My three first meteorites was a mundrabilla 47 g, Canyon 48g and Deport (A) 1,5 gfrom Zelimir Gabelica, bought in april 1994. Actually I'm 200 pieces in my collection, and the prefered is Hainaut, H3-6 chondrite fell in Belgium/France, third world main mass... I don't sale my collection for all
Hello!
Mike - your generosity may be matched by Mike Farmer - Graham- you are doing
well!
Maybe Bob Haag will send you a paving slab of Zagami!!
very best!
--
In gentle decay,
dave
http://www.meteorites.ic24.net/index.html
http://www.thc.u-net.com/davethc1.htm
I have a proof that x^n+y^n=z^n
My first 2 specimens were a 16g Gibeon etched slice, and a 383g Toluca
individual.
I acquired these two from the Calgary Coin Antique Gallery, in 1998. Still
love
them, and are probably the only 2 meteorites I paid CND dollars for. I'm not
an
addict, but have over 300 localities in my
Dear Listees,
My first meteorite was found originally by the Native Americans and then later
found by my Great Grandfather. When I was about five, I
remember trying to break the Potter meteorite to see what was so special inside.
Then, when 30 something taking my son of four to an unknown
Dear list and collectors;
My first piece of meteorite was a 135 gram specimen of canyon diablo
that I purchased ($135) from my newly aquainted White's metal detector
dealer...who is now my best buddy in petrified wood and gold nuggets as
well. Oh, the detector isn't too bad either. He lives
My first meteorite was a piece of indochinite that I saw in some new age
catalog that was sitting out at a bank. I bought it for $100 and read up on
meteorites and quickly figured out that it wasn't really a meteorite and got
my money back. As it turns out there is a rock shop just a few blocks
I've run into this guy that Bill's talking about at shows every once in a
while and have dealt with him a few times and not only do I think his most
of his prices are too high but out of the few times I've dealt with him only
one of them has turned out well.
Just my 2 cents.
Rhett Bourland
I'm trying to raise some money now so I'm putting my fusion crusted piece of
NWA 482 up for sale. Normal price straight from the source is $5,000 a
gram. I'm selling .54g (with crust) for $2,200 which is only $4,000 a gram.
I'll cover all the shipping.
Thanks,
Rhett Bourland
Dave wrote:
Oh, the detector isn't too bad either.
He lives three blocks away, ...
Who? The detector or your buddy ...
Sorry, I couldn't resist :-)
The last meteorite authenticated from Wyoming was
in 1947, the Waltman, and I have a small piece.
So do I. There is a small 7.2 g Waltman
Dear Bernd,
I had grammar' but she diedI get confused over dangling proverbs or
something.
Dave F.
Bernd Pauli HD wrote:
Dave wrote:
Oh, the detector isn't too bad either.
He lives three blocks away, ...
Who? The detector or your buddy ...
Sorry, I couldn't resist :-)
The last
Dear List:
My first meteorite was a 21.2g. Henbury Iron, a gift in 1996 from Professor
William Cassidy, the Father of the ANSMET program (U.S. Antarctic Search for
Meteorites). He collects antique scientific instruments and this gift was in
appreciation for an old optical polarimeter I gave
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From: Alexander Seidel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Bernd Pauli HD [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Bob King [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] First Meteorite and David New
David is still around, though mainly
About a year and a half ago I decided to get my friends some really unique
Christmas gifts -- meteorites! (Don't ask me why; it was a weird impulse)
I had just been introduced to eBay, so I looked up meteorites, and lo and
behold, there were absolutely HUNDREDS of them for sale! I had no idea
I'm continuing to use the same subject heading, but my initial thoughts about
My First Piece were more along the lines of sex and guns. Is my Freudian
slip showing?
Like Bernd, as a child I shivered Christmas night in freezing northern climes
with my new present, a telescope. As far as space
http://www.jhuapl.edu/public/pr/020104.htm
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Office of Communications and Public Affairs
Laurel, Maryland
For Immediate Release
Jan. 4, 2002
Media Contact:
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Not having read the entire site...first let me say that it sounds like a fabulous
adventure.
But, I assume that any meteorites they might find may NOT be kept by the finder?
Doesn't the Treaty specifically prohibit private collecting?
Craig
Show your support at the Red Cross Disaster
I'm afraid I didn't pay as much attention as I should have the last 3 or 4
times that the subject of fall rates came up.
Could someone give me a hand with approximations of the correct information
in the following statements?
I sincerely appreciate any help.
-Robert Beauford : )
Far less than 1
DAVID, Run this web site past the genius_ GRANT
ELLIOTT
http://www.reasons.org/
David Freeman wrote:
Dear List;
I gave a show and tell presentation to about twenty home schooled
students on meteorites, and my collection.
The genius in the group,
Hi Dave and List,
I gave a show and tell presentation to about twenty home schooled
students on meteorites, and my collection. The genius in the
group, after taunting me with biblical and geologic time
unconformities, finally asks me a relevent question.
