Sales of Tunguska meteorites and olivine-bearing Sikhotes are suspended until further notice....
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Gilmer - Galactic Stone & Ironworks Meteorites Website - http://www.galactic-stone.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone News Feed - http://www.galactic-stone.com/rss/126516 Twitter - http://twitter.com/galacticstone EOM - http://www.encyclopedia-of-meteorites.com/collection.aspx?id=1564 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- On 4/5/11, Ed Deckert <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Sterling, > > Thank you for your reply. You confirmed what I thought was the correct > information. She really doesn't know what she is talking about at all. > When I suggested it was Sikhote-Alin, she told me "no, SA contains olivine" > and that I was mistaken. I tried one last time to tell her that SA is not a > Pallasite, but again, I was wrong and she was right. > > You just can't get through to some people when their minds are locked > tightly closed. > > Ed > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sterling K. Webb" <[email protected]> > To: "Ed Deckert" <[email protected]>; > <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 11:36 PM > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Tunguska Meteorites - Real or Not? > > >>> was she... sold a bill of goods? >> >> A bill of something, perhaps not goods. >> >> No iron meteorites from Tunguska. No >> stone meteorites from Tunguska. No >> meteorites of any kind from Tunguska. >> >> >> Sterling K. Webb >> ---------------------------------------------------- >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Ed Deckert" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 9:21 PM >> Subject: [meteorite-list] Tunguska Meteorites - Real or Not? >> >> >>> >>> Hello listees, >>> >>> I attended a fundraising event and there was a small, iron meteorite >>> specimen that had been made into a pendant. The person who donated this >>> item announced that it was a meteorite specimen that was recovered from >>> the Tunguska event. >>> >>> I looked at the item, and it looked VERY much like Sikhote-Alin. It was >>> hard to tell if it was a small individual, or shrapnel that had been >>> tumbled to smooth it out. >>> >>> She was very insulted when I suggested this was likely a piece of >>> Sikhote-Alin. She is Russian, and she purchased it from a Russian >>> gentleman. That was good enough for her. >>> >>> Am I wrong? Have there been iron meteorites resembling Sikhote-Alin >>> collected from Tunguska? Or, was she and/or her friend sold a bill of >>> goods? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ed >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> Visit the Archives at >>> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html >>> Meteorite-list mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >> > > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > -- ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
