[meteorite-list] Stolen Canyon Diablo Meteorite To Be Returned

[Michael Blood]

> From: Frank Cressy <fcressy at prodigy.net>
> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:31:33 -0700 (PDT)
> To: Meteorite List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>, Eric Wichman
> <eric at meteoritewatch.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Stolen Canyon Diablo Meteorite To Be Returned
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Glad the "basket" meteorite is going home.  I remember seeing a post card of
> it and thinking it was way cool.  Maybe Mike Jensen has the post card in his
> collection.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Frank
> 
> --- On Wed, 3/11/09, Eric Wichman <eric at meteoritewatch.com> wrote:
> 
> From: Eric Wichman <eric at meteoritewatch.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Stolen Canyon Diablo Meteorite To Be Returned
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 7:16 AM
> 
> I found article this in my email box this morning...
> 
> "..This story begins not in a galaxy far away, but at a Milwaukee rummage
> sale a few years ago. Tom Lynch paid $10 for an odd hunk of metal he figured
> might be copper or bronze with potential salvage value.
> 
> He had no idea it had dropped from space into the Arizona desert some 50,000
> years ago.
> 
> "For the last two years, it kept my grandson's basketball hoop from
> blowing over in the yard. It weighs 50 pounds," said Lynch, a retired
> foundry and General Motors worker who lives in South Milwaukee.
> 
> Recently, he saw a show about meteorites on the Travel Channel and realized
> that's probably what he had. It was curious, he thought, that the thing
> never oxidized in the weather. Following advice from the TV show, he held a
> magnet up to the object and it stuck.
> 
> He took his 4.6 billion-year-old find to the Milwaukee Public Museum and then
> to Chicago's Field Museum last month. The scientists got excited. Yes, they
> said, it's a meteorite.."
> 
> READ THE FULL ARTICLE
> http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/41069052.html
> 
> 
> Wow! Now that's a cool looking meteorite.
> 
> Does anyone on-list remember this piece?
> 
> Regards,
> Eric Wichman
> Meteorites USA
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________
> http://www.meteoritecentral.com
> Meteorite-list mailing list
> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
> 
> ______________________________________________
> http://www.meteoritecentral.com
> Meteorite-list mailing list
> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list