[meteorite-list] AD: 53 KG BIG SIKHOTE FOR SALE

[Darren Garrison]

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 07:40:58 +0200, you wrote:

>Dear List
>
>We have just put online  another BIG Sikhote Alin 53 kg.
>
>This is a very interesting individual with both "lithologies" half shrapnel
>and half regmaglypted. This meteorite is in museum conservation state.
>
>This big piece comes with legal documentation including exportation
>autorization from the Fersmann Museum in Moscow.
>
>Please note that this Sikhote is one of the last available one . Exportation
>is now very strict from Russia and big one like thios will become rarer and
>rarer.

Speaking of getting Sikhotes out of Russia, anyone know anything more about what
happened with those seized at a border a few months back?   (I"m not accusing
you of having any of them, just that this message made me think of it).