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Re: A Tektite Meteorite?!!?



did they mention what town this tektite meteorite slammed into??

Mark

At 03:36 PM 7/14/98 EDT, WBranchsb@aol.com wrote:
>Hello Dan (and List).  Let's have some fun!
>
>> How many errors can you find?
>>  
>>  There is a picture of what looks like a raisin shaped black rock with
>>  dimples on a stand.  The base of the stand sports a plaque 
>>  that reads " GENUINE FRAGMENT OF A TEKTITE METEORITE".
>
>Obvious but common error.
>>  
>>  The ad headline reads: "Capture an interstellar traveler"
>>  
>>  The ad copy reads:
>>  
>>  -------------------------
>>  It slammed into Earth in a fiery cataclysm a thousand years ago.
>
>Very precise measurement (must be a small standard deviation).  The ad copy
>writer must be a proponant of the lunar theory origin.
>
>>The distance it journeyed stretched between the very stars.
>
>Maybe a reference to Hollywood, CA?
>
>>  What wonders did it witness?  What strange civilizations noted its
>>  passing?
>
>Hollywood, CA!!
>>  
>>  As collectors snatch them up, genuine meteorite fragments are getting
>>  rarer and rarer.
>
>Debatable (but lets not do it, okay).
>
>> After all, it's not every day that a visitor  from 2,000 light-years away
>crashlands on the planet.
>
>Oh, I don't know.  Ask the folks in Roswell, NM.
>
>> Held in real goldplated calipers, authentic Tektite Meteorite is strikingly
>>  presented.
>
>See point #1 above (the stuff about the gold plated calipers is most likely
>the truthfull part).
>
>>  Rising above its marbled and wooden base, it graces any
>>  collection, any place of honor in your home or office.
>
>In my home, I once sucked one up in a vacuum cleaner.  Try it, they are
>actually pretty tough!  It is for sale at a premium due to the extra "flight
>markings."
>
>>  A powerful gift - for whom among us has not looked up at the sky and
>>  wondered?
>
>Wondering in the winter: "Will summer never come?"
>Wondering the the summer" "When will winter arrive?"
>
>>  Quantities Limited.  Retails for $150 at the Houston Space Museum.
>
>Never been there but if it is part of a gov't agency then probably a
>reasonable price (sorry Ron ;-).
>
>>  Yours for just $79.95!
>
>My vacuumed one is less!  I know, I'll have an auction . . .
>
>-Walter
>
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