[meteorite-list] Lost/Stolen meteorites

From: Paul Harris <paul_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 10:45:08 -0800
Message-ID: <E1Gt7CA-0003DT-OC_at_elasmtp-junco.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

Dear Michael and List,

We have posted your lost/stolen report on our dedicated
missing/stolen page here
http://www.meteorite.com/missing_stolen.html

We have also added your report as an RSS post to our Meteorite News RSS feed
which you can see from our main page on http://www.meteorite.com/

Paul and Jim


At 08:04 PM 12/8/2006, Michael Farmer wrote:
>I need to report that a shipment from the Munich show
>has been lost/stolen.
>Jim Strope and I shipped via UPS Supply Chain
>Solutions a large Muonionalusta weighing 174 kilograms
>and a large Gibeon, highly sculptured, weighing 36
>kilograms. It also contained some kilos of chondrites.
>The shipment has been lost for a month. It seems to
>have made it to Los Angeles via United Airlines, and
>simply disappeared after that. We are told that it is
>likely simply buried in the United Airlines bonded
>cargo warehouse and may be found soon, but on the off
>chance that this shipment was stolen, we must make
>public the weights of the meteorites.
>If anyone has been offered any meteorites of these
>weights, please notify myself of Jim Strope as I will
>be in Japan until Dec 19th. It seems that shipments of
>this type have been stolen before. Let this be a
>warning to anyone shipping material like this. It CAN
>BE LOST/STOLEN even when weighing over 500 pounds!
>INSURE YOUR SHIPMENTS.
>
>Michael Farmer
>
>
>
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