[ale] 'Rocks' was: RHEL-6.1 system with 4 CPU sockets and 1TB of memory

William Bagwell rb211 at tds.net
Wed Jan 11 13:23:39 EST 2012


Does she collect meteorwrongs too? I'm talking Shirokovsky / Mendota / 
Plateau Putorano class 'wrongs' here, not ordinary slag or hematite 
concreations.

Just happen to have one that I truly believe will be in the big leagues if 
I can find a cheap way to get it sliced. 
-- 
William

On Wednesday 11 January 2012, 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




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