[meteorite-list] 1996-2016 meteorite collectors / dealers

From: Don Merchant <dmerchan_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 13:20:27 -0500
Message-ID: <000f01d1419c$6e24bca0$6401a8c0_at_donaldmerchant>

Not sure if this counts but I started into the hobby of astronomy when I was
very young. At 13 years of age I went to the Strasenburg Planetarium here in
Rochester, NY. While I was there I bought a small book called "A Comet
Strikes the Earth" by Harvey Ninniger in the gift shop. On that book was a
glued a small piece of meteorite from the outside rim of the Barringer
crater. I still have that book and the meteorite. I will go out on a limb
and say then that I started collecting meteorites in 1973!
Cheers
Don Merchant
Founder-Cosmic Treasures Celestial Wonders
www.ctreasurescwonders.com
IMCA #0960
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Harris via Meteorite-list" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
To: "J Sinclair" <john at meteoriteusa.com>; "Meteorite List"
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2015 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] 1996-2016 meteorite collectors / dealers


> Hi John,
>
> Jim and I were active before this but '95 & '96 is when the Internet
> started taking off and the first meteorite websites were born. I think
> Eric Twelker was the first with The Meteorite Marketplace.
>
> Can't believe 2016 will be 20 years...
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> On 12/27/2015 5:11 PM, J Sinclair via Meteorite-list wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> 20 years.
>>
>> I noticed while looking at Matt Morgan's web site, he writes
>> "established in 1996"
>> The Meteorite Exchange site says "Impacting the Meteorite World Since
>> 1996"
>>
>> Did anyone else start collecting in '96. If not then... when? and why?
>> Many dealers and collectors were active before '96 and many more after.
>>
>> In August 1996 I read on the front page of the local NC (Greensboro
>> Daily News) newspaper that NASA had found a possible life form in a
>> Martian meteorite found in Antarctica - Allan Hills 84001. This was
>> announcing there was life elsewhere in the Universe.
>>
>> I figured people would want meteorites. I was already selling gems and
>> minerals at shows and had seen meteorites for sale in Tucson and
>> Denver. I had meteorites before the end of the year. The fist ones
>> were mailed from a dealer in Mexico - Tolucas, then Gibeon from the
>> S.African dealers Karl and Clive. Next was Esquel from Bob Haag. I
>> nearly sold out the first show I offered meteorites.
>>
>> It was ALH 84001 that started it for me. How about the rest of you?
>>
>> See you in Tucson.
>>
>> John
>> MeteoriteUSA.com
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