During quick trips to Mexico I've followed the discussions re: public
presentations on meteorites. Amen!! Robert, Tracy, David et. al. You are so right. In
conjunction with a celebration of the centennial of flight, our local library
in Monument, Colorado allowed me to place an eye-catching
Please, please, all of us should and must re-read the stipulations under
which you and I were accepted as a Meteorite List member. Check the part which
states: Please do not list sales or flames on the list. The Meteorite List is
for information exchange and NOT for verbal fisticuffs and
So Anne Black and I were sitting in a Club House enjoying the beautiful songs
sung by a friend of mine. Simultaneously we were examining some iron slices
she will have at the Denver show. Guy at the adjacent table offhandedly
remarked Yeh, I've got a meteorite piece. Came through the roof of my
Fred Olsen and I have held teacher's workshops on meteorites for the United
States Space Foundation. For a couple of them the door prize was a tiny bit of
482 cutting dust in a gelatin capsule so the winner could see if it really did
taste like green cheeze. Answer: NO. Sad to ponder where that
Dear Fredmeteorhall and list,
Great job on the cautions re:Toxic Minerals, Fred. You could be saving
someone from serious illness or worse with your information. There ARE very real
possible dangers. I personally was given a piece of arsenopyrite (also known as
kryptomalite) as a possible
Dear Mark Bostick and list. Enjoyed the reprint you posted re: the large
meteorite of June 11, 1901 as reported in the Denver paper June 21. I too checked
and could find no mention of a recovery, however I was able to locate Los
Molinas and am very familiar with the town of Altar, Sonora,
Just wanted to add my two pesos worth re: alcohol from Mexico. I travel there
6-8 times/year (we have a small house in Kino Bay). I too purchase the Puro
de caña, sin desnaturalizar, 96%. Translated that is pure 96% cane alcohol, not
denatured. In other words, OK to consume. Good side is that
I've enjoyed the buried treasure stories. As a kid in Massachusetts we'd
occasionally find storm transported items from ships lost at sea, but never great
stuff. Later I confirmed a story of a large amount of silver left behind
following a house fire in Wisconsin and have often wanted to try a
Sorry about this ad, if you will, but I look at it as an opportunity. I have
a entire 5291 g Markovka in pristine condition, 90% fusion crust, wonderful
regmaglypts, round in shape. It has starred in many displays, and is absolutely
beautiful. I've toyed with cutting it but just cannot bring
May be too late for this, been out of town. Where would I go? To an area of
Chile which I cannot disclose for obvious reasons. Overnight a mine road was
peppered with numerous craters ranging from several inches to nearly eight
feet in diameter and as much as three feet deep, with substantial
For the final issue of Voyage! magazine, I wrote a somewhat fanciful story
about a meteorite which I found on a rather small island. Isla del Espíritu
Santo is 19 km long by 5.5 km wide and covers 99 square km. As far as I can
find, this is the smallest island on which a meteroite has been
I'm prejudiced. My favorite chondrite is Isla del Espíritu Santo because it
was my first meteorite find. Only an L6, but beautiful fresh fusion crust and
regmaglypts. How could I not love it?
Larry Johnson
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While visiting the American Museum in New York I purchased a new book on
meteorites - METEORITES: A Journey Through Space and Time, By Alex Bevan and
John De Laeter, Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002, ISBN 1-58834-021-X.
While in Tucson for THE SHOW I let several friends look through the
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