[meteorite-list] Unusual new lunar or hokum?

From: Mike Jensen <meteoriteplaya_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 09:41:04 -0700
Message-ID: <6f9da8300811030841x7a5590b7x26474a088f3bd812_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi All
This guy has been mentioned several times on the list and is a well
known scam artist. In fact he is so well know Randy Korotev has give
him his own page;
http://meteorites.wustl.edu/meteorwrongs/m239.htm
It is too bad some one possibly bought a piece of his garbage;
http://cgi.ebay.com/LUNAR-METEORITE-OLIVINE-GABBRO-64-4-GRAM-SLICE-NICE_W0QQitemZ350001108996
Hard to be sure though as the sellers ID is kept secret.

How about this auction of his. Is it an Imilac?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350114894419


BTW I am going to block him from bidding on any of my Ebay auctions.


Mike



Mike Jensen Meteorites
16730 E Ada PL
Aurora, CO 80017-3137
USA
720-949-6220
IMCA 4264
website: www.jensenmeteorites.com



On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Jason Utas <meteoritekid at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hola,
> This fellow's been selling complete crap for the past year or so.
> Terrestrial slag as a new "plessitic octahedrite," Campo del Cielo's
> as Canyon Diablo's (a difference of $200-250/kg in value), and bits of
> terrestrial metamorphic/igneous crap (see the link) as lunar material.
> He's repeatedly shrugged off demands for real classifications, never
> mind his blatant selling of false and renamed material.
> There are people who make honest mistakes and there are cheaters.
> This one's about as sleazy as they get.
> Regards,
> Jason
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Stefan Brandes <brandes at gmx.at> wrote:
>> doesn?t this lunar have a name, with all this classification done???
>>
>> Stefan the lunatic
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi Group!
>>>
>>> I ran across this one on eBay today :
>>>
>>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350119620351
>>>
>>> Something about it doesn't ring true.
>>>
>>> There is a lot of quasi-scientific mumbo jumbo in the listing.
>>>
>>> Is this for real or some highly-misinformed individual?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> MikeG
>>>
>>>
>>> .........................................................
>>> Michael Gilmer (Louisiana, USA)
>>> Member of the Meteoritical Society.
>>> Member of the Bayou Region Stargazers Network.
>>> Websites - http://www.galactic-stone.com and http://www.glassthrower.com
>>> MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/fine_meteorites_4_sale
>>> ..........................................................
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Received on Mon 03 Nov 2008 11:41:04 AM PST