[meteorite-list] Aubres Sale

From: M come Meteorite Meteorites <mcomemeteorite2000_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:07:02 2004
Message-ID: <20021019150321.16244.qmail_at_web10303.mail.yahoo.com>

Good Luck for Siena ;-)

Matteo

--- MARSROX_at_aol.com wrote:
> I've recently returned from a couple of weeks in
> Scotland including an
> excellent visit with Rob Elliott. We did drink beer,
> actually Guinness Stout,
> at "room temperature" (which is the correct temp for
> Guinness) although he
> had all of the windows of his home open such that
> the ambient temperature was
> to the chilly degree that we burn wood in our
> Florida fireplaces. He did not
> offer any "haggis," but they are routinely served in
> Scotland and I had them
> a few times. If the amount of oatmeal is minimal and
> a fair amount of nutmeg
> is added, they are quite tolerable, especially with
> a wee dram of single
> barrel, malt whisky as a chaser. Accompanied by some
> poetry by "Rabbie" Burns
> and a little bagpipe music, it's almost enough to
> make one don a kilt. Almost.
>
> Anyway, Rob has one of the planet's most magnificent
> private collections,
> over 300 locations and he's recently traded w/Monica
> for Aubres, the type
> specimen for Aubrites. It fell September 14, 1836,
> at 3 in the afternoon in
> Nyons, Drome, France. A single stone of about 800
> grams was collected. The
> NHM (London) has 440 grams less at least 10% traded
> off. Rob received 28.41
> grams in trade making him the second largest
> repository (!) of this material.
> This specimen can be viewed at his website.
>
> By its own regulation, the NHM can no longer trade
> more Aubres. The Cat of
> Mets lists only 500 gms. remaining in all
> repositories. Only Moscow and
> Budapest have amounts of more than 20 grams so the
> likelyhood of more coming
> on the market from those sources is minimal. Rob has
> told me that what's
> available on his website is all that he will cut and
> sell. It is my belief
> that less than 32 grams are in the public domain,
> making this key piece
> virtually out-of-reach for most collectors.
>
> I traded for an exquisite 1.4gms. with Rob which I
> treasure and am keeping,
> and another 0.150 gms. available here today. A very
> healthy micro, it's a
> freshly sliced fragment measuring 9 x 6 x 1.5mm.
>
> The price is $300, same as on Rob's website, and I
> will also entertain trades
> for Barbotan, Pasamonte AEUC, LA001, the "new
> nakhlite",Gujba bencubanite,
> Alais, Krasnojarsk (w/olivine) or Siena.
>
> I will pass on a photo of the specimen (courtesy of
> Rob) to interested
> parties.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kevin Kichinka
> Fort Myers, Florida
>
>
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Received on Sat 19 Oct 2002 11:03:21 AM PDT