[meteorite-list] Fwd: METEORITES STOLEN IN JAPAN

[Darryl Pitt]

I've just received a couple of emails inquiring about the Meteoritical  
Society's vice department as implied by the email "vice at meteoritesociety.org 
"

There is no such department.  While wondering who to contact at the  
Society I happened to notice the vice-president of the Society is  
Japanese and that's her email.      ;-)




Begin forwarded message:

> From: Darryl Pitt <darryl at dof3.com>
> Date: March 5, 2010 11:30:02 AM EST
> To: Meteorite List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Cc: drtanuki <drtanuki at yahoo.com>, Hiroko Nagahara <vice at meteoriticalsociety.org 
> >
> Subject: [meteorite-list] METEORITES STOLEN IN JAPAN
>
>
>
> For Japanese and Japanese-speaking List Members in particular:
>
> It pains me to write the following, but I do so at the request of  
> dear friends Akiko Umai and Gene Oshima who run TIMA---the Tokyo  
> International Mineral Association---and the "Tokyo Show" of early  
> summer.
>
> Shoichi Saito is a Japanese meteorite dealer who had a little nook  
> in the TIMA offices at the Century Hyatt from which he transacted  
> business the last few years---primarily consignment pieces.  As the  
> generous spirit he is, Gene subsidized Saito, whose business fell  
> into decline.  I am now advised Saito and the entire inventory of  
> meteorites---including many specimens from Gene's personal  
> collection---have disappeared.
>
> I was just asked to contact the Meteoritical Society as my friends  
> were hopeful that Saito's membership in the Society might prompt  
> some type of intervention.  More realistically, I am awaiting the  
> names of the missing meteorites.
>
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