[meteorite-list] Sikhote' s seized

[Martin Altmann]

Where is the problem?
Marcin, since when it's illegal to import meteorites to Poland?
They should pay the taxes at customs and that's it.

Meow!

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chauncey Walden" <clwaldeniii at comcast.net>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 4:12 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Sikhote' s seized


> Just in from a South African newspaper:
>
<http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/other_news/&articl
eid=250483>
> byline Warsaw
> Customs officers in Dorohusk, on Poland's border with Ukraine, have made
> an unusual seizure, confiscating nearly 530kg of meteorites they found
> hidden on a Russian-registered truck, officials said on Friday.
>
> "In total, 529,5kg of meteorites were confiscated, including three very
> big ones, weighing 176 kilos, 150 kilos and 80 kilos," Poland's customs
> service said in a statement.
>
> "They probably came from the same place in Siberia where a meteorite
> crashed in 1947," the statement said.
>
> According to the truck's payload ledgers, its cargo was quartzite, a
> tough stone composed almost entirely of quartz grains, derived from
> sandstone. The truck was bound for the Czech Republic.
> Chauncey
>
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