[meteorite-list] Stolen Canyon Diablo Meteorite To Be Returned

From: Mike Jensen <meteoriteplaya_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:45:58 -0600
Message-ID: <6f9da8300903110845s50a66ef8m156b49b99908f99_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi All
I was actually contacted about this meteorite to help confirm that it
was stolen. Here is the reference I had that was used to prove that it
was a hot rock;
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/seri/Metic/0004//0000251.000.html?high=49b7dad54e18398
 or
http://tinyurl.com/bpvomy

The short article also mentions that several others were stolen around
the same time from other institutions as well.
I sure wonder if any of them were/will ever be recovered.

Mike


Mike Jensen Meteorites
16730 E Ada PL
Aurora, CO 80017-3137
USA
720-949-6220
IMCA 4264
website: www.jensenmeteorites.com


On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Mike Jensen <meteoriteplaya at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Frank & list
> I just put up a page that shows all of the postcards (4) I have of the
> "Basket" and once referred to as the "Ring" meteorite. Some of the
> postcards mention a weight of 49 pounds and even have the weight
> written on the iron in white (paint?). I wonder if that is still on
> it?
> http://jensenmeteorites.com/Postcards/CanyonDiablo.htm
>
> Mike
>
>
> Mike Jensen Meteorites
> 16730 E Ada PL
> Aurora, CO 80017-3137
> USA
> 720-949-6220
> IMCA 4264
> website: www.jensenmeteorites.com
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Frank Cressy <fcressy at prodigy.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Glad the "basket" meteorite is going home. ?I remember seeing a post card of it and thinking it was way cool. ?Maybe Mike Jensen has the post card in his collection.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Frank
>>
>> --- On Wed, 3/11/09, Eric Wichman <eric at meteoritewatch.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Eric Wichman <eric at meteoritewatch.com>
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Stolen Canyon Diablo Meteorite To Be Returned
>> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 7:16 AM
>>
>> I found article this in my email box this morning...
>>
>> "..This story begins not in a galaxy far away, but at a Milwaukee rummage
>> sale a few years ago. Tom Lynch paid $10 for an odd hunk of metal he figured
>> might be copper or bronze with potential salvage value.
>>
>> He had no idea it had dropped from space into the Arizona desert some 50,000
>> years ago.
>>
>> "For the last two years, it kept my grandson's basketball hoop from
>> blowing over in the yard. It weighs 50 pounds," said Lynch, a retired
>> foundry and General Motors worker who lives in South Milwaukee.
>>
>> Recently, he saw a show about meteorites on the Travel Channel and realized
>> that's probably what he had. It was curious, he thought, that the thing
>> never oxidized in the weather. Following advice from the TV show, he held a
>> magnet up to the object and it stuck.
>>
>> He took his 4.6 billion-year-old find to the Milwaukee Public Museum and then
>> to Chicago's Field Museum last month. The scientists got excited. Yes, they
>> said, it's a meteorite.."
>>
>> READ THE FULL ARTICLE
>> http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/41069052.html
>>
>>
>> Wow! Now that's a cool looking meteorite.
>>
>> Does anyone on-list remember this piece?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Eric Wichman
>> Meteorites USA
>>
>>
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Received on Wed 11 Mar 2009 11:45:58 AM PDT