one has explored the possibility of such?
Steve Schoner
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Message: 13
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:36:23 -0800
From: Meteorites USA
Subject: [meteorite-list] Micro Planet - APOD
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Yes,
I remember seeing that meteorite back in Nov. of 1961 when I was 10 years old.
The road out to the small visitor center I think as I remember was dirt and
not paved.
The basket meteorite was on a low pedestal and I recall trying to heft it by
the its handle. Too heavy for me to lift.
the price asked is in the
right ball park.
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 12:59:57 -0400
From: "JoshuaTreeMuseum"
Subject: [meteorite-list] Neither Carbonado Nor Meteorite
To:
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ty's work.
The question is out there, meteoriic or not...
But believe me, this ebay seller is offering the real thing when it comes to
diamonds. He is a major dealer of diamonds, carbonado's and "nomal" ones, too.
And what he is offering in this action is a real 731 ct. carb
Ooops,
"Marc" (MDF), not "Fred" my mistake-- Left side of my damaged brain did it.
Steve
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From: "Steve Schoner"
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: Neither Carbonado Nor Meteorite
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 2
make it a "carbonado."
If one puts a normal octahedral black diamond against a true carbonado, the
difference is very apparent even without magnification.
The question remains. Where did these carbonados come from, if no mechanism
for their formation can be found on earth?
Steve Sch
Here is a very interesting PBS article on carbonados.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/diamond/sky2.html
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470.
P.S. I have a 21.55 ct carbonado from Brazil, and it is one of the most
interesting pieces in my collection. It is amazing what it feels like to hold
it. It is
t that dream and the conversation that spawned it.
So even today, I look up to the sky, and read these reports with trepidation.
One would think that I would shun meteorites and refrain from collecting them.
But my curiosity is too great for that.
But the fear remains, that a "big one" mig
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Steve Schoner wrote:
"Here is a very interesting PBS article on carbonados.
http://www.pbs.org
, too.
Steve Schoner
IMCA 4470
P.S. I noticed that these are suddenly selling on ebay from the best and till
now only supplier of carbonados (aaaroughy).One must watch out though, as
the term "carbonado" is a term used loosely in the diamond trade. To most
legit diamond dealers
chunks of un-fused Norton meteorite embedded within.
Looks like this material is very similar in formation as to what was found with
the Norton meteorite.
Steve Schoner
IMCA 4470
Message: 1
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 21:26:57 +0200
From: "Martin Altmann"
Subject: [meteorite-list] Insights -
time.
That, no matter how much moon rock that we later gather, will not compare to
the first step on the moon, and the Apollo missions that follow, and the rocks
that they brought home.
Historical significance will forever make those rocks and dust valuable, and a
true national treasure.
Steve
I just saw this this morning. What a bunch of rubbish. More to confuse the
un-informed, with Ebay prices to boot!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/6063717/Six-year-old-boy-finds-meteorite-in-his-garden.html
Tell me, does that look like a meteorite?
Don't think so.
Steve Sc
!
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IMCA #447m
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nalyzed for for short
lived radioactive isotopes. Also age dating depends on radioactive analysis.
I can't understand all the negative posts against Spacifieds.com. It is a
good idea who's time has come.
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470
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can contrast with meteorites as many of the uninformed
believe that meteorites are radioactive and hence dangerous.
Far from the truth, as we are exposed to a lot more radiation than from a
mountain of meteorites fresh fallen from space.
Steve Schoner
IMCA 4470
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anced
civilization meets one less advanced.In this regard, how many of you
remember that old Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man"-- Could very well be the
truth.
I f you have not seen "To Serve Man", it can be viewed on the Internet.
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470
Message:
offer that would reasonable to
avoid the auction being canceled, due to seller regrets.
But then again, I have sold things on ebay and taken it in the shorts so to
speak, and that is the way it is. I never short an auction that I put up no
matter what the closing price is.
Steve Schoner
IMCA
understandable, as I have some difficulty putting my
thoughts into words, and also my broken left index finger does not help in
typing.
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470
Message: 6
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 20:57:27 -0700
From: Jason Utas
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] RePallasites
To: Meteorite-list
Really,
A great place for those newbe's that would just "die" for a chance to look for
meteorites.
As for me, no longer able to actively search, I think it best to wish one fell
through my roof before I die.
Steve Schoner
IMCA 4470
Message: 12
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:1
To all,
The Potter Nebraska thin section and slice has been sold. Soon, there
will be a web site where other specimens and slides will be offered.
