[meteorite-list] Stolen Canyon Diablo Meteorite To Be Returned
From: Michael Blood <mlblood_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:34:46 -0700 Message-ID: <C5DD6066.16D7%mlblood_at_cox.net> > From: Frank Cressy <fcressy at prodigy.net> > Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:31:33 -0700 (PDT) > To: Meteorite List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>, Eric Wichman > <eric at meteoritewatch.com> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Stolen Canyon Diablo Meteorite To Be Returned > > > 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 > > > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Received on Wed 11 Mar 2009 03:34:46 PM PDT |
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