[meteorite-list] Fukang meteorite

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Then like Brenham or Brahin, "you pays your money and you takes your chances"?  Brenham and Brahin cost like 90% less than Fukang, so paying $1 or $2 gram and losing it is not like spending $20 or $25 gram on Fukang and not having a clue where your piece came from. How is a buyer going to know if it came from the center or the upper left quarter 4 centimers from the crust/rust surface? They wont know, until either it stays fine or rusts into nothing, worth nothing. 
Mike
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From: Matt Morgan <mmorgan at mhmeteorites.com>
> Or on the other hand, it can be completely stable. I have had 4 slices 
> now for a few months that show no signs of rusting whatsoever. These 
> were taken from an external chunk on the top of the mass. So just like 
> Brenham, it depends where the piece came from and how it was finished.
> 
> I have an Imilac slice right now that was rusting until I refinished it 
> and stabilized it (purchased from a very well known dealer I may add). 
> So no pallasites are free of rusting; they can't be in our oxidizing 
> environment.
> 
> Matt Morgan
> 
> meteoritehunter at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> >That tells me that it is a dangerous, unstable meteorite not worth buying and 
> spending thousands of $$$ to take the risk of it melting into a pile of nearly 
> worthless olivine crystals. I will take Esquel, Seymchan, or Imilac any day, 
> with no risk involved.
> >Mike Farmer
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -------------- Original message ----------------------
> >From: "AstronomicalResearchNetwork" <AstronomicalResearchNetwork at comcast.net>
> >  
> >
> >>Hello Mike
> >>        Fukang has beautiful crystals of olivine and it looked very nice a 
> >>few months ago .
> >>Now it has rusted so I see no fresh metal . Maybe the interior is better but 
> >>in Minnesota .
> >>Nantan falls to dust in 6 months to a year here .
> >> If I were to get a piece again I would keep it in a vacum sealed container 
> >>.
> >>    May your day do well Ken Regelman
> >>
> >>----- Original Message ----- 
> >>From: <meteoritehunter at comcast.net>
> >>To: "AstronomicalResearchNetwork" <AstronomicalResearchNetwork at comcast.net>; 
> >><Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> >>Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> >>Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 3:14 AM
> >>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fukang meteorite
> >>
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Please clarify Ken, you say the Fukang specimen is very nice, and then you 
> >>>say you are watching it rust everywhere. Those two statements are not 
> >>>compatible. Either it is nice, or it is a rusting piece of crap. 
> >>>Meteorites that rust on me are never considered nice.
> >>>Mike Farmer
> >>>-------------- Original message ----------------------
> >>>From: "AstronomicalResearchNetwork" 
> >>><AstronomicalResearchNetwork at comcast.net>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>The Fukang meteorite is a wonderful specimen as I have said .
> >>>>I have had a specimen for some time and I live in Minnesota .
> >>>>One of the worst climates for iron meteorites and I
> >>>>have been watching my specimen Rust for the last 3 months.
> >>>>It was not prepared in any way just hacked off by the original
> >>>>owner of the Fukang meteorite . Just a thought when purchasing
> >>>>specimens .
> >>>>Ken Regelman
> >>>>Astronomical Research Network
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