[meteorite-list] Leake & Goodlett meteorite returned

From: ensoramanda at ntlworld.com <ensoramanda_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 14:26:17 +0000
Message-ID: <20091205142618.Y2YLP.217050.root_at_web06-winn.ispmail.private.ntl.com>

Hi Michael,

Meteorwrong! anyway

meteorite-identification.com/tupelo.html

Graham, uk


---- Michael Groetz <mpg4444 at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.wxvt.com/Global/story.asp?S=11620211
>
>
> Leake & Goodlett meteorite returned
>
> Associated Press - December 4, 2009 8:24 AM ET
>
> TUPELO, Miss. (AP) - A half-ton of space rock has mysteriously
> reappeared at a Tupelo building supply store.
>
> Lindsey Leake, the store's co-owner, tells the Northeast Mississippi
> Daily Journal that they got a call last month from a person who
> claimed to have the meteorite and wanted to return.
>
> The 1,100-pound rock showed up Thursday at the Leake & Goodlett store
> on a flatbed truck.
>
> The rock disappeared Nov. 19, 2008.
>
> Leake says the person agreed to return the rock if it would remain
> anonymous and if he agreed not to prosecute. Leake agreed.
>
> The meteorite was discovered in 1870 by Tupelo Mayor H.C. "Major"
> Medford. It has always been displayed publicly outside Leake &
> Goodlett since about 1965.
>
> Leake says he may find some other public spot for it.
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