[meteorite-list] Is Ted Bunch an idiot?

[Michael Farmer]

Tom, you it seems are an idiot.
You are calling a retired NASA scientist an idiot.
I am in shock, just when I thought you could go no lower, it has happened. 
Please think before you type.
No reply to me needed.
Mike Farmer


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Knudson" <peregrineflier at npgcable.com>
To: "met list" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 8:03 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Is Ted Bunch an idiot?


> Hello List, I bought an unclassified meteorite on ebay, cut it, thought it
> was really nice, unlike anything I had seen,  so I sent it in for
> classification.  Later, I sent a picture to the list and someone commented
> that it looked like NWA 869.
>   So when the classification was complete, to avoid any trouble, I asked
> Ted Bunch if there was any possibility of NWA 2906 being paired with 869, 
> he
> said;
> "I have over 50 reference slices of 869 - we are doing a research project 
> on
> this stone. In addition, I helped T. Boswell sort out odd balls from 400 
> kg
> 869. I have seen a lot of 869 and it does have many variations. Your stone
> is not 869."
>
>  I quoted Ted on my auction;
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6554595054
>
>   But someone on the list says he can tell from the pictures that it is 
> NWA
> 869 and that I am an idiot for trying to sell it as something other than
> 869.
>   So I am trying to figure this out, should I think Ted Bunch is an idiot
> even after he had just finished classifying this stone, ran a thin section
> through the probe and studied it under a microscope.?
>  Or should I assume the guy who thinks he can tell from the picture is an
> idiot?
>
>   I do not want to be selling something that is not what I said it was. If
> it is 869 I will make it clear, but I have to know who to believe, the
> meteorite scientist who studied it, or the unknown guy that can tell more
> from a picture than the guy who studied it. .
> Thanks, Tom
> peregrineflier <><
>
>
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