[meteorite-list] Shirokovsky

From: Richard Montgomery <rickmont_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:55:37 -0700
Message-ID: <6AA6CD97BA2E488291A4008B00CD557F_at_bosoheadPC>

Adam, and List. (I love m-wrongs, btw)....I have a couple Shirokovsky
slices, and one thick from long ago when this all started, with outside
surface. Outside looks nothing like meteoritic material.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Hupe" <raremeteorites at yahoo.com>
To: "Adam" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Shirokovsky


Hi Bob and List,

My guess is that scrap metal from a nearby junkyard was thrown into a 40
kilogram crucible and then preheated/shattered olivine crystals were mixed
in. Perhaps a FE Ford big block was melted down since it contains about the
same amount of nickel.

At least to me, it was an obvious fraud from the beginning. When I first
laid eyes on a pile of this garbage, I walked away immediately. I neither
purchased or sold any. The material was already bar-coded before it hit
Tucson. There were no pieces with outside surface. Frogman photographs
without a single image of person's face diving in middle of winter, posted
on a website, prepared ahead of time with the intention to defraud
collectors out of their hard earned money.

I won't waste any more time on this fraud and can't understand why anybody
would won't it polluting their collections.

Adam
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