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

From: Mike Jensen <meteoriteplaya_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:06:43 -0600
Message-ID: <6f9da8300903111006h236c5c07l83e903e9dfbeffb8_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi Michael
It is at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. Here is a fine
article by Martin Horejsi that has the image that I linked to;
http://www.meteorite-times.com/Back_Links/2003/August/Accretion_Desk.htm
Enjoy


Mike


Mike Jensen Meteorites
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Michael Bross <element33 at peconic.net> wrote:
> Hi Mike
>
> From one side, it does actually look like the older rotin/rattan baskets
> with the handle
> that I saw in my childhood in France in the 60s.
> Ring is just more poetic...
>
> What a beauty that other Ring meteorite ! where is it displayed ?
>
> Michael B, France
>
>
>
> From: "Mike Jensen" <meteoriteplaya at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Stolen Canyon Diablo Meteorite To Be Returned
>
>
>> Hi Michael
>> A basket should hold something so it is hard to see how something with
>> a hole in it would make a good basket. But I guess the problem is
>> there is another well known ring meteorite from Arizona;
>> http://www.meteorite-times.com/Back_Links/2003/August/ad04-tucson.jpg
>> I guess maybe minnie-me ring might work;
>> http://blog.oregonlive.com/houseoffame/2008/08/VernTroyerAP.jpg
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> Mike Jensen Meteorites
>> 16730 E Ada PL
>> Aurora, CO 80017-3137
>> USA
>> 720-949-6220
>> IMCA 4264
>> website: www.jensenmeteorites.com
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Michael Bross <element33 at peconic.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks Mike
>>>
>>> Great looking postcards.
>>> I prefer "Ring" to "Basket"...
>>>
>>> Michael B, France
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Jensen"
>>> <meteoriteplaya at gmail.com>
>>> To: "Frank Cressy" <fcressy at prodigy.net>
>>> Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 4:26 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Stolen Canyon Diablo Meteorite To Be
>>> Returned
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>> 720-949-6220
>>> IMCA 4264
>>> 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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