[meteorite-list] Forestburg (b) L5 chondrite

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Hi Martin and list.  I wrote a piece for  Meteorite Magazine about good and 
garbage thins.  I agree, you get what you  pay for.  Most cheap thins would be 
useful for a micro mount collection but  should go nowhere near a microscope.

One exception is Ivan  Koutyrev.  He has sold thins on eBay cheap and they 
are among the best I  have worked with.  I think he has them made at a 
university in St.  Petersburg.  Ivan has some stories we all would love to hear.  I 
heard  he spent last summer in an Oman jail for legally collecting and just drew 
the  attention of the wrong person.

Tom