Hi Frank & list I just put up a page that shows all of the postcards (4) I have of the "Basket" and once referred to as the "Ring" meteorite. Some of the postcards mention a weight of 49 pounds and even have the weight written on the iron in white (paint?). I wonder if that is still on it? http://jensenmeteorites.com/Postcards/CanyonDiablo.htm
Mike Mike Jensen Meteorites 16730 E Ada PL Aurora, CO 80017-3137 USA 720-949-6220 IMCA 4264 website: www.jensenmeteorites.com On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Frank Cressy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > Glad the "basket" meteorite is going home. I remember seeing a post card of > it and thinking it was way cool. Maybe Mike Jensen has the post card in his > collection. > > Cheers, > > Frank > > --- On Wed, 3/11/09, Eric Wichman <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Eric Wichman <[email protected]> > Subject: [meteorite-list] Stolen Canyon Diablo Meteorite To Be Returned > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 7:16 AM > > I found article this in my email box this morning... > > "..This story begins not in a galaxy far away, but at a Milwaukee rummage > sale a few years ago. Tom Lynch paid $10 for an odd hunk of metal he figured > might be copper or bronze with potential salvage value. > > He had no idea it had dropped from space into the Arizona desert some 50,000 > years ago. > > "For the last two years, it kept my grandson's basketball hoop from > blowing over in the yard. It weighs 50 pounds," said Lynch, a retired > foundry and General Motors worker who lives in South Milwaukee. > > Recently, he saw a show about meteorites on the Travel Channel and realized > that's probably what he had. It was curious, he thought, that the thing > never oxidized in the weather. Following advice from the TV show, he held a > magnet up to the object and it stuck. > > He took his 4.6 billion-year-old find to the Milwaukee Public Museum and then > to Chicago's Field Museum last month. The scientists got excited. Yes, they > said, it's a meteorite.." > > READ THE FULL ARTICLE > http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/41069052.html > > > Wow! Now that's a cool looking meteorite. > > Does anyone on-list remember this piece? > > Regards, > Eric Wichman > Meteorites USA > > > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
