[meteorite-list] Georgia Man Finds Meteorite While Picking Butter Beans

From: j.divelbiss_at_att.net <j.divelbiss_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:18:01 2004
Message-ID: <121920030004.11134.6b41_at_att.net>

I think it was the typical range that Jerry sees with his dealings. $5/g
(other dealers) to $1,000,000/g (pro athletes and entertainers). A ratio of
pricing of two hundred thousand to one.

I think Jerry sold one once...maybe a Nantan for $5/g when they cost more
like $0.04/g

John
> I could afford about a .001 of a gram of that!
>
> Fly Hill
>
> "Jerry Armstrong, an Atlanta man who deals in meteorites told
> him the space debris can bring anywhere from $5 to $1 million a gram"
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
> To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
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> Subject: [meteorite-list] Georgia Man Finds Meteorite While Picking Butter
> Beans
>
>
> >
> >
> > http://www.statesboroherald.net/topstories/story7.html
> >
> > Space object lands in Bulloch
> >
> > Picking beans, farmer finds a meteorite
> > By HOLLI DEAL BRAGG
> > Statesboro Herald
> > December 18, 2003
> >
> > It was the summer of 2000 when local vegetable producer
> > Harold Cannon found an odd rock. He tossed it aside. It
> > would be three years before he learned he had found a
> > meteorite.
> >
> > Cannon was picking butter beans when his bean picker
> > machine lifted the five and a half pound lump. Cannon tossed
> > it aside and kept on working.
> >
> > Three years later, at his wife 's prompting, Cannon decided to
> > clean up a bit. Finding the strange rock where he had chunked
> > it between two freezers, Cannon decided to chip off a bit
> > to see what it looked like inside.
> >
> > It wasn't an ordinary rock, he said.
> >
> > "It looked like a rock outside, but it was black inside," he said.
> > Cannon had always known the heavy lump was unusual, but never
> > dreamed it was out of this world. After taking a hammer to the
> > meteorite, he took the meteorite to Georgia Southern University
> > professor Dr. Michael Kelley.
> >
> > "I called him and he told me to bring it in," he said. "He broke
> > off a piece and sent it to the Smithsonian Institution.
> >
> > Kelley sent 25 grams to a friend who works in the Smithsonian
> > after he and GSU professor Dr. Pranoti Asher identified the rock
> > as a meteorite.
> >
> > Test results are still pending, but the meteorite has been
> > classified as an L-chondrite, he said.
> >
> > "We're waiting for official classification," he said. "We are
> > proposing a name to be approved by an international committee."
> >
> > Meteorites are named and listed in an international catalog of
> > meteorites by a curator in the British Museum, Kelley said.
> >
> > "This is the first meteorite anyone has ever found in Statesboro,"
> > he said. Since meteorites are "usually named for the places they
> > landed, we are proposing this meteorite be named Statesboro."
> >
> > L Chondrite meteorites are the type most commonly found, but
> > since only 22 documented meteorites have been discovered in
> > Georgia, one of which destroyed a Claxton mailbox in
> > 1984, the find is "quite exciting," he said.
> >
> > "So many (L-chondrite meteorites) have been found they have been
> > studied extensively, but this is exciting to us because it's the
> > first found here - and it's in our back yard."
> >
> > Cannon's Produce Farm is located off Joe Hodges Road between
> > Statesboro and Pulaski. When he realized his "rock" wasn't
> > really a rock, Cannon secured the bulk of the meteorite in
> > a bank vault for safety.
> >
> > While the value of the meteorite has not been determined, Cannon
> > said Jerry Armstrong, an Atlanta man who deals in meteorites told
> > him the space debris can bring anywhere from $5 to $1 million a gram.
> >
> > According to various Internet web sites including www.weatherfriend.com
> > and www.tucsonshow.com, a witness reported seeing a meteorite fall
> > near Claxton around 5:30 p.m. Dec. 10, 1984. According to these sites,
> > Vietnam veteran Don Richardson stepped out of his home to hear "a
> > whistling noise that reminded him of an incoming mortar round, and
> > then a loud bang as the meteorite struck (a) mailbox and knocked it to
> > the ground."
> >
> > The web sites described the meteorite as "chondrite, a type of stony
> > meteorite containing millimeter to sub-millimeter spherical olivine and
> > pyroxene bodies called chondrules."
> >
> > The Claxton meteorite was recovered about 11 inches below the ground
> > beneath the mailbox, according to web site information.
> >
> > Cannon said he is looking forward to finding out what the meteorite
> > is worth, and that the "rock" is for sale "to the highest bidder"
> > after he learns of its worth.
> >
> > Holli Deal Bragg can be reached at (912) 489-9414.
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/ap_newfullstory.asp?ID=27404
>
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