[meteorite-list] New Fall called Amgala from Western Sahara

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:32:44 2004
Message-ID: <20040301092709.21728.qmail_at_web20911.mail.yahoo.com>

Adam, how do you know how much i have? Aid? he just
sold me one of your best stones you have ever got,
Habibi? He is in Agdir 500 miles from me.
Second, if you have all these kilos of this new fall,
show us a photo of the large batch. That would satisfy
me. I am told here that you only have
--- Adam Hupe <adamhupe_at_comcast.net> wrote:
> Dear List Members,
>
> It looks like the cat is out of the bag. We have
> been working on this new
> fall for several months now and have accumulated
> several kilograms (largest
> inventory of Amgala in the World) which we plan to
> release later this week
> at excellent prices. We acquired many times more
> material than anybody else
> so we can offer the best specimens at the best
> prices. We will be posting
> several images with dozens of examples each to pick
> from. We normally do
> not release material until it is completely
> classified but will make an
> exception in this case since we should have the
> classification data within
> two weeks. We have very nice looking Amgala
> (Proprietary Provisional Name)
> inventory with completely crusted and oriented
> specimens so you may want to
> consider these before making any purchasing
> decisions. Here is a link to
> some images of a test samples:
>
> http://www.lunarrock.com/amgala/amgalagroup.jpg
>
> Here is the provisional data and coordinates:
>
> Amgala Meteorite Fall - October 16, 2003
>
> Location: Amgala to Oum Dreyga, Western Sahara,
> Morocco
> Date: October 16, 2003
> Time: 2:00 AM GMT
> Direction of fall: Southwesterly
> Coordinates of known strewn field to date:
> Amgala
> Latitude: 26 degrees 15' North
> Longitude: 11 degrees 12' West
> Oum Dreyga
> Latitude: 24 degrees 12' North
> Longitude: 13 degrees 20' West
> Amount recovered: Approximately 15 kilos
> Classification: Chondrite (pending)
>
> Witness statements from 3 soldiers in Tiyert (sp)
> collected by Team
> LunarRock
> 1) Youssef Oukhaye - Saw the red high and smoker and
> heard the sound of two
> bangs. 2) Hamidi Hdou - Supposed that a plane was
> falling.
> 3) Yassine M'hamed - Heard a strange sound breaking
> the land.
>
> Here is a link to a map of the region:
>
>
http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/wsahara.pdf
>
> New falls are always exciting and we want to
> apologize for keeping this
> secret for so long. We just did not want a repeat
> of Bensour or Thuathe on
> our hands.
>
> All the best,
>
> Adam and Greg Hupe
> The Hupe Collection
> IMCA 2185
>
>
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