[meteorite-list] Fw: News and Views in Peru

[Jose Campos]

yes, that's correct: caza = hunter;  cazameteoritos = meteorite hunter

José Campos
Portugal

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "drtanuki" <drtanuki at yahoo.com>
To: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>; 
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Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] News and Views in Peru


> Sterling and All,
>
>  Caza- chasers, hunters.
>
> Dirk Ross...Tokyo
>
>
> --- "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi, All,
>>
>>     Beyond the views of Randall Richard Daniels
>> Gregory
>> on Mike Farmer, it seems that others in Peru are not
>> happy
>> with him. Taking no sides, just the messenger,
>> folks.
>>
>>     Here's a Peruvian news article:
>>
> <http://www.larepublica.com.pe/content/view/181193/30/>
>>
>>     Here's a cleaned up machine translation:
>>
>>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> [Headline]  They try to deal in pieces of the fallen
>> meteorite
>>
>> [Subhead]  A group of Americans came with this
>> purpose
>>                   to Carancas.
>>
>>     The president of the Geophysical Institute of
>> Peru (IGP),
>> Ronald Woodman, denounced the group of Americans
>> directed by Michael Farmer (famous searcher of
>> meteors in
>> the world) that tries to deal in remains of the
>> meteorite that
>> fell [down] in the locality of Carancas in the
>> middle of the
>> past September.
>>
>>     "They sneak in [literally, "glide"] to initiate
>> the excavations
>> to extract the remains at the border with Bolivia,
>> since the
>> meteorite fell [down] within one kilometer of the
>> border with
>> this country," Woodman declared.
>>
>>     It [is] recounted that the group of five North
>> Americans
>> have come to the place with the support of the
>> Police and that
>> seemingly the settlers [villagers] negotiated with
>> these "merchants
>> of meteorites."
>>
>>     Ronald Woodman said that the "cazameteoritos"
>> would be
>> taking advantage of the ignorance of the settlers on
>> the real
>> value of the objects. There are not many in the
>> world; they are
>> valuable pieces for museums and collectors, as noted
>> below.
>>
>>     The facts:
>>
>>     TRAFFIC. The citizen Michael Farmer sold a lunar
>> fragment
>> of approximately 1 kg found near to Agadir (Morocco)
>> for
>> 1.5 million dollars
>>
>>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>     It would appear that entering the country from
>> Bolivia,
>> one mile away, with an international airport in
>> nearby LaPaz,
>> is inherently suspicious to some Peruvians.
>>
>>     There is an implication (but no direct
>> statement) that
>> "trafficing" in meteorites is a shady quasi-legal
>> affair, as there
>> is much emphasis on the fact that Mike buys and
>> sells them.
>> I wish I knew what "cazameteoritos" means but the
>> online
>> translator won't translate it (nor the word "caza"
>> either).
>> Meteorite traders? Meteorite peddlers? Meteorite
>> Con-men?
>>
>>
>> Sterling K. Webb
>>
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