[meteorite-list] AD - Draveil meteorite (France) : 16 complete slices and an endcut !
Michael Farmer
mike at meteoriteguy.com
Fri Oct 18 17:27:31 EDT 2013
Why hasn't this meteorite been classified and put in the met bulletin?
Why is the museum not doing this?
Michael Farmer
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> On Oct 18, 2013, at 2:21 PM, Fabien Kuntz <wwmeteorites at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> today a special AD on my website, I put on sale 17 specimens (complete slices and endcut) of the historic Draveil meteorite (France, about 20km of Paris), fell 13 jully 2011 ! All come with a fragment of the tile this hammer stone broked :
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> http://wwmeteorites.com/Ventes/DRAVEIL.html
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> These 16 complete slices and the endcut have been profesionaly sliced by Montana Lab Meteorite, with a wire saw (alcohol cutting to avoid rust), and polished.
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> They come from the very first 205g specimen of this famous french meteorite, found just after the fall in jully 2011 in Draveil, more than 2 month before the few other fragments were recovered (one part of this broked stone is at MNHN-Paris, my slices come from the other fragment of this hammer) ! So you can be sure you will have the better specimens of this fall here...
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> Most of the specimens found after october are in the MNHN-Paris collection (and displayed at the "Grande Gallerie de l’Évolution"), no-one is avialable to meteorite collector communauty. This page is probably the only chance ever to obatain a specimen!
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> Fabien
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> Fabien Kuntz
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