[meteorite-list] Astronomical Prices of Meteorites in Korea Still Controversial
Hello Listers 24 million dollar meteorite in the name of science, for everything else, there's MasterCard ... SEOUL, Dec 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The 4.5 billion-year-old meteorites that fell in Jinju city, South Korea in March 2013 are having a hard time entering Korean scientific research circles due to their owners’ excessive compensation demands. The Korean Government is attempting to purchase the meteorites for use in scientific research. In March 2013, four meteorites weighing 35 kilograms in total fell on a farming site in Jinju. They are as old as the sun, and the first meteorites to land on the Korean peninsula in 71 years. The Korean Government announced that it would buy the meteorites to benefit Korean scientific research communities, and to prevent the rare celestial objects from being sold to foreign collectors. However, the current owners of the four meteorites are demanding more than 27 billion won (US$ 24.5 million) in compensation. Meteorites of 35 kilograms are usually sold for around 180 million won (US$ 163,526) on the international market. Source: http://koreabizwire.com/astronomical-prices-of-meteorites-in-korea-still-controversial/27193 Shawn Alan IMCA 1633 ebay store http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633ny/m.html Website http://meteoritefalls.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Tim Spahr Steps Down As Minor Planet Center Director
http://minorplanetcenter.net/blog/minor-planet-center-director-steps-down/ Minor Planet Center Director Steps Down By J.L. Galache January 6, 2015 Effective January 25, 2015, Dr. Tim Spahr will step down from his position as director of the IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC), which he was appointed to in 2006. The Minor Planet Center is housed at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, who will be appointing an interim director until such a time as a new permanent director is found. In the meantime, MPC operations will continue as usual. This is all the information we have at this time. __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomical Prices of Meteorites in Korea StillControversial
Just greedy people and part of the fault lies with the Korean government. They promoted super high values while trying to prevent an American from taking any of the stones. Let them not get anything. Michael Farmer Sent from my iPad On Jan 6, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Raremeteorites via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: $700.00 a gram for an ordinary fall? I think $5.00 a gram is more realistic. One of the images looks like iron ore to me. Perhaps they have not taken into account that the U.S. Dollar is strengthening now that the lame Fed no longer manipulates currency with the stupid Quantitative Easing idea. Maybe, they are overprinting the Korean Won! I have a feeling the current owners aren't selling much. Adam - Original Message - From: Shawn Alan via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com To: Meteorite Central meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 3:23 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Astronomical Prices of Meteorites in Korea StillControversial Hello Listers 24 million dollar meteorite in the name of science, for everything else, there's MasterCard ... SEOUL, Dec 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The 4.5 billion-year-old meteorites that fell in Jinju city, South Korea in March 2013 are having a hard time entering Korean scientific research circles due to their owners’ excessive compensation demands. The Korean Government is attempting to purchase the meteorites for use in scientific research. In March 2013, four meteorites weighing 35 kilograms in total fell on a farming site in Jinju. They are as old as the sun, and the first meteorites to land on the Korean peninsula in 71 years. The Korean Government announced that it would buy the meteorites to benefit Korean scientific research communities, and to prevent the rare celestial objects from being sold to foreign collectors. However, the current owners of the four meteorites are demanding more than 27 billion won (US$ 24.5 million) in compensation. Meteorites of 35 kilograms are usually sold for around 180 million won (US$ 163,526) on the international market. Source: http://koreabizwire.com/astronomical-prices-of-meteorites-in-korea-still-controversial/27193 Shawn Alan IMCA 1633 ebay store http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633ny/m.html Website http://meteoritefalls.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Fossil Microbialites Found on Mars ???
