Re: [meteorite-list] New Barwell acquisition

2013-09-04 Thread John Cabassi
G'Day Martin I concur with everyone's comments. You are the man. Congratulations! It took me a long time to acquire a nano speck, only because one of my best friends is from Barwell and I wanted something in my collection to represent him. You just took it to a new level. Cheers John On Wed, Sep

Re: [meteorite-list] New Barwell acquisition

2013-09-04 Thread Bofang Li
Hi Martin, Congratulations! I had visited the Leicester City Museum several times, when I was studying at University of Leicester in 2005 and 2006. The museum located at the New Walk road connected to the University road. I still have the photo of the Barwell meteorite mainmass which I took from th

Re: [meteorite-list] New Barwell acquisition

2013-09-04 Thread Dave Gheesling
Subject: [meteorite-list] New Barwell acquisition Hi all, Just wanted to show off my latest acquisition, a 93.54 gram specimen of the famous Barwell meteorite. Barwell fell on 24th December 1965 and was witnessed by many people and is affectionately known as the Christmas meteorite. It is the second

Re: [meteorite-list] New Barwell acquisition

2013-09-04 Thread Graham Ensor
Great piece Martin...that's two nice historic chunks we have managed to save from the saw in one yearand they don't appear very often...what's happening to the other similar piece? Graham On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Martin Goff wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wanted to show off my latest acqui

Re: [meteorite-list] New Barwell acquisition

2013-09-04 Thread Gary Fujihara
Aloha Martin, Congratulations on your early Christmas (meteorite) present. The accompanying and substantiating documentation makes it all the more an exceptional acquisition. gary On Sep 4, 2013, at 5:49 AM, Martin Goff wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wanted to show off my latest acquisition,

[meteorite-list] New Barwell acquisition

2013-09-04 Thread Martin Goff
Hi all, Just wanted to show off my latest acquisition, a 93.54 gram specimen of the famous Barwell meteorite. Barwell fell on 24th December 1965 and was witnessed by many people and is affectionately known as the Christmas meteorite. It is the second largest of the UK meteorites after the Wiltshir

Re: [meteorite-list] New Barwell acquisition

2013-09-04 Thread Martin Goff
Thanks Gary. The provenance is rock solid and the story is good too. Very nice to be in correspondence with Jean and hear the story in her own words, not often you get to chat with the finder of such a historic find :-) Cheers Martin On 4 September 2013 16:59, Gary Fujihara wrote: > Aloha Marti