From the 'tater shaped black rock in the picture that I saw, it is an oddly shaped meteorite at that....
Dave F.
Randy Mils wrote:
"a misshapen HOLLOW object" ????
Who verified this amazing meteorite? The local community college?
Anyone planning on making an offer better get a second opinion.
Randy
>From: Ron Baalke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Meteorite Mailing List) >Subject: [meteorite-list] New Zealand Man to Sell Meteorite >Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:36:00 -0700 (PDT) > > > >http://www.odt.co.nz/cgi-bin/getitem?date=15Jun2004&object=KEC3583650SO&type=html > >Publicity push for meteoric price rise >By Stu Oldham >Otago Daily Times (New Zealand) >June 15, 2004 > >A Lawrence man who last month decided to sell a meteorite he found when >digging a long-drop toilet in the 1950s says he could not have picked a >better time to sell. > >"Who would have thought everyone would be talking about meteorites at >the same time I decided to get rid of the thing," Jim Nettleton (75) >said yesterday. > >"I mean to say, a meteorite crashes through someone's ceiling and then >everyone wants one. That's pretty good timing." > >The avid "collector of everything" has been following intently news >reports of a meteorite which crashed through the roof of an Auckland >home on Saturday. > >Phil and Brenda Archer have been inundated with calls from around the >world about the 1.3kg rock experts say could be worth a lot of money. > >Mr Nettleton plans to sell his own meteorite - a misshapen, hollow >object he found when digging a long-drop toilet in East Roxburgh in the >mid-1950s - at auction next month. > >"I just thought that it is no good lying around the house and when I'm >gone no-one will know what it is and they will probably just throw it >out," he said. > >"So it's better off going to someone who knows what it is; to someone >who appreciates the funny-looking thing I got out of the ground." > >The object was confirmed as a meteorite by Otago Museum several years >ago, Mr Nettleton said. > >Dunedin auctioneers Plumbly's would check the identification this week. >Auctioneer Kevin Hayward, who had not sold a meteorite before, expected >a surge in late interest. > >"The Auckland thing will no doubt help things along a bit, but I still >have no idea what it'll sell for. Maybe $300, maybe $2000-$3000 - it's >up to what a collector is prepared to pay for it," he said. > >Central Otago man John Lunam was hoping for similar success with a >meteorite he found in Central Otago's Manhureikia River in 1980. > >Just like Mr Nettleton's, it had been sitting around the house gathering >dust until the right moment came along. > >"And that moment is probably here," he said on Sunday. "Good time to >sell, when everyone is talking about them." > >______________________________________________ >Meteorite-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
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