[meteorite-list] Meteorite market trends - a critical note

[Michael L Blood]

Dear Greg and all,
        I find your post an excellent example of how many different
Approaches/orientations there are to collecting meteorites. For
Instance, you mention how you would particularly value "pristine"
Extraterrestrial material "before entering our atmosphere."
        For myself and, I am confident, many others the phenomenon
Of the process of becoming a meteorite, the flight through the
Atmosphere, whether the fall was witnessed, whether it hit anything
Man made or a living animal, etc, all play into the "romance" of the
Stone a great deal.
        Just goes to show ya, it takes all kinds.
        Best wishes, Michael

on 3/29/08 12:06 AM, GREG LINDH at geeg48 at msn.com wrote:

>   Hi again, Darren,

>   Once again, we agree.  I'd love to have access to pristine "space rocks" as

> they exist before entering our atmosphere.  How nice it would be to travel

> from asteroid to asteroid, to the moon and all of the planets and their moons

> and grab a piece of each.

>   Lately, I find that I've become envious of those who have large, eclectic

> collections.  I have only 21 meteorites.  Then I realize that it was just a

> year and a half ago that I was unaware that meteorites were available to the

> public.  I purchased my first one from the Kitt Peak Observatory Gift Shop.

> It is an oriented Sikhote-Alin....one and a quarter pounds.  Whenever I find

> myself starting to covet what others have, I just remind myself that it was

> only a short time ago that I had no meteorites.  Now I have 21 pretty special

> rocks.  They sit before me on my computer desk and on my book shelves.

>   I'm a lucky man.

> 

>   Greg Lindh

> 

> 

> 

> 

>> From: cynapse at charter.net

>> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com

>> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:44:28 -0500

>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite market trends - a critical note

>> 

>> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:23:35 -0700, you wrote:

>> 

>>> 

>>> Hi Darren,

>>> 

>>> I couldn't agree with you more. I love meteorites just because of what they

>>> are.....rocks from space.

>>> I love all meteorites. I, like you, wish that everyone had access to tons of

>>> meteorites of all kinds....

>> 

>> I use the term "meteorite" to describe the stuff I wish that I had access to

>> arbitrarily large amounts of, but of course I don't require that it pass

>> through

>> the Earth's atmosphere (in a destructive way) first. As much as I love a

>> nice,

>> fresh fusion crust, the big hunks could be straight off the asteroid. :-)

>> Wouldn't paneling your walls in L 3.0 or H 3.0 look great? Or a coffee table

>> made from a single slab of etched (and sealed for moisture, of course) iron?

>> Forget stained glass windows, have very thin pallasite windows! (Of course,

>> I'd

>> still want one of these tables http://www.fossilhunter.co.uk/id12.html).

>> Lunar

>> sample? I call dibs on this one:

>> http://apod.oa.uj.edu.pl/apod/image/9709/boulder_a17.jpg

>> 

>> And as long as I have that hypthetical space ship, I could still toss a few

>> meteorites into the atmosphere to get that fusion crust look! (Okay, maybe I

>> should use Titan's atmosphere-- tossing rocks at the Earth might not make me

>> too

>> popular-- even if I didn't make strangelets, monopoles, and quantum black

>> holes

>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/28/lhc_cern_hawaiian_botanist_lawsuit)

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