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Re: Meteorite Collecting

a BIG Thank you Tom!!!....................Casper
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Randall 
To: Ken Wilson ; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: Meteorite Collecting


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