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

From: Frank Cressy <fcressy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:31:33 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <655627.65034.qm_at_web80203.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hello all,

Glad the "basket" meteorite is going home. I remember seeing a post card of it and thinking it was way cool. Maybe Mike Jensen has the post card in his collection.

Cheers,

Frank

--- On Wed, 3/11/09, Eric Wichman <eric at meteoritewatch.com> wrote:

From: Eric Wichman <eric at meteoritewatch.com>
Subject: [meteorite-list] Stolen Canyon Diablo Meteorite To Be Returned
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 7:16 AM

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


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