[meteorite-list] Lloydminster woman cashing in on meteorite sales

From: Kashuba <mary.kashuba_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 18:21:09 -0700
Message-ID: <001201c9e257$3f1458e0$bd3d0aa0$_at_kashuba@verizon.net>

The one dollar coin has a loon on the reverse so it is called a Loonie.
The next denomination up is worth two dollars and called a Toonie.
It is a play on the animated cartoon series called Looney Tunes.

"That's all, folks!"

- John

John Kashuba
Ontario, California

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[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Peter
Scherff
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Hi,

        I had the same question when I read it. A toonie is a Canadian $2
coin 28mm in diameter and weighing slightly over 7 grams.

Peter

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[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Anita
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Okay, but what's a "toonie"?
Anita



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Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 11:18:07 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Lloydminster woman cashing in on meteorite sales

Meteorites sell, they really do...

"They were like, 'Oh my gosh, you could sell these.'"

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Lloydminster woman cashing in on meteorite sales
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Months after a fireball soared through western Canadian skies and crashed to
the ground, fragments from the meteor are red-hot sellers on the internet.

Tara Patmore, who lives in Lloydminster, a city on the Alberta-Saskatchewan
border, was among dozens of people out looking for space rocks after the
meteor scattered fragments around Buzzard Coulee, Sask., on Nov. 20.

Her father phoned her to say rocks had fallen where he lived, about 30
kilometres southeast of Lloydminster, and soon she and her family were on a
meteorite-hunting expedition.

It turned out a record number of meteor pieces had fallen on the area.

"Just me, my husband and my kids, we found 21 pieces," she said.

"It kind of almost looks like black coal. Some of them also have, like chips
broken off from falling to the earth, and on the inside they almost look
like concrete."

Patmore put pictures of her meteorites on a Facebook page, to the amazement
of her friends. "They were like, 'Oh my gosh, you could sell these.'"

So, she did, selling them online. Before long, the offers started coming.

"One of the rocks was a little smaller than a toonie and we sold it for 800
bucks," she said. "I couldn't believe that people would pay that much for a
rock... [but] If they're going to pay it, I'm going to take it."

Patmore's mother and father donated dozens of the space rocks to the
University of Calgary. More rocks will be donated to a university that's
still to be determined. Other rocks, the family will keep.

Patmore said that after the money is spent, she'll still have a lot of
memories of her adventures in the meteorite fields.

SOURCE:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2009/05/29/space-rocks-sales.htm
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Eric Wichman
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904-236-5394

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