[meteorite-list] IMCA member offering questionable meteorite

From: j.divelbiss_at_att.net <j.divelbiss_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:21:03 2004
Message-ID: <20030712175109.4A4045374F_at_pairlist.net>

Hello all,

Take 3 deep breaths everybody...

This Jackstaw guy, also known as Derik Bowers, has been buying and selling
real meteorites for a couple years now. I've bought a couple pieces from him
myself.

I've seen this native iron for sale from him many times before. I never
thought he was trying to say it was a meteorite. If you read you can tell that
this was probably once thought to be a meteorite...but it was tested and
confirmed not to be. Now it his/others famous "meteorwrong" that turned out to
be a native iron. This piece being claimed to be authentic from that material.
Nothing more!!!

John

> Which IMCA member is putting this oddball chunk o' rock up for sale? There
> have been instances in the past where logos (Square Trade comes to mind)
> have been hijacked to lend authenticity where none exists. Maybe some
> enterprising seller did that to the IMCA logo, and we should make sure the
> owner of the IMCA number is behind this auction.
>
> Tracy Latimer
>
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Received on Sat 12 Jul 2003 01:51:08 PM PDT