[meteorite-list] Tunguska Meteorite Stolen?

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:20:35 -0500
Message-ID: <0f3501c7e502$4800dd60$1051e146_at_ATARIENGINE>

> a previous subject and I missed it?

Re-Posting the Original Post of this news story:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 11:17 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Three-Ton Meteorite Stolen in Russia

http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/administration/afp-news.html?id=070810151250.o4s1dvds&cat=null

Three-tonne meteorite stolen in Russia
AFP News brief
August 10, 2007

    Russian police were combing the northern Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on
Friday for a three-tonne meteorite that has disappeared from under the
nose of its keepers.
    The giant rock was stolen from the yard of the Tunguska Space Event
foundation, whose director said it was the part of meteor that caused a
massive explosion in Siberia in 1908, news agency Interfax reported.
    "It winds up that it disappeared back in June, when the foundation was
moving out of its old building," a police spokesman told the agency.
    "Our colleagues are establishing what got lost, where the rock is and
why they only came to us about it now," he said.
    Foundation director Yury Lavbin brought the three-tonne rock to
Krasnoyarsk after an 2004 expedition to the site of the so-called
"Tunguska event" -- a mysterious mid-air explosion in Siberia in 1908
that was 1,000 times more powerful than the nuclear bomb dropped on
Hiroshima in 1945.
    Lavbin claimed at the time to have discovered the wreckage of an
alien spacecraft during the expedition.
    Scientists continue to argue over the cause of the explosion, which
flattened over 2,000 square kilometres (800 square miles) of Siberian
forest.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Ron Baalke" <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>; "Meteorite Mailing List"
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Three-Ton Meteorite Stolen in Russia


Hi, All,

    Ha! Is obvious what happen. In 2004,
Yuri discover three ton Tunguska meteorite
and alien space ship wreckage. In 2007,
aliens come, take their rock back!

    Yuri not notice three-ton rock is missing
because aliens cloud his mind. This not so
hard to do.

    Simple. No mystery.


Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe" <kerchner420 at yahoo.com>
To: "meteorite list" <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 3:47 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Tunguska Meteorite Stolen?


Hello List,
    Sorry if this was a previous subject and I missed it. Here are a couple
of links that say that a three ton Meteorite that was from the 1908 Tunguska
event was stolen, they claim that it was found in 2004. Has anyone heard of
this? As far as I knew the only evidence they had that a meteorite was the
trees and soil analysis'. Has anyone ever heard that they found a possible
meteorite fragment?

 http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/13/1524249&from=rss

 http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22232339-5001028,00.html?from=public_rss Best Wishes, Joe Kerchner
Received on Wed 22 Aug 2007 05:20:35 PM PDT