[meteorite-list] ??SaharaMet...who are they!

From: Alexander Seidel <gsac_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:43:54 +0200
Message-ID: <20110407124354.63830_at_gmx.net>

There was talk about the Pelissons, with regard to the topics just discussed on this list, many, many years ago - it?s just an old story...

Al"Metcentrallist-oldtimer for over 10 yrs now"ex
Berlin/Germany


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> Datum: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 05:26:25 -0700 (PDT)
> Von: Dave Myers <whitefalcons007 at yahoo.com>
> An: "Paul H." <oxytropidoceras at cox.net>, "meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] ??SaharaMet...who are they!

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> Hi Paul and list,
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> The NYT story is bad enough, But who are these meteorite hunters, Roland
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> Richard Pelisson who have the Sahara Met website.
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> They claim on there web site?that NWA meteorites are "International
> Contraband"
> that support Terrorism.
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> It looks to me?that they want all the NWA finds for them selfs.
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> Has anyone ever?contacted them? They seem to have had a lot of there
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> classified in the US.
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> Just wondering if anyone knows these two guys, There does not seem to be
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> talk about them on this list?
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Paul H. <oxytropidoceras at cox.net>
> To: "meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com"
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Thu, April 7, 2011 7:48:33 AM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] NYT Story ? Overseas and Local Distribution
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> ?Overseas list members, if you have the opportunity,
> please peruse the International Herald Tribune to
> see if they picked up the story and run it in its entirety.?
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> By searching the International Herald Tribune web site,
> I found that it was published in this newspaper on
> April 4 at:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/science/05meteorite.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=meteorites&st=cse
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> The entire story also appeared in the Sydney Morning
> Herald as ?Souvenirs from space,? April 7, 2011,
> http://www.smh.com.au/world/science/souvenirs-from-space-20110406-1d4g9.html
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> Also, it appeared at:
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> 1. rssbroadcast,com, April 4, 2011
> http://rssbroadcast.com/?p=40828
> http://rssbroadcast.com/?p=40742
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> 2. WA.today, Australia, April 6, 2011.
> http://www.watoday.com.au/world/science/souvenirs-from-space-20110406-1d4g9.html
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> 3. Yahoo News
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NorthAmexemObservers/message/10634
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> 4. Daily Comet, Lafourche Parish Louisiana
> http://www.dailycomet.com/article/NY/20110405/ZNYT03/104053033/1225/news100?Title=Black-Market-Trinkets-From-Space
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> 5. A version of the New York Times story, ?Il mercato nero
> dei meteoriti? appeared in the ?Post? on April 6, 2011,
> http://www.ilpost.it/2011/04/06/il-mercato-nero-dei-meteoriti/
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> This entire text of this article is making the rounds
> of the Internet. This is something that definitely needs to
> be considered in any response. It certainly will make
> preparing an effective response to the article quite difficult
> as it is being reprinted, in some cases under different
> titles and in different languages, in a wild range of media
> outlets.
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> To further complicate matters, the link to this article is
> being posted a number of web sites. For example;
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> 1. Egyptology News at:
> http://egyptology.blogspot.com/2011/04/black-market-trinkets-from-space.html
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> 2. environmental reporting at:
> http://word.emerson.edu/sprg11jr364/2011/04/04/black-market-trinkets-from-space/
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> and 3. American Scientist
> http://www.americanscientist.org/science/pub/-1875
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> Yours,
>
> Paul H
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