[meteorite-list] WG: meteorites not being able to

[Armando Afonso]

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From: "Armando Afonso" <armandoafonso at oniduo.pt>
To: <valparint at aol.com>; <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] WG: meteorites not being able to



> If I understood well, the right thing to do with a new meteorite is to 

> sell it in ebay!

> I prefer to say that a standard protocole must urgently be implemented by 

> the authorities of each country, with the objective of properly mapping 

> the strewfield, collecting and preserve all the material for serious 

> scientific studies.

> I hate to see little turtles and coins made of meteorites, for sale.

> AA

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> From: <valparint at aol.com>

> To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>

> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 5:10 PM

> Subject: [meteorite-list] WG: meteorites not being able to

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>> We need only look to Peru to understand the expertise and efficiency that

>> governments can bring to bear in order to secure critical scientific 

>> data.

>> The carpetbaggers that plundered the site of the recent fall merely

>> recorded locations, masses, eyewitness accounts, and such like. They did

>> absolutely nothing to secure the all-important mud hole! Maybe they are

>> not all bad, though. They did donate specimens to scientists that had 

>> real

>> microscopes and ion probes and what not.

>>

>> Concerning the "unknown they are losing", is that the known-unknown or 

>> the

>> unknown-unknown?

>>

>> Paul Swartz

>>

>>> Any scientific data that is lost to the country. Right now it might seem

>>> trivial, but just like antiquities, they are a non-renewable resource.

>>> That

>>> meteorite will never fall again.

>>> And in the future, knowing where strewnfields are, how they oriented,

>>> what

>>> class and quantity, could have some significant meaning.

>>> It's the unknown they are loosing.

>>>

>>> Mark Ferguson

>>

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