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

From: Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 22:40:34 -0400
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Sales of Tunguska meteorites and olivine-bearing Sikhotes are
suspended until further notice....

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On 4/5/11, Ed Deckert <edeckert at triad.rr.com> wrote:
> 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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