[meteorite-list] Larry's Holbrook Holy Grail Find and BobHaag's Venus Stone

From: R. N. Hartman <rhartman04_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:50:04 -0800
Message-ID: <003c01c756b2$444fb3f0$6401a8c0_at_ronij3wi4b7cpv>

Alex wrote <<NEVER EVER cut specimen like these just for the sake of getting
some classification data! >>

Then cut the cast instead. :=)

(He!He!)

Ron

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexander Seidel" <gsac at gmx.net>
To: <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>; <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Larry's Holbrook Holy Grail Find and BobHaag's
Venus Stone


I am also the lucky owner of one of those Venus stone casts from Bob Haag.
Beautiful! And you know why he called this one the "Venus stone"..?? :-)

This is one very special nice example of a flight-oriented meteorite, where
the rule applies: NEVER EVER cut specimen like these just for the sake of
getting some classification data! Why? Because a cut would destroy the
"character" of the piece!

And so we don?t know what?s inside this beautiful meteorite, we can only
make some assumptions from non-destructive observation.

Alex
Berlin/Germany


-------- Original-Nachricht --------
Datum: 22 Feb 2007 18:11:00 UT
Von: bernd.pauli at paulinet.de
An: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
CC:
Betreff: [meteorite-list] Larry\'s Holbrook Holy Grail Find and Bob Haag\'s
Venus Stone

> Hello Moni and List,
>
> Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Dave Andrews wrote to the List:
>
> Hi List, The Adamana or "Venus Stone" was found in the Adamana landfill.
> Near the Petrified Forest/Painted Desert boundary. (about 15 miles NE of
> Holbrook on I-40). Evidently someone just didn't want it anymore or didn't
> know what they had. It was found by a rancher target practicing with his
> 0.22 rifle. With the selling of the piece to Bob, I heard he purchased a
> new mobile home to live in. I have one of the casts, and it looks very
> real.
> It looks so real, that I think I'll put it up on eBay with a $15,000
> reserve.
> (just kidding :o) Regards, Dave
>
>
> I got one of these casts too many years ago and they do look real!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Bernd
>
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