[meteorite-list] Stolen NWA 869

[Gary K. Foote]

I know what you mean.  Things can disappear in ones home without trace.  However, my 
collection was in a closed case and simply could not have fallen out.  It would havve had 
ro be actively removed.  When I look at my collection closely I only take out one at a 
time and put it back in place before moving on.  

As for friends...  I don't let many handle my collection, so that number would be small.  
Plus they get the same treatment - one at a time and replace before I hand them another 
to look at.  Someone had to remove it when I was not looking.  But you're right - the 
number is small and only a few would have had the opportunity.  I am recalcitrant to 
accuse anyone without facts so will just have to let it go.

And no - no pets :)

Gary

On 16 Jan 2007 at 14:02, Darren Garrison wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:47:53 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> >I doubt if this will ever turn up, but someone has taken a very nice, small NWA 869 from
> >my collection - right from my own home!  I never weighed it, but it is somewhere in the
> >40-50 gram range.  Pics are here;
> 
> Surely there is only a small number of people who could have done it  (I doubt
> that you have dozens of people going through your house) and a limited time
> span, so that you could narrow it down?  You might not regain the meteorite, but
> you don't need a "friend" like that.  But with a pice that small and in your on
> home, are you sure that it just didn't get misplaced somewhere?  Have a pet that
> could carry it off?
>