<p>It's on her bucket list. She knows the owner of the mailbox that took the meteorite in Claxton in 84.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 5, 2012 8:15 PM, "Bob Toxen" <<a href="mailto:transam@verysecurelinux.com">transam@verysecurelinux.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
For meteorites, she should visit the Natural History Museum in London.<br>
<br>
They have a collection of 5,000 meteorites among their 300,000 minerals,<br>
including the only meteorite to hit a car -- in my home town to screw up<br>
my faith in probability. It's a site to behold:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/collections/departmental-collections/mineralogy-collections/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/collections/departmental-collections/mineralogy-collections/index.html</a><br>
<br>
Bob<br>
<br>
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:42:27PM -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> she doesn't WANT diamonds!<br>
><br>
> and yes, meteorites are often as expensive as diamonds! She saw the one<br>
> come down in Georgia about 20 years ago and found a 0.5g sliver for $125.<br>
><br>
> The ones she REALLY wants are the Mars and Moon origin meteorites. Although<br>
> I'm sure a bit of asteroid or comet gravel would also make her happy.<br>
><br>
> She's looking at pulling strings to get access to the prior studied<br>
> Apollo-missions moon rocks for grad student geologists to use.<br>
><br>
> Some people have only a glass case to show off their family china. We have<br>
> one that shows off rocks :-D<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Scott Castaline <<a href="mailto:skotchman@gmail.com">skotchman@gmail.com</a>>wrote:<br>
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> > On 01/11/2012 12:16 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Scott Castaline<br>
> > > <<a href="mailto:skotchman@gmail.com">skotchman@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:skotchman@gmail.com">skotchman@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
> > ><br>
> > > If you're my age you probably wouldn't live long enough to do that<br>
> > > much laundry & dishwashing. You might have to get her a rock along<br>
> > > with all of that, after all diamons are a girl's BF, aren't they?<br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > > She's a geologist and knows the true value of diamonds (nearly as<br>
> > > common as sand) so I'm off the hook for that :-)<br>
> > ><br>
> > Not really, it would be harder to pass off Zircon (not sure if I<br>
> > spelled that right) for a really big BF<br>
> > > Emeralds and meteorites, however...<br>
> > ><br>
> > Good luck on the meteorite(s) they're kind of hard to catch<br>
> > > -- -- James P. Kinney III<br>
> > ><br>
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> please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.<br>
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