[meteorite-list] Draveil Meteorite

From: Michael Farmer <mike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:57:14 -0700
Message-ID: <0B5DC1C2-F3A4-44E6-9715-83858F07D777_at_meteoriteguy.com>

I heard all about how the museum tried to label all dealers and hunters as scum, robbing the French people of their heritage. Of course they didn't bother to spend much time hunting themselves, just begging for free meteorites from landowners, sadly 90% of Draveil was lost due to incompetent scientists refusing to release any data while not bothering to spend any time in recovering more specimens from the field by working at it themselves. Sad, but becoming more normal worldwide.
As we see with the new Battle Mountain meteorite fall, no scientists bothered coming to hunt other than Marc Fries, who's cooperation was crucial in locating this fall, with his help we have found more than 20 pieces in the hardest possible terrain. If this was a French fall, it would never have been found.
Michael Farmer

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On Sep 19, 2012, at 9:16 AM, Fabien Kuntz <wwmeteorites at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> we hunted the area with some friends (one hunting sometime with us living in Epinay-sur-Orges, just 3.6Km from the 5Kg Main Mass !) at the same time of the small Montgeron stone recovered... The locations of the previous stones not officialy disclosed (but more or less known), was realy hard, and we know now we hunted of of the ellipse half of the time. Always the same scenario, like as the Brittany fall few months before, "Hunters are heritage robbers, just thinking about monney..." but probably many stones lost for both private and public collections because of that... Never seen on the market other specimen than the one sold on ebay for charity stuff.
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> Just waiting now a new french fall on MY car, that I will collect by myself, the only way to be able to keep it according the french law...
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> Fabien
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