[meteorite-list] Great article in Peru news tonight

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:09:53 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <988054.70745.qm_at_web33106.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

http://www.andina.com.pe/NoticiaDetalle.aspx?id=144322

I will translate it here for those who do not read
spanish.

Michael Farmer


"Police in Desaguadero Deny having sold pieces of
meteorite to Americans"

Desaguadero, Oct 4. The cheif of police in
Desaguadero, Major Victor Anaya denied having sold
pieces of the luminous object that fell on the
community of Carancas to an American "Meteorite
Hunter".

According to Michael Farmer, known meteorite dealer,
the local police sold him the majority of fragments.
He affirmed as well, that Major Anaya "sold to another
american, a piece of meteorite of some 4 kilograms for
two thousand dollars".

After being contacted by the news agency, Andina,
Major Anaya assured that that story is totally false
and the local police had done very well in recovering
fragments of the meteorite, but that they were later
sent to different scientific institutions.

He said he had documentation for shipments of
meteorite and said that other local police kept no
pieces of the meteorite.

As told by Javier Atuhuachi, whos mother-in-law Gavino
Ramos Madani, who is the landowner of the agricultural
land there the meteorite fall on the 15th of
September, agreed with Farmer in affirming that the
police took most of the meteorite pieces left by the
celetial body.

"The day that the meteorite fell, no local member of
the community went to collect pieces because they were
scared of contracting some form of sickness. Later
when they learned that they were worth money, they
began collecting pieces using magnets, but all of the
larger pieces had been taken by the police" he said.

"I have personal knowledge that the police sold these
pieces for large sums of money? he said, although he
clarified that he had seen none of the transactions he
spoke about.

On the otherhand, he said that his mother-in-law has
received no compensation from the meteorite which fell
on her agricultural land, in spite of more than 25
years of sowing Cebada and potatoes on this spot.

Lastly, Atahuachi lamented that he now must abandon
his home beacuse of the fear f sickness and because
fragments of the meteorite destroyed the tin roof and
damaged the walls of the home.

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Received on Thu 04 Oct 2007 11:09:53 PM PDT