Does the magnet stick to the
Quite a thread running hear.
My first piece was aquired only 2+ years ago. A neat little 3 gram Allende
end cut from Mike Farmer off ebay. I did trade it away (reluctantly) for an
8 gram LL3 end cut a few months ago. Economically a good deal but still sad
to part with it.
I am as addicted as
Mike Farmer wrote:
After that I never thought again about meteorites, until 1995 at the Tucson Gem show.
Met Bob Haag and bought a piece of Gao, $72.00, my check bounced! Bob
hassled me for a couple of days. The rest is history.
I first realized there were meteorites available when I found a
I'll chime in too. My first meteorite purchases (simultaneously) were
about 8 kg of Gibeon from Erich and Sylvia Haiderer along with a large slab
of Renfrow and 32 gm slice of Albin from Michael Casper. All this just to
make a highly unusual knife design !!! I absolutely could not think of
You could always tell him to go pray about it and hope for an answer. ;)
Rhett Bourland
www.asteroidmodels.com
www.asteroidmodels.com/personal
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Freeman
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 4:33 PM
To:
Dear list,
Although I received my undergraduate degree in Geology in the 70's, my
professional interests moved on to environmental science and information
technology and away from rocks. My interest in collecting rocks began
again in the mid 90's when I joined a local earth science club. After
Dean you hit this one straight on the head. You can bet if I went on this
trip that I would be swallowing rocks. 2 for them...one for me...gulp. I
would not mind having to dig them out later!
Mark M.
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From: dean bessey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL
Hello all,
My first meteorite was a 154 gram Canyon Diablo, purchased in
1988 from (get ready.I was a newcomer remember that folks!)
Bethany sciences. It is one of their sets that came with a wooden
base with plaque and a caliper stand. I paid $80 for it. At the time
they were
My first piece was from Russ Kempton (NEMS) a slice of Allende, I still
have it here
http://www.meteorman.org/Allende-Slice.htm
It was those white chondrules that interested me the most.
He said to meteorites are believed to hold fundamental clues to the
origin of life on Earth -WELL
Dear Sirs;
Please help me to identify this importannt meteorite.
Information and pictures in the following site:
http://pages.britishlibrary.net/mhy10/meteor/index.html
Sincerely
Mohamed H Yousef
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Sorry but its not a meteorite. Meteorite don't have quartz or fossils like
the ones in the pictures on your website. If you sincerely think that they
do come from a large (10km) crater like what is stated on your website then
I sugest that you contact some local geologists so that they may
Hello all,
I am looking for information, sites, witness, pictures, about any bright ["bigger"?] bolides observed in southern of France before 1975.
Thank you very much!!!
Vincent JACQUES
http://users.skynet.be/meteorite.beDiscutez en ligne avec vos amis, essayez MSN Messenger : Cliquez ici
Dear Meteorite enthusiasts;
For those among us that don't know diamond testing from coal nuggets;
the professional diamond testers that diamond testers use are set up to
check electrical conductive properties of diamonds that are CUT. I have
tested numberous diamonds that are uncut and the
Hi List,
It's funny the different ways we've all become involved in meteorites. I received
my first two stones for Christmas in 1995. I had been
interested in astronomy for quite a while, and my son thought a couple of meteorites
would make a nice gift that matched my hobby. He got me a
I think it's what's left of bin Laden?
- Original Message -
From: M Yousef [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 10:15 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Fwd: suspected meteorite
Dear Sirs;
Please help me to identify this importannt meteorite.
- Original Message -
From: Michael
Cottingham
To: Michael Cottingham
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 10:03 PM
Subject: 140 ebay auctions, personal collection pieces, one of a
kind, etc...
Hello Everyone,
I have MANY "Buy It NOW items on ebay...140
auctions and
more coming..
This, of course, ties in with the question recently asked by another list
member, How do you clean a meteorite? I hope you bring some extra-large
condoms to put them into first. (although that nice 500 g specimen will
pose particular problems -- at both ends!) BTW, Is that a Martian microbe,
or
I think it's what's left of bin Laden?
Don't you mean bin hide'n?:)
From: Michael Casper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: M Yousef [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fwd: suspected meteorite
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 23:56:36 -0500
I think it's what's left of bin Laden?
- Original Message -
From: Michael
Cottingham
To: Michael Cottingham
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 12:08 AM
Subject: My First Meteorite Specimen and more...
Hello Everyone,
What a nice thread...
It brings back thoughts and feelings from that 1st
space stone
that I
Hello all
Ah... non is remembered to me, my first meteorite that
I have found has been the Lido di Venezia in April
1999; hour I hope comes published on the Met.Bull. but
ne I doubt, inasmuch as for the analyses I have only
given 1.1 grams and I do not want for no reason to
give 20 grams of my
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