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Posted by: PhilCo126 Nov 9 2006, 05:56 PM

Well to me it certainly looks great ...
http://spaceflori.com/product_info.php?products_id=909&osCsid=a18e0ae846fe741441abbd94d52ab4e3


What do You think ?

Posted by: ElkGroveDan Nov 9 2006, 06:43 PM

I had to wait until I got my order in to post my opinion.

Yes. I believe this is exactly what it purports to be. So I coughed up the 80 bucks. Thanks for the link. I'm going to give it to my 12-year-old daughter who just loves geology, astronomy and space exploration (I wonder why?)

Posted by: JTN Nov 20 2006, 11:27 PM

QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Nov 9 2006, 05:56 PM)

Posted by: PhilCo126 Nov 21 2006, 09:30 AM

It was sold... bouhgt by ElkGroveDan ... it was a piece of rock from

Posted by: ElkGroveDan Nov 21 2006, 04:25 PM

Just got it yesterday. It's a piece of the Dhofar meteorite. Don't blame me. There were more than one, and my guess is that we have plenty of lurkers around here. What amazes me is that if this thing is a gram that I bought for $80, and the Dhofar meterorite was 1056 grams, someone is placing the value of this priceless object at just $84,000! (though my understanding is that they only sold 800 grams of it).

It's pretty small. Bigger than a sand grain, but smaller than a pebble. It's mounted on an 8x10" print of an image from Spirit of Husband Hill.

The frustrating thing is getting skeptics to believe this is what it purports to be. The company seems reputable, so I'm going to assume it's an actual piece of the Dhofar object. Most friends I talk to will concede that much. But somehow intelligent people who accept the amazing science behind DNA identification can't accept the line of reasoning that places this object as originating from Mars.

Oh well. I'll sit back and enjoy it with my family on Christmas morning..

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:OVxX2Hd_nYYJ:spaceflori.com/product_info.php%3FcPath%3D3_16%26products_id%3D909%26language%3Dde+site:http://spaceflori.com+Dhofar&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a