[meteorite-list] Raffle Update, Last Call for Donations

[Notkin]

Dear Friends and Listees:

I have received some very notable new prizes for our charity raffle, 
and most of them have now been added to the site. They are too numerous 
to list here (plus I've been doing a heck of a lot of typing this 
week), so please take a look for yourselves. Newest additions are at 
the top of the page:

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

Don't miss: Nininger's "Stone-Pelted Planet," Glenn Huss' personal 
Meteoritical Society portfolio, Shalka and Orgueil, a 5.8 gram New 
Orleans fragment, part of Rob Matson's very first find, cool impactites 
and more.

There are several more fine items on the way, but PLEASE NOTE, as of 
tomorrow, Friday, 5 pm Pacific Time, I will no longer be accepting 
raffle prize donations. We need time to divide the donations up into 
separate prize lots, and take care of some hefty paperwork. We also 
have to make up the raffle tickets, and I will -- sometime fairly soon 
-- post a page that explains exactly how the raffle drawing is going to 
work. Thanks to Mike Jensen for putting his head together with mine on 
this fairly complicated issue.

Mike Jensen and myself are sending out press releases to newspapers in 
Denver and Tucson. The international show of support we've received is 
most inspiring, and I feel it should be made public. If anyone would 
like a press release to send to their local newspaper, please email me 
off-list. I have them all ready to go, either by email or fax.

Ticket sales continue. I expect us to collect more than $5,000 with 
this venture.

Well done all.


Sincerely,

Geoff N.