[meteorite-list] Tunguska Meteorites - Real or Not?

From: Ed Deckert <edeckert_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 22:38:53 -0400
Message-ID: <FCA84797412A440888704A9547F45FF6_at_MAINPC>

Hi Sterling,

Thank you for your reply. You confirmed what I thought was the correct
information. She really doesn't know what she is talking about at all.
When I suggested it was Sikhote-Alin, she told me "no, SA contains olivine"
and that I was mistaken. I tried one last time to tell her that SA is not a
Pallasite, but again, I was wrong and she was right.

You just can't get through to some people when their minds are locked
tightly closed.

Ed


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Ed Deckert" <edeckert at triad.rr.com>;
<Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Tunguska Meteorites - Real or Not?


>> was she... sold a bill of goods?
>
> A bill of something, perhaps not goods.
>
> No iron meteorites from Tunguska. No
> stone meteorites from Tunguska. No
> meteorites of any kind from Tunguska.
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
> ----------------------------------------------------
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ed Deckert" <edeckert at triad.rr.com>
> To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 9:21 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Tunguska Meteorites - Real or Not?
>
>
>>
>> Hello listees,
>>
>> I attended a fundraising event and there was a small, iron meteorite
>> specimen that had been made into a pendant. The person who donated this
>> item announced that it was a meteorite specimen that was recovered from
>> the Tunguska event.
>>
>> I looked at the item, and it looked VERY much like Sikhote-Alin. It was
>> hard to tell if it was a small individual, or shrapnel that had been
>> tumbled to smooth it out.
>>
>> She was very insulted when I suggested this was likely a piece of
>> Sikhote-Alin. She is Russian, and she purchased it from a Russian
>> gentleman. That was good enough for her.
>>
>> Am I wrong? Have there been iron meteorites resembling Sikhote-Alin
>> collected from Tunguska? Or, was she and/or her friend sold a bill of
>> goods?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ed
>>
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Received on Tue 05 Apr 2011 10:38:53 PM PDT