Potential Signs of Ancient Life on Mars by Johnny Bontemps, Astrobiology Magazine, http://www.astrobio.net/news-exclusive/potential-signs-ancient-life-mars-rover-photos/ PhysOrg at http://phys.org/news/2015-01-potential-ancient-life-mars-rover.html The paper is: Noffke, N. 2015, Ancient Sedimentary Structures in the 3.7 Ga Gillespie Lake Member, Mars, That Resemble Macroscopic Morphology, Spatial Associations, and Temporal Succession in Terrestrial Microbialites. Atrobiology. vol. 15, no. 2, ahead of print. http://online.liebertpub.com/toc/ast/0/0 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25495393 PDF file of paper at http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/ast.2014.1218 Yours, Paul H. __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Volunteer 'Disk Detectives' Classify Possible Planetary Habitats
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4430 Volunteer 'Disk Detectives' Classify Possible Planetary Habitats Jet Propulsion Laboratory January 6, 2015 A NASA-sponsored website designed to crowdsource analysis of data from the agency's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission has reached an impressive milestone. In less than a year, citizen scientists using DiskDetective.org have logged 1 million classifications of potential debris disks and disks surrounding young stellar objects (YSO). This data will help provide a crucial set of targets for future planet-hunting missions. This is absolutely mind-boggling, said Marc Kuchner, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the project's principal investigator. We've already broken new ground with the data, and we are hugely grateful to everyone who has contributed to Disk Detective so far. Combing through objects identified by WISE during its infrared survey of the entire sky, Disk Detective aims to find two types of developing planetary environments. The first, known as a YSO disk, typically is less than 5 million years old, contains large quantities of gas, and often is found in or near young star clusters. The second planetary habitat, known as a debris disk, tends to be older than 5 million years, holds little or no gas, and possesses belts of rocky or icy debris that resemble the asteroid and Kuiper belts found in our own solar system. Vega and Fomalhaut, two of the brightest stars in the sky, host debris disks. Planets form and grow within disks of gas, dust and icy grains surrounding young stars. The particles absorb the star's light and reradiate it as heat, which makes the stars brighter at infrared wavelengths -- in this case, 22 microns -- than they would be without a disk. Computer searches already have identified some objects seen by the WISE survey as potential dust-rich disks. But software can't distinguish them from other infrared-bright sources, such as galaxies, interstellar dust clouds and asteroids. There may be thousands of potential planetary systems in the WISE data, but the only way to know for sure is to inspect each source by eye. Kuchner recognized that searching the WISE database for dusty disks was a perfect opportunity for crowdsourcing. He worked with NASA to team up with the Zooniverse, a collaboration of scientists, software developers and educators who collectively develop and manage citizen science projects on the Internet. At DiskDetective.org, volunteers watch a 10-second flip book of a disk candidate shown at several different wavelengths as observed from three different telescopes, including WISE. They then click one or more buttons that best describe the object's appearance. Each classification helps astronomers decide which images may be contaminated by background galaxies, interstellar matter or image artifacts, and which may be real disks that should be studied in more detail. In March 2014, just two months after Disk Detective launched, Kuchner was amazed to find just how invested in the project some users had become. Volunteers complained about seeing the same object over and over. We thought at first it was a bug in the system, Kuchner explained, but it turned out they were seeing repeats because they had already classified every single object that was online at the time. Some 28,000 visitors around the world have participated in the project to date. What's more, volunteers have translated the site into eight foreign languages, including Romanian, Mandarin and Bahasa, and have produced their own video tutorials on using it. Many of the project's most active volunteers are now joining in science team discussions, and the researchers encourage all users who have performed more than 300 classifications to contact them and take part. One of these volunteers is Tadeá Cernohous, a postgraduate student in geodesy and cartography at Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic. I barely understood what scientists were looking for when I started participating in Disk Detective, but over the past year I have developed a basic sense of which stars are worthy of further exploration, he said. Alissa Bans, a postdoctoral fellow at Adler Planetarium in Chicago and a member of the Disk Detective science team, recalls mentioning that she was searching for candidate YSOs and presented examples of what they might look like on Disk Detective. In less than 24 hours, she said, Tadeá had compiled a list of nearly 100 objects he thought could be YSOs, and he even included notes on each one. Speaking at a press conference at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle on Tuesday, Kuchner said the project has so far netted 478 objects of interest, which the team is investigating with a variety of ground-based telescopes in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Argentina and Chile. We now have at
