Tessera page update: This Tessera webpage was created on 2-15-2004. The following was sent to me in private the following day. Since this was a private e-mail I will just call the person "Joe" (plus he is meteorite hunting right now so I can't ask permission to post his name.) I do think that the comment provided adds a little more thought. "With regard to Tessera: seems to me that Matteo's having found several specimens within "a few meters" of each other, necessitates the existence of a large strewn field of hundreds or thousands of stones (such as Holbrook or Pultusk) of which his several meters was a tiny part. We are not experts in the science of fragmentation physics, etc..., but we cannot conceive of a scenario in which an incoming stony meteorite fragments to produce a small number of fully crusted individuals all landing within such a small area. (Perhaps there is a larger strewn field and Matteo's few- meter area is a small portion of it?) Or might we have here an example of someone concocting a situation without thinking through the physics....." Joe Dieter reported giving a trade value of $200 a gram for the material he used for study. This webpage was created on February 15, 2004. On February 16, 2004, Steve Arnold of Chicago, had a "Tessera" specimen on eBay, enclosed in a Riker mount case. Steve Arnold was not aware that I would create this Tessera webpage earlier and one would think his listing was perfect timing. And so, almost four years after getting a $200 a gram trade/sell price for the Tessera meteorite. A 1.1 gram specimen of Tessera, starting as a true auction at $0.01 the week before, ended at $4.25 (eBay item number 2224581918). Let's hope that was a generic $2.00 riker mount, rather then one of the $3.00 name brand models." I hate it when you go the public parks and the ducks try attacking your feet and bite at you, hoping you might have bread in your pockets. I understand it is because we feed the ducks bread and I understand why we feed them. Let us all try not to feed the duck. Mark Bostick |
