[meteorite-list] First Meteorite and David New

From: almitt <almitt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:40 2004
Message-ID: <3C377EE6.10DE61_at_kconline.com>

Hi Bernd and all,

I have to go along with Bernd's remarks considering David New. He truly is one of the great meteorite gentleman dealers of the past, and as
Bernd says, still supplies thin sections every now and then. We could use him back!

This reminds me about another fine member we have on this list Philip M. Bagnall who seems to be overlooked some while posting to this list
occasionally. He wrote the excellent book The Meteorite and Tektite Collectors Handbook. In the back he talks about two organizations you could
join in the early 90's, the Meteoritical Society and another organization (NO LONGER EXISTING) called the Society of Meteoritophiles. The
Society which I was a brief member of had a nice magazine called Impact! I have several issues and it was one means of learning back then. I
have no idea how many members they had total but if Phil has the time to reminisce about the past would really like to hear about it. Those
were the days before the internet (was widely used) and you had to buy a book or go to the library to learn about meteorites (which I did
both).

--AL
Received on Sat 05 Jan 2002 05:32:06 PM PST