Hello Mike,
You really should consider switching to decafe ;-)
-Walter Branch
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From: "Galactic Stone & Ironworks" <[email protected]>
To: "Martin Altmann" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] How an Intern Stole NASA's Moon Rocks
Hi Martin,
I did finally click on some of the embedded links in the story and saw
the FBI followup article. The "ring leader" was sentenced to 8 years
in prison - which here in America means he probably served about 2-3
years and then walked. (non-violent crime, ivy league white defendant
with previously clean record, good behavior and early release)
IMO, that sentence should have been 10 years served to deter any
future idiocy of that nature.
It made me sick to my stomach to imagine the loss of data and study
potential these specimens suffered at the hands of these criminals.
As a collector it rankles me, I cannot imagine how the scientists
studying the samples must have felt. Perhaps a more fitting sentence
for the thieves would be stoning by ordinary chondrites. Tie up the
thieves to poles out in the open (third world style) and pelt them
mercilessly with weathered-up UNWA from the Tucson bargain bin. ;)
So, is there any list of missing lunar samples? How many pilfered
moon rocks are floating around the collector's market, or sitting in
someone's safe?
Best regards,
MikeG
On 5/9/09, Martin Altmann <[email protected]> wrote:
Yes, a safe was lifted there,
as well as the part of the Good-Will Moon Rock, presented to Honduras was
stolen and was tried to be trafficked in USA.
Currently the Apollo-sample of Malta is missing.
Once I saw a strange documentation (was it on BBC or on discovery?), where
it was stated, that most of the Apollo-samples once distributed to the
nations of the World would have been lost and are missing.
Is that true?
(was a strange documentation, a man with a big belly and a full beard
driving an old car was shown as to be the "special agent" of NASA,
searching
for the missing Moon rocks...).
Let's open a new thread: Identify the Moon Rock given to your country!
I start.
Germany should have 3 Moon Rocks.
Two are given on permanent loan - one to the Technische Museum Berlin,
the other is housed in the exhibition of the Ries-Crater-Museum in
Noerdlingen (the astronauts got their a geological training in the
Ries-Crater by Eugene Shoemaker).
The Good-Will-piece donated to the Federal Rep. of Germany (don't know
whether the former German Democratic Rep. got one too?),
must be somewhere in the Deutsche Museum in Munich.
Wasn't a longer time there, have to go there again,
so I don't know, whether it's currently on display or somewhere in the
storage (museums in Germany are sometimes somewhat strange in estimating,
if
an item could be attractive for the visitors or not...).
Best!
Martin
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Galactic Stone & Ironworks [mailto:[email protected]]
Gesendet: Samstag, 9. Mai 2009 16:11
An: Martin Altmann
Cc: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] How an Intern Stole NASA's Moon Rocks
Is the story true? I read it and it sounds like pop-culture fiction.
I've never heard anything about this elsewhere.
If it's true, the thieves should be treated like Moon Rocks -
sterilized and then locked up forever.
On 5/9/09, Martin Altmann <[email protected]> wrote:
Was that article an exercise in style?
At least...due to the efforts of a few enthusiasts on the globe,
everyone can have now his piece of Moon Rock at a price of a paperback
:-)
Martin
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Pete
Pete
Gesendet: Samstag, 9. Mai 2009 12:58
An: [email protected]; meteoritelist meteoritelist
Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] How an Intern Stole NASA's Moon Rocks
Thieves.....I hate them!
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Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 23:30:00 -0500
Subject: [meteorite-list] How an Intern Stole NASA's Moon Rocks
http://gizmodo.com/5242736/how-an-intern-stole-nasas-moon-rocks
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