[meteorite-list] NASA's Chandra Detects Record-Breaking Outburst from Milky Way's Black Hole
January 5, 2015 NASA's Chandra Detects Record-Breaking Outburst from Milky Way's Black Hole Astronomers have observed the largest X-ray flare ever detected from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. This event, detected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, raises questions about the behavior of this giant black hole and its surrounding environment. The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, called Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*, is estimated to contain about 4.5 million times the mass of our sun. Astronomers made the unexpected discovery while using Chandra to observe how Sgr A* would react to a nearby cloud of gas known as G2. Unfortunately, the G2 gas cloud didn't produce the fireworks we were hoping for when it got close to Sgr A*, said lead researcher Daryl Haggard of Amherst College in Massachusetts. However, nature often surprises us and we saw something else that was really exciting. On Sept. 14, 2013, Haggard and her team detected an X-ray flare from Sgr A* 400 times brighter than its usual, quiet state. This megaflare was nearly three times brighter than the previous brightest X-ray flare from Sgr A* in early 2012. After Sgr A* settled down, Chandra observed another enormous X-ray flare 200 times brighter than usual on Oct. 20, 2014. Astronomers estimate that G2 was closest to the black hole in the spring of 2014, 15 billion miles away. The Chandra flare observed in September 2013 was about a hundred times closer to the black hole, making the event unlikely related to G2. The researchers have two main theories about what caused Sgr A* to erupt in this extreme way. The first is that an asteroid came too close to the supermassive black hole and was torn apart by gravity. The debris from such a tidal disruption became very hot and produced X-rays before disappearing forever across the black hole's point of no return, or event horizon. If an asteroid was torn apart, it would go around the black hole for a couple of hours - like water circling an open drain - before falling in, said co-author Fred Baganoff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. That's just how long we saw the brightest X-ray flare last, so that is an intriguing clue for us to consider. If this theory holds up, it means astronomers may have found evidence for the largest asteroid to produce an observed X-ray flare after being torn apart by Sgr A*. A second theory is that the magnetic field lines within the gas flowing towards Sgr A* could be tightly packed and become tangled. These field lines may occasionally reconfigure themselves and produce a bright outburst of X-rays. These types of magnetic flares are seen on the sun, and the Sgr A* flares have similar patterns of intensity. The bottom line is the jury is still out on what's causing these giant flares from Sgr A*, said co-author Gabriele Ponti of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany. Such rare and extreme events give us a unique chance to use a mere trickle of infalling matter to understand the physics of one of the most bizarre objects in our galaxy. In addition to the giant flares, the G2 observing campaign with Chandra also collected more data on a magnetar: a neutron star with a strong magnetic field, located close to Sgr A*. This magnetar is undergoing a long X-ray outburst, and the Chandra data are allowing astronomers to better understand this unusual object. These results were presented at the 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society being held in Seattle. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, controls Chandra's science and flight operations. NASA is exploring our solar system and beyond to understand the universe and our place in it. The agency seeks to unravel the secrets of our universe, its origins and evolution, and search for life among the stars. An interactive image, a podcast, and a video about the findings are available at: http://chandra.si.edu For more Chandra images, multimedia and related materials, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/chandra -end- Felicia Chou Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0257 felicia.c...@nasa.gov Janet Anderson Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-6162 janet.l.ander...@nasa.gov Megan Watzke Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Mass. 617-496-7998 mwat...@cfa.harvard.edu __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] AD: Tucson Preview
