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30 March 2010

Reported Pieces of 2008 TC3 Up for Sale on eBay

Multiple eBay items are available that report to be pieces of the Almahata Sitta 2008 TC3 meteorite that fell in 2008 in the Sudan.

Item number: 260576363419. The first item (item location: Oberwesel-Loreley Middle Rhine, Germany) seems to be from Stephan u. Gabriele Decker (www.donnersteine.de, seller: donnersteine):
Link: eBay item (°ALMAHATA SITTA~METEORITE°ASTEROID 2008 TC3°ULTRA RAR°!)

Item number: 260576516106. This second item (item location: Brooklyn, NY, US) seems to be from Shawn Alan (seller: photophlow):
Link: eBay item (Almahata Sitta 2008 TC3 meteorite micro Ureilite)

Item number: 380219553638. The third item (item location: Bern, Switzerland) (seller: pema9):
Link: eBay item (Meteorite ALMAHATA SITTA aka TC3 1st observed in Space!)

Item number: 280485715930. The fourth item (item location: Algenstedt, Germany) (seller: abdulalhazzra):
Link: eBay item (Almahata Sitta - polymict Ureilite-an - TC3)

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