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

[Michael Blood]

> From: Frank Cressy <fcressy at prodigy.net>

> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:31:33 -0700 (PDT)

> To: Meteorite List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>, Eric Wichman

> <eric at meteoritewatch.com>

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

> 

> 

> 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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