[meteorite-list] Burning Man Meteorite

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 23:48:12 -0400
Message-ID: <CAKBPJW8fmmE_mmr-Hiohyam96H3R-H-pBo-h3UDxSHeiAV_gBA_at_mail.gmail.com>

Biggest thieves ever to walk the Earth wear smart three-piece suits
and ties. ;)

And most of them sit in high places or have friends in high places.
And the best ones own you and you'll never know their names. Follow
the leader, and keep worrying about the harmless dirty hippy.

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On 9/20/13, bill kies <parkforestmet at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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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