[meteorite-list] Duck Chondrule

From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Oct 6 13:41:41 2006
Message-ID: <20061006174138.95328.qmail_at_web53209.mail.yahoo.com>

Adam and List,
  Thanks Adam!
  Yes, Adam I agree, that is why I wrote about the
Mekong iron and now they are offering fake Nantans.
They have to stoop pretty low to sell fake Nantan as
well?!! It will get much worse in the future from
what I see in the local markets in SE Asia. Soon NWAs
will be "found" in China and Thailand. We already
have them being "newly discovered" in Isreal. Buyers
and sellers beware of your sources or you may end up
ruining your own reputations in the future with faked
locations. Sincerely, Dirk Ross...Tokyo
 
  I have no idea what their duck chondrule is....most
likely an iron rich sedimentary rock or a highly
weathered volcanic? Nice vugs with secondary
carbonates!!!! CAIs-NOT! I suppose they will soon be
offering their own versions of "Lunars" and
"Martians".....IF they want to be billionares. drs



--- Adam Hupe <raremeteorites_at_comcast.net> wrote:

> The 5-billionaires group are a bunch con artists and
> idiots.
>
> Look at their latest "Duck Chondrule" offering, this
> is definitely one for
> the books:
>
>
http://cgi.ebay.com/Duck-chondrule-155g-8-Slice-STONY-METEORITE-VERY-RARE_W0QQitemZ230036197978QQihZ013QQcategoryZ3239QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>
> I don't think they have ever sold a real meteorite.
> They know they are
> selling garbage and are trying to rip-off the
> public. Just look how hard
> they try to convince their audience that these are
> real meteorites. They
> run a magnet with a sticky substance on it all over
> a supposed Nantan in one
> auction. If this were a real iron meteorite, the
> magnet would jump out of
> there hands. In another auction, they zoom in on
> light colored objects
> claiming they are chondrules.
>
> This reminds me of the Shirokovsky pallasite webpage
> images complete with
> divers and a poor story where every stone weighed
> exactly 50 kilograms, the
> size of a crucible. I remember you could not make
> out any the faces of the
> hunters on this web presence, I wonder why? This new
> group is brash enough
> to think that meteorite collectors are stupid enough
> to jump all over a
> $28,000.00 Earth rock. Billionaires, give me a
> break, they should call
> themselves penny-aires because that is what a lot of
> their items are selling
> for except for one unsuspecting person who paid
> several hundred for a fake
> meteorite.
>
> I would love to run into this group in Tucson. I
> would buy them a round of
> Denver Death Cookies and extract a confession from
> them. By the way, I owe
> some Margaritas on a lost wager that I will make
> good on at the next show.
>
> Take Care,
>
> Adam
>
>
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