[meteorite-list] Tunguska Meteorites - Real or Not?

[Ed Deckert]

Hello listees,

I attended a fundraising event and there was a small, iron meteorite 
specimen that had been made into a pendant.  The person who donated this 
item announced that it was a meteorite specimen that was recovered from the 
Tunguska event.

I looked at the item, and it looked VERY much like Sikhote-Alin.  It was 
hard to tell if it was a small individual, or shrapnel that had been tumbled 
to smooth it out.

She was very insulted when I suggested this was likely a piece of 
Sikhote-Alin.  She is Russian, and she purchased it from a Russian 
gentleman.  That was good enough for her.

Am I wrong?  Have there been iron meteorites resembling Sikhote-Alin 
collected from Tunguska?  Or, was she and/or her friend sold a bill of 
goods?

Thanks,
Ed