[meteorite-list] Rock-Picking Farmer Finds $1 MillionMeteorite In

From: Matt Morgan <mmorgan_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:23:44 2004
Message-ID: <3E63C806.12A98404_at_mhmeteorites.com>

I love the analogy Michael...and we do often talk in grams and kilos.
LOL!!!
matt m


Michael L Blood wrote:

> Ya,
> But this dude will want this micromount price per gram for the
> WHOLE STONE. This is like taking a kilo of pot and saying you busted a
> dealer with a million dollars of dope, because, if you sell it by the
> joint.....
> So, of course, no one will ever consider paying retail for the whole
> mass.
> This head set has permeated the country - interesting in light of
> the DOWNTURN of the market since flooding of NWA material. A lot
> of farmers are going to be taking a lot of material to the grave with
> them.
> Thanks for the info, Martin.
> Best wishes, Michael
>
> on 3/3/03 12:06 PM, Martin Horejsi at martinh_at_isu.edu wrote:
>
> > Ron kindly suggested:
> >
> >> I'm curious as to what type it is as well. Both articles didn't say.
> >> It looks to be either an iron or stony-iron. Because it is being
> >> touted as a one-of-a-kind meteorites. I would guess it is in
> >> the stony-iron class.
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > The rock in the article is the Milton Pallasite that I wrote about in
> > Meteorite Magazine in the May 2002 issue.
> >
> > Milton is a unique pallasite that appears to be somewhere between the main
> > group pallasites and the Eagle Station pallasites but not directly on the
> > line between them. There are also some interesting chemical similarities
> > between Milton and carbonaceous chondrites.
> >
> > Milton is likely material from an asteroid as yet unrepresented in our
> > collections.
> >
> > Given the price of Eagle Station, the $500/g figure is not quite so
> > surprising.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Martin
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