[meteorite-list] Anyone know a 'Jude Noonan'?

[Galactic Stone & Ironworks]

Hi Randy, Marco and List -

I'd refer the pest to one of these nutballs, and let them amuse each other :

http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/oldschool-av

http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/hockpooh

Perhaps they can validate each other's junk specimens. ;)

Best regards,

MikeG


On 6/26/09, Randy Korotev <korotev at wustl.edu> wrote:

> Dear Marco:

>

> I have been contacted ~30 times over the last year by someone at that

> e-mail address who identifies himself as James Rice.  He sends lots

> of photos of things he identifies as "imbedded spherules," "lapilli,"

> "fusion crust," and "widmanstatten" in his rocks, which he claims are

> from Amsterdam.  I urged him to get a chemical analysis of his

> rocks.  He did, and he is now combing the lunar literature.  He has

> found irrelevant similarities in concentrations of some trace

> elements in his samples and some lunar meteorites.  He completely

> ignores my interpretation of his data - The composition is consistent

> with massive iron oxide (hematite?) with a little quartz, limestone,

> and maybe clay.  I've told him several times that the rocks are not

> meteorites.  He's one of those guys who just keeps looking for

> evidence in favor of his hypothesis while ignoring the evidence

> against it.  I don't respond to inquiries any more, so I guess that's

> why he's contacted you!

>

> Randy Korotev

>

>

>

> At 10:04 26-06-09 Friday, you wrote:

>>Hi,

>>

>>Anyone here getting mails from a 'Jude Noonan', e-mail bonk381 at hotmail.com

>> ?

>>

>>He/she sent me pictures and apparent geochemical "descriptions" of a

>>stone, claimed to have been found in Amsterdam. He alternately

>>suggests it is an impact rock or a moon rock.

>>

>>The whole is very fishy. However, in many ways it reminds me of that

>>Swedish dude Lindfors who naged us a while ago. So I wonder whether

>>he is at it again, under another name.

>>

>>- Marco

>>

>>-----

>>Dr Marco (asteroid 183294) Langbroek

>>Dutch Meteor Society (DMS)

>>

>>e-mail: dms at marcolangbroek.nl

>>http://www.dmsweb.org

>>http://www.marcolangbroek.nl

>>-----

>

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