[meteorite-list] Kalahari lunar vs NWA 5000

[Raremeteorites]

The Kalahari "Lunar meteorites", if they exist at all at the claimed 
weights, have been managed poorly.  First of all, the weight is rounded off 
to an even 13,500 grams on the larger stone which is suspicious to begin 
with and then the only published image is blurry and overexposed. For all we 
know, these stones were weighed on a bathroom or produce scale and we all 
know how accurate those are or the weight might have been guesstimated since 
the scale might top out at ten kilograms.  There are no flight markings or 
anything that resembles a crust.  The way it is, Kalahari 009 would not meet 
the strict standards of achieving a recognizable world record due to poor 
management, lacking documentation and multiple verified witnesses.

NWA 5000, on the other hand, was weight certified within ten minutes of 
unpacking it at the University of Washington with multiple witnesses 
present.  The occasion was well-documented and photographed.  I spent over 
200 hours creating a casting mold and manufacturing two precise replicas in 
order to preserve details which would be lost the second it was cut.   I 
have worked with NWA 5000 since it was found, spent months single-handedly 
negotiating its purchase, thousands of hours solely micromanaging every 
aspect of it including developing a website that is about the stone and not 
me.  I have never used this stone to shamelessly promote myself; It has 
always been about the stone.

I spent the first six years, before others came onboard, trying to place the 
nearly complete NWA 5000 main mass whole but ran into interference every 
step of the way.  This included three well-known dealers offering the 
Kalahari "lunar" main mass to prospective buyers.  I asked repeatedly for 
them to produce the Kalahari "moon rocks" and even offered to purchase them.

When it came time, the Kalahari "lunar meteorites" were nowhere to be seen 
which is the case of many other fraudulent offerings.

The Shirokovsky Pallasite comes to mind every time I think of the Kalahari 
"Moon Rocks."

Now there is a claim of a puzzle meteorite weighing twice as much. 
Reassemble the weathered out puzzle, have it weight certified and then we 
will see.  Until then, these recent statements mean nothing to be me other 
than another jealous or feeble competitive attempt at the top-rated, 
Legendary NWA 5000 Lunar Meteorite.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence!

Adam