[meteorite-list] can a listoid translate this prev unseen meteorite medallion insert for me ?

From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:38:17 +0200
Message-ID: <001d01cb0952$34e67d80$6502a8c0_at_name86d88d87e2>

Hi Bob,

just ask the producer.

Here the contact form of the firm:
http://www.muenzkontor.de/kontakt-0-0-0-2000-1.html

Goede was an astro-philatelist, who founded this enterprise, which produces
medals and tokens since.

Of course it is no lunar.
The only lunaite available at those times would have been Calcalong Creek.

(You know, that tiny stone, said to be handed over by an archangel to
Ibn-al-Hagg; that lunaite, which was first white, but turned later black
from the sins done to Australian meteoritics by the muftis there).

Nja well, and the prices of Calacalong reported then - whether they were
realized - I don't know - range from 1.3 millions to a later 0.25 million
USD (not inflation-adjusted),
which would have been somewhat too expensive for such a medal.
And anyway it had only 19g tkw, too less to fill some thousands coins with
samples.

Best!
Martin

PS: McCuistian just offers a Calcalong speck on Indonesian ebay.
item-ID: 160433695839

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Von: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Bob
WALKER
Gesendet: Freitag, 11. Juni 2010 09:56
An: countdeiro at earthlink.net
Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] can a listoid translate this prev unseen
meteorite medallion insert for me ?

countdeiro

thank you sincerely for the translation

yep - your translation has sparked the same question that myself and other
listoids have and are likely to ask... ie exactly what is the meteorite
inset into the medallion

I've emailed the vendor to see what I can find out and will let listoids
know when and if I get a reply

far too damn big and ? different in appearance to a lunar ? it is of
course said to be a meteorite - but the question remains exactly what
meteorite ?

nevertheless - I am pleased with my purchase of this pretty little piece
of space history - indeed I am a sucker for meteorite coins and medallions

Best

Bob WALKER
http://www.qmig.net
Received on Fri 11 Jun 2010 06:38:17 AM PDT