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

From: Michael Bross <element33_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:58:34 +0100
Message-ID: <0c6d01c9a26a$9de2cf50$a11c215a_at_Inspiron8200>

Hi Mike

>From one side, it does actually look like the older rotin/rattan baskets
with the handle
that I saw in my childhood in France in the 60s.
Ring is just more poetic...

What a beauty that other Ring meteorite ! where is it displayed ?

Michael B, France



From: "Mike Jensen" <meteoriteplaya at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Stolen Canyon Diablo Meteorite To Be Returned


> Hi Michael
> A basket should hold something so it is hard to see how something with
> a hole in it would make a good basket. But I guess the problem is
> there is another well known ring meteorite from Arizona;
> http://www.meteorite-times.com/Back_Links/2003/August/ad04-tucson.jpg
> I guess maybe minnie-me ring might work;
> http://blog.oregonlive.com/houseoffame/2008/08/VernTroyerAP.jpg
>
> Mike
>
>
> Mike Jensen Meteorites
> 16730 E Ada PL
> Aurora, CO 80017-3137
> USA
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> website: www.jensenmeteorites.com
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Michael Bross <element33 at peconic.net>
> wrote:
>> Thanks Mike
>>
>> Great looking postcards.
>> I prefer "Ring" to "Basket"...
>>
>> Michael B, France
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Jensen"
>> <meteoriteplaya at gmail.com>
>> To: "Frank Cressy" <fcressy at prodigy.net>
>> Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 4:26 PM
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Stolen Canyon Diablo Meteorite To Be
>> Returned
>>
>>
>> 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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