Re: [meteorite-list] Fw: Warning about Lahcen Ait Ha

2011-06-22 Thread Dan Furlan
I'd like to speak for myself and say I'm not ordering anything from Morocco until Gary gets his money back. I just canceled an order for 75 kilos because I am not risking my money with somebody who may know this guy who ripped off Gary. I do not support this kind of behavior and i already heard

Re: [meteorite-list] Fw: Warning about Lahcen Ait Ha

2011-06-22 Thread bill kies
This is going way too far. Nobody over there owes anyone jack. To insinuate that honest dealers in Africa or anywhere else have a responsibility to hunt down deadbeats is moronic. We know the risks involved unless we WERE born yesterday. I believe I speak for "everybody" when I say you don't ev

Re: [meteorite-list] Fw: Warning about Lahcen Ait Ha

2011-06-22 Thread Dan Furlan
I would like to see that every Moroccan dealer who knows this disgraceful person named Lacen Ait Ha do everything they can to help Gary get his money back. I know Gary gives the Moroccans lots of business and i feel they owe him the professional courtesy to hunt down this very bad apple and have a

Re: [meteorite-list] Russian Pig-Killing Fall? (dated)

2011-06-22 Thread bill kies
Carl, I just figured he did what any vagabond sorcerer worth his salt would have done. He took them both. Bill > From: carloselgua...@hotmail.com > To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 02:15:20 -0700 > Subject: Re: [meteo

Re: [meteorite-list] O.T. Copper Hunt Keweenaw Peninsula Michigan

2011-06-22 Thread wahlperry
Hi Larry, What a cool find. Sonny -Original Message- From: Larry Atkins To: meteorite-list Sent: Wed, Jun 22, 2011 1:20 pm Subject: [meteorite-list] O.T. Copper Hunt Keweenaw Peninsula Michigan Hi List,Please excuse the off topic post but this is too cool and I can't help it.In Ma

[meteorite-list] Fw: Warning about Lahcen Ait Ha

2011-06-22 Thread John Lutzon
- Original Message - From: "John Lutzon" To: "habibi abdelaziz" Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 9:10 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fw: Warning about Lahcen Ait Ha Aziz H With all respect, DEALERS need to correct, govern and admonish their own--the unfortunate buyer will, of co

[meteorite-list] Fw: Warning about Lahcen Ait Ha

2011-06-22 Thread habibi abdelaziz
jack there is many reputable dealer said heddany , ali olmaleh and more elghrad and more ; one bad apple doesn't make all the basket  bad try to solve the problem if we can help you  to resolve the problem please  tell us we can talk to him thanks aziz h

Re: [meteorite-list] Ensisheim 2011 - new photos

2011-06-22 Thread Gary Fujihara
Aloha Hanno, Thank you for publishing your wonderful photographs of this year's Ensisheim event. It was almost as if I were there to join you all in the festivities and meteorite mayhem. Next year I hope to see you all (if I can get my outrigger canoe to cold European waters). gary On Jun

[meteorite-list] Why are Carbonado stones not on the Meteoritical Bulletin Database

2011-06-22 Thread Shawn Alan
Hello Listers   This has always interested me and am wondering why Carbonado black diamonds from space aren't meteorites? Or are they, but not posted on the Meteoritical Bulletin Database.   Why I ask is I read everywhere that the Cardonado came from an asteroid that slammed into Earth. Not long

Re: [meteorite-list] Ensisheim 2011 - new photos

2011-06-22 Thread Mike Tettenborn
Wonderful Hanno! Thank you very much for posting these pics. Sure wish I could be there. Mike Mike Tettenborn Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada t...@rogers.com On 2011-06-22, at 2:46 PM, Hanno Strufe wrote: > Hello, > > here are my photos from the Ensisheim Show last weekend. > > We had again

[meteorite-list] O.T. Copper Hunt Keweenaw Peninsula Michigan

2011-06-22 Thread Larry Atkins
Hi List, Please excuse the off topic post but this is too cool and I can't help it. In May I followed up my successful Nevada dry lake meteorite hunt with a trip to the Keweenaw Peninsula in the upper peninsula of Michigan to metal detect for float copper. I went with two friends, Darryl a

Re: [meteorite-list] Warning about Lahcen Ait Ha

2011-06-22 Thread Richard Montgomery
Hi List. Gary and Michael does Lahcen Ait Ha currently have an Ebay user name? Anyone else know? Richard M - Original Message - From: "Michael Gilmer" To: "Gary Fujihara" Cc: "MeteorList" Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 3:20 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Warning about Lahc

