[meteorite-list] Meteorite market trends - a critical note

From: Michael L Blood <mlblood_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:49:18 -0700
Message-ID: <C413C11E.155A5%mlblood_at_cox.net>

Dear Greg and all,
        I find your post an excellent example of how many different
Approaches/orientations there are to collecting meteorites. For
Instance, you mention how you would particularly value "pristine"
Extraterrestrial material "before entering our atmosphere."
        For myself and, I am confident, many others the phenomenon
Of the process of becoming a meteorite, the flight through the
Atmosphere, whether the fall was witnessed, whether it hit anything
Man made or a living animal, etc, all play into the "romance" of the
Stone a great deal.
        Just goes to show ya, it takes all kinds.
        Best wishes, Michael

on 3/29/08 12:06 AM, GREG LINDH at geeg48 at msn.com wrote:
> Hi again, Darren,
> Once again, we agree. I'd love to have access to pristine "space rocks" as
> they exist before entering our atmosphere. How nice it would be to travel
> from asteroid to asteroid, to the moon and all of the planets and their moons
> and grab a piece of each.
> Lately, I find that I've become envious of those who have large, eclectic
> collections. I have only 21 meteorites. Then I realize that it was just a
> year and a half ago that I was unaware that meteorites were available to the
> public. I purchased my first one from the Kitt Peak Observatory Gift Shop.
> It is an oriented Sikhote-Alin....one and a quarter pounds. Whenever I find
> myself starting to covet what others have, I just remind myself that it was
> only a short time ago that I had no meteorites. Now I have 21 pretty special
> rocks. They sit before me on my computer desk and on my book shelves.
> I'm a lucky man.
>
> Greg Lindh
>
>
>
>
>> From: cynapse at charter.net
>> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:44:28 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite market trends - a critical note
>>
>> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:23:35 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi Darren,
>>>
>>> I couldn't agree with you more. I love meteorites just because of what they
>>> are.....rocks from space.
>>> I love all meteorites. I, like you, wish that everyone had access to tons of
>>> meteorites of all kinds....
>>
>> I use the term "meteorite" to describe the stuff I wish that I had access to
>> arbitrarily large amounts of, but of course I don't require that it pass
>> through
>> the Earth's atmosphere (in a destructive way) first. As much as I love a
>> nice,
>> fresh fusion crust, the big hunks could be straight off the asteroid. :-)
>> Wouldn't paneling your walls in L 3.0 or H 3.0 look great? Or a coffee table
>> made from a single slab of etched (and sealed for moisture, of course) iron?
>> Forget stained glass windows, have very thin pallasite windows! (Of course,
>> I'd
>> still want one of these tables http://www.fossilhunter.co.uk/id12.html).
>> Lunar
>> sample? I call dibs on this one:
>> http://apod.oa.uj.edu.pl/apod/image/9709/boulder_a17.jpg
>>
>> And as long as I have that hypthetical space ship, I could still toss a few
>> meteorites into the atmosphere to get that fusion crust look! (Okay, maybe I
>> should use Titan's atmosphere-- tossing rocks at the Earth might not make me
>> too
>> popular-- even if I didn't make strangelets, monopoles, and quantum black
>> holes
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/28/lhc_cern_hawaiian_botanist_lawsuit)
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