[meteorite-list] Export permits and African meteorites

From: EL Jones <jonee_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:53:59 2004
Message-ID: <3C5AC784.D10139C1_at_epix.net>

You should feel indeed honored that the Good Doctor even bothered to reply to
your email, little alone, go into detail.

I am loathe to admit it -- but there is something there which starts to make
Canadian's officials look "collector friendly, eager to see you" guys, compared
to the <ahem> Designated National Repository of US "owned" meteorites. Seems
again that "National Origins and not Solar Origins" somehow affects the
scientific value of meteorites--go figure...

E

Rhett Bourland wrote:. I

> recently got an email from Dr. Timothy McCoy at the Smithsonian. I was
> trying to get some more Burnwell from him and offered some Dhofar 378 (a new
> really cool Martian that I've got some of) to him. His response was that
> the Smithsonian does not aquire any meteorites from all of Africa due to the
> lack of export permits and possibly coming from nations that are unfriendly
> with the US.
Received on Fri 01 Feb 2002 11:51:23 AM PST