Re: [meteorite-list] Don't delay, order today! - Suspect Auction-Suspect [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Murray
I don't use ebay (I'm too stupid to figure it all out) so I have to ask, is this auction over? Says Mar 31. Or? I would have thought this one to go for more than the starting bid figure. Mike On Mar 31, 2008, at 10:35 PM, Jason Utas wrote: I said: The only slag that I've known to contain

Re: [meteorite-list] Don't delay, order today! - Suspect Auction-Suspect [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-03-31 Thread Jason Utas
I said: > The only slag that I've known to contain olivine was Seymchan, and > there's some debate as to whether that was actually waste, or, in > fact, a synthetic meteorite look-alike meant to confuse buyers. > The fact that the stone contains olivine means that either: *Not "Seymchan," but rat

Re: [meteorite-list] Don't delay, order today! - Suspect Auction-Suspect [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-03-31 Thread star-bits
Mr EMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --= --Ha ha Funny... the Rorschach-Shroom Techinque of meteorite --identification...Down to confirming orange olivine crystals-- in a --mesosiderite no less--and fresh? It is fresh from the slag pile! --I've got petrified frog poop that looks

Re: [meteorite-list] Don't delay, order today! - Suspect Auction-Suspect [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-03-31 Thread Jason Utas
Hello Elton, All, Hardly; I just think it's stupid to rule any sample out completely without a lab analysis. There's no single feature on the stone being auctioned that would suggest that it is not, in fact, a fresh mesosiderite individual, and seeing as I am as qualified as you, if not better, to

Re: [meteorite-list] Don't delay, order today! - Suspect Auction-Suspect [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-03-31 Thread Mr EMan
Ha ha Funny... the Rorschach-Shroom Techinque of meteorite identification...Down to confirming orange olivine crystals-- in a mesosiderite no less--and fresh? It is fresh from the slag pile! I've got petrified frog poop that looks more like a meteorite then this. Pleeease...this is an early Apri