[meteorite-list] The most expensive hobby??

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Dec 10 08:23:28 2004
Message-ID: <798jr0lioncjbf1889q97eisket778gvqr_at_4ax.com>

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 18:11:06 -0500, you wrote:

>Good Evening List,
>
>Any hobby is as expensive or not as you make it, including meteorites.
>
>The tricky part is to stay within ones limitations (I think Dirty Harry once
>said that).

Exactly. I'm pretty happy myself with collecting micromount slices that can be stored and displayed
in 1 inch gem jars. For the most part, I'd rather buy a couple of dozen micromounts of different
meteorites than a single large slice for the same price. And for most meteorites, that micromount
specimen gives you pretty much the same idea of what the overall meteorite is like as you would from
a larger, more expensive slice. Compaired, at least, to most other forms of collecting. You can't
argue, for instance, that a 1 inch slice of a dinosaur bone is basicly similar to a whole dinosaur
skeleton. Some meteorites I'd love to have bigger slices of (NWA 1584, for example) but for most
I'm pretty satisfied with the micromounts.

Now, for an expensive hobby, apparenty you can include collecting hideously tack furniture:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/12/10/expensive.furniture.ap/index.html
Received on Fri 10 Dec 2004 08:23:26 AM PST