I have to admit, I am drooling over that Peekskill. :) -- - Web - http://www.galactic-stone.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone Twitter - http://twitter.com/galacticstone Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/galacticstone - On 1/6/15, Anne Black via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: Hello everybody, The Tucson Show is getting close and I am sure you are all thinking about it. So, to satisfy (or increase!) your curiosity I posted on my site some of the brand new pieces I will show there for the first time. And if you are not coming down to Tucson, now you will know what you are missing (not really, you can simply email me). Take a look at this page, a small bunch right now but if the Post Office hurries up, I will add to that list: http://www.impactika.com/special.htm And, please remember, I will be in the InnSuites (Tucson City/Center) Room 322, as usual. See you in the sunshine! Anne M. Black www.IMPACTIKA.com impact...@aol.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] AD: Tucson Preview
Great looking Peekskill specimen that was never in contact with Lang's saw. All of the sliced specimens must have been cut with chlorinated tap water and are serious rusters. It is good to see a fragment that survived this horrible fate! Best Regards, Adam - Original Message - From: Anne Black via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 5:14 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] AD: Tucson Preview Hello everybody, The Tucson Show is getting close and I am sure you are all thinking about it. So, to satisfy (or increase!) your curiosity I posted on my site some of the brand new pieces I will show there for the first time. And if you are not coming down to Tucson, now you will know what you are missing (not really, you can simply email me). Take a look at this page, a small bunch right now but if the Post Office hurries up, I will add to that list: http://www.impactika.com/special.htm And, please remember, I will be in the InnSuites (Tucson City/Center) Room 322, as usual. See you in the sunshine! Anne M. Black www.IMPACTIKA.com impact...@aol.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] AD: Tucson Preview
Hello everybody, The Tucson Show is getting close and I am sure you are all thinking about it. So, to satisfy (or increase!) your curiosity I posted on my site some of the brand new pieces I will show there for the first time. And if you are not coming down to Tucson, now you will know what you are missing (not really, you can simply email me). Take a look at this page, a small bunch right now but if the Post Office hurries up, I will add to that list: http://www.impactika.com/special.htm And, please remember, I will be in the InnSuites (Tucson City/Center) Room 322, as usual. See you in the sunshine! Anne M. Black www.IMPACTIKA.com impact...@aol.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Akatsuki to Try Again to Enter Orbit Around Venus
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001832475 Akatsuki to reattempt to enter orbit of Venus The Japan News January 06, 2015 The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency plans to have its probe Akatsuki reattempt an entry into the orbit of Venus in early December, probably its last chance due to low fuel, following a failed endeavor to do so in December 2010 because of engine trouble. According to JAXA, the agency has been looking for an opportunity to have Akatsuki make a new attempt, while checking if the probe was still functional. If the second attempt succeeds, Akatsuki will be Japan's first probe to enter the orbit of a planet other than Earth. According to JAXA, Akatsuki is currently located about 134 million kilometers from Venus and is shortening the distance by about 400,000 kilometers a day. In the previous attempt, Akatsuki tried to enter Venus' orbit by burning its main rocket in reverse to decelerate. But the rocket stopped working midway and the probe passed Venus. JAXA believes the engine likely malfunctioned due to abnormally high temperatures. JAXA made gradual adjustments to Akatsuki's course, eventually having the probe orbit the sun on the off chance Akatsuki could approach Venus once more. The agency initially considered a second attempt at the end of 2016, but decided instead to aim for an orbit in November this year over concern that the probe's body is deteriorating from the sun's heat. Following calculations, the agency said the ideal orbital insertion window was in early December. According to the plan, Akatsuki aims to enter an oval orbit several hundreds to 400,000 kilometers above the planet by reducing its speed with four of its 12 small engines to control the probe, as its main engine is out of order. Venus is almost the same size as Earth, which is why it is called Earth's sister planet. But Venus has surface temperatures of 500 C, not to mention atmospheric pressure about 90 times stronger than its sister. JAXA says Akatsuki is scheduled to observe Venus by revolving around the planet, taking eight to 10 days in each orbit over two years as it delves into why the planet's conditions became so severe. The second attempt will have fewer observation opportunities as well as degraded image quality taken by its on-board camera as the orbit is farther from Venus than initially planned. But JAXA Prof. Masato Nakamura who leads the Akatsuki project said, Provided the equipment works, we should be able to make most of the planned observations. The biggest hurdle looms ahead: Akatsuki will approach the sun in February and August before orbit insertion. By then, some of the probe's equipment will encounter temperatures as high as nearly 200 C. Nakamura added the minimum requirements for the second attempt will be met if the probe survives unscathed with no fuel leakage.Speech __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomical Prices of Meteorites in Korea Still Controversial
