[meteorite-list] NWA 7397 correction

From: Michael Farmer <mike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:32:57 -0700
Message-ID: <F7E6786A-AD9E-48ED-B02E-953DC7FFC4B8_at_meteoriteguy.com>

Since my pieces were bought from the very same people who sold the original mass, and they have more, I am pretty confident that they are selling me the same thing:).
I am sorry that more material comes out, it tends to happen in NWA. It is a story we have seen played out for more than a decade. Once a valuable meteorite is found in the desert and sold, the nomads scour the area and often more shows up.
Look at the current "Black Beauty" saga for further information.
Michael Farmer
 

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On Jan 28, 2013, at 11:22 PM, "Sean T. Murray" <stm at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> [Posting on behalf of Dave Gheesling, who is traveling...]
>
> A Tucson dealer recently posted an email to the list and on Facebook an offering of small specimens of NWA 7397. However, backplate.net owns the entire mass of NWA 7397?a single specimen covered with fusion crust that weighed 2130 grams prior to being cut. To date backplate.net has not sold or exchanged any material.
>
> A recent find of smaller, putatively paired stones has been made, and while a pairing seems probable, to the best of our knowledge none of that material has been formally classified and confirmed. Regardless, such material cannot be marketed as NWA 7397.
>
> See www.backplate.net for images of NWA 7397. Post-Tucson we will post a small number of extraordinary complete slices available for sale?as well as a number of stellar partial slices that will be priced competitively to the small incomplete stones that are purportedly from the same event.
>
> Look forward to seeing everyone in Tucson soon...
>
> All the best,
> Dave
>
> [C/O Sean Murray]
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