Adam wrote: "If you want a piece of a recycled old Ford motor block in your
collection, that is your business."
Not to be too anal, but wouldn't something like "Karkhov Russian tractor block"
be more accurate? ;)
Cheers,
Pete
> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:38:17 -0700
> From: raremeteori...@yahoo.com
> To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Shirokovsky
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> I guess collecting artifacts has made me leery about fakes. Get caught with
> one fake artifact and it will put your entire collection in question. It is
> best to get artifacts papered and destroy any that have been "killed" by an
> independent authenticator. I see Shirokovsky as being off topic since it is
> not a meteorite and is was only produced in order to defraud honest
> collectors out of their hard earned money.
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> If you want a piece of a recycled old Ford motor block in your collection,
> that is your business. To me, it is garbage and so are the people who
> produced it!
>
> Adam
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bernd V. Pauli <bernd.pa...@paulinet.de>
> To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
> Cc:
> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 1:50 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Shirokovsky
>
> Hello All,
>
> Shirokovsky is terrestrial, it is a pseudo-meteorite, it is man-made!
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> - does not contain typical accessory phases of stony-iron meteorites
> - accessory phases completely atypical
> - Olivine has a terrestrial oxygen isotopic composition
> - Pt/Ir ratio similar to that of terrestrial Cu-Ni ore deposits
> - has never been in space (noble gases no cosmic component!)
> - absence of cosmic-ray tracks corroborates noble gas study results (=
> bestätigen)
> - Olivine TL spectra similar to terrestrial peridotites
>
> Conclusion: Shirokovsky is manufactured, man-made!
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> As for its nickel contents, see also the entry in the (online) Met.Bull.
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> ... and, yes, I have a thin 2.7 gr slice of Shirokovsky with translucent
> olivines.
> I got that pseudo-pallasite in 2003 from Eric Olson. It doesn't pollute my
> collection but it sure looks a bit "pale-faced" when sitting next to a genuine
> pallasite like Esquel, Brenham, Admire, etc.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernd
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