[meteorite-list] Fwd: From Blaine Reed
From: Greg Hupé <gmhupe_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 02:41:02 -0400 Message-ID: <1A59F90E82B541ECB465E1A8F6CDB824_at_Gregor> Doug, Sounds like you got hold of McCartney's next meteorite hunter video script... :) Greg -----Original Message----- From: MexicoDoug Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 2:06 AM To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fwd: From Blaine Reed Enter the Dragon. Steve tries to draw blood but barely scratches Blaine on the cheek! Blaine tastes his own blood and X-rays beams Steve out of Dodge!! Gets the adrenaline flowing...and now I want a $35,000 pistol with six-shooter mode to start blazing every rock in sight!!! "Stuck" with my magnet, well, at least it has 266,817 ppm Neodynium and an intrinsic coercive force of 15,000 oersteds and an energy product maximum of over 300 kJ/m^3. The authentic terrestrial "Poor Man's Space Probe"...!!!! Kindest wishes!!!!! Doug?????? -----Original Message----- From: Art <blurtheline at gmail.com> To: Meteorite List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> Sent: Fri, Sep 23, 2011 10:57 pm Subject: [meteorite-list] Fwd: From Blaine Reed Forwarded from Blaine ... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Steve, Regarding your ridiculous ?High Noon? challenge ? even though I was not there YOU HAVE LOST!! Does this look familiar http://www.impactika.com/images/fake5000.jpg Well IT SHOULD!! I got this (along with 2 other samples) from the guy on 2000 Rd in Delta you ?hired? to cut it. As I do very little on line (and even less on E-Bay), I really did not know what rock all of the NWA 5000 supposed pairing fuss was about. I happened to bump into this gem http://www.ebay.com/itm/Colorado-Lunar-Meteorite-/120781889556?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c1f296014 while looking for something else in the E-Bay listings today. I immediately recognized it as something I already had a piece of! I have already analyzed this stuff and found it to be wholly terrestrial (as were the other two specimens you gave the rock shop). I finally got to analyze a nice specimen of the real NWA 5000 in Denver last week (which, in my opinion does not look much like your stuff at all, aside from the breccia texture. But then what do I know, I only have a bachelor?s in geology with minors in math, physics and chemistry and a meteorite dealer for 25 years now but YOU have an Audio Visual degree!). Any way: HERE ARE THE RESULTS: I ran both of these in two different modes for a better element coverage. Soils mode (the one that is best for accurately picking up very low level stuff in rocks and dirt), is not set up to see Si or Mg in my machine, so I use ?Mining? mode to see those often important elements (among others). This mode is not as accurate in the numbers reported as soils, but it gives a pretty darn good ball-park number (this really does not matter when comparing two rocks run on the same machine. Any errors in calibration accuracy will be the same in the other sample, so they ?wash out? so to speak). I have also converted the numbers all to ppm, since this is what you seem to be so stuck on. I usually use % as that is a little easier for the average person to understand (for those of you that are curious 1ppm = .0001% or 1gram in a metric ton (1000kg, 2200pounds). ?SOILS? MODE: NWA (5000) Ba (160), Ca (143,087), Cl (4775), Co (553), Cr (544), Cu (52), Fe (37,941), I (570), K (1512), Mn (476), Rb (3), S (1429), Sr (178), Ti (1619), Zn (23), Zr (87) YOUR ?Pairing? Ba (580), Ca (11,464), Cl (10,064), Cu (59), Fe (6853), K (23,422), Mn (99), Pb (19), Rb (64), S (964), Sr (714), Ti (1469), Zn (44), Zr (169) A quick look at this tells me that you have way too little Ca, Cr (you had NONE of this critically important element in all meteorites in this sample!), Fe, and Mn. You also have way to high Ba, K, and Sr -- all features common to many terrestrial (that is EARTH rocks, if you don?t understand the lingo) materials. ?MINING? MODE: Note ? LE is ?light elements? This device cannot see elements of atomic weight lighter than Mg. In rocks, this is usually O (oxygen). NWA (5000) Al (154,940), Ca (131,430), Cd (200), Cr (850), Fe (45,800), LE (334,220), Mg (43,300), Mn (890), Ni (50), Sb (320), Si (285,060), Sn (220), Ti (2110), V (260), Zr (87) YOUR ?pairing? Al (89,390), Ca (8270), Cd (194), Cr (190), Fe (13,570), LE (409,990), Mn (290), P (600), Pb (13), S (500), Sb (300), Si (472, 980), Sn (210), Ti (2780), V (500), Zr (218) A quick look at these numbers shows that your sample is to high in LE (oxygen), Si and Zr. Your sample is to low in Al, Ca, Cr, and Fe. The high Si linked with a high LE number tells me that you have a lot of quartz in this rock and hints that it is indeed a rhyolite lava breccia. These type lavas are VERY common to the San Juan Volcanic field just south of you. Much of those mountains you see to your south are the remnants of huge, explosive volcanoes. The high Si content makes these lavas thick and sticky and the volcanoes they are associated with particularly violent in their eruptions ? hence the breccia structure in your rock (though, admittedly, it could be from a fault zone but it looks more typical Rhyolite breccia to me). So Steve, you have lost! I personally think that, since you demanded us all to quit and write apology letters, you should be required to completely remove yourself from the field of meteoritics, go back on the news channels, papers and libraries and apologize to all of the poor young kids and adults you misled in your media blitz peddling your fake rocks the last year or so. Another thing ? REMOVE THIS FRAUDULANT LISTING FROM E-BAY NOW! If you don?t, I will take my data to ?team E-Bay? and show them that this is a fraud (anybody else out there that has better E-Bay connections ? feel free to contact them for me if the listing does not go away in the next day or two). I tried to ?play nice? with you. All I ever did was to offer to analyze material for you, but you decided that you had some kind of axe to grind with me. Well, play time is over and I mean business! Blaine Reed ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Received on Sat 24 Sep 2011 02:41:02 AM PDT |
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