[meteorite-list] Tunguska Meteorites - Real or Not?

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 22:36:40 -0500
Message-ID: <A71E6478F202410FA28C4C41E811A4ED_at_ATARIENGINE2>

> was she... sold a bill of goods?

A bill of something, perhaps not goods.

No iron meteorites from Tunguska. No
stone meteorites from Tunguska. No
meteorites of any kind from Tunguska.


Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Deckert" <edeckert at triad.rr.com>
To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 9:21 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Tunguska Meteorites - Real or Not?


>
> Hello listees,
>
> I attended a fundraising event and there was a small, iron meteorite
> specimen that had been made into a pendant. The person who donated
> this item announced that it was a meteorite specimen that was
> recovered from the Tunguska event.
>
> I looked at the item, and it looked VERY much like Sikhote-Alin. It
> was hard to tell if it was a small individual, or shrapnel that had
> been tumbled to smooth it out.
>
> She was very insulted when I suggested this was likely a piece of
> Sikhote-Alin. She is Russian, and she purchased it from a Russian
> gentleman. That was good enough for her.
>
> Am I wrong? Have there been iron meteorites resembling Sikhote-Alin
> collected from Tunguska? Or, was she and/or her friend sold a bill of
> goods?
>
> Thanks,
> Ed
>
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Received on Mon 04 Apr 2011 11:36:40 PM PDT