[meteorite-list] Tucson 2001 Web Pages Are Up + Show Report

From: Matteo Chinellato <mcomemeteorite2000_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:41:09 2004
Message-ID: <20010212070211.97439.qmail_at_web10313.mail.yahoo.com>

Hello all

Thanks to all for the photos of the Tuscon Show, a
good memory for me.
Regards

matteo

--- geoking_at_notkin.net ha scritto: > Greetings Dear
Listees:
>
> Whew! It took me a few days to recover from the
> Tucson 2001 show : )
> Between the birthday party, the other parties, the
> auctions, the
> barbecues, taking 200+ photos, a day trip out into
> the Catalina
> Mountains, a day trip up to Phoenix to visit A.S.U.,
> and catching up
> with friends from all over the world, I hardly had
> time to buy
> anything. And I stayed for ten days this year.
>
> I've uploaded the "best of" pics to my web site, and
> written some
> captions, so please take a look:
>
> http://www.notkin.net/tucson.htm
>
> Thanks to the multitude of Meteorite List members
> who joined us for
> the annual Notkin/Arnold birthday party at El Charro
> on Feb. 1 (see
> link, above, for pics). We love El Charro, and it
> has to be one of
> the best Mexican restaurants on the face of the
> earth, but we've
> grown too big for them, and next year we're going to
> have to move the
> party to larger quarters. Steve Arnold and I booked
> two function
> rooms for this year's party, and we immediately
> spilled over into two
> more, and were still cramped. It was a great night,
> and Steve and I
> very much enjoyed the opportunity to see old pals
> and meet new ones.
> We'll just make sure that we have a little more
> breathing space next
> year.
>
> The weather was mostly fine, and the social calendar
> extremely full.
> I kept meaning to take a day off to sit by the hotel
> pool and read
> but I didn't ever get around to that. Great
> hospitality was provided
> by many professionals, but especially the Reed
> brothers; Iris & Allan
> Lang and Zarko Ljuboja; Jim Kriegh; Twink & Larry
> Monrad; Darryl Pitt
> & Steve Schoner; the Jensen brothers; Michael
> Cottingham; Mike "the
> wine" Martinez; Anne Black; Bruno Fectay & Carinne
> Bidaut; the very
> festive and very large Russian contingent,
> particularly Ivan Koutyrev
> & Vladimir Stepakov (with whom many a cocktail was
> consumed), and
> Sergei & Vitaly. Some sort of dinner/gathering/party
> took place every
> night, and I must have absorbed a year's worth of
> meteorite-related
> discussion in a little over a week . . . not to
> mention the vodka.
>
> A highlight for me was meeting the legendary
> meteorite hunter Steve
> Schoner, especially since I'd just written an
> article about him for
> the Feb. 2001 "Meteorite." I recognized him
> instantly, walked up and
> introduced myself as "your biographer" : )
> Dressed in a suit,
> while assisting Darryl Pitt with the Sunday auction,
> Steve was
> definitely best-dressed man in town.
>
> Some dealers said business was "a little slow" this
> year, but at
> least two told me that it was their "best Tucson
> ever." However you
> cut it, deals were being made all over the place --
> and nearly 24
> hours a day -- with everything from 20 cent/g Sahara
> frags to
> $1,000/gram+ Moon and Mars rocks on (and under) the
> tables. One of
> just about every kind of weird and unusual meteorite
> seems to have
> come out of the Sahara over the past year, so there
> was much of
> interest for rare type collectors. It seemed like a
> good year for
> stones all around, while Gibeons were even scarcer
> than last year,
> and my favorite Sikhote-Alins were slightly up in
> price. Very few of
> the old standard Canyon Diablos and Odessas were
> about, but several
> dealers had large Chinga irons and Nantans. Several
> Moroccan dealers
> who used to specialize in fossils now carry a modest
> selection of
> stone meteorites, so if the classification issue
> doesn't bother you,
> it's possible to find lovely crusted stones at a
> reasonable price.
>
> Dorothy and Richard Norton were in town, with an
> attractive limited
> edition hardback of their "Rocks from Space" (second
> edition), which
> will be most desirable for serious book collectors .
> . . and there
> were about 100 other cool things to boot, but this
> is probably long
> enough for one post.
>
> The only bad part about it all was coming back to 28
> degrees in
> NY/NJ. Oh well . . . only a few months 'til Denver.
>
> Regards to all,
>
> Geoff N.
>
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