[meteorite-list] Fw: Warning about Lahcen Ait Ha

2011-06-22 Thread Jack Schrader
I too have been had by a dishonest Moroccan dealer I am embarrassed to say.  I have have many good dealings with this person in the past slowly building a trusting meteorite buying relationship.  This person also sent me a photo of a meteorite that I wished to buy, a very rare type.  When I rece

Re: [meteorite-list] Warning about Lahcen Ait Ha

2011-06-22 Thread Rob Wesel - Mobile Device
He offered me Taza today...still at it. "Michael Gilmer" wrote: >Hi Gary and List, > >I respect your patience and willingness to bring this out into the >open to warn others. You gave this dealer two months of chances to >make the deal right and if he had quietly gotten away with his scam, >oth

Re: [meteorite-list] Warning about Lahcen Ait Ha

2011-06-22 Thread Michael Gilmer
Hi Gary and List, I respect your patience and willingness to bring this out into the open to warn others. You gave this dealer two months of chances to make the deal right and if he had quietly gotten away with his scam, other people would have gotten burned as well. Whatever that material is, i

[meteorite-list] Warning about Lahcen Ait Ha

2011-06-22 Thread Gary Fujihara
Aloha all, I want to warn everyone about a dishonorable dealer of meteorites who lives in Morocco by the name of Lahcen Ait Ha. Lahcen offered a 748g lot of NWA 859 Taza iron meteorites by showing me pictures of them by email. I purchased the lot, but when I received his package, I realized t

Re: [meteorite-list] The 100th Bulletin Now Out

2011-06-22 Thread Jeff Grossman
These tildes have been used before. Here is a rundown of all the special notation you may see in chondrite classifications. For petrologic types: ~ (tilde) means that the petrologic type was not determined very precisely -- maybe just with a visual guess. H~5 is an H chondrite that is appro

[meteorite-list] The 100th Bulletin Now Out

2011-06-22 Thread Thunder Stone
List: I was looking a the lastest submissions in the Bulletin and noticed some OC's in the 100th Bulletin with the class: H~6, H~5, L~5... and so on. Apperently the "tilde symbol" means that the meteorite has an "approximate petrologic type." So, what is the diiference between H5, H approxima

[meteorite-list] Ensisheim 2011 - new photos

2011-06-22 Thread Hanno Strufe
Hello, here are my photos from the Ensisheim Show last weekend. We had again a very nice and interesting show. This year there were guests from oversea that visited Ensisheim their first time. It was a pleasure for them and a honour for us to meet at the show. There is no doubt that we had bes

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Re: [meteorite-list] Russian Pig-Killing Fall? (dated)

2011-06-22 Thread Jason Utas
Hello Daniel, Definitely -- I find that the Harvard adsabs site is a great source of older papers. I'm glad you made a lower offer on it; every single one of those books is available for free viewing and download on Google Books. A few dollars for the convenience of having them on a CD is fine, bu

[meteorite-list] Building Inspired by Meteorites

2011-06-22 Thread Phil Whitmer
Hi Mark, I agree, if that building looks like a meteorite, then I strongly resemble the Queen of England. Phil Whitmer - Yes, sounds like they want meteorites that look like buildings rather than make a building to look like a meteorite! :) Yuk - it really looks no

[meteorite-list] Impact Diamonds - Article Invitation

2011-06-22 Thread Robert Beauford
All, >From the saw blade ruining diamonds found within the Canyon Diablo iron to the >over 70,000 estimated metric tonnes of microscopic diamonds created by >the Ries impact, impact diamonds provide a fascinating introduction to the >intense energies associated with impacts and to the high press

Re: [meteorite-list] Russian Pig-Killing Fall? (dated)

2011-06-22 Thread Carl 's
>>"A stone meteorite fell into one of the villages of the Tara district. The >>fall was accompanied by detonations, while the sky was clear. It killed a pig. It was carried off by a vagabond sorcerer, some of whom were still existing at that time." Bill wrote: >Talk about being in the right

Re: [meteorite-list] Russian Pig-Killing Fall? (dated)

2011-06-22 Thread bill kies
"A stone meteorite fell into one of the villages of the Tara district. The fall was accompanied by detonations, while the sky was clear. It killed a pig. It was carried off by a vagabond sorcerer, some of whom were still existing at that time." Talk about being in the right place at the right

Re: [meteorite-list] Building Inspired by Meteorites

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Ford
Yes, sounds like they want meteorites that look like buildings rather than make a building to look like a meteorite! :) Yuk - it really looks nothing like a meteorite IMHO - it's more like a collapsed tin can, - why not have jet black fusion crust over the exterior, which absorbs solar heat an