[meteorite-list] Larry's Holbrook Holy Grail Find and Bob Haag's Venus Stone

[Alexander Seidel]

I am also the lucky owner of one of those Venus stone casts from Bob Haag. Beautiful! And you know why he called this one the "Venus stone"..?? :-)

This is one very special nice example of a flight-oriented meteorite, where the rule applies: NEVER EVER cut specimen like these just for the sake of getting some classification data! Why? Because a cut would destroy the "character" of the piece!

And so we don´t know what´s inside this beautiful meteorite, we can only make some assumptions from non-destructive observation.

Alex
Berlin/Germany

  
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Datum: 22 Feb 2007 18:11:00 UT
Von: bernd.pauli at paulinet.de
An: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
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Betreff: [meteorite-list] Larry\'s Holbrook Holy Grail Find and Bob Haag\'s	Venus Stone

> Hello Moni and List,
> 
> Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Dave Andrews wrote to the List:
> 
> Hi List, The Adamana or "Venus Stone" was found in the Adamana landfill.
> Near the Petrified Forest/Painted Desert boundary. (about 15 miles NE of
> Holbrook on I-40). Evidently someone just didn't want it anymore or didn't
> know what they had. It was found by a rancher target practicing with his
> 0.22 rifle. With the selling of the piece to Bob, I heard he purchased a
> new mobile home to live in. I have one of the casts, and it looks very
> real.
> It looks so real, that I think I'll put it up on eBay with a $15,000
> reserve.
> (just kidding :o) Regards, Dave
> 
> 
> I got one of these casts too many years ago and they do look real!
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Bernd
> 
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