[meteorite-list] Sikhote' s seized

From: Chauncey Walden <clwaldeniii_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Sep 9 10:12:08 2005
Message-ID: <43219830.9090707_at_comcast.net>

Just in from a South African newspaper:
<http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/other_news/&articleid=250483>
byline Warsaw
Customs officers in Dorohusk, on Poland's border with Ukraine, have made
an unusual seizure, confiscating nearly 530kg of meteorites they found
hidden on a Russian-registered truck, officials said on Friday.

"In total, 529,5kg of meteorites were confiscated, including three very
big ones, weighing 176 kilos, 150 kilos and 80 kilos," Poland's customs
service said in a statement.

"They probably came from the same place in Siberia where a meteorite
crashed in 1947," the statement said.

According to the truck's payload ledgers, its cargo was quartzite, a
tough stone composed almost entirely of quartz grains, derived from
sandstone. The truck was bound for the Czech Republic.
Chauncey
Received on Fri 09 Sep 2005 10:12:00 AM PDT