Sales of all astronomically-priced oriental meteorites are hereby suspended until further notice. -- - Web - http://www.galactic-stone.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone Twitter - http://twitter.com/galacticstone Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/galacticstone - On 1/6/15, Shawn Alan via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: Hello Listers 24 million dollar meteorite in the name of science, for everything else, there's MasterCard ... SEOUL, Dec 30 (Korea Bizwire) - The 4.5 billion-year-old meteorites that fell in Jinju city, South Korea in March 2013 are having a hard time entering Korean scientific research circles due to their owners' excessive compensation demands. The Korean Government is attempting to purchase the meteorites for use in scientific research. In March 2013, four meteorites weighing 35 kilograms in total fell on a farming site in Jinju. They are as old as the sun, and the first meteorites to land on the Korean peninsula in 71 years. The Korean Government announced that it would buy the meteorites to benefit Korean scientific research communities, and to prevent the rare celestial objects from being sold to foreign collectors. However, the current owners of the four meteorites are demanding more than 27 billion won (US$ 24.5 million) in compensation. Meteorites of 35 kilograms are usually sold for around 180 million won (US$ 163,526) on the international market. Source: http://koreabizwire.com/astronomical-prices-of-meteorites-in-korea-still-controversial/27193 Shawn Alan IMCA 1633 ebay store http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633ny/m.html Website http://meteoritefalls.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Willamette Contributed by: Zsolt Kereszty http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=01/07/2015 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Met Bulletin Update - 57 New Approvals, Martian, Achondrites, OC's, Oman, Antarctica, Yemen, NWA
Hi Bulletin Watchers, There is a major update. There are 57 new approvals from all over, including : NWA, Oman, Yemen, and Antarctica. Many of the approvals are OC's. There are a few interesting meteorites in the mix : Ureilite, CK6, Diogenite, CO3, Eucrite, and Martian. Update Link : http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?sea=sfor=namesants=falls=valids=stype=containslrec=50map=gebrowse=country=Allsrt=namecateg=Allmblist=Allrect=phot=snew=1pnt=Normal%20tabledr=page=1 Best regards and Happy Huntings, MikeG -- - Web - http://www.galactic-stone.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone Twitter - http://twitter.com/galacticstone Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/galacticstone - __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomical Prices of Meteorites in Korea StillControversial
$700.00 a gram for an ordinary fall? I think $5.00 a gram is more realistic. One of the images looks like iron ore to me. Perhaps they have not taken into account that the U.S. Dollar is strengthening now that the lame Fed no longer manipulates currency with the stupid Quantitative Easing idea. Maybe, they are overprinting the Korean Won! I have a feeling the current owners aren't selling much. Adam - Original Message - From: Shawn Alan via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com To: Meteorite Central meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 3:23 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Astronomical Prices of Meteorites in Korea StillControversial Hello Listers 24 million dollar meteorite in the name of science, for everything else, there's MasterCard ... SEOUL, Dec 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The 4.5 billion-year-old meteorites that fell in Jinju city, South Korea in March 2013 are having a hard time entering Korean scientific research circles due to their owners’ excessive compensation demands. The Korean Government is attempting to purchase the meteorites for use in scientific research. In March 2013, four meteorites weighing 35 kilograms in total fell on a farming site in Jinju. They are as old as the sun, and the first meteorites to land on the Korean peninsula in 71 years. The Korean Government announced that it would buy the meteorites to benefit Korean scientific research communities, and to prevent the rare celestial objects from being sold to foreign collectors. However, the current owners of the four meteorites are demanding more than 27 billion won (US$ 24.5 million) in compensation. Meteorites of 35 kilograms are usually sold for around 180 million won (US$ 163,526) on the international market. Source: http://koreabizwire.com/astronomical-prices-of-meteorites-in-korea-still-controversial/27193 Shawn Alan IMCA 1633 ebay store http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633ny/m.html Website http://meteoritefalls.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