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470
>To all:
>I am currently making thin sections after many months of learning the
>process.
>And now I off
are an inspiration for one to recover. I know, I was
there at edge of life.
Recover, Walter...
Steve Schoner
IMCA 4470
P.S. Could someone post on the list the e-mail of the hospital that he
is at so that we can wish him the best. To get those e-mails are a
blessing.
[meteorite-list] Walter
t business!
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eBay INC gets funds from both ends, but does not recognize
each other's hand (eBay=PayPal) in simple transaction?
Since eBay is also PayPal, they should give eBay sellers a break. And
more importantly, resolve a person's complaints.
That is just my opinion.
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470
o tell which type.
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those days. It represents exactly what I saw.
It was pretty amazing to have seen this in broad daylight. I have
other observations made of it for the 16th to the 18th, too as it moved
from 6 degrees from the sun to nearly 15 degrees.
Steve Schoner
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that makes this meteorite so
spectacular.
Such a chip, analyzed would settle the question once and for all.
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t Pisco with any mixer you want will be great out there in
Peru at this new "off limits" meteorite crater. You might even bring a
case of it to bribe the police should they come out to take you to the
Peru poky.
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470
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word gets out, South Americans will swarm over the place day
and night.
Soon, despite Larry's "Friendly warning" his meteorites will appear for
all to see and bid on.
"What me worry" (Quote from Mad Magazine)
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470
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es in the way)
Humm... May have to take a trip down to Chile's Imilac strewnfield, or
better yet to Peru to hunt at Larry's so called "crater" just to get
more Pisco.
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470
P.S. Any liquor importers out there: Re-name "Pisco" to "METEOR"
Rob,
I'll check it out. In '96 there was no supplier anywhere that I could
find. I suppose that things have changed since.
But I have never seen it anywhere here in Flagstaff. Guess none have
the taste for it.
Steve.
-- "Matson, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Steve and List,
Regardin
I always hoped to work with a
university or a "consortium" of such, but they let me down in this deal
and also the Lamont deal.
>From now on, such will not be the case.
If out of the thousands of samples that I may receive in the years to
come, if I get another real meteorite, I
these as I make them.
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470
[meteorite-list] Petrographic Thin Section Maker
bernd . pauli
Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:50:11 -0800
Capt'n Blood:
I have never used ANY other thin section maker. Cost is way higher
than others, but product is vastly superior...He also takes MONTHS
t
inbox. I will answer in the order
received.
Thanks,
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with them over the years.
They lived at 308 E. Pennsylvania Street, just east of Main. Can't
reach them now. Mark and anyone in the area, can you find out? Was
their home destroyed and are they OK?
Steve Schoner
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de, and powered with batteries and tubes.
But I won't reveal the owner's name unless he does so himself.
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that was the world we ruined.)
Steve Schoner.
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[meteorite-list] Global Warming - Scientifically proven or a farce
Michael Farmer meteoriteguy at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 10 13:25:59 EDT 2007
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runch of Global Warming hits our pocket books?
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470
-- Michael Farmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Steve, not likely in our lifetimes, the money that
could have been spent going back to the moon, building
a permant base, then going to Mars, all of it could
have been done w
? If you used FeCl3 that would be bad.
You might try a less aggressive etch with 10% nitric acid and alcohol
to bring out finer details.
I have one Canyon Diablo with diamonds that I sandblasted and it was
naturally etched by oxidation. It is a pretty amazing piece.
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470
Date
after the deal is done.
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470
[meteorite-list] Attempted robbery, I am coming home.
Michael Farmer meteoriteguy at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 25 16:14:26 EDT 2007
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Humm,
I wonder if Arnold "re-discovered" my "re-discovered" model T (c. 1909)
that I found long after someone buried it untold years ago...
I remember diging a hole by hand nearly 7 feet deep.
Steve Schoner
IMCA #r4470
[meteorite-list] Does world-record meteorite await
o appreciate them...
Just a weird state of mind caused by a disease that shuts down the
brain. And as it reboots, then the appreciation begins.
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470
Re: [meteorite-list] Further precision re "Bessey Specks"
dean bessey
Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:51:05 -0700
ven a specific # pertaining to grain size.
Steve Schoner
#4470
[meteorite-list] Canyon Diablo Spheroid Size
Dave Carothers
Sat, 28 Oct 2006 19:03:02 -0700
Good evening list members,
I have specimens of the famous Canyon Diablo spheroids with a copy of the
American Meteorite Laboratory label. I
rock from which his
boulder originated.
