[meteorite-list] Santa Rosa Colombia

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In a message dated 5/5/2008 7:12:46 PM Mountain Daylight Time,  
stm at bellsouth.net writes:
Very nice Michael - great history on the Santa Rosa  - is that red paint on 
the  back?
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In fact there is quite a bit more to the story than that.
Basically, Henry Ward threw a big party, got most of the population of  Santa 
Rosa drunk and absconded with the meteorite during the night. To be later  
stopped at the border. 
 
Some meteorite hunters will stop at nothing !!!     ;-)
For all the details, from the Buchwald Handbook of Iron Meteorites, go  to:
 
_http://www.impactika.com/santrosa.htm_ 
(http://www.impactika.com/santrosa.htm) 
 
Sorry, that big slice from TCU has been sold.
 
Anne M. Black
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Vice-President of  IMCA
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Farmer"  <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com>
To:  <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 8:26  PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Santa Rosa Colombia and Chergach


>  Hi everyone, it was a very peaceful day, with all
> incoming emails of an  unwanted nature blocked, I
> acutally got some work done.
>
>  I have updated my private collection page with a Santa
> Rosa piece I got  from the Smithsonian, and
> to celebrate the fact that Chergach (Mali) is  now
> classified, I put my collection pieces on the website.
> Take  a look, let me know if you like them.
>
>  http://www.meteoriteguy.com/collection/santarosa.htm
>
>  http://www.meteoriteguy.com/collection/chergach.htm
>
> Michael  Farmer





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