Hello Ron and list, While it is true that the government often sells things for much less then they paid let us pretend they are a business trying to make money rather then a group that many times tries to figure out how best to spend money.
Rom Baalke wrote: "It cost $24 billion to recover 838 pounds of rocks, which proportionately would equal about $63,000 per gram if my math is correct. Multiply by 113 grams and you get $7.128 million." If you took the $7.128 million and doubled it? for inflation you get $14.256 million. I will add 10% for curation cost giving me $15.6816 million. A standard finders fee is 20%, add this and I get $18,817,920. If I was the government that is the figure I would throw out to the court, but of course it would never sell for that on the market and the witness is being sought by the defense from my understanding. It is my opinion that they should get a very stern sentence to give anyone else second and third thoughts about attempting such actions again. Does anyone remember what they were trying to sell it for? Mark Bostick ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
