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

[Ed Deckert]

Hi Sterling,

Thank you for your reply.  You confirmed what I thought was the correct 
information.  She really doesn't know what she is talking about at all. 
When I suggested it was Sikhote-Alin, she told me "no, SA contains olivine" 
and that I was mistaken.  I tried one last time to tell her that SA is not a 
Pallasite, but again, I was wrong and she was right.

You just can't get through to some people when their minds are locked 
tightly closed.

Ed


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Ed Deckert" <edeckert at triad.rr.com>; 
<Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Tunguska Meteorites - Real or Not?


>> 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
> ----------------------------------------------------
> ----- 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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