yes, that's correct: caza = hunter; cazameteoritos = meteorite hunter
José Campos
Portugal
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From: "drtanuki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
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Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] News and Views in Peru
Sterling and All,
Caza- chasers, hunters.
Dirk Ross...Tokyo
--- "Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi, All,
Beyond the views of Randall Richard Daniels
Gregory
on Mike Farmer, it seems that others in Peru are not
happy
with him. Taking no sides, just the messenger,
folks.
Here's a Peruvian news article:
<http://www.larepublica.com.pe/content/view/181193/30/>
Here's a cleaned up machine translation:
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[Headline] They try to deal in pieces of the fallen
meteorite
[Subhead] A group of Americans came with this
purpose
to Carancas.
The president of the Geophysical Institute of
Peru (IGP),
Ronald Woodman, denounced the group of Americans
directed by Michael Farmer (famous searcher of
meteors in
the world) that tries to deal in remains of the
meteorite that
fell [down] in the locality of Carancas in the
middle of the
past September.
"They sneak in [literally, "glide"] to initiate
the excavations
to extract the remains at the border with Bolivia,
since the
meteorite fell [down] within one kilometer of the
border with
this country," Woodman declared.
It [is] recounted that the group of five North
Americans
have come to the place with the support of the
Police and that
seemingly the settlers [villagers] negotiated with
these "merchants
of meteorites."
Ronald Woodman said that the "cazameteoritos"
would be
taking advantage of the ignorance of the settlers on
the real
value of the objects. There are not many in the
world; they are
valuable pieces for museums and collectors, as noted
below.
The facts:
TRAFFIC. The citizen Michael Farmer sold a lunar
fragment
of approximately 1 kg found near to Agadir (Morocco)
for
1.5 million dollars
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It would appear that entering the country from
Bolivia,
one mile away, with an international airport in
nearby LaPaz,
is inherently suspicious to some Peruvians.
There is an implication (but no direct
statement) that
"trafficing" in meteorites is a shady quasi-legal
affair, as there
is much emphasis on the fact that Mike buys and
sells them.
I wish I knew what "cazameteoritos" means but the
online
translator won't translate it (nor the word "caza"
either).
Meteorite traders? Meteorite peddlers? Meteorite
Con-men?
Sterling K. Webb
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