[meteorite-list] Meteorite for $7.1 billion per gram!

2006-01-26 Thread Martin Horejsi
Hi All, Someone check my math, but I figure that if the Stardust sample return is priced per gram given a cost of $200,000,000 for 0.028g of material (based upon the website, and might be rather generous), the price per gram topped $7 billion! $7,142,857,143/g to be exact. Think NASA accepts

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite for $7.1 billion per gram!

2006-01-26 Thread Marcin Cimala
- Original Message - From: Martin Horejsi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Someone check my math, but I figure that if the Stardust sample return is priced per gram given a cost of $200,000,000 for 0.028g of material (based upon the website, and might be rather generous), the price per gram topped $7

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite for $7.1 billion per gram!

2006-01-26 Thread Alexander Seidel
$7,142,857,143/g to be exact. Think NASA accepts credit cards? Recalculated as price per atomic particle, I think I would take, let´s say 42 of them wholesale! P.S.: but only the better ones of the offering, please! And only if good enough for my MBC-10 scope... :-) Sent airmail registered and

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite for $7.1 billion per gram!

2006-01-26 Thread Martin Altmann
- From: Martin Horejsi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 10:07 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite for $7.1 billion per gram! Hi All, Someone check my math, but I figure that if the Stardust sample return is priced per

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite for $7.1 billion per gram!

2006-01-26 Thread Marc Fries
Howdy Wow, that was high and mighty, and mighty hard to ignore. Let me just float a fact in there - the EU sold over $135.9 billion (USD) in weaponry around the world in 2004, mostly to poor and developing nations (Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 1997-2004, Report for US

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite for $7.1 billion per gram!

2006-01-26 Thread MexicoDoug
Marcin writes: Think what could be done in Earth for that ammount of money (except next War ofcourse). Thousands of people die becouse have no food. Lets think about this when next time we look on photo of microscopic grain in a gel :-| Marcin, a lot of responsibility does come with NASA's

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite for $7.1 billion per gram!

2006-01-26 Thread Greg Hupe
Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 4:24 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite for $7.1 billion per gram! - Original Message - From: Martin Horejsi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Someone check my math, but I figure that if the Stardust sample return