Hi Tom and List,
It's funny how the media always uses the highest per-gram price they
can find on the web and then multiply that times the entire weight of
the meteorite. The result is an astronomical value that is usually
nowhere close to what the specimen would be worth on the collector
market.
https://interestingengineering.com/meteorite-crashes-into-indonesian-mans-home-turns-him-into-a-millionaire
Regards!
Tom
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Hi All
I have several auctions ending tonight.
https://www.ebay.com/str/jensenmeteorites?LH_Auction=1
Several are still at 99 cents.
Including a lunar
https://tinyurl.com/yypn2j8a
Kunashak a historic fall:
https://tinyurl.com/y4frpcy4
and even a Murchison:
https://tinyurl.com/y2ejf4w2
Mike
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Off topic, but interesting space news.
Scientists Discover Outer Space Isn't Pitch Black After All
Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR News, November 18, 2020
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/18/936219170/scientists-discover-outer-space-isnt-pitch-black-after-all
The paper is:
Lauer, T.R., Postman, M.,
Today''s Meteorite Picture of the Day: Clarendon (c)
Contributed by: Suzanne Morrison
http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=11/19/2020
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