[meteorite-list] Re: Bensour photos

From: Michael Farmer <farmerm_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:02:31 2004
Message-ID: <000701c1d05d$a26d69e0$cbd00140_at_computer>

Whatever Bruno, I actually got very little from Ali, I spoke to many people,
when and spoke to people who found it etc. Why dont you stop pretending that
you own the place and know everything Bruno, you Dont, trust me. you havnt
even been there after the fall, so I tend to belive what I hear there, not
what you try and tell everyone.
Mike Farmer
----- Original Message -----
From: "The Earth's Memory" <info_at_meteorite.fr>
To: "Mike Farmer" <farmerm_at_concentric.net>
Cc: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>; "Mike Brown"
<themoon08_at_hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 5:01 PM
Subject: Bensour photos


> Dear Mike,
>
> congratulation for bringing back these stones,
> it's really risky to export them nowadays.
>
> You're right, it didn't rain yet in this area
> but that could happend soon because it's the right season
> for it.
>
> Just a remark, Ali Ousou from whom you bought
> the material is not saying the truth about the
> day of the fall. You should have asked other sources,
> the fall was the 12 of February at 16h17 GMT, a lot of people saw it
> especially a class of children with their professor. We get several
> written witnesses reports including that teatcher, some army soldiers and
> other
> trustee people around. All have signed description with addresses and ID
> numbers
> to show that it's not only "a guy with his camel" that we have to trust.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Bruno & Carine
> www.meteorite.fr
> www.jurassique.com
>
> ps: we wish a pleasant day to the members of the list
>
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> Mike Farmer wrote:
>
> Hey everyone, I am awake and getting ready to leave for the South Pacific.
> I threw together a quick page just to show some photos of the Bensour
> meteorite. You can see it on my website at:
> www.meteoriteguy.com/index.
>
> Check it out, simply beautiful pieces.
> I will be selling when I return home. My retail will be almost half what
> others are offering it for, so you decide who you want to pay when you
look
> at the pieces. As I said, not one of them has EVER seen a drop of water,
so
> the stories that the others are making up (Bessy and Elliot) are just not
> true, either in order to manipulate the market or from bad information
from
> their suppliers.
> It has not rained in that area for many months. These are the freshest
> meteorites I have seen in all my hunting.
>
>
Received on Wed 20 Mar 2002 05:21:48 PM PST