[meteorite-list] Anyone know a 'Jude Noonan'?

[Randy Korotev]

Dear Marco:

I have been contacted ~30 times over the last year by someone at that 
e-mail address who identifies himself as James Rice.  He sends lots 
of photos of things he identifies as "imbedded spherules," "lapilli," 
"fusion crust," and "widmanstatten" in his rocks, which he claims are 
from Amsterdam.  I urged him to get a chemical analysis of his 
rocks.  He did, and he is now combing the lunar literature.  He has 
found irrelevant similarities in concentrations of some trace 
elements in his samples and some lunar meteorites.  He completely 
ignores my interpretation of his data - The composition is consistent 
with massive iron oxide (hematite?) with a little quartz, limestone, 
and maybe clay.  I've told him several times that the rocks are not 
meteorites.  He's one of those guys who just keeps looking for 
evidence in favor of his hypothesis while ignoring the evidence 
against it.  I don't respond to inquiries any more, so I guess that's 
why he's contacted you!

Randy Korotev



At 10:04 26-06-09 Friday, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Anyone here getting mails from a 'Jude Noonan', e-mail bonk381 at hotmail.com ?
>
>He/she sent me pictures and apparent geochemical "descriptions" of a 
>stone, claimed to have been found in Amsterdam. He alternately 
>suggests it is an impact rock or a moon rock.
>
>The whole is very fishy. However, in many ways it reminds me of that 
>Swedish dude Lindfors who naged us a while ago. So I wonder whether 
>he is at it again, under another name.
>
>- Marco
>
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