[meteorite-list] Burning Man Meteorite

From: bill kies <parkforestmet_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:39:48 -0500
Message-ID: <BAY173-W418365A6C89CEBAD9DA544A2230_at_phx.gbl>

Yeah. Watch out for meteorite totin' hippies. Hippie tramps are thieves, (sing to the tune of Gypsys Tramps And Thieves by Cher).


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> From: rrobber1 at msn.com
> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 11:45:32 -0700
> To: meteoritemike at gmail.com
> CC: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Burning Man Meteorite
>
> Hippies do strange things.
>
>
>> On Sep 20, 2013, at 11:11, "Galactic Stone & Ironworks" <meteoritemike at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi List,
>>
>> I talked to one of my old high-school friends today and he told me
>> something interesting that I did not know.
>>
>> He goes to Burning Man every year and the last time he went, he
>> learned that each Burning Man has a large iron meteorite in the base
>> that supports the Man. After they burn him, they sift through the
>> ashes and recover the meteorite to be used again.
>>
>> I asked him what kind of meteorite it was, and he said that it was
>> Chinese and over 500 years old, and that was all he knew. Well, it's
>> obviously a Nantan, and I guess I don't have a problem with
>> mistreating that meteorite since Nantans are so common. Heck, it
>> might not even be a real meteorite, if they bought it off eBay, given
>> the high number of bogus Nantans offered there by sellers in China.
>>
>> Was anyone else aware of this Burning Man tradition involving the
>> meteorite? And if so, are there any details available regarding the
>> source of the meteorite, the size, etc?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> MikeG
>>
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