[Fwd: Re: [meteorite-list] Conservation of Meteorites]

From: David Freeman <dfreeman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:31:25 2004
Message-ID: <40384607.3030504_at_fascination.com>

Conservation as in lock them up for science? Yes, the Canadian
government is very active....just ask a few list members...how do we
spell "Tagish Lake"? For you new met. list members, Tagish Lake landed
on a frozen lake and by the time acadamia got their act together, the
lake had thawed and the majority of meteorites went to the bottom. Some
conservation act there. The Canadien Government won a "Harvey Award"
a year ago in Tucson for this bungle. Canada already is heavily into the
conservation mode. Even private land meteorites in Canada are not the
propert owners to own, in the name of conservation......
Bar code all of our private specimens! Makes it easier for the meteorite
police to locate them. I personally see the term "conservation" as
 very threatening....What I find, I offer my part (10%) as type specimen
deposit for science but do not think science should control meteorites
as they have the public land vertibrate fossils. Sort of borders on
communism to my way of thinking.

Just my opinion, I think that term "conservation" has a very negative tone.

Dave F. pro~private
collecting~free~enterprize~let~conservation~collect~its~own. The
Smithsonian is turning away common H and L's now anyways I have heard.


Nicholas Gessler wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> As a slight digression from a post on the "aims of the IMCA,"
> I'd like to initiate some discussion on meteorite conservation.
>
> I used to be a museum director/curator and conservator of
> "conventional" archaeological and ethnographic items.
> I know there has been some discussion on meteorite "conservation" and
> I wonder if anyone is gathering this information in one place?
>
> I may go down to the Getty Conservation Institute and see what they
> have to say.
> I know the Canadian Conservation Institute is quite active.
> But I don't think either of them have addressed the conservation of
> meteorites, at least not yet!
>
> Perhaps I should start an information page on the subject.
> What I would like to see are scientific papers on the pros and cons of
> various techniques.
> Especially important would be comparative tests of different techniques.
>
> If anyone could forward citations on any relevant published papers, I
> would be pleased to put them on the Web.
>
> Best wishes,
> Nick
>
>
>
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