[meteorite-list] Re NWA 482

[Darren Garrison]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:59:03 -0600, you wrote:

>Alas and woe is me. I shall have to rethink how I let my students
>handle the meteorite specimens.
>One of them got a little careless and dropped my 10mg NWA 482
>and it is no more!

My first planetary, a similar sized bit of NWA 998, shared a similar fate.
Bought on Ebay from the Hupés, the membrane box managed to get broken (while in
my possession, not during shipping).  So I had a spare membrane box, opened the
broken one, and had a bit of Mars bounce out of the box and into history.  :-)