[meteorite-list] AMATEURS BEAT NASA TO MARS METEORITES

From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:44:14 2004
Message-ID: <20010625200850.24591.qmail_at_web10408.mail.yahoo.com>

Ah, the perfect article.
There's something to offend everyone... ;-)

First off, is NASA even looking for meteorites, let
alone Mars rocks in Africa?

I know somebody posted a message to this List alluding
to a connection between NASA and NWA meteorites, but
can anybody substantiate that rumor? I'd like to see
some of that "Mars Sample Return" money spent on
meteorite recovery right here at home.

Yo! NASA! Homeboy here, ready when you are.

Got a team ready, too! Just three more finds and we
can tie the score, dude.

Oh! And in order to de-fuse any irate replies, let me
just say that when Bruno said, "our rivals are
prepared to do anything to get their hands on them and
some are
very violent", he wasn't talking about either NASA or
Mike Farmer...

:-)
Bob V.

--- entropydave <entropydave_at_ic24.net> wrote:
> Thought you may wish to see this article in today's
> Times newspaper, dated
> 25th June 2001
>
> "AMATEURS BEAT NASA TO MARS METEORITES"
>
> Adam Sage, Paris.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Two French adventurers have beaten NASA in the
> search for meteorites from
> Mars to produce evidence that will shed light on the
> evolution of the Red
> planet.
>
> In the cut-throat world of "star hunting", Bruno
> Fectay, 30 and Carine
> Bidaut, 25, have found four of only 20 Martian
> meteorites ever found on
> Earth.
> The meteorites were thrown from Mars when it
> collided with an asteroid about
> 10 million years ago. they floated around space and
> landed in the Sahara
> hundreds, or perhaps, thousands of years ago.
> One of the stones has revealed apparent traces of
> water under the planet's
> surface, seen by scientists as a key piece in the
> puzzle that eventually may
> explain why life failed to develop on Mars.
> With the meteorites sometimes worth millions of
> pounds each, the success of
> the French pair, who employ a group of desert
> nomads, has excited jealousy.
> "We have had to put them in a bank safe because our
> rivals are prepared to
> do anything to get their hands on them and some are
> very violent," M Fectay
> said. "Our rivals have tried every trick."
> M Fectay and Mme Bidaut are self-taught amateurs who
> began travelling across
> the Sahara desert three years ago and have since
> found hundreds of
> meteorites, including four from Mars. No team has
> ever been so successful.
>
>
>
> --
> In gentle decay,
> d.
>
> http://www.meteorites.ic24.net/index.html
>
> http://www.thc.u-net.com/davethc1.htm
>
>
> "I have a proof that x^n+y^n=z^n never has integer
> solutions for n>2.
> However, it won't fit into my signature file...."
>
>
>
>
>
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Received on Mon 25 Jun 2001 04:08:50 PM PDT