[meteorite-list] Mars eaters

From: Kevin Forbes <vk3ukf_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:54:33 +1000
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Hi folks, this eating and tasting has been going on for a long time, I myself ate some Mars in the late 1980s or early 1990s in front of Tom the cactus/meteorite man at Springvale in Melbourne.
 
Previously mentioned a couple of years ago.
 
A lot of minerals have taste, and I like to use all my available senses if possible.
 
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Kevin Forbes vk3ukf at hotmail.com
Wed Jan 17 00:58:49 EST 2007
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Hi, that's funny.
I'm not so silly after all.
??
Well, maybe I am, but,
I ate some dust and crumbs that came from a bit Zagami some years ago, that
I obtained from Rob Haag.
I must admit to not noticing any differnce between normal Earth rock dirt
taste and Zagami at all.
It didn't have any Martian flavouring in it whatsoever, and I gave it a good
suck too.
Yes I do eat dirt and rocks occasionally, I like to see what all of my
senses have to offer, when I'm looking at minerals, crystals and so on. Try
tasting a small sample of a mineral called pickeringite, I found some about
50 miles from here at the end of an old gold mine drive. Slate with pyrites
were the country rock.
Just in case you can't find any, it's like allum. From memory, I think it's
an hydrous iron sulphate.

OOOoooooo........ <<<< My mouth when tasting pickeringite.
Cheers, Kevin, VK3UKF.

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So, is there now a name for folks that taste minerals.
As you can see, I often suck rocks if I think there may be some indicator apart from rockish.
 
If the sample contains salts, it will have flavour.
 
I don't suck every rock I find or get, can't imagine giving cinnabar or saleeite or good lick.
 
I missed the start of this thread, of to find it.
 
Kevin.
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