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[Jim Kinney]

It's on her bucket list. She knows the owner of the mailbox that took the
meteorite in Claxton in 84.
On Feb 5, 2012 8:15 PM, "Bob Toxen" <transam at verysecurelinux.com> wrote:

> For meteorites, she should visit the Natural History Museum in London.
>
> They have a collection of 5,000 meteorites among their 300,000 minerals,
> including the only meteorite to hit a car -- in my home town to screw up
> my faith in probability.  It's a site to behold:
>
>
> http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/collections/departmental-collections/mineralogy-collections/index.html
>
> Bob
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:42:27PM -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > she doesn't WANT diamonds!
> >
> > and yes, meteorites are often as expensive as diamonds! She saw the one
> > come down in Georgia about 20 years ago and found a 0.5g sliver for $125.
> >
> > The ones she REALLY wants are the Mars and Moon origin meteorites.
> Although
> > I'm sure a bit of asteroid or comet gravel would also make her happy.
> >
> > She's looking at pulling strings to get access to the prior studied
> > Apollo-missions moon rocks for grad student geologists to use.
> >
> > Some people have only a glass case to show off their family china. We
> have
> > one that shows off rocks :-D
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
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> > > On 01/11/2012 12:16 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Scott Castaline
> > > > <skotchman at gmail.com <mailto:skotchman at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > If you're my age you probably wouldn't live long enough to do that
> > > > much laundry & dishwashing. You might have to get her a rock along
> > > > with all of that, after all diamons are a girl's BF, aren't they?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > She's a geologist and knows the true value of diamonds (nearly as
> > > > common as sand) so I'm off the hook for that :-)
> > > >
> > > Not really, it would be harder to pass off Zircon (not sure if I
> > > spelled that right) for a really big BF
> > > > Emeralds and meteorites, however...
> > > >
> > > Good luck on the meteorite(s) they're kind of hard to catch
> > > > -- -- James P. Kinney III
> > > >
> > > > As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted
> > > > to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can
> > > > do as they please, and those who survive will be left to
> > > > contemplate the outcome. - ////2011 Noam Chomsky
> > > >
> > > > http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/ ////
> > > >
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> > --
> > --
> > James P. Kinney III
> >
> > As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
> > consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
> > please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
> > - *2011 Noam Chomsky
> >
> > http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
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