[meteorite-list] Provenance of Universities' Material

From: Erik Fisler <phxerik_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:34:48 -0700
Message-ID: <C835DE59-8C2E-4C96-97EF-863B4ACD70FC_at_yahoo.com>

I wonder if it's a good idea to buy parent body real estate hehe

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On Jan 18, 2012, at 2:20 PM, MexicoDoug <mexicodoug at aim.com> wrote:

> Hey Sterling and Adam
>
> "Why? Because in 500 years, untouched
> asteroids will become contact-prohibited
> quarantined nature preserves."
>
> If we buy a Golden Age Passport now, can we get a Grandfather clause both to visit and to collect a daily BLM-sized 25 pounds plus one large piece up to 250 pounds per year? BTW, it seems coins found on US managed public lands over 100 years old are now in the illegal to remove column.
>
> Golden Age Passport:
> http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_Passport
>
> Kindest wishes
> Doug
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
> To: Meteorite List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Wed, Jan 18, 2012 2:59 pm
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Provenance of Universities' Material
>
>
> Adam, List,
>
> 100 years from now, we'll be de-orbiting
> asteroids and moving them into HEO (high
> Earth Orbit) to chew them up as a resource.
>
> 300 years from now, we be in the Zone,
> dismantling them there, surveying, sampling,
> coring, lasering... Contaminating. Every
> REALLY fresh meteorite currently found
> on Earth now should be curated en vacuo
> and handled in a reasonably sterile lab
> manner for the next half-millennium.
>
> Why? Because in 500 years, untouched
> asteroids will become contact-prohibited
> quarantined nature preserves.
>
> Of course, not going to happen... unless
> a university does it with select specimens.
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Hupe" <raremeteorites at yahoo.com>
> To: "Adam" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 9:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Provenance of Universities' Material
>
>
> Hopefully the scientists and curators of the future will be more sample
> oriented. A meteorite from the asteroid belt, Mars,the Moon or any other
> yet to be proven locations doesn't care where it lands. A hundred years
> from now, future stewards of the stones may ask" what the hell were they
> thinking back then?"
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Adam
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