[meteorite-list] NWA & Saharan meteorites

From: David Weir <dweir_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:42:02 2004
Message-ID: <3A6A1870.B1810687_at_cegi.net>

Hello Richard and Roland,

We Americans also approved of our government spending $24 billion to
bring back 381 kg of Moon rock, or $63,000/gram. Now some Americans have
to spend even more of our hard earned money to have a piece of a Moon
rock to own personally. Go figure?

David

SaharaTeam_at_aol.com wrote:
>
> Dear list,
>
> the whole American people approves the cost of $2,000,000 per year for the
> Antarctica program for meteorites recovery. This is for collect, analyze and
> safeguard of meteorites (74 kg listed last year, around $20,000 per
> meteorite).
>
> As American collectors, your interest for similar meteorites from Sahara
> doesn't exceed $150/kg.
>
> Something wrong!
>
> Antarctica/Sahara comparison:
> http://members.aol.com/SaharaMet/meteorite/data/Ant-Sah.html
>
> Our two cents
> Richard & Roland Pelisson
> SaharaMet
>
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Received on Sat 20 Jan 2001 06:00:00 PM PST