The rock that Joel Samson mentions in his e-mail
to me of 2+ years ago (below) is depicted here:
http://meteorites.wustl.edu/meteorwrongs/stone.jpg
It looks like a weathered volcaniclastic rock to
me. And, OK, it does also resemble a lunar breccia.
Randy Korotev
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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:39:40 +0800
From: "Joel Samson" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: my first lunar rock found in our country the PHILIPPINES!
dear sir this photo is a similar stones to dhofar
908 group tkw of the rock is 1738grams.THANKS! JOEL
stone.jpg
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At 09:33 AM 2011-05-12 Thursday, you wrote:
Hello List, Â Thank you for calling my
attention to potential dubieties about a lunar
meteorite offered by Joel Samson. Â The
depicted meteorite Joel Samson posted on
Facebook which is held between two fingers on
the photo is definitely an authentic piece of
the lunar meteorite Dho 908. It is one of our
own photographs but we never gave it to him. So
we do not know how he got hold of the photo and
we did not give him the authorization to use it
either. Â We donât know whether the specimen
he offers for sale is identical with the photo
or not. Â What we do know is that Joel Samson
is in possession of material which has a distant
similarity with Dho 908. As the material
presumably is not meteoritic he was asked
several times by competent side to have the
specimens scientifically examined. To our
knowledge he did not follow this advice. In case
of doubts about the authenticity of a specimen
offered as a Dho 908 we can offer support with
the identification.  With very best regards  Siegfried & Team
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