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Re: Meteorite Collecting

  Hi Ken and list,
   

At 09:06 PM 6/16/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Gentlemen,

>Am I confused?  I thought this was a forum about the collection, and
>scientific value of meteorites and their study. Instead, there seems to
>be a frenzy to be able to own something in order to "one-up" other
>collectors and to be able to say, I have something which you don't, or
>perhaps we just have a number of people who are only building
>collections with the view to making an "intelligent" investment now with
>a view to bigger resale values in the future.

   Maybe "collector's pride" is a better term. Although I HATE to inject
another rediculous PC term into the world. Some folks obviously have a lot
of money to buy some of the rare and expensive pieces. I don't. Sure I'd
LOVE to get a piece of the moon, right now I can't. I don't let it bother
me. Someday I WILL get some Mars material. I envy the folks who can afford
this stuff but I don't let it effect me because *I* can't afford it. I can
enjoy looking at their pieces on the web or in catalogs. There's also
nothing wrong with the investment side of the hobby. I collect right now
because of my facination with meteorites.     

>I personally have found this forum to be very interesting and valuable,
>and have learned much more about meteorites and the history of this
>scientific field.  Martin, Walter, & Ron, to name a few, have made this
>an excellent educational experience and resource and I would like to see
>this continue and not have it turn into a site of accusations and out &
>out "warfare" between the various members. 

   This doesn't happen often, at least in the month and a half I've been on
the list anyway. In the long run things cool down, hatchets are buried and
it's back to "normal".  This list is chock FULL of information, I LOVE it!
Without it I would not have recieved the nice pieces I now own. Hang in
there, it's worth it!

Regards,
Tom Randall