Hi Michael and Listees,
Michael wrote his concerns about Tagish Lake pricing in his reply about the
Lorton Meteorite:
"At least Tagish Lake is available, although at $600/g and up it's not
exactly affordable to me."
Maybe this will help sway your vote into a nice display:
http://www.lunarrock.com/tagishlake/tagishlakekit_50mg.jpg
Not only do you get actual Tagish Lake meteorite material, you get it all
set up and ready to display!! ;-)
Happy Friday!
Greg
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Greg Hupe
The Hupe Collection
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www.LunarRock.com
IMCA 3163
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Mulgrew
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 7:24 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Lorton Meteorite
Well shoot, that makes 2 of my 3 birthday falls rocks that I won't be
unable to add to my collection (the other being Baxter, formerly part
of the Nininger Collection). At least Tagish Lake is available,
although at $600/g and up it's not exactly affordable to me.
Hopefully Lorton will be on public display the next time I'm in D.C.
from sunny so. Cal
Michael
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Greg Stanley <[email protected]>
wrote:
Last year I visited a friend who works at the Smithsonian and I got to
hold the Lorton meteorite; it's absolutely a magnificent specimen.
Greg S.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 18, 2011, at 11:22 AM, "JoshuaTreeMuseum"
<[email protected]> wrote:
The landlords got outlawyered:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/whatever-happened-to-the-lorton-meteorite-/2011/03/04/AB14tMq_story.html
By Neely Tucker, Sunday, March 20, 11:42 AM
When last we heard, Everybody's Favorite Meteorite was locked up in legal
limbo.
The oblong little rock from outer space lighted up the late afternoon sky
across Washington on Jan. 18, 2010, and rocketed into a doctors' office
in Lorton. Moving at a leisurely 200 mph, it crashed into examination
room No. 2 in the Williamsburg Square Family Practice, even though it did
not have an appointment.
The startled (but unhurt) doctors, Marc Gallini and Frank Ciampi, donated
it to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, which houses
the world's largest collection of meteorites.
But then their landlords said not so fast: The 2-by-3-inch visitor from
the asteroid belt was estimated to be worth at least $50,000 on the
earth-bound meteorite market, in part because of its dramatic and
well-documented entrance. Thousands of people saw its fireball descent
(the museum has a photograph of the vapor trail), and radar sweeps
documented its path across the region.
The landlords demanded its return. Gallini said of their behavior: "It
isn't nice." Legal wrangling ensued.
We are delighted, a year later, that there is a happy ending.
The landlords eventually dropped their claims, the Smithsonian gave the
doctors $10,000 for the Lorton meteorite (its formal name) in early
February, and the physicians donated the check to the charity Doctors
Without Borders last week. Linda Welzenbach, the meteorite collection
manager at the Smithsonian, says it will soon be on public display,
though no date has been set.
"We are very happy that it's staying at the Smithsonian," Gallini says.
"We felt that where it's belonged since the beginning."
Deniz Mutlu, a member of the family that owns the building, said his only
issue with events was that "we got portrayed as the bad guys."
"All we wanted to do was donate it to a different institution (Phillips
Exeter Academy, in New Hampshire), where my wife attended school," he
said. "The doctors wanted to litigate. They had pro bono counsel. We just
let it go."
The meteorite, which existed for about 4.5 billion years floating around
between Mars and Jupiter, now spends its time in a little plastic box
deep in the Mason-Clarke Meteorite Vault in the Smithsonian. It has
thousands of other little asteroid friends, including three from Mars, to
keep it company.
Holding the Lorton meteorite with blue latex gloves, Welzenbach smiled.
"It's going to stay here where everyone can see it."
CURIOUS? Tell us what past Washington Post story or person in the news
you want us to update. E-mail [email protected] or call 202.334.4208.
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Phil Whitmer
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