[meteorite-list] NWA Meteorites
From: Mike Farmer <farmerm_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:42:02 2004 Message-ID: <3A6A55C5.33735F8_at_concentric.net> --------------AA3FF6CCF1AF09DF12DDA95A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit People could do that, yes. But a good dealer could spot some signs of possible desert origin. It comes down to honesty. If a dealer were to do this, I think it would destroy his reputation in my mind for good. Trust is crucial to meteorite dealing, and mistakes can happen, people can be lied to and pass something on without knowledge or nay wrongdoing, but to deliberately pull such a scam would be about the worst thing a dealer could do. Mike Farmer Jamie Ekholm wrote: > I have been reading entries to the Meteorite Mailing List and a > question came to me regarding these Moroccan meteorites that people > have been talking about. This may be a "stupid" question, but here > goes anyways. What is stopping someone from purchasing one of these > meteorites (I understand most have not even been looked at or > classified), and then sitting it outside to weather at that persons > location for a year or so, or burying it in soil for the same time > frame. They could call a meteorite dealer and say "I found this odd > looking rock while taking a walk out in the woods" or "I was digging > through a farmers rock pile and came across this strange rock." This > person could give the area it was found (general coordinates) etc. A > find from a known location seems to bring a higher price, even if the > meteorite is weathered. They could buy one of these meteorites at > $0.50 cents a gram and possibly sell it to a dealer for much > more. What do you think about this? Are there ways to prevent this > from happening? Thanks, Jamie --------------AA3FF6CCF1AF09DF12DDA95A Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> People could do that, yes. But a good dealer could spot some signs of possible desert origin. It comes down to honesty. If a dealer were to do this, I think it would destroy his reputation in my mind for good. Trust is crucial to meteorite dealing, and mistakes can happen, people can be lied to and pass something on without knowledge or nay wrongdoing, but to deliberately pull such a scam would be about the worst thing a dealer could do. <br>Mike Farmer <p>Jamie Ekholm wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE><style></style> <font size=-1>I have been reading entries to the Meteorite Mailing List and a question came to me regarding these Moroccan meteorites that people have been talking about.</font> <font size=-1>This may be a "stupid" question, but here goes anyways. What is stopping someone from purchasing one of these meteorites (I understand most have not even been looked at or classified), and then sitting it outside to weather at that persons location for a year or so, or burying it in soil for the same time frame. They could call a meteorite dealer and say "I found this odd looking rock while taking a walk out in the woods" or "I was digging through a farmers rock pile and came across this strange rock."</font> <font size=-1>This person could give the area it was found (general coordinates) etc. A find from a known location seems to bring a higher price, even if the meteorite is weathered. They could buy one of these meteorites at $0.50 cents a gram and possibly sell it to a dealer for much more.</font> <font size=-1>What do you think about this? Are there ways to prevent this from happening?</font> <font size=-1>Thanks,</font> <font size=-1>Jamie</font></blockquote> </body> </html> --------------AA3FF6CCF1AF09DF12DDA95A-- Received on Sat 20 Jan 2001 10:21:41 PM PST |
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