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I agree Martin.
 
One person contacted me with what he said was absolutely a "meteorite" it 
had even been  checked and confirmed to be a meteorite by a geology professor 
of a local college in the American Mid-West (No, I won't tell you the 
name). 
I asked for a picture. It was very clearly a piece of jade.  
 
Anne M. Black
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In a message dated 9/12/2010 4:02:01 PM Mountain Daylight Time, 
altmann at meteorite-martin.de writes:
Colleges... Meteorites are a tiny niche in mineralogy. I'd have my doubts,
whether most colleges would be able to identify a meteorite (rare types
certainly not). Sometimes the finders address me even with an expertise from
university labs, with stones, where from the outer appearance everybody of
the list here would rule out within a second, that it could be a meteorite -
and where the chemical data measured clearly confirm, that it is no
meteorite. Nevertheless sometimes the expert wrote under the tables, that it
is a meteorite.