[meteorite-list] Austria Will Issue Stamps with Meteorite Powder

[Peter Marmet]

And here's a link with a picture:

http://app.post.at/shop/detail.php?prod=206040


Peter Marmet



Ron Baalke wrote:

>
> http://www.iol.co.za/index.php? 
> set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=qw1141956181680A141
>
> Starry stamps set to wow Austrians
> iol (South Africa)
> March 10, 2006
>
> Vienna - Austria will get a little star dust when the Austrian Post
> Office launches a stamp sprinkled with real meteorite powder, in a
> "world premiere" on March 24.
>
> Six hundred thousand copies of the stamp have been made so far. Each
> stamp will contain 0.03g of star dust, the Austrian Post Office  
> said on
> Thursday.
>
> "The powder comes from a 19kg meteorite found two years ago in Morocco
> that we crushed through a special process," Post Office spokesperson
> Michael Homola told reporters.
>
> A collector bought the stony meteorite, also known as a chondrite,  
> after
> it was authenticated by Vienna's Natural History Museum, Homola said,
> without explaining how much the operation cost.
>
> "One thing is certain, we are the first in the world to incorporate  
> real
> meteorite powder in a postal stamp," the spokesperson said.
>
> The Austrian Post Office, which in 2004 began diversifying its
> collection of stamps, has offered an embroidered Edelweiss-shaped  
> stamp
> and another containing Swarovski crystal powder.
>
> The company, which Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel's government wants to
> privatise by the end of the year, has said it has sold more than five
> million "personalised" stamps since 2004.
>
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