[meteorite-list] Austria Will Issue Stamps with Meteorite Powder
From: Peter Marmet <p.marmet_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Mar 10 14:32:29 2006 Message-ID: <2441DB7F-D9B1-4870-B4EE-03B53B8F28AD_at_mysunrise.ch> And here's a link with a picture: http://app.post.at/shop/detail.php?prod=206040 Peter Marmet Ron Baalke wrote: > > http://www.iol.co.za/index.php? > set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=qw1141956181680A141 > > Starry stamps set to wow Austrians > iol (South Africa) > March 10, 2006 > > Vienna - Austria will get a little star dust when the Austrian Post > Office launches a stamp sprinkled with real meteorite powder, in a > "world premiere" on March 24. > > Six hundred thousand copies of the stamp have been made so far. Each > stamp will contain 0.03g of star dust, the Austrian Post Office > said on > Thursday. > > "The powder comes from a 19kg meteorite found two years ago in Morocco > that we crushed through a special process," Post Office spokesperson > Michael Homola told reporters. > > A collector bought the stony meteorite, also known as a chondrite, > after > it was authenticated by Vienna's Natural History Museum, Homola said, > without explaining how much the operation cost. > > "One thing is certain, we are the first in the world to incorporate > real > meteorite powder in a postal stamp," the spokesperson said. > > The Austrian Post Office, which in 2004 began diversifying its > collection of stamps, has offered an embroidered Edelweiss-shaped > stamp > and another containing Swarovski crystal powder. > > The company, which Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel's government wants to > privatise by the end of the year, has said it has sold more than five > million "personalised" stamps since 2004. > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > Received on Fri 10 Mar 2006 02:33:22 PM PST |
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