[meteorite-list] Lost Opportunities Past and Future was Some ..meteorite finds.

[Darren Garrison]

On Sat, 20 May 2006 13:11:58 +0100, you wrote:

>In the book of R. Norton, "rocks from space" it is described how Bob Haag
>"extracted"  from an african (synonimous of stupid, between the lines)
>country, a valuable stone.
>That was done after a psychological manoeuver,  to take it from the hands of
>the museum curator - he exchanged it for the equivalent of  the colored
>glass beads of "diplomatic procedures" with natives, of other times, ie for
>volumous rubish.

On this point at least you aren't alone.  I saw that event, as described in the
book, as a dishonest transaction too.  Also, IIRC, wasn't there an even
discribed where he lied to customs to get that (or some other meteorite) out of
country?