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From: Michael Farmer via Meteorite-list
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 10:07 PM
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Subject: [meteorite-list] Kalahari lunar vs NWA 5000
I just now realized how I had left out an important piece of the email
earlier.
The Kalaha
The Kalahari "Lunar meteorites", if they exist at all at the claimed
weights, have been managed poorly. First of all, the weight is rounded off
to an even 13,500 grams on the larger stone which is suspicious to begin
with and then the only published image is blurry and overexposed. For all we
Folks
NWA 5000 is a spectacular meteorite whose resume did not require enhancing. I
wholly agree there is no lunar that's nicer. That said, Kalahari 009 exists
—it's a fact. I am not going to climb into the details other than to share
that the owner is a paranoid eccentric who has gone
I just now realized how I had left out an important piece of the email earlier.
The Kalahari lunars have never been seen or exhibited publicly. I and many
others have serious doubts about even their existence.
The tiny samples shows in photos show a very ugly lunar. Those could never be
compare
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