I had a suspicion that you were joking about that.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: ChemE Stewart <cheme...@gmail.com> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Sun, Feb 24, 2013 12:58 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:rather big fragment of the Chelyabinsk is discovered (fwd) 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
