Good luck with the sale. What an amazing specimen. If you can finance me, I will buy it. How does $500 down and $200 a month for the next 60 years sound? ;) LOL
Just kidding. Seriously though, good luck finding an appropriate home for that spectacular mass. :) Best regards, MikeG On 5/1/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > .....OR BEST OFFER! > > > Hello fellow list members. I understand that even though the price per gram > for this amazing meteorite is low that the total amount is beyond many > collector's budgets for a single specimen. Still, please check out the > listing on EBay if you haven't already. The pictures are really fun to look > at and one photograph shows an impressive vesicle that measures over one > centimeter in diameter. Although not in this main mass fragment, there are > vesicles in D'Orbigny that are over 2.5 centimeters in diameter! D'Orbigny > also contains huge olivine clasts, smokey colored volcanic glass inclusions, > vugs filled with beautiful augite crystals and a matrix filled with this > porous crystalline structure and glass lined vesicles. Patrick and I are > hoping that this specimen remains intact. There are several institutions > showing an interest in acquiring this piece. It would be great to see this > specimen makes it's way to a major public display. Please write off list to > [email protected] > if you have any questions about D'Orbigny. > > Thanks and have a great weekend, > > E.T. > > > www.etmeteorites.com > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=200334816725&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > -- ......................................................... Michael Gilmer (Louisiana, USA) Member of the Meteoritical Society. Member of the Bayou Region Stargazers Network. Websites - http://www.galactic-stone.com and http://www.glassthrower.com .......................................................... ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
