Hi Mike
From one side, it does actually look like the older rotin/rattan baskets
with the handle
that I saw in my childhood in France in the 60s.
Ring is just more poetic...
What a beauty that other Ring meteorite ! where is it displayed ?
Michael B, France
From: "Mike Jensen" <meteoritepl...@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Stolen Canyon Diablo Meteorite To Be Returned
Hi Michael
A basket should hold something so it is hard to see how something with
a hole in it would make a good basket. But I guess the problem is
there is another well known ring meteorite from Arizona;
http://www.meteorite-times.com/Back_Links/2003/August/ad04-tucson.jpg
I guess maybe minnie-me ring might work;
http://blog.oregonlive.com/houseoffame/2008/08/VernTroyerAP.jpg
Mike
Mike Jensen Meteorites
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Aurora, CO 80017-3137
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Michael Bross <elemen...@peconic.net>
wrote:
Thanks Mike
Great looking postcards.
I prefer "Ring" to "Basket"...
Michael B, France
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Jensen"
<meteoritepl...@gmail.com>
To: "Frank Cressy" <fcre...@prodigy.net>
Cc: <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Stolen Canyon Diablo Meteorite To Be
Returned
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 <fcre...@prodigy.net>
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 <e...@meteoritewatch.com> wrote:
From: Eric Wichman <e...@meteoritewatch.com>
Subject: [meteorite-list] Stolen Canyon Diablo Meteorite To Be Returned
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
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
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