Dear List Members,
Please note the links to articles on the famous Garza Stone meteorite. This
stone will be sold at auction this weekend so if you are interested, this may
be your last opportunity to own this piece of History. The Nininger Estate
items are ending right now. See them at
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It looks like this strewn-field is still being milked for more press. If I read
the poorly written article properly, Stimpson now claims to have the main
masses? I thought he made this claim before stating a bunch of fragments from
the same hole added up to several tons. Does he live on the
I apologize to Mr. Simpson. I was informed that he really does care about the
science and is not chasing press for self-promotional purposes. I guess my beef
is with the article as it contained several errors and should have been proofed
a little better. There was a link providing the history
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Dear List Members,
We went on a Mojave Desert hunt this weekend where I found this weird stone.
My questions is, does anybody have a clue to what type of rock this may be?
The reason I am asking the list is that several hunters have thousands of hours
in the Mojave whereas I only have a
Thank you for all of the replies. I was sure it was not a meteorite, just
hoping since it got my heart rate up when we stumbled upon it. It caused one of
the team members to say you lucky b_stard when I pointed it out in situ. I
did not take any field pictures of it since I wasn't convinced
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I have been hearing for a couple of years now from insiders and outsiders alike
that say it is beyond embarrassing how some dealers are more worried about
their ego than they are about the product they sell. My other half asked? Don't
these guys have a woman in their life to prevent them from
Hi Steve Arnold number one,
I see we have two Steve Arnold number ones now. How will you tell you two
apart? I am just joking about your updated sigh-off Steve R.Arnold
No#1!,Chicago!
Good luck on your new found interests.
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Hi Eric and List,
I beg to differ that the hole in this slice is not a vesicle. There was no
thumb-printing whatsoever on the meteorite and this slice came from near the
center of the rock, not an end cut. Look at the slice as a whole you will see
that it is round, not regmaglypted. The only
Dear List Members,
I have a question about vesicles. The reason I am asking is that I came across
a giant vesicle in a complete slice from the middle of a Dhofar 700 stone. It
is so large that it created a hole completely through a 3mm slice. Apparently
the vesicle was oblong so I do not
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My guess is that it a terrestrial byproduct of a fire in the sand.
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Kalahari 009 is the largest claimed lunar meteorite but the weight has never
been certified so the anonymous finder(s) has to be taken at his/her word. This
is not good enough to make the record books. The weight was conveniently
rounded off to 13,500 grams so who knows how accuratly it was
Hi Mike and List Members,
An interesting fact about NWA 5000 is that it actually weighed more than the
claimed weight of Kalahari 009 at one time.
Let me explain:
We weighed the main mass and liberated portion right after it was cut and it
actually gained a lot of weight. The reason being is
Hi Carl,
It is interesting that you would relate this to an old sci-fi flick from the
50's entitled Monolith Monsters. NWA 5000 is predominately a monolithic
breccia, is monstrous in size and absorbs H20 like a sponge.
I will add this one to the NWA 5000 moniker list, I like it!
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Great Shots, Leigh Anne,
It reminds me of what the Tucson show is really about, a gathering of people
from all over the world with common interests.
We will see you all tomorrow afternoon or the IMCA dinner Thursday.
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Hi Greg and List Members,
You are right about it being expensive. The hotels and rental car agencies jack
up their prices to ridiculous levels during the show. You cannot get a direct
flight in without passing through Phoenix where almost every flight is
overbooked. One year, Zann and I got
Dear list Members,
I was wondering if anybody had any close-up images of Calcalong Creek? A
strange meteorite? with a brownish crust loaded with vesicles was found in some
small Millbillillie Eucrites and sent to me some time ago. I know this is how
Bob Haag found his lunar rock. I decided to
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I believe both Bensour and Oum Dreyga are legitimate falls. Witness statements
written in Arabic were taken for Bensour. Maybe the translation was weak, not
the the story.
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Dear List Members,
Does anybody recognize what collection or dealer these Pultusk peas came from?
I was going through my safe and found two small bottles with Qty 25 of these
weighing a total 69.9 grams. Only one label was included and it was rolled
inside the bottle. Each stone has a faded P
Dear Paul and List,
Thank you for the very quick responses. A List member mentioned McCarthy
Taylor but this does not ring a bell with me. Rob Elliot was mentioned as
having some labeled with a P and most curious of all was Paul's reference to
Prisoner Pultusk Peas. Forgive my ignorance, but
Dear List members:
A lot of you have been asking about the disposition of Northwest Africa 5000.
The main mass is currently on display at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto,
Canada. I encourage anybody who will be in the area to see this world class
meteorite collection. I want thank the
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Dear List,
Bob Evans made the following statement which is completely untrue:
NWA 1110 - Adams efforts to comletely control certain areas of the market.
