[meteorite-list] NPA 02-14-1999 Meteorites for Valetine's Day, Darryl Pitt

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: Syracuse Herald Journal
City: Syracuse, New York
Date: Sunday, February 14, 1999
Page: A-12

This Valentine's Day gift is out of this world

     Looking for an unusual gift this Valentine's Day?  Try bidding on one 
of more than 50 meteorites - including slivers from Mars and the moon - 
being auctioned in San Francisco and Los Angeles today by Butterfield and 
Butterfield, an auction house that specialized in natural history material.  
The "crown jewel of meteorites," a 31-pound chunk, is estimated to go for 
around $230,000.
     Many of those meteorites come from the collection of Darryl Pitt, a New 
York music executive who has tried to turn the more common iron meteorites 
into objects of art.
     For Pitt, meteorites, are a passion he wants to spread to art 
collectors who have no interest in science and science-oriented children who 
have no interest in art.

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Clear Skies,
Mark Bostick
Wichita, Kansas
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http://www.kansasmeteoritesociety.com
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