[meteorite-list] AD: 53 KG BIG SIKHOTE FOR SALE

[Darren Garrison]

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 07:40:58 +0200, you wrote:


>Dear List

>

>We have just put online  another BIG Sikhote Alin 53 kg.

>

>This is a very interesting individual with both "lithologies" half shrapnel

>and half regmaglypted. This meteorite is in museum conservation state.

>

>This big piece comes with legal documentation including exportation

>autorization from the Fersmann Museum in Moscow.

>

>Please note that this Sikhote is one of the last available one . Exportation

>is now very strict from Russia and big one like thios will become rarer and

>rarer.


Speaking of getting Sikhotes out of Russia, anyone know anything more about what
happened with those seized at a border a few months back?   (I"m not accusing
you of having any of them, just that this message made me think of it).