[meteorite-list] "Gold Rush" begins for Fragments of Russian Meteorite

From: Michael Farmer <mike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:58:40 -0700
Message-ID: <5100E83C-D35B-45E1-AB96-5D4914B28422_at_meteoriteguy.com>

Certainly meteorites, looks like chondrites for sure.
Park Forest look to them.
Michael Farmer
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On Feb 17, 2013, at 10:32 AM, Graham Ensor <graham.ensor at gmail.com> wrote:

> The stones being shown in this video near the end definitely look
> promising....remind me of Almahata Sitta or fresh shocked chondrite.
>
> Graham
>
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Paul H. <inselberg at cox.net> wrote:
>> The gold rush begins for fragments of Russian meteor
>> worth more than ?10,000 each as astronomers warn
>> UK had a lucky escape. Mail Online, February 17, 2013,
>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2280019/The-gold-rush-begins-fragments-Russian-meteor-worth-10-000-astronomers-warn-UK-lucky-escape.html
>>
>> Bounty sets off hunt for meteorite pieces by Mark
>> Franchetti,The Sunday Times (UK) February 18, 2013
>> http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/bounty-sets-off-hunt-for-meteorite-pieces/story-fnb64oi6-1226579823065
>>
>> Collectors Flock to Central Russia to Hunt Meteor
>> Gold By Timur Moon, February 17, 2013
>> http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/436137/20130217/meteor-urals-chelyabinsk-chebarkul.htm
>>
>> Russia halts search for meteorite, AFP, Sydney
>> Morning Herald, Febrauary 18, 2013,
>> http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/russia-halts-search-for-meteorite-20130217-2ele5.html
>>
>> Meteorites: Hunting missiles from outer space
>> Sunday Morning, CBS News, February 17, 2013
>> http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-57569765/meteorites-hunting-missiles-from-outer-space/
>>
>> Chelyabinsk decided to keep the money in meteorites
>> Konstantin Panyushkin, February 17, 2013,
>> http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=1034744&cid=7
>> http://cdn1.vesti.ru/p/o_740865.jpg
>>
>> ?But there is one place where there was neither MES
>> nor military. In general, anyone, and it was there,
>> according to local residents, and all fell. Residents of
>> a village in the south of Chelyabinsk - the name is not
>> disclosed specifically - show black stones and believe
>> that he is the fragments of a meteorite.
>>
>> "The kids found fresh snow hole and started to get
>> out of the metal pieces of different shapes," - says
>> Sergey Turnovsky."
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>> Paul H.
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