[meteorite-list] meteowrongs on ebay

From: Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:05:02 -0400
Message-ID: <CAKBPJW-YnRSvcpFL=xA5WpaSxmWV88T9JcvJHe5rTweF+aeotw_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi Werner and List,

I asked myself the same question. However, I do own a couple kilos of
these same specimens. Why? Because I was hoping the seller made a
mistake and some of the stones might actually be meteorites. I
windowed several of them and all of them are indeed wrongs. Now I
have a big box of meteorwrongs that look like desert-varnished,
weathered, unclassified chondrites. I've sold a few of them as
meteorwrongs, but I wouldn't pay to have a crate of them freighted to
me from overseas.

My guess is, he bought a big load of meteorites and this is the
flotsam that was mixed in, and now he is trying to get back some of
his investment by offering them as wrongs....?

Best regards,

MikeG

PS - some of them are very convincing at first-glance.

-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------
Galactic Stone & Ironworks - MikeG
Web: http://www.galactic-stone.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone
Twitter: http://twitter.com/GalacticStone
RSS: http://www.galactic-stone.com/rss/126516
-----------------------------------------------------------
On 6/14/12, W&S Schroer <schroer at bigpond.com> wrote:
> Hello listees,
>
> first up, I'm not the seller of the rocks in this listing:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/7ahpvh3
>
> I wonder why someone paid the freight for a bunch of rocks from Morocco ?
> (There's another smaller lot.) And I also wonder why anybody would want to
> buy these rocks.
> Could it be that they are part of a large consignment bought by a meteorite
>
> dealer and just the rubbish that came with a ton of real meteorites ?
>
> I hope they will not turn into real meteorites and end up in people's
> collection.
>
> Cheers
>
> Werner Schroer
> Australia
>
> ______________________________________________
>
> 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 Fri 15 Jun 2012 11:05:02 AM PDT