[meteorite-list] Park Forest
From: Jeff Grossman <jgrossman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:23:54 2004 Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20030329185148.02b7adc0_at_gsvaresm02.er.usgs.gov> <html> Hi all. I am posting the following message to the List on behalf of Dr. Meenakshi Wadhwa, the Curator of Meteorites at the Field museum. -jeff<br> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br> To Mike Farmer and List:<br><br> Regarding statements concerning the Field Museum and relating to the recent meteorite fall in Park Forest:<br><br> 1. The Field Museum (or any representative thereof) has not made statements to the residents and/or Police of Park Forest concerning any meteorite dealers.<br><br> 2. The Field Museum (or any representative thereof) has not told anyone that the meteorites have to be donated or sold to The Field Museum.<br><br> Anyone who wishes to further discuss these points may contact M. Wadhwa at The Field Museum (mwadhwa_at_fmnh.org). Please refer to this e-mail when discussing the role of the Museum in the recovery of the Park Forest fall in this list or any other public forum.<br><br> Dr. Meenakshi Wadhwa<br> Associate Curator, Meteoritics<br> Department of Geology, The Field Museum<br> 1400 S. Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, Il, 60605<br> Tel: (312) 665-7639 (office)<br> (312) 665-7613/7617 (mass spec/clean chem labs)<br> Fax: (312) 665-7641<br> Email: mwadhwa_at_fieldmuseum.org<br> <a href="http://fm1.fieldmuseum.org/aa/staff_page.cgi?staff=wadhwa" eudora="autourl">http://fm1.fieldmuseum.org/aa/staff_page.cgi?staff=wadhwa</a><br><br> <br> At 05:20 PM 3/28/2003 -0700, Michael Farmer wrote:<br> <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2>Hello everyone, a little news from the strewnfield. The news is not good. The people here all think that they are millionaires, they all want $10 to $20 gram now. The police chief tols Steve Witt to leave or be arrested as they think he robbed a meteorite finder by paying several dollars per gram! The news has stated that they are worth $500 per ounce ~$15 gram. The Museum in Chicago has not helped, stating that dealers are here to rip the locals off and that they should "donate all the pieces" to the university/museum. </font></blockquote><br> and, at 10:50 PM 3/28/2003 -0700, Michael Farmer wrote:<br><br> <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2> We are all outraged at what has happened here. </font><br> <font face="arial" size=2>Ill explain more. The fact is that yesterday morning several pieces were sold for $1 gram, not an unfair price in the field, low but no big deal. Then the newspapers and news told everyone that the value is $500 per ounce! The Chicago Field Museum curator was telling the police that the people had to sell to them and not to any collectors. So now many people are going to the Field Museum tomorrow to sell their pieces to the museum. They are under the assumption that they must sell them there as that is what the local police is passing on. </font><font face="arial">...</font><br> <font face="arial" size=2>PS. Portales was a fun but stressful hunt, this one blows Portales to hell, people are very very unfriendly here, not all of course, but the Museum did dealers and collectors very wrong here with what they said, Ill be rethinking and dealings from now on with this type of bad press. I have donated over $100,000 in meteorites to museums, and now to have them telling people that all the dealers are here to rip them off really chaps my $%#$#$</font></blockquote><br><br> <br> </html> Received on Sat 29 Mar 2003 07:05:17 PM PST |
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