Steve Schoner/ AMS
IMCA #4470
[meteorite-list] Essexite Gabbro - Not Mars Meteorite
Gary K. Foote
Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:06:26 -0800
Seems I posted the wrong URL for that 'mars meteorite' you keep seeing
on eBay.
Here's
the right one.
http:/
quot;A2" zone in some places 2-3 mm thick where the metal was brought
just below fusion.
I traded that specimen years ago and have regretted it since. I have
never had another like it. But I have seen photos of other fresh iron
meteroite slices that show the three fold nature of iron meteorite
fu
ghted it is not polite to use
it without the owner's permission.
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965
(I had much better eyes then and can you be live it I missed it). No
one explained that you needed a building to block out the sun, and
stupid me I used a solar filter.
All my friends saw it, but not me :-<
Steve Schoner
Re:[meteorite-list] Comet McNaught report from the Rhein-Mai
would be
higher in a blue sky.
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470
Please note: message attached
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--- End Message ---
Hello all,
This may be your last chance to see it in broad daylight. It is very faint
here in Flagstaff, so those of you that have clear blue sky go out and look.
Blo
cloud in the blue sky.
Venus can also be seen to the east of it several handwidths above and to the
left. Right now at 12.15 PM MST the comet is slightly brighter than Venus.
Steve Schoner
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oo, having been washed out for that
very night and that night alone with a thunderstorm.
But seeing this comet in broad daylight, and moving in its orbit over the
course of 4 days is very satisfying indeed.
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470
-- "MexicoDoug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"T
four drawings with my
hand blocking out the sun showing the track as I saw it. (Wish I could have
photographed it but I was at my disability job) And I will do the last where I
saw the end of its tail.
So, I saw the head during the day, and the tail at night, but missed the
spectacle in betwee
it is a
meteorite and that will have a big impact on it's value.
Ending the auction till he gets the answer is okay with eBay. The excuse for
him is that he wishes to know for sure that this is what he says it is.
Steve Schoner/AMS
IMCA #4470
American Meteorite Survey
P.O. Box 1003
Fla
to get a sample.
All I can say about it now is that if someone buys it, have a rock bottom
gurantee that if it is not, they can send it back.
If it is, what a treasure.
Steve Schoner/AMS
IMCA #4470
-- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi
Incredible specimen.
But I have questions.
You, as a p
uched and clean. I do not add any oil
or coating, and I do not have to re-etch, though I will to remove the rust
spots that were there before I started the process.
Steve Schoner/AMS
IMCA #4470
R. N. Hartman
Tue, 30 May 2006 20:34:38 -0700
Our experience:
You will not remove all the moisture
know.
Steve Schoner/AMS
[meteorite-list] Mexican Meteor Wrong in Wichita
MARK BOSTICK thebigcollector at msn.com
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uot; might very well have been impact craters.
These were all plowed under. So, that said, don't be surprised if many
more of these pesky Brenhams show up as these long gone Buffalo Wallows
are re-discovered with deep seeking detectors.
Brenhams: $$ per/lb anyone?
Steve Schoner IMCA #447
Mark and all,
What is the story on this "meteorite."
Someone paid big bucks for it. Is it or is it not a meteorite.
Steve Schoner
AMS
IMCA #4470
-- "MARK BOSTICK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Steve,
I haven't heard back on this yet. As soon as I do I wi
ther. UCLA I am sure would do that determination.
Steve Schoner AMS
IMCA #4470
-- "MARK BOSTICK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hello Steve,I am not sure why you keep e-mailing me and the list on this. I did not sell or purchase it. I noted if I get news I will report, I have
t I have received an e-mail that one IMCA member bought it, and will
pursue my curiosity with him.
It would be interesting to know if this specimen that the seller claims
to be a "unique" meteorite from Mexico, an observed fall: is in fact a
meteorite at all-- unique or not.
Lastly,
1950.
Adventura del Monte had fresh fusion crust and is beyond a doubt a
beautiful meteorite. Will be interesting to see what the
classification is on it.
Steve Schoner/ AMS
IMCA #4470
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“price of $12,500 is a deal indeed. Even a
127 lb Sikhote Alin
iece. But if it is a new fall as the ebay seller claimed, then
it is extraordinary.
No doubt, Mike Fowler got a great deal, and it would be great to hear
of the classification results.
Steve Schoner
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will turn up between the ones so far recovered.
