[meteorite-list] Meteorite Black Market (CBC News)

[Brandon]

Plain ignorant slander! 

Reading articles like that really gets my blood boiling. What can be done? This trend is only getting worse and seems to be a problem growing worse each day...and Fall.

Sad.

Brandon D.

On Mar 2, 2013, at 12:55 PM, "Joshua Tree Earth & Space Museum" <dorifry at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> Here's a quote from this CBC News article:
> 
> "While taking and selling material from meteorites is highly illegal, the New York Times reports that a flourishing global market exists online, with fragments widely available to anyone in the world."
> 
> The name of the article is: "Russian meteor fragments cause 'gold rush' on black market"
> 
> http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2013/02/russian-meteor-fragments-cause-gold-rush-on-black-market.html
> 
> 
> Phil Whitmer
> Joshua Tree Earth & Space Museum 
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