[meteorite-list] Stolen South African Meteorites with photos/weights now added

drtanuki drtanuki at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 28 10:05:39 EDT 2014


List,  If you are offered any of the below by someone you dont know please alert  Kevin Cole via email below.  
Thank you!  Dirk Ross...Tokyo

http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2014/03/south-africa-meteorite-collection-of.html


----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Kevin Cole <kcole at elmuseum.za.org>
To: drtanuki <drtanuki at yahoo.com> 
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 9:12 PM
Subject: stolen meteorites East London Museum, South Africa



Dear Dirk,

Thank you for your call this morning - much appreciated!

Natural History
East London Museum

Meteorites stolen from the ELM Foyer Natural History display 25th March 2014:

Reference Description Weight 

Keetmanshoop iron  Large encrusted iron Approx. 20 kg 
Korra Korrabes Polished slice 101 grams 
Gibeon slice Iron sliced and etched to show lines 818 grams 
Monze Complete stone 136 grams 
Thuarte Fusion crust with end piece having a cut face 60 grams 
Sikhote Small complete iron Approx. 100 grams 
North West Africa (NWA) 869 Whole slice 224 grams



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