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Re: Meteorite "worth"
Heh,heh,heh ... was that Lithium, or Dilithium, Joel?
I expect we're gonna see alot more "mythos mining" finds as the 2000 - 2012
anticipations continue to heat up.
Peri Shumard-Craig
J. Warren wrote:
> >One lady told me in no uncertain terms, that her rock
> > was from the destroyed Planet Photon sent to her farm by God, and there
> was
> > no amount of money that would get her to part with it. All these folks
> keep
> > them locked away from both public and private greedy collectors.
>
> Well, thats no big deal, i have a rock from the destroyed planet
> Photon's MOON named Dilithium!!!! It looks alot like swiss cheese, has a
> wal-mart label on it (from the deli counter) and is available for $1.00 a
> pound.
>
> Joel
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <MeteorHntr@aol.com>
> To: <rmarlin@network-one.com>
> Cc: <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 05, 1999 8:35 PM
> Subject: Re: Meteorite "worth"
>
> > In a message dated 4/5/99 2:31:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> > rmarlin@network-one.com writes:
> >
> > <<
> > Yes, but what happens next June when an H5 falls, and the farmer sits on
> it
> > until he get 100k for it?
> >
> > Then it is *not* under our control. Then when an L6 shower happens a
> month
> > later, they'll want 500k.
> >
> > Everybody has heard about the prices SNCs command. Why isn't their
> meteorite
> > worth as much, or more? It doesn't help when the first meteorite dealers
> on
> > the scene start trying to "scoop" the others on the new fall.
> > >>
> >
> >
> > Hello Gene and List,
> >
> > I know quite a few people (probably a dozen or more) sitting on meteorites
> > because they think they are worth a million dollars. So? Some even think
> > they are priceless! One lady told me in no uncertain terms, that her rock
> > was from the destroyed Planet Photon sent to her farm by God, and there
> was
> > no amount of money that would get her to part with it. All these folks
> keep
> > them locked away from both public and private greedy collectors.
> >
> > And most of these folks have been sitting on these for a lot longer than
> the
> > media and dealers have been "running up prices."
> >
> > I remember one meteorite that I bought from a farmer a while back that
> > Nininger had offered the guy $50 for 45 years earlier. I offered him $500
> > and he jumped on it cause it was a lot more than what the last guy
> (Nininger)
> > offered. Well, if the guy had thought about it, $50 invested in real
> estate
> > or the stock market 45 years ago would be worth a whole lot more than $500
> > today. But sometimes it takes a few years for it to sink in that these
> are
> > no really worth all that much either.
> >
> > I have some Ashmore I was cutting today that was an end piece from a
> farmer
> > who sold the main mass to Huss in 1969. The farmer died a few months back
> > and the family wanted to sell this piece now.
> >
> > See, that is one thing museums and research facilities have going for them
> > that we mortals don't, 500 years from now, most of our little private
> > collections will have been absorbed into their collections. In fact many
> of
> > the present large public collections were once part of several if not many
> > private collections.
> >
> > Steve
> >
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