[meteorite-list] Stolen Canyon Diablo Meteorite To Be Returned

From: Eric Wichman <eric_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:16:12 -0700
Message-ID: <49B7C7AC.7050409_at_meteoritewatch.com>

I found article this in my email box this morning...

"..This story begins not in a galaxy far away, but at a Milwaukee
rummage sale a few years ago. Tom Lynch paid $10 for an odd hunk of
metal he figured might be copper or bronze with potential salvage value.

He had no idea it had dropped from space into the Arizona desert some
50,000 years ago.

"For the last two years, it kept my grandson's basketball hoop from
blowing over in the yard. It weighs 50 pounds," said Lynch, a retired
foundry and General Motors worker who lives in South Milwaukee.

Recently, he saw a show about meteorites on the Travel Channel and
realized that's probably what he had. It was curious, he thought, that
the thing never oxidized in the weather. Following advice from the TV
show, he held a magnet up to the object and it stuck.

He took his 4.6 billion-year-old find to the Milwaukee Public Museum and
then to Chicago's Field Museum last month. The scientists got excited.
Yes, they said, it's a meteorite.."

READ THE FULL ARTICLE
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/41069052.html


Wow! Now that's a cool looking meteorite.

Does anyone on-list remember this piece?

Regards,
Eric Wichman
Meteorites USA
Received on Wed 11 Mar 2009 10:16:12 AM PDT