[meteorite-list] NWA 7397 correction

From: Sean T. Murray <stm_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 01:22:24 -0500
Message-ID: <7FB73A013829472CBAFEF6475A951A8C_at_PlatinumII>

[Posting on behalf of Dave Gheesling, who is traveling...]

A Tucson dealer recently posted an email to the list and on Facebook an
offering of small specimens of NWA 7397. However, backplate.net owns the
entire mass of NWA 7397?a single specimen covered with fusion crust that
weighed 2130 grams prior to being cut. To date backplate.net has not sold or
exchanged any material.

A recent find of smaller, putatively paired stones has been made, and while
a pairing seems probable, to the best of our knowledge none of that material
has been formally classified and confirmed. Regardless, such material cannot
be marketed as NWA 7397.

See www.backplate.net for images of NWA 7397. Post-Tucson we will post a
small number of extraordinary complete slices available for sale?as well as
a number of stellar partial slices that will be priced competitively to the
small incomplete stones that are purportedly from the same event.

Look forward to seeing everyone in Tucson soon...

All the best,
Dave

[C/O Sean Murray]
Received on Tue 29 Jan 2013 01:22:24 AM PST