[meteorite-list] Meteorite Raffle Major Update

[Notkin]

Dear Friends and Listees:

Greetings all. I have just completed a major update to our 2005 
Meteorite Charity Raffle project, and I think you will all be surprised 
by the quality, quantity, and ingenuity of these prizes. Newest 
additions have been placed at the top of the page for ease of viewing. 
We will shortly be breaking the prizes up into groupings: First Prize, 
Second Prize, etc. There will be MULTIPLE prizes awarded.

I have also received a kind offer of numerous smaller items, which we 
will not have time to list on the site, but we will use them to make 
sure that as many people as possible go home with a nice meteorite 
memento from our charity raffle. Thanks to Steve Arnold IMB for 
organizing that.

Here is the updated prize page:

http://www.aerolite.org/meteorite-raffle.htm


In addition, a few especially rare and collectible items have been 
offered to the project, and we are considering a series of special 
auctions on Ebay for those donated items, after the Denver show. More 
on that later. If someone would like to volunteer to help with Ebay 
sales, please let me know.

I will have to stop accepting raffle prizes within the next couple of 
days. If you have something you'd like to donate, please don't delay 
(last minute additions may be accepted but will not appear on the 
website).

Ticket sales continue. PLEASE NOTE: The cut-off date for ticket sales 
is Monday, September 12. If I have not received your payment by that 
date, you will not be eligible to participate in the prize drawing, 
sorry. We will try to accommodate last-minute cash ticket sales during 
the Denver Show, but I am making no promises. Payments can be made 
through PayPal (use link on raffle page), or you can mail personal 
checks (made out to the "American Red Cross" please) to me at:

Geoffrey Notkin
P.O. Box 36652
Tucson, AZ 85740


Anne Black of the Denver COMETS has kindly offered to receive prizes by 
mail, on our behalf in Denver. She will post her mailing address 
shortly. Blaine Reed has kindly offered to display prizes in his room 
during the Denver Show. We suggest that our friends in Europe who have 
donated prizes do not mail them at this time. We will ask you to mail 
prizes directly to the winners, following the drawing.

As of today, you have raised more than $2,300 for the Red Cross. Hats 
off to everyone who pitched in.

More news when I have it  : )


Best to all,

Geoff N.