Dave, I believe it was a chondrite:
http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i8/Russian-Meteor-Chondrite.html Like my usual, I was joking a bit about the overall price, I agree on your economics. What is more interesting to me is to see how much of this object they actually retrieve. "Life would be tragic if it were not funny - Stephen Hawking" Stewart On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:54 AM, David Roberson <dlrober...@aol.com> wrote: > I believe it was an iron meteorite. The value of one of these items is > proportional to what someone else is willing to pay for it. I have a > strong suspicion that the amount of money you could get for it would be a > lot less than you believe. Remember supply and demand? Too much supply of > this one. > > Dave > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ChemE Stewart <cheme...@gmail.com> > To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> > Sent: Sun, Feb 24, 2013 6:52 am > Subject: Re: [Vo]:rather big fragment of the Chelyabinsk is discovered > (fwd) > > Based upon the size of the "crater" we should go dig it up then and > erase our national debt > > On Saturday, February 23, 2013, David Roberson wrote: > >> I visited it once and the story is that the meteorite came in at a steep >> angle and is buried under one of the rims. >> >> Dave >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: mixent <mix...@bigpond.com> >> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> >> Sent: Sat, Feb 23, 2013 10:51 pm >> Subject: Re: [Vo]:rather big fragment of the Chelyabinsk is discovered >> (fwd) >> >> In reply to Vorl Bek's message of Sat, 23 Feb 2013 19:27:07 -0500: >> Hi, >> [snip] >> >And I have always wondered about Meteor Crater in Arizona; I never >> >understood why a little digging did not expose a big chunk of >> >extraterrestrial rock at the centre of the crater; but there is >> >nothing. >> >> Maybe it went deeper and molten rock covered it, so all you see now in the >> bottom of the crater is the cooled and solidified crust that was molten at >> the >> time. >> >> Regards, >> >> Robin van Spaandonk >> http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html >> >>
