[meteorite-list] Hamming it up with a 5.3 million $$$ meteorite.....

[Jodie Reynolds]

It's late and I'm sleepy, so maybe my math is off - but $53/gram for
some unclassified iron?!?

--- Jodie

Friday, March 29, 2013, 3:14:10 AM, you wrote:

> Greeting,

> Wonder how much nickel poisoning he and his family have??

> --AL Mitterling
> Mitterling Meteorites

> Quoting Shawn Alan <photophlow at yahoo.com>:
>> Hello Listers,
>>    
>>   found this article about ham, meteorite, and being worth  
>> 5.3 million big ones. Man, meteorites cost alot
>>   these days.
>>    
>>   Enjoy
>>    
>>   Shawn Alan
>>   IMCA 1633
>>   ebay store
>> http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633ny/m.html
>> http://meteoritefalls.com/
>>    
>>    
>>   Asteroid used as ham press by  Spanish farmer worth $5.3 million
>>   Faustino Asensio  Lopez found the 220-pound prehistoric iron  
>> meteorite in 1980 in Ciudad Real,  while tending livestock with his  
>> dad.
>>    
>>   A rock used by a Spanish farmer for more than 30 years to press  
>> ham has  turned out to be an iron meteorite worth at least $5.3  
>> million.
>>   Faustino Asensio Lopez found the 220-pound rock, which measures  
>> just  18-by-12.5-by-8 inches, as he was tending to livestock with  
>> his father in a  field near Ciudad Real in 1980.
>>    
>>
>>   Read more:  
>> http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/asteroid-ham-press-spanish-farmer-worth-5-3-million-article-1.1301211#ixzz2OtHZ3pYT
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