[meteorite-list] Meteorite Fall Over Eastern Turkish Village: Poor Villagers Make Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars After Black Stones From Space Rain Down

From: Michael Farmer <mike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 18:38:08 -0800
Message-ID: <22615B37-5221-4C42-8DAE-81D50F2FBD96_at_meteoriteguy.com>

Wow.

Michael Farmer

> On Nov 15, 2015, at 3:08 PM, Shawn Alan via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Ruben and John
>
> I think with any fall it will be over priced but in a few months the
> value should fall. To be honest there isn't any thing special with the
> actual fall. The only thing that might cause this to go up in price is
> some scientist coins up a new chemical in this type of meteorite.
> Howardites are lead to be from from Vest. Not including HED/ Vesta
> meteorite there are over 942 meteorites from there. How many more do
> collecters need to collect from one body. Like for me, all I need is one
> lunar meteorite and only one or 2 meteorites from Mars. At any rate, it
> will be exciting to see the write up and anything else becomes of this
> fall.
>
> SA
>
> Shawn Alan
> IMCA 1633
> ebay store http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633ny/m.html
> Website http://meteoritefalls.com
>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Fall Over Eastern Turkish
>> Village: Poor Villagers Make Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars After
>> Black Stones From Space Rain Down
>> From: Ruben Garcia <rubengarcia85382 at gmail.com>
>> Date: Sun, November 15, 2015 5:25 pm
>> To: Shawn Alan <shawnalan at meteoritefalls.com>
>> Cc: Meteorite Central <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> From what I hear it's mostly because it's very expensive - even out in
>> the field. I just spent 10's of thousands of dollars for a handful of
>> nice but very small 100 % crusted individuals.
>>
>> Most are already sold, but I'll post the last few of them for sale very soon!
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Shawn Alan via Meteorite-list
>> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>>> Hello Listers
>>>
>>> Looks like there is a lot of the material coming from that fall :)
>>> if villagers have received over $200,000.
>>>
>>> Shawn Alan
>>> IMCA 1633
>>> ebay store http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633ny/m.html
>>> Website http://meteoritefalls.com
>>>
>>> Meteorite Fall Over Eastern Turkish Village: Poor Villagers Make
>>> Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars After Black Stones From Space Rain Down
>>>
>>> "When a meteor exploded over a village in eastern Turkey in September,
>>> residents were frightened by the sound and the illuminated sky. In the
>>> weeks that followed, they started picking up small bits of black rock,
>>> but considered them insignificant. Then, with the visit of an academic
>>> from a university in Istanbul, they learned the tiny stones they?d
>>> been finding scattered across their land were a financial godsend.
>>>
>>> Last week alone, collectors from Germany and the U.S. spent some
>>> $200,000 on the meteorites, according to Mehmet Nezir Erg?n, one of the
>>> villagers. ?I hope everyone finds some. Poor people are always looking
>>> for pieces. They need them more than we do,? Erg?n told the Do?an
>>> News Agency, according to Today's Zaman."
>>>
>>> Source:
>>> http://www.ibtimes.com/meteorite-fall-over-eastern-turkish-village-poor-villagers-make-hundreds-thousands-2175990
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Rock On!
>>
>> Ruben Garcia
>> http://www.MrMeteorite.com
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