Hello everyone, I have been askes in a private message if the amont we have collected so far is enough to purchase a smaple of the Almahata Sitta meteorite.
Everyone can check the specimens that are avilable for a given amount ath this page. (Note that the dealer that offer these samples has offered a 20% discount when we purchase a sample for Richard): http://www.haberer-meteorite.de/english/Asteroid%202008%20tc3/Asteroid%202008%20TC3.html As everyone can see, the amount collected so far is enough to buy a sample, but one of the smaller samples available. So any additional donations will help us to get a more representative sample, and are therefore certainly not for nothing. I don't know what size of specimen we may get from the Jenniskens- Shaddad, if a donation for the University of Khartoumm can be agreed upon. But offering a higher donation would certainly also help in that case. :-) Cheers, Herbert > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Herbert > Raab > Sent: 08/04/2009 6:06 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Donating Almahata Sitta to Richard Kowalski > > > Dear fellow meteorite collectors, > > about one week ago, I posted a message to this list suggesting > to collect some money to buy a sample of the Almahata Sitta > meteorite (the remnants of asteroid 2008 TC3) for Richard > Kowalski (the discoverer of 2008 TC3 and meteorite collector). > > By now, US$ 375,-- were donated trough ChipIn, and further > US$ 260,-- were collected by other means, giving a total of > US$ 635,--. So, I want to say "Thank you!" to all those who > have sent donations. Those who still want to donate (any amount, > no matter how small or large is welcome) may do so until Friday, > August 7 trough this page: > > http://www.astrometrica.at/kowalski.html > > By the way, Franck Marchis (who is researcher at the SETI institute) > is exploring the possibities to get a sample from the original > expeditions by Jenniskens and Shaddad, and sending the donations > to the University of Khartoumm (instead of buying a sample from a > meteorite dealer), but the outcome is not yet clear. > > Cheers, > Herbert > > > ______________________________________________ > 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
