[meteorite-list] Shirokovsky

[Adam Hupe]

Hi Bob and List,

My guess is that scrap metal from a nearby junkyard was thrown into a 40 kilogram crucible and then preheated/shattered olivine crystals were mixed in. Perhaps a FE Ford big block was melted down since it contains about the same amount of nickel.

At least to me, it was an obvious fraud from the beginning.  When I first laid eyes on a pile of this garbage, I walked away immediately.  I neither purchased or sold any.  The material was already bar-coded before it hit Tucson.  There were no pieces with outside surface. Frogman photographs without a single image of person's face diving in middle of winter, posted on a website, prepared ahead of time with the intention to defraud collectors out of their hard earned money. 

I won't waste any more time on this fraud and can't understand why anybody would won't it polluting their collections.

Adam