[meteorite-list] NWA 1110 issues

From: Adam Hupe <raremeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Sep 8 20:30:22 2004
Message-ID: <003501c49602$861a7b80$6401a8c0_at_c1720188a>

Dear List,

It has come to my attention that some sellers are still using the NWA 1110
designation to sell there untested material. It is not a marketing ploy
that I bring this up as we are nearly out of stock and we start all of our
true NWA 1110 auctions out at just 99 cents. Here are the problems:

We had Dr. Irving at the University of Washington authenticate every piece
we have ever sold or plan to sell. All of it is recorded at 118 grams can
be seen at the JPL/NASA Martian web site. Other dealers selling NWA 1110
have not gone to this expense We have only supplied one dealer from Austria
with NWA 1110 and he is sold out.

We paid the research and authentication costs associated with every piece of
NWA 1110

We deposited a type sample (something important if want your very own NWA
number)

We paid the cost to go into the field, monitored the recovery efforts and
recorded GPS coordinates.

Habibi of Morocco has been telling dealers he supplied us with NWA 1110 and
so what he is selling is the same. This is not the truth as we do not do
business with Habibi and never will. If you check the images below you will
see we went directly to the source and recorded GPS coordinates:

http://www.lunarrock.com/nwa1110/nwa1110a.jpg

http://www.lunarrock.com/nwa1110/nwa1110b.jpg

http://www.lunarrock.com/nwa1110/nwa1110c.jpg


http://www.lunarrock.com/nwa1110/nwa1110d.jpg

To see auctions like the one I linked to below really irritates us because
no laboratory has tested this material, the dealer should deposit a type
specimen, pay the lab fees and get his very own NWA number so that every
gram of meteorites paired to NWA 1068 can be recorded if they are indeed
meteorites.

This is what I would like to say to the person running this ebay auction
"Stop using NWA 1110, get a real number, put out some effort, there is no
such thing as a free ride":
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3239&item=2268561021

Wishing everybody the best,

Adam Hupe
The Hupe Collection
Team LunarRock
IMCA 2185
raremeteorites_at_comcast.net
Received on Wed 08 Sep 2004 08:18:25 PM PDT