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2011 Tucson Gem & Mineral Show
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The Big Kahuna is attending the Tucson show from Jan 30-Feb 6, and will post updates with pictures and information from showrooms which sprawl across most of the city in multiple venues hosted by hotels, or empty lots in giant tents. Stay tuned, and if you're in town, you can give me a ring at (808) 640-9161.
Blood Auction • VFW Hall, Feb 5, 2011
A jewel of a chondrite I scored
Necessity is the Mother of Invention
After hours in room 185
Some nice material at the show
Muonionalusta meteorites offered by T&M Meteorites
Display cabinet of KD Meteorites
Beautiful Brenham half stone of Keith & Dana Jenkerson
Morrow Cty L6 found in Oregon, in ET's showroom ... killer stone!
D'orbigny angrite in ET's showroom, inset of inclusion
Dick Pugh, CML scientist who worked on Morrow Cty w/ ET
Perfectly oriented Pasamonte eucrite in ET's showroom
Berthoud euc; visit ET and Patrick to see this beauty!
Sikhote Alin in a tree, at Impactika with Anne Black
5kg Libyan Desert Glass on display at Impactika showroom
Aerolite Meteorites showroom, calm before the storm
Jim Shorten, Jana Becker, Brad Kern, Lisa Marie Morrison, John Humphries, and Big Kahuna
Steve Arnold with a Brenham slice encased in oil filled frame
Moritz Karl, Steve Arnold, Jim Shorten, Captn Blood, Eric Olson
BK and Eric Olson holding Darryl Pitt's new iron - Rippin!
A possible type 3 that I passed, too much matrix oxidation
Flandreau Science Center Allende meteorite exhibit
Flandreau Science Center Murchison meteorite exhibit
Flandreau Science Center Holbrook meteorite exhibit
Henburys and Mundrabillas in Tom Kapitany's showroom
Bob Haag with some nice Esquel pallasite slices
French meteorite hunter comic book protagonist Robert Maag
This 307g thumbprinted specimen fell April 6, 2008
BK, Bones and Haag looking at irons over brewskies
Carine and Bruno of Earth's Memory
Nogoya CM2 large crusted fragment
L'Aigle 108.04g crusted fragment from NMH France
A very shapely 8kg Henbury in Bruno and Carine's showroom
Jim Baxter, Bob Holmes and Eric Olson
Lunch at Martin's with BK, Captn Blood, Bob Holmes, Fritz
Geoff and his Garbage Pail Kids trading card
Bob Holmes presents Geoff with his birthday gift
Josh and Buddy Eisler of Cosmic Cutlery
Largest mass of Miles meteorite in Cosmic Cutlery showroom
Impact heat altered Gibeon with mechanically distorted Widmanstatten
A sweet shock melt breccia stone soon to be classified
IMCA dinner at La Fuente restaurant
IMCA dinner at La Fuente restaurant
IMCA Pres Anne Black and drawing winner Fern & Bea Geaudreaux
Yummy desert pallasite
Ahuge Fukang slice in the Cosmic Cutlery showroom
Eduardo Jawerbaum and Maria Haas at the IMCA dinner
Larry Lebofsky and Dolores Hill at the IMCA dinner
Linda Martin, BK, ? and Bob Cucciara
Peter and Jason Utas, with Marlin and Pam Cilz
Jim Shorten, Dave Gheesling, BK, John Humphries, Russ Finney, Keith Jenkerson in KD Meteorites room.
Ken & Matthew Martin, Fern & Bea Geaudreaux, Jim Shorten
Michael Blood being interviewed by Ruben Garcia
11th Annual Meteorite Mayhem Birthday Bash • Sky Bar, Feb 4, 2011
Ruben and Jim Woodell behind the controls of the webcast
Geoff and Steve on stage, before a good sized crowd at Sky Bar
Harvey Award recipient Matt Morgan
Harvey Award recipient Suzanne Morrison
Harvey Award recipient Eric Wichman
Harvey Award recipient Richard Kowalski
Ke Zuokai (Zunhua guy) with the Big Kahuna
Steve Arnold inspects Ryan Dillon's killer Mundrabilla
Damn you Sammy Dog and your tasty toppings!
Leigh Anne and Ruben
Jim Tobin, Paul Harris and Ruben
Steve Arnold and a surprised Ruben
Birthday boy Geoff Notkin with Blaine Reed getting in the picture
Leigh Anne and Mohamed Sbai, interviewed by Ruben Garcia
Big Kahuna and Captain Blood
Dave Schultz and his gorgeous Mifflin individual find-congrats!
Micaela Davidsson found a Gold Basin meteorite in her cake!
Before the auction started, bidders can look at offerings
Bidding begins on the floor
View of the floor from the right side of the hall
Quite a few people attended the auction this year
I sat with Jason and Peter, next to Thomas Davidsson
More action from the auction
Jason Utas with a score from the show (not an auction item)
Hmmmm ...
John Kashuba is a kanaka
Big Kahuna had fun in Tucson and will be back in Hilo, surfing, jamming music, and preparing some of the best meteorites for collections around the world.

Aloha nui, malama pono, me kealoha pumehana, a hui hou!

Bryan Scarborough and Greg Catterton