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Mar 30, 2009: Space Junk
There's been a lot of space junk in the news lately, but that's man made junk.
This space junk is pre-man made junk, in fact it's pre-man.
Tom Lynch paid $10 for an 50 lb hunk of metal at a garage sale and used it to keep his grandson's basketball hoop from blowing over.
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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. He got one offer from a collector for $10,000, but soon had a sense from Internet research that a meteorite with this unique basket shape might fetch closer to $100,000. Before he could get too excited, a call came from Jim DuFoe, a minerals expert he had consulted. Bad news, DuFoe said. The meteorite was stolen in 1968 from the Meteor Crater Visitor Center near Flagstaff. He had himself a hot rock. |
Mr Lynch's reaction?
| "We can't sell what we don't own." |
He plans to drive it out to Flagstaff and return it personally.
Think they'll let him in for free?
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SPUCK Monday Mar 30 06:33 AM
Yep, cause he could've diced it up.. They sell for much more in leeetle pieces.
ZenGum Monday Mar 30 07:23 AM
Even 50lbs of scrap iron is worth a bit .
TheMercenary Monday Mar 30 08:09 AM
" ...call came from Jim DuFoe, a minerals expert he had consulted. Bad news, DuFoe said. The meteorite was stolen in 1968 from the Meteor Crater Visitor Center near Flagstaff."
And just how the hell did he know it was stolen from there at that time? I know how they can figure out where it came from, but how did they know it was 1968? Screw that, sell it. Highest bidda...
Pie Monday Mar 30 09:28 AM
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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
And just how the hell did he know it was stolen from there at that time? I know how they can figure out where it came from, but how did they know it was 1968? Screw that, sell it. Highest bidda...
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They had it in 1967, it was gone in 1969?Does honesty figure anywhere in your world, Merc? Just askin'.
TheMercenary Monday Mar 30 09:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Pie
They had it in 1967, it was gone in 1969?Does honesty figure anywhere in your world, Merc? Just askin'. |
How did they know they had it was my question. Looks like a pretty big place to know were a single bit of a million bits of rock came from.
glatt Monday Mar 30 09:45 AM
There's a small museum/visitor's center there. It was in the museum.
Pie Monday Mar 30 09:45 AM
Oh, sorry.
They have a museum with proper displays -- the meteor wasn't just laying about in the crater!
TheMercenary Monday Mar 30 09:48 AM
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Originally Posted by glatt
There's a small museum/visitor's center there. It was in the museum.
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Gravdigr Monday Mar 30 04:08 PM
"What's that you say? Meteorite? No, no don't know anything about any meteorite. You must be looking for another Tom Lynch."
Meanwhile, back on eBay..."For sale by eBay user 'notthattomlynch'...
newtimer Monday Mar 30 07:18 PM
...and now his poor grandson's basketball hoop will blow over again. Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children???
monster Monday Mar 30 09:59 PM
paging Monsieur Mangetout, recipe needed in the IOTD section...
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