[meteorite-list] ??SaharaMet...who are they!

[Dave Myers]

Hi Paul and list,

The NYT story is bad enough, But who are these meteorite hunters, Roland and 
Richard Pelisson who have the Sahara Met website.

They claim on there web site that NWA meteorites are "International Contraband" 
that support Terrorism.

It looks to me that they want all the NWA finds for them selfs.

Has anyone ever contacted them? They seem to have had a lot of there meteorites 
classified in the US. 


Just wondering if anyone knows these two guys, There does not seem to be much 
talk about them on this list?

Dave Myers

























 


----- Original Message ----
From: Paul H. <oxytropidoceras at cox.net>
To: "meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thu, April 7, 2011 7:48:33 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] NYT Story – Overseas and Local Distribution

“Overseas list members, if you have the opportunity, 
please peruse the International Herald Tribune to 
see if they picked up the story and run it in its entirety.”

By searching the International Herald Tribune web site,
I found that it was published in this newspaper on 
April 4 at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/science/05meteorite.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=meteorites&st=cse


The entire story also appeared in the Sydney Morning 
Herald as “Souvenirs from space,” April 7, 2011,
http://www.smh.com.au/world/science/souvenirs-from-space-20110406-1d4g9.html

Also, it appeared at:

1. rssbroadcast,com, April 4, 2011
http://rssbroadcast.com/?p=40828
http://rssbroadcast.com/?p=40742

2. WA.today, Australia, April 6, 2011.
http://www.watoday.com.au/world/science/souvenirs-from-space-20110406-1d4g9.html

3. Yahoo News
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NorthAmexemObservers/message/10634

4. Daily Comet, Lafourche Parish Louisiana
http://www.dailycomet.com/article/NY/20110405/ZNYT03/104053033/1225/news100?Title=Black-Market-Trinkets-From-Space


5. A version of the New York Times story, “Il mercato nero 
dei meteoriti” appeared in the “Post” on April 6, 2011,
http://www.ilpost.it/2011/04/06/il-mercato-nero-dei-meteoriti/

This entire text of this article is making the rounds
of the Internet. This is something that definitely needs to
be considered in any response. It certainly will make 
preparing an effective response to the article quite difficult
as it is being reprinted, in some cases under different
titles and in different languages, in a wild range of media 
outlets.

To further complicate matters, the link to this article is
being posted a number of web sites. For example;

1. Egyptology News at:
http://egyptology.blogspot.com/2011/04/black-market-trinkets-from-space.html

2. environmental reporting at:
http://word.emerson.edu/sprg11jr364/2011/04/04/black-market-trinkets-from-space/

and 3. American Scientist
http://www.americanscientist.org/science/pub/-1875

Yours,

Paul H
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