[meteorite-list] Santa Rosa Colombia

From: Impactika at aol.com <Impactika_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 21:31:07 EDT
Message-ID: <bf8.2c3db987.35510edb_at_aol.com>

In a message dated 5/5/2008 7:12:46 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
stm at bellsouth.net writes:
Very nice Michael - great history on the Santa Rosa - is that red paint on
the back?
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In fact there is quite a bit more to the story than that.
Basically, Henry Ward threw a big party, got most of the population of Santa
Rosa drunk and absconded with the meteorite during the night. To be later
stopped at the border.
 
Some meteorite hunters will stop at nothing !!! ;-)
For all the details, from the Buchwald Handbook of Iron Meteorites, go to:
 
_http://www.impactika.com/santrosa.htm_
(http://www.impactika.com/santrosa.htm)
 
Sorry, that big slice from TCU has been sold.
 
Anne M. Black
_www.IMPACTIKA.com_ (http://www.IMPACTIKA.com)
_IMPACTIKA at aol.com_ (mailto:IMPACTIKA at aol.com)
Vice-President of IMCA
_www.IMCA.cc_ (http://www.IMCA.cc)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Farmer" <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 8:26 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Santa Rosa Colombia and Chergach


> Hi everyone, it was a very peaceful day, with all
> incoming emails of an unwanted nature blocked, I
> acutally got some work done.
>
> I have updated my private collection page with a Santa
> Rosa piece I got from the Smithsonian, and
> to celebrate the fact that Chergach (Mali) is now
> classified, I put my collection pieces on the website.
> Take a look, let me know if you like them.
>
> http://www.meteoriteguy.com/collection/santarosa.htm
>
> http://www.meteoriteguy.com/collection/chergach.htm
>
> Michael Farmer





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