[meteorite-list] A case not only for Bob

From: Jeff Kuyken <info_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:43:16 +1100
Message-ID: <5C81DC0194014BF387613920F53A1435_at_JeffPC>

Hi Martin and all,

Obviously the Australian Federal laws are bothersome to collectors and
restrict the amount of material found. No one would or could question that.
But unfortunately there is a slight flaw in your plan. Even if the
Australian Federal laws were abolished, there are still the separate state
laws which are the main problem... not the common Federal laws that everyone
is familiar with. 90% of Australia's prime meteorite finding locations are
covered by these state laws which rule that any meteorite found (whether on
Crown or private land) belongs to the state. So you would first need to
change all the State laws and then the Australian Federal laws before being
able to export.

Cheers,

Jeff


----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Altmann" <altmann at meteorite-martin.de>
To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 4:25 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] A case not only for Bob


> Hello list,
>
> just recovered by a member of the German meteorite forum:
>
> http://kuerzer.de/diletto
>
>
> Don't we get finally sick and tired with that Australian idiocy, do we?
>
> Aren't there any persons, researchers, meteorite people with reason to be
> found on that continent, who feel the same pain how meteoritics is getting
> fully destroyed there?
>
> In the German meteorite forum we painted a graph for the find rates in
> Australia, USA ect.
>
> In Australia from 1900 until ca 1960 the find rates were relatively
> constant
> and higher than in the 19th century. Then a promising ascent followed
> until
> the end of the 1980ies (while in USA the find rate dropped a little bit),
> and then a real boost happened, wherefore not only Bevan's expedition in
> 1991, Euromet 1992 and 1994 were responsible.
>
> 1995 then - and it is really concussive - we observe the COMPLETE
> breakdown
> of the Australian find rates, not only to the level of the 1960ies, not
> down
> to the level of the 1900-1950, but down to the level of the 1800ier years!
> And that lasts until today.
>
> WHILE PARALLELY the find rates in the U.S. - which have less suitable
> hunting grounds but which aren't punished by such paranoid meteorite laws
> like Australia - exploded to a level like Australia had in his very best
> few
> years, shortly before the Australian meteorite laws came finally into
> force.
>
> I can't help myself - why nobody in Australia of the meteorite world is
> taking action to abolish these laws, which led to that disaster?
>
> It must be in the very best interest of every Australian meteoricist,
> that Australia has to turn back from ZERO to find rates, like they are
> common in each desert country.
>
> Is there any initiative taken by you, the Australian scientists, to modify
> the unhandy laws?
>
> I mean, if there are almost no meteorites found there, less than 1 per
> year,
> neither official expeditions are undertaken, wouldn't there be a danger,
> that some meteorite departments could be simply closed down?
>
> Martin
>
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Received on Tue 19 Jan 2010 02:43:16 AM PST