[meteorite-list] NO Oman Meteorite classification any more

From: ddav37463 at aol.com <ddav37463_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:59:12 -0500
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Dear Dr. Hofman,
 
but you didn't answer the second question:
Why did you ask the OMAN GOVERNMENT to write a letter to the Meteoritical Society NOT TO CLASSIFY OMAN METEORITES ANYMORE? With exception of Dr. Hofmann and his team?
Why are you not returning most of the masses to OMAN GOVERNMENT back ?? as it would back up the initial idea you are promoting, rather than keeping all of the OMAN METEORITES in your lockers?
 Dave W.E.

-----Original Message-----
From: beda.hofmann at geo.unibe.ch
To: ddav37463 at aol.com; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] mauretania - oman meteorites


Dear Dave whoever


Of course as a scientific institution we handle this officially. I have fully informed the consulate of Mauretania in Zurich about the situation and offered them to discuss this particular case so that it can be handled to conform fully to their legal requirements.


With best regards


Beda Hofmann


At 2:51 Uhr -0500 20.12.2006, ddav37463 at aol.com wrote:
 
Dear Dr. Hofmann,
 
why you don't ask the government of Mauretania? Are you classifying an illegal exported meteorite from Mauretania ? Do you have a permission?
 
Why did you ask the OMAN GOVERNMENT to write a letter to the Meteoritical Society NOT TO CLASSIFY OMAN METEORITES ANYMORE? With exception of Dr. Hofmann and his team?
Why are you not returning most of the masses to OMAN GOVERNMENT back ?? as it would back up the initial idea you are promoting, rather than keeping all of the OMAN METEORITES in your lockers?
 
The meteoritical community is interested in your answers?
 
dave
 
 
----- Original von: Peter Marmet <p.marmet at mysunrise.ch>:
 
> On behalf of Beda Hofmann, who's e-mails do not make it to the list
at this time:
 
 
Hello list
 
Does anyone know about a recent fall in Mauretania? I have received a
sample
of a meteorite that supposedly fell on October 12, 2006. At first I
did not
believe the story, the stuff looks like El Hammami and probably is
also an H.
However, first results from low-level gamma-spectroscopy indicate it
is really
a recent fall (short-lived radionuclides are present).
 
Please let me know if somebody knows that other labs are working on the
classification already...
 
Best regards
Beda Hofmann
beda.hofmann at geo.unibe.ch
 
 
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