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Re: Nakhla

To all of those who have ordered Nakhla from me (yes I am the one, my
hand goes up), apparently it did NOT kill a dog, so I am sorry.  I read
that years ago, not only in Haag's catalog (where I believe it said
"Gack...bow wow wow!"), but in various other pubs. Sorry for the mix-up
and I didn't type it to generate sales, Nakhla does that by itself....
-- 
Matt Morgan
Mile High Meteorites
http://www.mhmeteorites.com
P.O.Box 151293
Lakewood, CO 80215-9293


MARSROX@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Perhaps it really doesn't matter, but a second meteorite dealer is offering
> Nakhla for sale with the punchline of "when it fell, it killed a dog - ouch!"
> 
> Nakhla is my "favorite" meteorite for many reasons.  As meteorites go, it's
> beautiful. A fresh cut surface seems to glow under even small magnification.
> Scientists have found more evidence of life on another planet - what other
> meteorite in your collection has that profound cache' ?  It's from Mars, a
> somewhat more exotically romantic origin than say....4Vesta.  It's got
> incredible legend behind it - first Egyptian meteorite, studied by some of
> the most historic meteoriticists in history, stolen from the Egyptians by a
> person posing as a Yale professor, even Monica Grady adds to the prestige of
> this rock with her donation last year of a specimen from the BNHM collection.
> 
> 
> But friends, it did not kill a dog.  And the long published typo of the TKW
> "forty stones of forty kilos" is wrong - there's only 9.9K.  I'm a tad
> sensitive on this subject having written about Nakhla in Meteorite! last year
> (May and August issues).   Since the two dealers plagiarizing Bob Haag's
> catalogue description of Nakhla (double - ouch!) advertise in M! it seems a
> safe assumption that they also subscribe and read it.   Perhaps "dead dogs"
> sell more meteorites, but what's the point of publishing research, reviewed
> by people like Hap McSween and Alan Rubin, if we are to ignore the results?
> 
> Kevin Kichinka
> 
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Matt Morgan
Mile High Meteorites
http://www.mhmeteorites.com
P.O.Box 151293
Lakewood, CO 80215-9293

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