[meteorite-list] Sikhote' s seized

From: Pete Pete <rsvp321_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Sep 9 10:35:05 2005
Message-ID: <BAY104-F37A478AA253BF61471E3E5F8980_at_phx.gbl>

I guess they should have said it was scrap metal, instead of quartz! ;]

This should drive the price up a bit, eh?

Cheers,
Pete


From: Chauncey Walden <clwaldeniii_at_comcast.net>
To: "meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com"
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Sikhote' s seized
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 08:12:00 -0600

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

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