My response:
Bob took it upon himself to steal NWA numbers from honest dealers in order to
promote untested and unproven material. Every
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Talking about copying other peoples' hard work. Too bad this display was not
built to aerospace standards and looks tacky in comparison to the piece we
comissioned for NWA 5000.
http://www.nyrockman.com/pages/nwa2656.htm
Nobody ever accused the Langs having good taste or professional ethics.
Dear List,
I guess the terms approved and listed in the Meteoritical Bulletin might be
more accurate. For collecting purposes, buyers consider approved stones to be
official. This peer-reviewed system is certainly better than self-pairing or
not having the stones studied at all.
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Just a quick note to let collectors know I have a new eBay name. The old name
raremeteorites has been changed to raremeteorites! with an explanation mark (!)
at the end. I had to change it due to eBay's policy about having the same name
as your email address. Those of you
Dear List Members,
I have been receiving disturbing emails and phone calls about a specimen
entered in the Bonhams' Natural History Auction. The piece in question is lot
#1124. The 90.6 gram weight of this single rock claimed to be NWA 4880
outweighs the entire Total Known Weight of NWA 4880
Dear List Members,
I have been receiving disturbing emails and phone calls about a specimen
entered in the Bonhams' Natural History Auction. The piece in question is lot
#1124. The 90.6 gram weight of this single rock claimed to be NWA 4880
outweighs the entire Total Known Weight of NWA 4880
Dear List Members,
Just an update on our move to Laughlin, Nevada.
I want to thank everybody for their patience in regards to emails. Several
hundred have stacked up including many I will never be able to read since they
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Hi Martin and list Members,
Thank you for the interesting insight. Martin commented that collectors were
concerned by what impact NWA 5000 may have on Lunaite prices and that they
might be somewhat hesitant about lunar purchases because of the weight.
We anticipated this ahead of time and have
Hi Ruben and other List members,
I would be careful about selling California meteorites found on BLM land. I
was told by the BLM that it is illegal to collect meteorites in California on
federal lands for comercial purposes. I thought you were involved with some of
these warnings. They do
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Thank you for the opportunity to provide some updates and an advertisement.
The first update is that I will be turning over most of my weekly eBay auctions
to Jeff and Malia Krosschell starting this evening. They are very familiar
with the in-and-outs of eBay and have sold
Doug asked:
PS What ever happened to the Mobile Mohave Command Headquarters? PPS move
south hmmm... 86.844838 % of the Earth is south of you, and that doesn't
include Groenland :)
The Mobile Meteorite Command Center (MMCC) is still in a state of complete
readines. After spending six months
hunting, an avocation I have been pursuing
since 1975. I will be making some announcements in a couple of weeks
concerning all of this.
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I sensed their was something wrong with Stan from the beginning and argued
vehemently with this liar for over a year. He said I did not know who I was
messing with, now everybody knows. It is just a matter a time before the trash
is taken out otherwise the stinch becomes unbearable. It is
Mr Farmer,
I thought we had an agreement not to comment on each others advertisements.
You have broken this promise after a few years releasing me from my promise to
keep my mouth shut about past indiscretions on your part.
It is no secret that I am not a big fan of recent falls of
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Yes, I understand your frustration. Bob Evans had the nerve to copy several of
my descriptions on eBay. He then went on and used NWA numbers assigned to
meteorites I made official claiming that they were paired even though no
laboratory had ever seen them. Bob and the now infamous Stan could
Wow, it looks exactly like NWA 1878.
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matrix surrounded by bright shiny metal blems on
both sides.It has fusion crust on
Dear List,
I cannot thank Tom Phillips enough for the exceptional
work and time he put into Northwest Africa 5000. I
have seen images of the solar wind implanted gas
bubbles on micro-probe shots and really did not get a
grasp on their dimensionality until looking at Tom's
work.
The sixth image
Hi Martin and List,
First of all, my brother, Greg had nothing to do with
the acquisition on Northwest Africa 5000. Second, I
reported how it was brought into possession in way of
the entry in the Meteoritical Bulletin and my
announcement.
These days, I think proving laboratory provenance is
far
Hi McCartney,
I do not care for the phrase you used NWA junk No
real meteorite is junk. I could care less where a
meteorite lands as long as it was legally obtained. I
am a sample person, along with hundreds of other
collectors who collect by type including NASA ans many
instatutions. My main
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Dear List Members,
Please have a look at the below listed slices of
Northwest Africa 5000. These represent the smallest
rated slices we have in inventory and come with
individualized portfolios. All of the largest pieces
are now on hold pending institutional and corporate
negotiations. I am
My experience with Pallasites have been:
I had a piece of Fukang deteriorate in a mere six
months. Some of the crystals became dislodged while
others bulged under the pressure of rust pushing them
out. Keep in mind that I live in a moist state and
only a few hundred feet from a salt water body
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Hi McCartney and List,
Congratulations on the new fall.
