[meteorite-list] Stolen Canyon Diablo Meteorite To Be Returned

[Mike Jensen]

Hi Michael
It is at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. Here is a fine
article by Martin Horejsi that has the image that I linked to;
http://www.meteorite-times.com/Back_Links/2003/August/Accretion_Desk.htm
Enjoy


Mike


Mike Jensen Meteorites
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Michael Bross <element33 at peconic.net> wrote:

> Hi Mike

>

> From one side, it does actually look like the older rotin/rattan baskets

> with the handle

> that I saw in my childhood in France in the 60s.

> Ring is just more poetic...

>

> What a beauty that other Ring meteorite ! where is it displayed ?

>

> Michael B, France

>

>

>

> From: "Mike Jensen" <meteoriteplaya at gmail.com>

> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:19 PM

> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Stolen Canyon Diablo Meteorite To Be Returned

>

>

>> Hi Michael

>> A basket should hold something so it is hard to see how something with

>> a hole in it would make a good basket. But I guess the problem is

>> there is another well known ring meteorite from Arizona;

>> http://www.meteorite-times.com/Back_Links/2003/August/ad04-tucson.jpg

>> I guess maybe minnie-me ring might work;

>> http://blog.oregonlive.com/houseoffame/2008/08/VernTroyerAP.jpg

>>

>> Mike

>>

>>

>> Mike Jensen Meteorites

>> 16730 E Ada PL

>> Aurora, CO 80017-3137

>> USA

>> 720-949-6220

>> IMCA 4264

>> website: www.jensenmeteorites.com

>>

>>

>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Michael Bross <element33 at peconic.net>

>> wrote:

>>>

>>> Thanks Mike

>>>

>>> Great looking postcards.

>>> I prefer "Ring" to "Basket"...

>>>

>>> Michael B, France

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Jensen"

>>> <meteoriteplaya at gmail.com>

>>> To: "Frank Cressy" <fcressy at prodigy.net>

>>> Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>

>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 4:26 PM

>>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Stolen Canyon Diablo Meteorite To Be

>>> Returned

>>>

>>>

>>> Hi Frank & list

>>> I just put up a page that shows all of the postcards (4) I have of the

>>> "Basket" and once referred to as the "Ring" meteorite. Some of the

>>> postcards mention a weight of 49 pounds and even have the weight

>>> written on the iron in white (paint?). I wonder if that is still on

>>> it?

>>> http://jensenmeteorites.com/Postcards/CanyonDiablo.htm

>>>

>>> Mike

>>>

>>>

>>> Mike Jensen Meteorites

>>> 16730 E Ada PL

>>> Aurora, CO 80017-3137

>>> USA

>>> 720-949-6220

>>> IMCA 4264

>>> website: www.jensenmeteorites.com

>>>

>>>

>>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Frank Cressy <fcressy at prodigy.net>

>>> wrote:

>>>>

>>>> Hello all,

>>>>

>>>> Glad the "basket" meteorite is going home. I remember seeing a post card

>>>> of it and thinking it was way cool. Maybe Mike Jensen has the post card

>>>> in

>>>> his collection.

>>>>

>>>> Cheers,

>>>>

>>>> Frank

>>>>

>>>> --- On Wed, 3/11/09, Eric Wichman <eric at meteoritewatch.com> wrote:

>>>>

>>>> From: Eric Wichman <eric at meteoritewatch.com>

>>>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Stolen Canyon Diablo Meteorite To Be Returned

>>>> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com

>>>> Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 7:16 AM

>>>>

>>>> I found article this in my email box this morning...

>>>>

>>>> "..This story begins not in a galaxy far away, but at a Milwaukee

>>>> rummage

>>>> sale a few years ago. Tom Lynch paid $10 for an odd hunk of metal he

>>>> figured

>>>> might be copper or bronze with potential salvage value.

>>>>

>>>> He had no idea it had dropped from space into the Arizona desert some

>>>> 50,000

>>>> years ago.

>>>>

>>>> "For the last two years, it kept my grandson's basketball hoop from

>>>> blowing over in the yard. It weighs 50 pounds," said Lynch, a retired

>>>> foundry and General Motors worker who lives in South Milwaukee.

>>>>

>>>> Recently, he saw a show about meteorites on the Travel Channel and

>>>> realized

>>>> that's probably what he had. It was curious, he thought, that the thing

>>>> never oxidized in the weather. Following advice from the TV show, he

>>>> held

>>>> a

>>>> magnet up to the object and it stuck.

>>>>

>>>> He took his 4.6 billion-year-old find to the Milwaukee Public Museum and

>>>> then

>>>> to Chicago's Field Museum last month. The scientists got excited. Yes,

>>>> they

>>>> said, it's a meteorite.."

>>>>

>>>> READ THE FULL ARTICLE

>>>> http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/41069052.html

>>>>

>>>>

>>>> Wow! Now that's a cool looking meteorite.

>>>>

>>>> Does anyone on-list remember this piece?

>>>>

>>>> Regards,

>>>> Eric Wichman

>>>> Meteorites USA

>>>>

>>>>

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