[meteorite-list] Moss Carbonaceous Chondrite sales.

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Aug 16 00:15:40 2006
Message-ID: <20060816040309.49937.qmail_at_web33103.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Ok, today was a rough day with paying bills, taking
care of the usual things after a 3 week absence, and
trying to collect my precious cargo from Sweden
without success!

I will focus on selling some of the Moss meteorite
tomorrow. I must recover some of the nearly $7000 I
spent on the trip to Norway and Sweden. Anyone who
thinks meteorite hunting is cheap needs to try it
sometime!

I will prefer to do private sales as I have too many
small pieces to photograph and put on the website as I
normally do. I know from the response to my emails
over the last couple of weeks I will have most of the
material sold rapidly. I have too many emails from the
trip to go through quickly, so Anyone wanting a piece
needs to email me ASAP with the amount they want to
spend and I can try to accommodate them.
I will offer it for $200.00 per gram. I have many
pieces with fusion crust, but that will run out fast,
so if you want crust, I need to know like now.

Anyone who thinks this is a high price needs to think
again. I have already sold my largest piece for that
amount, and Bob Haag and I had lunch today and he also
wont sell for less as he bought his pieces.

There are only 5 witnessed falls of CO3 meteorites in
the world, Moss if confirmed as a CO3 will make that
#6.

So here we go, let the sales begin!

Moss Norway, fell July 14th, 2006 at ~10:15 am in the
Ostfold region including the towns of Rygge and Moss.
So far, just over 3 kilograms known. 50% of this is
already in Museum hands and totally out of the running
for sales.
After a month of searching by over 20 meteorite
hunters and dealers, I highly doubt that much more
will be recovered if any at all.

Michael Farmer

By the way, I will build a great webpage with photos
as soon as my film arrives from Sweden.
Received on Wed 16 Aug 2006 12:03:09 AM PDT