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

From: Mike Jensen <meteoriteplaya_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:26:38 -0600
Message-ID: <6f9da8300903110826x3d9d1caahfc5e8ecefd46be42_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi Frank & list
I just put up a page that shows all of the postcards (4) I have of the
"Basket" and once referred to as the "Ring" meteorite. Some of the
postcards mention a weight of 49 pounds and even have the weight
written on the iron in white (paint?). I wonder if that is still on
it?
http://jensenmeteorites.com/Postcards/CanyonDiablo.htm

Mike


Mike Jensen Meteorites
16730 E Ada PL
Aurora, CO 80017-3137
USA
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website: www.jensenmeteorites.com


On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Frank Cressy <fcressy at prodigy.net> wrote:
>
> 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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Received on Wed 11 Mar 2009 11:26:38 AM PDT