[meteorite-list] New Zealand Man to Sell Meteorite

From: David Freeman <dfreeman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Jun 15 13:27:43 2004
Message-ID: <40CF3189.7060804_at_fascination.com>

Dear Randy, List:
 From the 'tater shaped black rock in the picture that I saw, it is an
oddly shaped meteorite at that....
Dave F.

Randy Mils wrote:

> "a misshapen HOLLOW object" ????
>
> Who verified this amazing meteorite? The local community college?
>
> Anyone planning on making an offer better get a second opinion.
>
> Randy
>
> >From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov> >To:
> meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com (Meteorite Mailing List) >Subject:
> [meteorite-list] New Zealand Man to Sell Meteorite >Date: Tue, 15 Jun
> 2004 09:36:00 -0700 (PDT) > > >
> >http://www.odt.co.nz/cgi-bin/getitem?date=15Jun2004&object=KEC3583650SO&type=html
> > >Publicity push for meteoric price rise >By Stu Oldham >Otago Daily
> Times (New Zealand) >June 15, 2004 > >A Lawrence man who last month
> decided to sell a meteorite he found when >digging a long-drop toilet
> in the 1950s says he could not have picked a >better time to sell. >
> >"Who would have thought everyone would be talking about meteorites at
> >the same time I decided to get rid of the thing," Jim Nettleton (75)
> >said yesterday. > >"I mean to say, a meteorite crashes through
> someone's ceiling and then >everyone wants one. That's pretty good
> timing." > >The avid "collector of everything" has been following
> intently news >reports of a meteorite which crashed through the roof
> of an Auckland >home on Saturday. > >Phil and Brenda Archer have been
> inundated with calls from around the >world about the 1.3kg rock
> experts say could be worth a lot of money. > >Mr Nettleton plans to
> sell his own meteorite - a misshapen, hollow >object he found when
> digging a long-drop toilet in East Roxburgh in the >mid-1950s - at
> auction next month. > >"I just thought that it is no good lying around
> the house and when I'm >gone no-one will know what it is and they will
> probably just throw it >out," he said. > >"So it's better off going to
> someone who knows what it is; to someone >who appreciates the
> funny-looking thing I got out of the ground." > >The object was
> confirmed as a meteorite by Otago Museum several years >ago, Mr
> Nettleton said. > >Dunedin auctioneers Plumbly's would check the
> identification this week. >Auctioneer Kevin Hayward, who had not sold
> a meteorite before, expected >a surge in late interest. > >"The
> Auckland thing will no doubt help things along a bit, but I still
> >have no idea what it'll sell for. Maybe $300, maybe $2000-$3000 -
> it's >up to what a collector is prepared to pay for it," he said. >
> >Central Otago man John Lunam was hoping for similar success with a
> >meteorite he found in Central Otago's Manhureikia River in 1980. >
> >Just like Mr Nettleton's, it had been sitting around the house
> gathering >dust until the right moment came along. > >"And that moment
> is probably here," he said on Sunday. "Good time to >sell, when
> everyone is talking about them." >
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