[meteorite-list] Fw: [COMETS] Berthoud (Colorado) meteorite coin will be auctioned at the COMETS auction at the Denver Show

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From: Bob Loeffler <bobl at peaktopeak.com>
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Sent: Tue, September 6, 2011 8:41:37 AM
Subject: [COMETS] Berthoud (Colorado) meteorite coin will be auctioned at the 
COMETS auction at the Denver Show

  
Hi All!

Fred Olsen let me know that we have received the customized Berthoud Eucrite
Meteorite coins from the stamper (or whoever does that kind of thing) and we
will be auctioning #001 at our annual auction NEXT WEEK!!!!! The coin is
very cool!!!!

Please see the following web page for coin details and pictures:

http://www.peaktopeak.com/comets/articles/berthoud_coin.htm

Auction details are on this page:

http://www.peaktopeak.com/comets/auction.htm

Regards,

Bob Loeffler
Colorado Meteorite Society (COMETS)

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From: debfred at att.net [mailto:debfred at att.net] 
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 3:26 PM
To: bobl at peaktopeak.com
Subject: meteorite coin and auction

Bob, I just got the coins, I do plan on auctioning this #001 coin in our
auction. Others will be available on ebay.

Also a write up on coin:

This 2 inch diameter medal was made to commerate the fall of the Berthoud,
Colorado eucrite meteorite at 1:33 pm on October 5th, 2004 . A single 960
gram stone was observed to hit the ground in a horse pen about 100 feet
south of the farm house depicted on the coin. Longs Peak, a 14,000 ft tall
mountain can be seen to the west in the background. The beautiful glossy
black crusted stone was recovered just minutes after it fell. It is just the
second Colorado meteorite collected on the day it fell. 

The other side of the medal shows the incredible image of the asteroid Vesta
from the spacecraft DAWN taken on July 24, 2011. Vesta is the presumed
parent body of the HED meteorites including the Berthoud eucrite along with
the Johnstown diogenite which fell 5 miles east of the Berthoud fall some
eighty years earlier. Johnstown is the other meteorite recovered on the day
it fell, 4:20 pm on July 6th, 1924. 

The Colorado Meteorite Society "COMETS" is working to find a donor or donors
to keep the 247g crusted main mass for display in a Colorado Museum. 

If you want to put this on website OK

Regards, Fred

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