[meteorite-list] Awesome Meteorites at the Field Museum

From: Roman Nakonechny <uraninut239__at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:36 2004
Message-ID: <Law9-F39swEZI5EOYlQ00036774_at_hotmail.com>

Hi Bob,
       Nice photo's, well done. Say, have you any idea as to the
classification of
       Park Forrest. There was a fellow about 2wks. back selling his
fragments
       for $40.00gram. Is that the going price for it? If so, why? Has this
meteorite been tested by an accredited meteoritical lab, with results back
yet.
He never got back to me. I just told him that every other meteorite he had
for sale had a description (e.g.) carbonaceous chondrite, hexahedrite, SNC,
coarse octahedrite, howardite, diogenite you get the picture, but absolutely
no description for Park Forest. I asked him politely, why are you charging
that much for an unclassified basically unknown type meteorite. Then I told
him - and maybe this peed him off- that I would'nt pay my own mother
$40.00gram for a meteorite that was not checked out or classified and
certified by a meteoritical lab. I dont want to hear from Mr. Meteorite
Chaser/Hunter that he thinks it's a this and it looks like it resembles a
that and sure as hell has the feel of a this and that AND SMELLS LIKE AN IT,
  if I'm going to fork over $40.00gram. Put even more simply, do you or
anybody else know the composition/classification of this meteorite- done by
a reputable meteoritical lab, and not by personnal, untrained obsevation.
My mail piles up and I can't get to it all, maybe I missed the great moment
when P.F. was classified/certified? Any answers will be appreciated.
Thanks Bob. Good Night.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~* Roman N. (IMCA # 0583)

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>Subject: [meteorite-list] Awesome Meteorites at the Field Museum
>Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:26:03 -0600
>
>Hello List,
>
>My wife and I spent the day at the Field Museum in Chicago checking out all
>of the meteorites in the museum collection. I get a chance to visit the
>museum a few times a year. They have some great pieces including some
>really big Murchisons and Allende.
>They have this incredibly huge( 178lbs ) oriented Bath Furnace meteorite ,
>with beautiful regmaglypts.
>As well as a ton of Canyon Diablo.
>
>I loaded pictures of the Bath , and Canyon Diablos on my Photo page for
>anyone to view. Click on this link :
>http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/spacerox2001
>
>The only thing that was frustrating was that for some reason they didnt
>have their Park Forest meteorite on display. And no matter who I asked , no
>one seemed to have a clue to where it was.
>
>Bob Evans
>

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Received on Tue 28 Oct 2003 11:50:13 PM PST