[meteorite-list] AD - "Buzzard Coulee"

[Mike Jensen]

Hi Tett Randy and list
Here are some thin section photos...near the bottom of the page... if
you want to guess at a classification. Also includes a photo of
several beautiful stones as well as a nice oriented stone as well.
Just wish I could legally hold one in my hands today.

Mike

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On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:02 PM, tett <tett at rogers.com> wrote:

> Thanks for sharing this Randy.

>

> It looks genuine (and incredibly beautiful!) but a little odd that Alan

> Hildebrand advised that this is an H3/4.

>

> This seams a little fast for classification but perhaps that is what it is.

>  I guess an H3/4 is better than an H 5 or H6.

>

> Cheers!

>

> Mike Tettenborn

>

> Randy Korotev wrote:

>>

>> Collectors:

>>

>> A couple of days ago I was contacted by telephone by Mr. Warren Wiley of

>> Saskatchewan.  (Why me?)  He told me that he'd found "the second largest"

>> stone of the Dec. 2 fireball and that he wanted to sell it.  He seems to be

>> a nice fellow, so I offered to pass his information along to the meteorite

>> list, which was OK with him.  He does not have Internet access.  A friend of

>> his sent a message this morning with the following text and some attached

>> photos, which I've posted on this website:

>>

>> http://artsci.wustl.edu/~rlkorote/warren/

>>

>> Mr Wiley's text:  "This specimen is from the Buzzard Coulee near Lone

>> Rock, Saskatchewan. This is an immaculate masterpiece of atmospheric

>> sculpting. Heavily regmaglyphed, aesthetic specimen. Found December 2, 2008,

>> 35 minutes after sundown. I have video documentation of my 4 day search;

>> where I found it, and associate professor, Alan Hildebrand, coming to our

>> house to authenticate. Alan Hildebrand and other scientists have completed

>> the lab analysis on my chondrite, and it is an (H 3/4) chondrite. Warren

>> Wiley (owner) is putting it up for bids, serious inquiries only. Contact

>> Warren at 1-780-842-4858."

>>

>> Please do not contact me about this offer.  I'm just the messenger and I

>> won't respond to enquiries about this issue.  I'm only doing this because I

>> wanted to see the photos.

>>

>>

>>

>> Randy Korotev

>> Saint Louis, MO

>> korotev at wustl.edu

>>

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