Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk Russia Meteorite "smuggling" and Rob Elliot Newspaper Story

2013-08-19 Thread Gary Fujihara
Everyone is bashing the British press reports on all counts, but this is what I know about the early exportation of Chelyabinsk. Within days of the February 15th fall, the Russian Duma Committee did declare exportation off-limits (seemingly to protect Russian scientists to have access to materia

[meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk Russia Meteorite "smuggling" and Rob Elliot Newspaper Story

2013-08-19 Thread drtanuki
Graham and list,   I find it odd that the Guardian Newspaper "reporter" was able to pull the details of packaging the meteorites carefully hidden with electronic equipment for the "smuggling" through the mails out of thin air?  I would guess the British press reports about what they are told or