[meteorite-list] Fragments recovered from the January 17fireball

[Ruben Garcia]

Thank you to everyone that responded to my question about exporting meteorites from Denmark. It looks exporting is very difficult if it is possible at all.

Ruben Garcia
Phoenix, Arizona
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--- On Fri, 3/13/09, Jeff Kuyken <info at meteorites.com.au> wrote:

> From: Jeff Kuyken <info at meteorites.com.au>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fragments recovered from the January 17fireball
> To: "Thomas Österberg" <marie.m.osterberg at telia.com>
> Cc: meteoritemall at yahoo.com
> Date: Friday, March 13, 2009, 3:52 PM
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> Maybe this helps:
> 
> "The law of ownership and control of meteorites."
> - Douglas G. Schmitt, 2001
> 
> DENMARK:
> 
> www.meteorites.com.au/images/denmark.jpg
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas
> Österberg" <marie.m.osterberg at telia.com>
> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 7:34 AM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Fragments recovered from the
> January 17fireball
> 
> 
> Dear Ruben,
> 
> And others planning for a trip to Denmark. Quoting the
> article (today)
> published in the newspaper Politiken, Henning Haack at the
> the Geolocial
> Museum in Cpenhagen, urges people to active search for
> fragments.
> 
> "Mit store håb er, at folk på Lolland nu går ud og
> leder efter flere. Vi har
> et område på omkring 10 gange 20 kilometer nær Maribo,
> hvor der kunne ligge
> flere meteoritsten. Så jeg vil opfordre folk til at kigge
> efter i tagrender
> og på græsplænerne for at se efter meteoritter og
> indlevere dem til os«,
> siger Henning Haack."
> 
> Translated: My big hope is that people on Lolland now will
> go searching for
> more (meteorites). We have an area of about 10 by 20
> kilometer, near Maribo,
> where there probably are more meteorites to be found. So, I
> urge people to
> look in their roof draing channels and their lawns for
> meteorites and come
> with them to us, says Henning Haak".
> 
> About Danish rules for collecting and exporting meteorites
> I think I've read
> somewhere that the situatuon is similar to Canada. You have
> to get a
> permission to be able to legally export a Danish meteorite.
> Can somebody
> give more approriate information about this?
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Thomas Österberg
> 
> 
> 
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