[meteorite-list] AD - Draveil meteorite (France) : 16 complete slices and an endcut !

[Michael Farmer]

Ask the Chinese, they have Zunhua in Beijing.

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> On Oct 18, 2013, at 5:53 PM, John Cabassi <john at cabassi.net> wrote:
> 
> Yes Mike, I agree.  But might I add what the hell is happening to
> Zunhua? Thrown into the bowels of dark underground museum storage to
> be forgot about.
> 
> Just asking.
> 
> Cheers
> John
> 
>> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Michael Farmer <mike at meteoriteguy.com> wrote:
>> Why hasn't this meteorite been classified and put in the met bulletin?
>> Why is the museum not doing this?
>> Michael Farmer
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Oct 18, 2013, at 2:21 PM, Fabien Kuntz <wwmeteorites at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
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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.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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...
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Fabien
>>> 
>>> 
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