[meteorite-list] Meteorite Black Market (CBC News)

From: Matthias Bärmann <majbaermann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 21:28:45 +0100
Message-ID: <FB112A3BB9F74C7A8FE3DE33C8F78394_at_thinkcentre>

Hello Anne, list , -

at first I would reject decidedly the phrasing "Black Market" ... ;-)

Best
Matthias

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anne Black" <impactika at aol.com>
To: <b1dunovant at aol.com>; <dorifry at embarqmail.com>
Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Black Market (CBC News)


> What can be done?
>
> One suggestion: if you would all keep one sending a link to the rebuttal
> I wrote to all those news services and be insistent about it, maybe some
> of them will actually read it and maybe learn something. Here is a link to
> it:
>
> http://imca.cc/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=192
>
> And please feel free to send it over and over again!
> I have already done it more than once but if they all get it over and over
> again maybe they will start paying attention.
>
>
> Anne M. Black
> www.IMPACTIKA.com
> IMPACTIKA at aol.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brandon <b1dunovant at aol.com>
> To: Joshua Tree Earth & Space Museum <dorifry at embarqmail.com>
> Cc: Meteorite list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Sat, Mar 2, 2013 12:02 pm
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Black Market (CBC News)
>
>
> Plain ignorant slander!
>
> Reading articles like that really gets my blood boiling. What can be done?
> This
> trend is only getting worse and seems to be a problem growing worse each
> day...and Fall.
>
> Sad.
>
> Brandon D.
>
> On Mar 2, 2013, at 12:55 PM, "Joshua Tree Earth & Space Museum"
> <dorifry at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Here's a quote from this CBC News article:
>>
>> "While taking and selling material from meteorites is highly illegal,
> the New
> York Times reports that a flourishing global market exists online, with
> fragments widely available to anyone in the world."
>>
>> The name of the article is: "Russian meteor fragments cause 'gold
> rush' on
> black market"
>>
>>
> http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2013/02/russian-meteor-fragments-cause-gold-rush-on-black-market.html
>>
>>
>> Phil Whitmer
>> Joshua Tree Earth & Space Museum
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