[meteorite-list] Anyone know a 'Jude Noonan'?

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:06:12 -0400
Message-ID: <e51421550906260906w2cd355adk8282d7e719fea4e2_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi Randy, Marco and List -

I'd refer the pest to one of these nutballs, and let them amuse each other :

http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/oldschool-av

http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/hockpooh

Perhaps they can validate each other's junk specimens. ;)

Best regards,

MikeG


On 6/26/09, Randy Korotev <korotev at wustl.edu> wrote:
> Dear Marco:
>
> I have been contacted ~30 times over the last year by someone at that
> e-mail address who identifies himself as James Rice. He sends lots
> of photos of things he identifies as "imbedded spherules," "lapilli,"
> "fusion crust," and "widmanstatten" in his rocks, which he claims are
> from Amsterdam. I urged him to get a chemical analysis of his
> rocks. He did, and he is now combing the lunar literature. He has
> found irrelevant similarities in concentrations of some trace
> elements in his samples and some lunar meteorites. He completely
> ignores my interpretation of his data - The composition is consistent
> with massive iron oxide (hematite?) with a little quartz, limestone,
> and maybe clay. I've told him several times that the rocks are not
> meteorites. He's one of those guys who just keeps looking for
> evidence in favor of his hypothesis while ignoring the evidence
> against it. I don't respond to inquiries any more, so I guess that's
> why he's contacted you!
>
> Randy Korotev
>
>
>
> At 10:04 26-06-09 Friday, you wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>Anyone here getting mails from a 'Jude Noonan', e-mail bonk381 at hotmail.com
>> ?
>>
>>He/she sent me pictures and apparent geochemical "descriptions" of a
>>stone, claimed to have been found in Amsterdam. He alternately
>>suggests it is an impact rock or a moon rock.
>>
>>The whole is very fishy. However, in many ways it reminds me of that
>>Swedish dude Lindfors who naged us a while ago. So I wonder whether
>>he is at it again, under another name.
>>
>>- Marco
>>
>>-----
>>Dr Marco (asteroid 183294) Langbroek
>>Dutch Meteor Society (DMS)
>>
>>e-mail: dms at marcolangbroek.nl
>>http://www.dmsweb.org
>>http://www.marcolangbroek.nl
>>-----
>
>
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