[meteorite-list] contact

From: j.divelbiss_at_att.net <j.divelbiss_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:22:45 2004
Message-ID: <20030630001726.D8D0A538CB_at_pairlist.net>

Hi Steve from Arkansas who celebrates his birthday in Tuscon with New York
Geoff not Cintron Notkin...who takes nice pictures of cat-like meteorites,

It is simple, off the wall collecting just takes a little off the wall
thinking. Some are better at it than others.

I wanted to add a couple more collector's trends to your list. Let's not
forget Bessey Specks, dog and cow killers, and all those meteorites sitting at
the bottom of the ocean.

Hey, there is a thought...the final meteorite hunter frontier.

Thanx for the fun,

John
> Hello Steve Arnold (not from Arkansas) and list,
>
> Steve (not from Arkansas), you asked:
>
> "...is there ...someone who sells very off the wall meteorites? I mean
> types that most people do not want to collect. The very, very hard ones to
> get ahold of. It seems that we are only interested in the so-so rans that
> only interest the list."
>
> Please help me out here.
>
> 1. What do you define as "very off the wall?"
>
> 2. What types do you think "most people do not want to collect?" Falls,
> finds, chondrites, achondrites, irons, stoney-irons, pseudo-meteorites, high
> TKW,
> low TKW, individuals, slices, end pieces, fragments, micros, macros, dust,
> crumbs, thin sections, rare, common, crusted, non-crusted, desert varnished,
> from public collections, from private collections, ones with research papers
> done
> on them, ones not yet researched, found with metal dectetors, found with
> magnet sticks, found fallen through houses or cars or ice, found above ground,
> under ground, found in indian burial grounds, in craters, around craters, in
> impact pits, bounced out of impact pits, found in water, on dry lake beds, or
> sand
> blowouts, historic ones, ones that bounced off a wall, etc.?
>
> 3. Are you meaning that "very very hard ones to get a hold of" are the same
> as the "very off the wall" meteorites that "most people do not want to
> collect"?
>
> I think that is what you were saying but I am not sure.
>
> 4. Is it your impression that these "very off the wall" meteorites that are
> "very very hard to get ahold of" are precisely the ones that "we" "on the
> list" are not interested in because "we" are only interested in the "so-so
> rans?"
>
>
> 5. What is a "so-so ran" anyway?
>
> Is a "so-so ran" the new type name for the olivine diogenites?
>
> Not that I really am so concerned with what you wrote, except that sometimes
> people do confuse what YOU say as having come from me (I have no idea why???)
> and I have found that it is always good to be able to explain what I didn't
> say, when people ask.
>
> Thanks
> Steve Arnold (from Arkansas)
>
Received on Sun 29 Jun 2003 08:17:24 PM PDT