[meteorite-list] AMAZING NEW "METEORITE" -FELL ON HOUSE!!!

From: David Freeman <dfreeman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Sep 14 14:07:20 2004
Message-ID: <414731F5.8020104_at_fascination.com>

Dear List;
This material as Mike notes is not meteorite. It is either a fluorite,
gypsum, dolomite or other very soft material, a banded material hardness
of around 4. Can be bought wholesale or retail by the pound!
That peticular specimen was probably indeed from S. America as it is
mined there, wholesale and manufactured there in Brazil I believe.
Alas, no iridium, or other evidence of interplanetary travel. Seems the
fusion crust must have been scrubbed off by granny!

I thought the "luminous" part was the first clue of suspect material.

Where's Ken Newton, time to add another meteorwrong to the web page!
This one was fun!
Dave F.

Michael Farmer wrote:

>Wow, nice agate egg. I can get those for about $1.50 each in Denver.
>I hope they arent counting on that "meteorite" to get rich.
>Mike Farmer
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Birdsell" <birdsell_at_email.arizona.edu>
>To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 9:59 AM
>Subject: [meteorite-list] AMAZING NEW "METEORITE" -FELL ON HOUSE!!!
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>
>>A local newpaper in Venezuela has scooped CNN, NBC and CBS and broken
>>the big story about an amazing
>>new "meteorite" find (see below). We are sure that this will generate
>>intense scientific interest as well as intense competition
>>amongst the list dealers as they vie to purchase this cosmic beauty.
>>Below is a tranlation of this ground breaking article.
>>
>>
>>"Into the hands of carvajalense family meteorite that fell 13 years ago
>>and deserves to be studied.
>>It does about 13 years, as a result of a "rain of fleeting stars",
>>phenomenon and astronomical spectacle that every year happens generally
>>once, fell in one of the houses of the parish Glad Field, especially in
>>the house of the Su?rez family, of that populated community a small
>>meteorite that could well solve many questions on asteroids and until
>>the origin of the life.
>> The grandmother of the young person David Su?rez, witnessed the
>>fall that night, a strange luminous object in the patio of her residence
>>and decided to approach what was a small rock, of about 12 centimeters
>>in length by seven of wide, still warms up by effect of the strong
>>atmospheric effect. She kept the small stone, characterized to have oval
>>and contouring form with beautiful lines brown, yellow color and amber,
>>as if one was beautiful "Eggs of Passover" made by the Russians like
>>inestimables jewels, like a memory, without knowledge that nothing less
>>had in its hands than many centuries of studies of the cosmos and
>>perhaps of its beginning.
>> After the death of his grandmother, the young person David Su?rez
>>decides to take it to science, nevertheless many students of the matter
>>in that time, which they wanted was to cut the rock and to destroy it to
>>study it without contributing nothing in return, in addition without
>>recognizing the inestimable value that represents for science. Su?rez,
>>makes the call to the true investigators of the origin of the life and
>>the sidereal space, so that they communicate with him through telephones
>>2442260 and 2441804."
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>To view this incredible NEW "Meteorite" click on the link below.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>http://www.diarioeltiempo.com.ve/secciones/secciones.php?num=47771&codigo=nact&llve=dos
>
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