[meteorite-list] News and Views in Peru

From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:40:56 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <84661.12376.qm_at_web53210.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Sterling and All,

  Caza- chasers, hunters.

Dirk Ross...Tokyo


--- "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> Hi, All,
>
> Beyond the views of Randall Richard Daniels
> Gregory
> on Mike Farmer, it seems that others in Peru are not
> happy
> with him. Taking no sides, just the messenger,
> folks.
>
> Here's a Peruvian news article:
>
<http://www.larepublica.com.pe/content/view/181193/30/>
>
> Here's a cleaned up machine translation:
>
>
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>
> [Headline] They try to deal in pieces of the fallen
> meteorite
>
> [Subhead] A group of Americans came with this
> purpose
> to Carancas.
>
> The president of the Geophysical Institute of
> Peru (IGP),
> Ronald Woodman, denounced the group of Americans
> directed by Michael Farmer (famous searcher of
> meteors in
> the world) that tries to deal in remains of the
> meteorite that
> fell [down] in the locality of Carancas in the
> middle of the
> past September.
>
> "They sneak in [literally, "glide"] to initiate
> the excavations
> to extract the remains at the border with Bolivia,
> since the
> meteorite fell [down] within one kilometer of the
> border with
> this country," Woodman declared.
>
> It [is] recounted that the group of five North
> Americans
> have come to the place with the support of the
> Police and that
> seemingly the settlers [villagers] negotiated with
> these "merchants
> of meteorites."
>
> Ronald Woodman said that the "cazameteoritos"
> would be
> taking advantage of the ignorance of the settlers on
> the real
> value of the objects. There are not many in the
> world; they are
> valuable pieces for museums and collectors, as noted
> below.
>
> The facts:
>
> TRAFFIC. The citizen Michael Farmer sold a lunar
> fragment
> of approximately 1 kg found near to Agadir (Morocco)
> for
> 1.5 million dollars
>
>
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>
> It would appear that entering the country from
> Bolivia,
> one mile away, with an international airport in
> nearby LaPaz,
> is inherently suspicious to some Peruvians.
>
> There is an implication (but no direct
> statement) that
> "trafficing" in meteorites is a shady quasi-legal
> affair, as there
> is much emphasis on the fact that Mike buys and
> sells them.
> I wish I knew what "cazameteoritos" means but the
> online
> translator won't translate it (nor the word "caza"
> either).
> Meteorite traders? Meteorite peddlers? Meteorite
> Con-men?
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
>
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Received on Wed 03 Oct 2007 04:40:56 PM PDT