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Re: Martian meteorite's celebrity buyer
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- Subject: Re: Martian meteorite's celebrity buyer
- From: Ron Baalke <BAALKE@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 22:41:36 GMT
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>"Nic Cage has paid =A330,000 (30 thousand pounds) for a piece of Mars. The
>actor bought the rock, taken from a meteorite which landed in Africa in 1962,
>at an LA auction.
Sounds like Zagami. I hope he got a good price for it (the weight wasn't
listed).
>How did "NASA" authenticate it? (surely it wasn't their meteorite?)
Good question. Robert Haag has the main Zagami mass, who has been
selling off pieces of it over the years.
Ron Baalke
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