[meteorite-list] Lorton Meteorite: Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers

From: Greg Hupé <gmhupe_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 14:59:00 -0400
Message-ID: <5B72627B00CB4D5BBE9512494636DF68_at_Gregor>

Hi Mike,

I think you meant to address your reply to "Eric", not one of us 'Greg's'.
:)
You referred to "Greg" twice in your post, surely an innocent slip of the
keyboard.

Best Regards,
Greg Hupe


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Farmer
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 7:24 PM
To: Eric Wichman
Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Lorton Meteorite: Finders Keepers,Losers
Weepers

My god Greg, are you trying hard to burn whatever bridges you have left? I
happen to know the people at the Smithsonian pretty well, several trips
there over the last 10 years to view the collection and do exchanges with
the museum, our NATIONAL COLLECTION of meteorites. I hardly think the
Smithsonian had anything to do with a "smear campaign", in fact, I think
they handled the odd situation perfectly, they put the stone in safe storage
and waited till the legal issues were settled. There was no smear campaign,
merely one side presenting it's case and the other theirs.
One side lost.
Greg, I have been accused of lacking tact at times:), but this is bad. I
would suggest an apology to the scientists at the Smithsonian is in order.
Please do it, as a dealer and representative of the collecting private
community, this is an insult to a fine institution and those who work to
unlock the secrets of meteorites, and it is an abolute lie! I saw all the
press releases and the Smithsonian NEVER inserted themselves into the
argument once it began.
I am very happy the Lorton meteorite ended up where it should have, in a
museum for millions of people to see every year.
Michael Farmer
>
> > For the record...
> >
> > The landowners dropped the case because it was a PR
> nightmare for them because the Doctors and the Smithsonian
> pulled bogus and shameful tactics using the media and the
> Haitian Earthquake Crisis against the landowners and merely
> appealed to the public's emotion on the issue simply making
> them out to be the bad guys in the media if they continued
> to fight it. "Oh what bad people these greedy landowners
> must be to try to take away the meteorite from the public,
> and the money from those in need in Haiti." Oh my...
> >
> > They didn't drop the case because "the doctors were
> right". They dropped it because of the negative press and
> smear campaign played out in the media by the Doctors and
> the Smithsonian. Simple as that.
> >
> > This "Case" was never decided on legally in a court.
> Therefore the issue is still open and *unresolved* with
> regard to the legal ownership of meteorites falling on
> private property.
> >
> > Period.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Eric
> >
> >
> >
> > On 7/15/2011 7:41 PM, JoshuaTreeMuseum wrote:
> >> You find it , it's yours!:
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2011/william--mary-law-school-students-learn-about-property-law,-with-an-asteroid-twist-123.php
>
> >>
> >>
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