[meteorite-list] What are the latest Iron Falls?

From: Tom Knudson <peregrineflier_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Mar 21 13:24:55 2005
Message-ID: <000d01c52685$b72aaba0$2d107918_at_Michelle>

Darren wrote;
"(Sorry for the soap box, but that story really offends me. )"

That is just one of the stories that offends me, Barringer, old woman, there
is a bunch of meteorite thieves in this world, I like the old days when they
use to take em out and hang them!

Thanks, Tom
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse_at_charter.net>
To: "Meteoriteshow" <meteoriteshow_at_free.fr>
Cc: "Tom Knudson" <peregrineflier_at_npgcable.com>;
<meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What are the latest Iron Falls?


On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:09:36 +0100, "Meteoriteshow" <meteoriteshow_at_free.fr>
wrote:

>I have heard also about an huge iron meteorite somewhere near then northern
>pole, that had been used by men to make tools in the past, and was supposed
>to be a holy stone. I do not remember exactly where it was, but I think
>someone wrote something about it sometime ago on the list...

The Cape York meteorites (there are several of them) in Greenland. They
were being used by the
natives to make iron tools. Future polar explorer Robert Perry convinced
one of the natives to show
him the location of the meteorites and he promptly stole them, because of
course they didn't belong
to anyone-- well, anyone WHITE. (Sorry for the soap box, but that story
really offends me. The
native were obviously making use of the meteorite for tools vital to them--
tools for hunting and
fishing. But without so much as asking permission or making payments, he
went into their land and,
yes, STOLE their meteorites simply because of the racist assumption that,
because they weren't
educated white people, then the meteorites were free for the taking).
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