[meteorite-list] NWA is Far Better Than Antarctica

From: Mark Ferguson <mafer_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:31 2004
Message-ID: <005601c3944e$204bbbe0$6601a8c0_at_vs.shawcable.net>

Hi Rafael and list

The only way that NWA's will gain in this debate is if the collecting nomads
do as the out country collectors do and file the location with the finds
when they sell them or submit them for naming. Problem is, as many know,
these people live on very little a year, and these rocks provide them with
much needed extra income. They aren't about to disclose that for fear of
others raiding the spot.
So, now the question becomes; How can we, as a group, help these people
protect their sources and still provide us with a location so that science
benefits?

Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rafael B. Torres" <spacecollection2001_at_hotmail.com>
To: <adamhupe_at_comcast.net>; <MARSROX@aol.com>
Cc: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NWA is Far Better Than Antarctica


> Hello everyone!!!!
> I think this is the eternal question since NWA arrived, what is better NWA
> or Antartic meteorites???.....The answer???...it depends. What I
personally
> think is that there is no better, nor worst, after all they are meteorites
> and meteorites come from Space. They were born in the same place with the
> very same material, though not all meteorites had the fortune to fall in a
> white place covered by ice, what I meant is that not all meteorites had
the
> fortune of falling in a place where only scientists would fully uncover
> their secrets. Meteorites didnt have the choice of choosing where to fall,
> nor humans as picking the house to be borned...does that make a human
better
> than other???, just because one was borned in a huge house and another was
> born in the street? The same is with metorites!!!!....they are all the
same
> and have the same information there are no better nor worst.
>
> Then, where does the path separate to tell what is better and what is
> worst?...Only when we, humans, interact with them. I think there is the
> absolute answer (above), but two perspectives: The scientists and reduced
> budget collectors. Scientists would like meteorites to fall only in
> Antartica and I thanks meteorites for keep on falling in North West Africa
> =) after all we can touch rocks from Space at lower prices and thus enjoy
> beautiful expensive specimens from Antartica and other locations...
>
> Rafael Blando Torres
> Space Collection 2001
>
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Received on Thu 16 Oct 2003 09:29:35 PM PDT