Meteorites becoming hot commodity
AUG 06, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024566
New Scientist : Researchers are struggling to combat the growing global trade in meteorites. Recently, Mario Di Martino of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics in Turin, Italy, noticed that the Kamil crater in the Egyptian desert, which his team has been studying, had been infiltrated and specimens taken. Samples of the Gebel Kamil meteorite have since shown up at the annual market in Ensisheim, France. Some meteorite samples can be very important to science; yet, the scientists scrambling to buy them have been criticized for fueling the very trade that they’re trying to combat.
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