[meteorite-list] Donating Almahata Sitta to Richard Kowalski

[Herbert Raab]

Hello everyone,

I have been askes in a private message if the amont we have collected 
so far is enough to purchase a smaple of the Almahata Sitta meteorite.

Everyone can check the specimens that are avilable for a given amount 
ath this page. (Note that the dealer that offer these samples has offered 
a 20% discount when we purchase a sample for Richard):

http://www.haberer-meteorite.de/english/Asteroid%202008%20tc3/Asteroid%202008%20TC3.html

As everyone can see, the amount collected so far is enough to buy a 
sample, but one of the smaller samples available. So any additional 
donations will help us to get a more representative sample, and are 
therefore certainly not for nothing.

I don't know what size of specimen we may get from the Jenniskens-
Shaddad, if a donation for the University of Khartoumm can be agreed 
upon. But offering a higher donation would certainly also help in that 
case. :-)

  Cheers, Herbert

 
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> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Herbert
> Raab
> Sent: 08/04/2009 6:06 AM
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> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Donating Almahata Sitta to Richard Kowalski
> 
> 
> Dear fellow meteorite collectors,
> 
> about one week ago, I posted a message to this list suggesting 
> to collect some money to buy a sample of the Almahata Sitta 
> meteorite (the remnants of asteroid 2008 TC3) for Richard 
> Kowalski (the discoverer of 2008 TC3 and meteorite collector).
> 
> By now, US$ 375,-- were donated trough ChipIn, and further 
> US$ 260,-- were collected by other means, giving a total of 
> US$ 635,--. So, I want to say "Thank you!" to all those who 
> have sent donations. Those who still want to donate (any amount, 
> no matter how small or large is welcome) may do so until Friday,
> August 7 trough this page:
> 
> http://www.astrometrica.at/kowalski.html
> 
> By the way, Franck Marchis (who is researcher at the SETI institute) 
> is exploring the possibities to get a sample from the original 
> expeditions by Jenniskens and Shaddad, and sending the donations 
> to the University of Khartoumm (instead of buying a sample from a 
> meteorite dealer), but the outcome is not yet clear.
> 
>  Cheers,
>   Herbert
> 
> 
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