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

[Sterling K. Webb]

> was she... sold a bill of goods?

A bill of something, perhaps not goods.

No iron meteorites from Tunguska. No
stone meteorites from Tunguska. No
meteorites of any kind from Tunguska.


Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Deckert" <edeckert at triad.rr.com>
To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 9:21 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Tunguska Meteorites - Real or Not?


>
> 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
>
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