[meteorite-list] Re: Eagle Butte Iron Meteorite Item # 1066468831 (fwd)

From: David Freeman <dfreeman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:02:25 2004
Message-ID: <3C8687D8.1090203_at_fascination.com>

Dear Tracy;
Very eloquently put. I will wait on pins and needles to find out their
responce....(!_at_#$%^&*) or "we have been in error and regret will have go
give a bunch of money back because we were caught being phony....."
Yup,
Dave (not the one in decay...yet)

Tracy Latimer wrote:

>This is the text of an email message I sent to the Crawfords, the people
>who are selling the Eagle Butte meteorites. We'll see what their response
>might be.
>
>Tracy Latimer
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 20:26:55 +0000
>To: ktac_at_telusplanet.net
>Subject: Re: Eagle Butte Iron Meteorite Item # 1066468831
>
>
>I just got the Eagle Butte sample last week, thanks to the vagaries of
>mailing across international borders. Unfortunately, to my eye, it seems
>you may have been fooled in your collecting by industrial slag, as the piece
>you sent me does not resemble any of my other iron meteorites, but it DOES
>resemble a slag meteorwrong I picked up in Ohio. I have also heard from
>people with whom I correspond on a meteorite newsgroup; several of them have
>also bought these meteorites and feel their identity is questionable.
>
>I cannot comfortably post feedback without being sure of what I have bought,
>so I am sending the sample to Dr. Carleton Moore at the Center for Meteorite
>Studies at Arizona State University for analysis. Upon his confirmation, I
>will happily post positive feedback. If the sample should turn out NOT to
>be a meteorite, I will forego any negative comment should you choose to
>offer a refund to anyone who has bought an "Eagle Butte Meteorite" from you
>in error. I am sorry to have to be so cautious, but there seems to be brisk
>trade in rocks of mistaken identity.
>
>Sincerely,
>Tracy Latimer
>
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