[meteorite-list] Meteor Crater Guide(?)

From: David Freeman <dfreeman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:47 2004
Message-ID: <3C46E9E6.5020908_at_fascination.com>

I sure wish I had a strewn field and crater in my back yard! Or a
garden full of Lunars...
Good Luck,
Dave (the other other dave) F.

Dave Andrews wrote:

>
>Impactika_at_aol.com wrote:
>
>>I spent this last weekend at a small local mineral show, selling a few
>>meteorites, and answering a lot of questions.
>>
>>A gentleman came and told me this:
>>He is a teacher and took his family to Meteor Crater last summer.
>>There were quite a few visitors, and someone asked the guide on duty:
>>" Are meteorites radioactive?" The guide answered without hesitation:
>>" Yes, most of them are." Then someone else asked "How about the
>>meteorites in the gift shop?" Again he answered "Most of those are
>>radioactive too."
>>This surprised him so he wanted to verify and asked me, and I did my
>>best to explain that No! They are not radioactive! I think I
>>convinced him.
>>
>
>Hi Anne,
>A couple of years ago, Rob Elliott, his son Jamie, John Gwilliam and
>myself were doing one of our traditional Holbrook hunts and decided to
>take an afternoon off and show the Bagpipe Boys the Meteor Crater.
>While in the lobby, they have I think what was about a 1400 lb. specimen
>on display. We asked the guide (just to be wise-arses), what he thought
>something that large would be worth? He replied that "it is worth it's
>weight in gold!" We all had a little chuckle over that one. My
>thinking is that they just hire these guys off the street, give them a
>very basic and quick education, and pay them a little more than minimum
>wage for their services. They'll probably just tell you anything off
>the top of their heads if they don't know for sure.
>
>As far as the radiation goes, I'm sure there is a small trace, but
>negligible. I work at a coal fired power plant using heavy equipment on
>various coal piles. They tell me that the coal puts out a considerable
>amount of radiation, but probably everything does to a certain extent.
>It probably just depends on one's defintion of "radiation". I would
>think that a CD meteorite would register so low that it should be
>considered nil though.
>
>We might return there for a visit next month and put out a "feeler" for
>the guide(s) and try to set the matter straight.
>
>Thanks for the interesting post and we'll see what we can do.
>
>Dave
>
>
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