[meteorite-list] Large Tissint donated to the NHM....!

From: Adam Hupe <raremeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 09:35:28 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <1328722528.73599.YahooMailNeo_at_web30702.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Congratulations to The Natural History Museum on a fine acquisition. I am pleased to see that a large piece of Tissint (pronounced like peasant with a "T" instead of a "P") will be preserved and displayed publicly. Thank you, Caroline for clarifying the museum's position on falls/finds from this region.

Kindest Regards,


Adam



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From: Caroline Smith <caroline.smith at nhm.ac.uk>
To: Adam Hupe <raremeteorites at yahoo.com>
Cc: Adam <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Large Tissint donated to the NHM....!

Adam

Thank you for your kind words. The Museum is delighted to have acquired such an important specimen, both for science and our 4.8M visitors/year to enjoy.

To clarify there is no 'politics' involved here. The Museum has a policy (derived from UK and international museum policies and standards) that we cannot acquire meteorites with unclear provenance i.e. NWA meteorites, owing to the issues of potential illicit or illegal movement across borders where permits are required for export and/or specimen movement.

With the Tissint meteorite this is NOT the case as it is a well-provenanced specimen from Morocco, which as you know, is a country which does not require permits to export meteorite specimens.

I hope this clarifies things.

Regards

Caroline
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Dr Caroline Smith
Curator of Meteorites and Aurora Fellow
Department of Mineralogy
The Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London
SW7 5BD

On 8 Feb 2012, at 17:02, "Adam Hupe" <raremeteorites at yahoo.com> wrote:

> It is great to see that major museums are setting politics aside and waking up to the fact that most of the world's best specimens are coming out of NWA these days.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Adam
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