[meteorite-list] Meteoritehunter fights with Museum

From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 08:41:04 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <880545.45128.qm_at_web53103.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Here is what I posted on the Weblog
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2009/07/german-meteorite-news-thomas-grau-finds.html
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
German Meteorite News- Thomas Grau Finds Meteorite Fall in Slovenia 9JUL09
Deutscher findet Meteorit in Slowenien
Bild.de
Ein seltener Meteoritenfund ist einem Deutschen nach eigenen Angaben in Slowenien gelungen. Thomas Grau aus Bernau (Brandenburg) entdeckte in der Grenzregion zu ?sterreich einen 2,35 Kilogramm schweren Gesteinsbrocken aus dem All. Der Meteorit war am 9. April im Karawanken-Gebirge niedergegangen und zerbrochen. Er hatte seinen Fund aus dem Mai k?rzlich auf einem Treffen des deutschen Feuerkugel-Netzwerks vorgestellt. Grau hatte bereits den Meteoriten entdeckt, der im Januar f?r eine spektakul?re Feuerkugel am Himmel ?ber dem Ostseeraum gesorgt hatte. Er fand das St?ck im M?rz auf der d?nischen Insel Lolland.
http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/telegramm/news-ticker,rendertext=8946900.html

English Translation:
A German according to own information in Slovenia has managed a rare meteorite finding. Thomas Grau from Bernau (Brandenburg) discovered in the border region to Austria a 2.35 kilogram rock lump from a Fall. The meteorite had come down on the 9th April in the Karawanken mountains and had broken. He had introduced his finding from May recently on a meeting of the German fire ball-network.
Grau had already discovered the meteorite which had provided in January for a spectacular fire ball in the sky about the Baltic Sea area. He found the piece in March on the Danish island Lolland.
Posted by LunarMeteorite*Hunter at 3:15 PM

--- On Fri, 7/10/09, Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteoritehunter fights with Museum
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Friday, July 10, 2009, 12:17 AM
>
> http://www.sta.si/en/vest.php?s=a&id=1408119
>
>
> and you guys wonder why we want to keep the location of the
> new AZ fall secret.
> Michael Farmer
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Received on Thu 09 Jul 2009 11:41:04 AM PDT