[meteorite-list] Peruvian meteorite crater - friendly warningtohunters that may be considering...

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:01:06 -0600
Message-ID: <03ab01c75718$6489c2d0$32ea8c46_at_ATARIENGINE>

Hi, Darren, List,

    Nope. It's a different meteorite (??) that
looks exactly the same.
    The Barringers got Meteor Crater by way
of Daniel Barringer's mining claim. He thought
(many did) that the vast mass of the impactor
was buried beneath the crater floor, millions
of tons of stainless steel awaiting exploitation.
    He drilled up to a quarter mile into the floor
of the crater trying to hit the main mass and
found nothing but shattered strata as far as he
went.
    If Randall's crater is an impact crater, there
won't be any material within it, but that 100
hectares surrounding might yield something.
    Randall's mistake is thinking that the pictures
of the stones incline anyone to hunt there. If he
threw it open to all comers and set up a free
Koolaide stand in the desert, he'd probably
have a long wait to use those frosty mugs for
any actual meteorite hunters.
    Despite his "friendly" message to prospective
hunters, the fishheads and maggotty rice don't
make the stones look any more meteoric than
they did before.
    The fact that no Earth geologist can say
immediately just what they are does not logically
demonstrate that they are un-Earthly. The Earth
still keeps a few little secrets of her own. How
did "josephinite" form and why is it on the surface
of the Earth instead of in the mantle? It's a mystery
to me, and yet, you can buy it on eBay.



Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse at charter.net>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Peruvian meteorite crater - friendly
warningtohunters that may be considering...


On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:22:40 -0700, you wrote:

>Threats like this make me want to run right down there just to prove I
>could
>get away with it.
>

Tell me about it.

I'm not entirely clear on this-- is this big meteorite strewnfield (with the
threats of drawing, quartering, and reincarnation as a young boy trapped in
an
elevator with Michael Jackson if you jump his claim) the same as the "Venus
meteorite" he is evangelizing about?
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