For saftey sakes, please do not cut the stone in
alcohol unless you have a sealed saw like a low-speed
Buehler designed for this kind of cutting. The
smallest of sparks can ignite pure ethyl alcohol and
you will not see it burning because
I agree with you, Michael. Bill Mason's additive is
great. It preserves the metal and rubber seals while
allowing the use of distilled water.
Alcohol is extremely harsh on a standard lapidary saw.
Not only is not the best coolant, it dissolves the
grease in the bearings, hardens rubber seals and
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Hi Walter and All,
It is interesting that Claxton was mentioned. Every
since I started offering thin cut part slices several
months ago, I have seen a lot being offered in
fragment form, even before Darryl Pitt's auction. I
ask, where did it all come from all of a sudden? Has
a major supplier
Hi Mike and List Members,
To me, Carancas produced an impact pit which is a
form of crater. I will concede the point that it is
also a crater by other definitions, just not
meteoritic. The Sikhote Alin event also produced
several impact pits that were described as such
further constraining the
Mike and List,
I conceded the point long ago that the term crater
also applies to the Carancas event. I also stated
that there are different types of craters and this one
falls into the impact pit category as was the case
with the Sikhote Alin event. Some of the craters
(impact pits) left by
Mike,
I do not understand why this hashed out thread was
started again by you as it is barely worthy of the
bandwidth. I am not the one who started the impact pit
versus crater debate months ago. I expressed my
opinion at the time so why am I being the target of
this immature string about who is
I thought oxygen isotopes proved the GRA 06128/9
stones to be part of the Brachinite parent body so
calling them ungrouped seems wrong to me. Cool, but
not Earth-shattering by any means.
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Hi Sterling and List,
This abstract clearly states that GRA 06128/9 oxygen
isotopes plot with the Brachinites:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2008/pdf/2456.pdf
This abstract actually has a nice plot clearly showing
GRA 06128/9 plotting dead center with the Brachinites:
Hi List,
I did something odd this evening, don't ask me why. I
recalled that a part end cut of NWA 5000 had an
ablation hole in it. I took the piece and watched the
full lunar eclipse through it. What an experience,
looking at the Moon through a piece of the Moon and an
eclipse to top it off.
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Well, if any is found, I will have the Mobile
Meteorite Command Center (MMCU) up and going in one
hour as it is always kept on the ready. Fully stocked
with a bunk house, it could support a small team if
necessary. If it fell anywhere near Waterville, there
are no accommodations other than a
I noticed there is a disproportionate number of these
fakes coming from Illinois. Is there a huge Chinese
population there?
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Just a reminder for those attending the Tucson show to
be sure to check out Northwest Africa 5000, The
Cosmic Masterpiece in room 230 at the Inn Suites. A
few team members are already in place and brought with
them an excellent display system. We will have
everything set
Dear List Members,
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Africa 5000, The Rock. I apologize for the lack of
response recently as my email box is stuffed full.
When I get a chance, I will forward the messages to
the rest of team who deserves a good portion of the
credit, because
Dear List Members,
I promised some images of the only complete slice
taken from NWA 5000, The Cosmic Masterpiece. The
surprise is that a hermetically-sealed display system
was manufactured specifically for this slice and is a
one-off. We would like to take this time to express
our gratitude
Hi Jim and List Members,
I will be posting pictures of the world's largest
lunar slice tomorrow with a major surprise so stay
tuned. The main mass weight has to be certified after
being brought back to the dryness it was on the Moon.
This will require some vacuum chamber work before any
images
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Hi Rob,
I think you may be confusing NWA 3133 which plots in
the CV zone according to oxygen isotope testing, not
Angrites. Angrites do not plot anywhere near the CV3s.
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I agree 100% on this isssue,
I agree, Italy is a huge problem. I had to change
hundreds of descriptions because of lost packages,
mainly to Italy. In my eBay descriptions, I now state
that I am no longer responsible for delays or lost
items if USPS Global Express is not opted for at at
cost
My girlfriend loves them. She found her first on
Ivanpah a few years ago and it was a fresh oriented
beauty. This forever hooked her on these strange
objects from space.
It is sometimes difficult to talk about meteorites in
public or around women as some may think you are
crazy. We were once
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I was finally able to put a finger on what has been
bothering me with the most recent press release about
Kalahari 009. I do not see how it can be called a
Mare basalt. Everything I have read suggests that
Mare Basalts can be no older than 3.9 billion years.
Kalahari 009's 4.35 billion year old
Highlands/Mare designations adopted by the NASA Apollo
group.
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http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Dec07/cryptomareSample.html
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It is too bad that Kalahari 009 was never officially
weighed before it was cut. It seems that the anonymous
owner could have at least given this record-breaking
stone the dignity of a certified weigh-in. Using the
term about 13.5 kilograms will never hold water in
the record books and history
It sure is not very attractive from this collector's
view but none the less, a very important stone from a
scientific standpoint and deserves the very best
consideration including a formal weigh-in. I still do
not understand all of the secrecy surrounding it and
the short recovery story sure is
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