, but too bad about the
> crumby documentation. The seller didn't seem very
> interested in providing anything but platitudes.
> The
> caliche crusts were right for eastern Oregon.
>
> Cheers,
> Norm
>
> --- Mike Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi List,
> >
> > Did any of you see this meteorite on ebay? 23 oz
> > sold for $1026 to
> > peterutas.
> >
> >
>
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200077988565
> >
> > I bid, but not that much.
> >
> > Mike Fowler
> >
> > Chicago
> > ebay--starsandrocks
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