Once the Norwegians get back from their Summer vacations and look through their gardens, who knows what they might find.
Steve Schoner IMCA# 4470
Tracy wrote: "...don't they seem to mostly fall in clumps of only a few stones?" Al Rais (
e effect than stars
light years away.
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470
Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto's Fate to be Decided by 'Scientific
andSimple' Planet Definition
Sterling K. Webb
Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:05:13 -0700
Hi, All,
Pluto has infrastructure going for it: 75 years
of textbooks
it was.
I held the original plate and plate envelope with Tombaugh's
handwriting on it. One can read his excitement at having made the
discovery.
Let history books stand.
Leave Pluto as a planet alone.
Steve Schoner
IMCA 4470
P.S.
My daughter has just moved into the Tombaugh House and is
that Pluto is a planet will be resolved.
(Leave it at 9 and anything farther out not)
Steve Schoner
[meteorite-list] "Artist conception" of view from Pluto (life-sized)
Darren Garrison
Sat, 26 Aug 2006 22:58:49 -0700
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/Plutonian_
bout meteorites. When I am really bored with my half brain,
I'll browse the UFO websites... for whatever fun that might inspire.
Steve Schoner
IMCA 4470
Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 00:48:55 -0500
From: "Brian Cox"
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] [OT] Mars Odd Theme, and other
My answer:
SILICON CARBIDE !
Steve Schoner
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 08:44:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Shawn Alan
Subject: [meteorite-list] POP Quiz for a free WI meteorite sample
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Message-ID: <604839.58952...@web35405.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
C
:
http://www.petroslides.com
I do customer services on specimens as well.
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470
Local Drivers Save
Insurance deal just passed allows YOU to legally pay $1/day
http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL3341
employed, too.)
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Message: 10
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:05:55 -0700
From: Bill Hall
Subject: [meteorite-list] Message: 10
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:05:55 -0700
From: Bill Hall
Subject: [meteorite-list] Aliens and UFOs ? Aliens Attacking
any of the Dryas deposits.
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470
http://www.petroslides.com
Message: 1
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:04:05 -0600
From: "Rich Murray"
Subject: [meteorite-list] The Cosmic Tusk just turned it up a notch --
George Howard et al patent hypoxic process to ma
How about Lafayette? That is a rare one, impossible to obtain. I have a .87
gram piece:
http://meteorite-identification.tripod.com/LAFAYETTE.htm
Told it is worth about $10,000...
Any takers?
Steve Schoner
http://www.petroslides.com
IMCA 4470
Message: 16
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:26:46
me, no questions asked, and my forgiveness
given... And I think that my friend will agree and also forgive...
Steve Schoner
http://www.petroslides.com
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To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Subject
me, no questions asked, and my forgiveness
given... And I think that my friend will agree and also forgive...
Steve Schoner
http://www.petroslides.com
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To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Subject
that a great meteor storm was
brewing. The initial flash that caused me to look up and the three after
spanning maybe 4 seconds and to see 4 meteors...
I stayed out for another half hour hoping... But nothing more...
Anyone else see something like that last night?
Steve Schoner
http
Three meteors came from the same direction, in a 10 degree radiant from the
"Seven Sisters" star cloud. The flash that I caught from the corner of my eye
was closer to the horizon, so I did not notice a streak or persistent trail.
None of the meteors I saw last night had persistent trails.
sification as Martin has noted difficult if
not impossible.
Steve Schoner
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:24:16 +0200
From: "Martin Altmann"
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Rust Question about my stone meteorite.
BKF is the best :)
Re-post as I can never seem to get the subject right when posting from a
"digest from the met-list)
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From: "Steve Schoner"
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 85, Issue 27
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 20
.
Steve Schoner
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 01:44:29 -0700
From: "Barrett"
Subject: [meteorite-list] "Classified Photos"
To:
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slices in making thin sections also produces micro-fractures in the
minerals due to the cutting process. And the depth of polishing may not remove
these fractures.
So for the most part paper thin slices are usually refused by most thin section
makers due to these problems.
Most require par
I wonder if this is not the same rock that was recently on ebay starting at
$2,500 bid.
http://www.space.com/11804-nasa-moon-rock-sting-apollo17.html
Could it be the same supposed Moon rock? Not the one in the photo, but one
small chip that is still be investigated as is the seller.
Steve
.
Link:
http://www.thinsections.com/microscope
Steve Schoner
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Mom Is 55, Looks 30...
