[meteorite-list] Duck Chondrule

From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Oct 8 03:05:57 2006
Message-ID: <20061006170415.82191.qmail_at_web53201.mail.yahoo.com>

Adam and List,
    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!!!! I suppose they will soon be offering their own versions of "Lunars" and "Martians".....IF they want to be billionares.

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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