[meteorite-list] HELP PLEASE - PECULIAR METEORITE DISCOVERY....

[Pete Pete]

I agree with Mike, Daryl!

 

I'm trying to imagine a scenario of a house on a ravine, a guy finding a rusty lump, and the wife persistently tries to throw the lump out in the garbage(?!) instead of simply heaving it over the fence?

Doesn't track. Sounds like a scripted story.

Like we say at work - "The name's Tucker, not sucker!"

 

Pete
 


> From: darryl at dof3.com
> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:10:31 -0500
> To: mike at meteoriteguy.com
> CC: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com; imca at imcamail.de
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] HELP PLEASE - PECULIAR METEORITE DISCOVERY....
> 
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I'm not inclined to disagree....it doesn't add up. 
> 
> 
> On Feb 13, 2012, at 11:02 PM, Michael Farmer wrote:
> 
> > Scam.
> > 
> > Sent from my iPhone
> > 
> > On Feb 13, 2012, at 8:45 PM, Darryl Pitt <darryl at dof3.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Folks, 
> >> 
> >> I need your help; there is a problem here---I'm just not certain as to its nature. 
> >> 
> >> A seemingly honest fellow from Sandy Hook, NJ came to my office late today in the hope I could verify what he was told could be a meteorite---and it is. 
> >> 
> >> This fellow said that just after he moved in a year ago, he found it on the embankment of his backyard just beyond which is a 75 foot escarpment. The wife said she tried to throw the rusty thing out a couple of times and both times he rescued it from the garbage. It is a medium octahedrite which weighs 4.236 kg. How do I know it's a medium octahedrite? I could make out a feint pattern underneath a veneer of rust on the cut face. Yes, roughly speaking, this fellow found a cut and prepared meteorite in his backyard.
> >> 
> >> The fellow left the specimen in my possession and agreed to allow me to have a sample removed and forwarded for analysis. I advised him there could be a problem here that could be readily determined---and he didn't seem fazed. While I've been accused of being naive, I nonetheless genuinely believe he and his wife are honest....but I just don't get it. 
> >> 
> >> Any thoughts here? Northeastern New Jersey. End piece. Medium octahedrite. 4.2 kg. 
> >> 
> >> I'll get a pic posted tomorrow. 
> >> 
> >> All best and thanks / d, 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
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