Alex wrote <<NEVER EVER cut specimen like these just for the sake of getting some classification data! >>
Then cut the cast instead. :=) (He!He!) Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexander Seidel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 10:34 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Larry's Holbrook Holy Grail Find and BobHaag's Venus Stone I am also the lucky owner of one of those Venus stone casts from Bob Haag. Beautiful! And you know why he called this one the "Venus stone"..?? :-) This is one very special nice example of a flight-oriented meteorite, where the rule applies: NEVER EVER cut specimen like these just for the sake of getting some classification data! Why? Because a cut would destroy the "character" of the piece! And so we don´t know what´s inside this beautiful meteorite, we can only make some assumptions from non-destructive observation. Alex Berlin/Germany -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: 22 Feb 2007 18:11:00 UT Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com CC: Betreff: [meteorite-list] Larry\'s Holbrook Holy Grail Find and Bob Haag\'s Venus Stone > Hello Moni and List, > > Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Dave Andrews wrote to the List: > > Hi List, The Adamana or "Venus Stone" was found in the Adamana landfill. > Near the Petrified Forest/Painted Desert boundary. (about 15 miles NE of > Holbrook on I-40). Evidently someone just didn't want it anymore or didn't > know what they had. It was found by a rancher target practicing with his > 0.22 rifle. With the selling of the piece to Bob, I heard he purchased a > new mobile home to live in. I have one of the casts, and it looks very > real. > It looks so real, that I think I'll put it up on eBay with a $15,000 > reserve. > (just kidding :o) Regards, Dave > > > I got one of these casts too many years ago and they do look real! > > Best wishes, > > Bernd > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list