Her clever $5 wrinkle therapy angers Botox Doctors. Find Out How!
http
The microscope sold last night.
The lucky buyer got a great deal.
I would have gotten this vintage scope myself if it were not for my cramped lab.
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470 Founding Member Emeritus
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From: "Steve Schoner
e the identification, but
not for science.
Result... Lay people are deceived.
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470 Founding Member Emeritus
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Message: 10
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:37:01 -0700
From: "Rob Holcomb"
Subject: [meteorite-list] New Colorado fall or faux?
To:
M
No, not a "romance novel" but on an Ebay auction. The "romance" (novel
excluded) will be the wishful thinking in the description, as provided by the
"originality" of this newspaper article.
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470 Founding Member Emeritus
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a big splash over nothing... All to make a point.. And maybe make a
precedent over nothing.
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470
[meteorite-list] Moon Dust
JoshuaTreeMuseum joshuatreemuseum at embarqmail.com
Thu Jun 23 19:53:32 EDT 2011
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Market"
This aged Missouri Prosecutor needs to find the real "Black Market" traders,
like the drug lords that currently fill St. Louis, or seek another job.
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470
-- Original Message --
From: Michael Gilmer
To: Steve Schoner
Cc: meteorite-list@
inconsequential milligrams of lunar dust on swatches of tape.
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470
P.S. I open this with the exercise of figuring out what 400 lbs of Apollo
rocks, soil and dust might bring on the open market, either by set price as
currently established on the open market for the very few Apollo
funds will help to extend that message
again to the moon and beyond.
Steve Schoner
Founding Member Emeritus IMCA #4470
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From: Michael Gilmer
To: Steve Schoner
Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NASA could
-)
Wouldn't it be a whole lot simpler for a private company to mount one
time Lunar expedition in which all these potential buyers could even be
shareholders if you like, vs. expecting a utopian government?
Kindest wishes
Doug
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From: Steve Schoner
To: meteorite-
piece that continued after the blast for 5 to 6 seconds, and
maybe produced that 20' hole in the lake ice, might be an iron. But so far
nothing was found. If it is an iron, the divers should use underwater metal
detectors, and if so it will be found.
Steve Schoner
pollo 11 "Moon Dust" tape--- the real deal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C3lPlmpoKo
But...
As for the suspected Apollo moon rock being offered on Ebay. If NASA finds out
about the auction it will be taken down by court order if Ebay refuses. That I
do know.
Steve Schoner
moon rock" on Ebay now... As I wrote
before... Even a piece reputed to be from the Apollo program can be confiscated
by NASA. And the buyer should he or she win it, is not exempt from such
confiscation either.
The seller is on dangerous legal ground.
Steve Schoner
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Proof that NASA can seize Apollo Lunar material:
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-092599a.html
There are some other cases as well.
Steve Schoner
cdtucson at cox.net cdtucson at cox.net
Fri Feb 4 11:04:56 EST 2011
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;beef" to eat.
But then again, here is one sample of "beef" if you want to chow down on it:
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-092599a.html
A cursory search on the Internet will most likely reveal other such cases where
NASA can confiscate Apollo lunar material-- fake or real.
Re
bid on it...
Steve Schoner
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Apollo Moon rock sample on eBay?
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 12:51:48 -0500
Steve,
"Where is the beef"
fact I think there was one case where a person tried this and wound up in a
whole nest of legal trouble.
Steve Schoner
[meteorite-list] Apollo Moon rock sample on eBay?
Michael Gilmer meteoritemike at gmail.com
Fri Feb 4 15:33:30 EST 2011
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abel.
But real or fake, because it was offered with supposed NASA atribution...
Buyer beware.
There are legal ramifications with Apollo moon samples.
Steve
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To: "Steve Schoner" ,
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I sent an e-mail to the NASA Johnson Space Center regarding the supposed
"authentic" Apollo moon rock that is not a meteorite with the link to that Ebay
auction.
Here is the first reply that I got:
Dear Steve Schoner:
Your query was forwarded to me. The rock for sale on e
and exporting them, or prohibiting export of a so called "national
treasure."
Australia, Argentina and Oman have such laws now. I am sure Nations will
follow.
It is always demand and monetary value that makes this trend.
These trends are virtually impossible to reverse once in place
Steve Sc
But then again... Who knows, there could be another downturn in the world's
economy, and for for some of us the "good old days" will return.
As for landowners... An agreement is an agreement. It would be nice if it was
just a verbal handshake as it was for the most part in the &
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