[meteorite-list] New Toluca scam on ebay - a formula to detect metwrongs
From: m42protosun at aol.com <m42protosun_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:09:37 -0400 Message-ID: <8CABAC3590DB3E5-1270-24E8_at_FWM-D10.sysops.aol.com> Hello Michael, I agree with you. Pieces of Magnetite/Hematite are the most often offered meteoritewrongs sold to newcomers. Because I'm a beginner to I've bought even from two IMCA members two pieces of 'Mekong river iron' as Nantans. Month later I detected that they were wrongs. Asking for money back makes them very angry but I won. The easiest formula for detecting offers of iron wrongs is to estimate the specific density. Most seller declare length, depth and hight anf weight of the item. Calculate now V = (L x D x H x Pi / 6). This is the nearest estimated volume of an inlet speroid, that means a little more less in volume. Divide now the given weight by this value and you get a specifiv density which is hiigher then the original. If this value is less than 7.5 this must be a meteoritewrong if is a big piece ore it is only shale if it is a small piece. With this formula I'm "hunting" fake sellers on ebay. Sincerely Uwe -----Urspr?ngliche Mitteilung----- Von: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com> An: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com Verschickt: Mi., 23. Jul. 2008, 0:49 Thema: [meteorite-list] New Toluca scam on ebay http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/bandedgila_W0QQ_nkwZQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_mdoZ Take a look at this guy, selling piles of Magnetite as Toluca meteorites. I am concerned because they do resemble meteorites to the lesser informed and I have lots of Toluca for sale. Michael Farmer ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ________________________________________________________________________ AOL eMail auf Ihrem Handy! Ab sofort k?nnen Sie auch unterwegs Ihre AOL email abrufen. Registrieren Sie sich jetzt kostenlos. Received on Wed 23 Jul 2008 06:09:37 AM PDT |
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