[meteorite-list] Gebel Kemil article in New Scientist

From: Matt Smith <metlist_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:40:13 +0100
Message-ID: <4C5B058D.7050206_at_plu.to>

An article on the controversy regarding the recent Gebel Kemil find:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727724.000-deep-impact-market-the-race-to-acquire-meteorites.html

or

http://bit.ly/ct9U42

Regarding the legal situation it states:

"In Egypt, permission is supposed to be required to export meteorites. Di
Martino and colleagues were authorised to take just 20 kilograms of Gebel Kamil
out of the country. "Everything which is found in the Egyptian soil is property
of the government," explains Tarek Hussein, who as former president of Egypt's
Academy of Scientific Research and Technology was responsible for handling
export applications until last April. He is concerned that many Gebel Kamil
fragments that have appeared on the market in the west were not approved for
export."


Matt.
Received on Thu 05 Aug 2010 02:40:13 PM PDT