Michael Farmer and Michael Casper wrote: > Graham, email me your address and i'll double > your collection for free! Mike Farmer
> Email me your address as well, > I'll send ya a couple. xoxox, MC Hello Mike, hello Michael, hello All! First of all a resounding bravo from Germany for this generous gift to Graham !!! So Santa is still around :-) At the age of 12, I started getting interested in astronomy which soon turned into a life-long passion. But strangely enough, I used to skip those pages in my astronomy books that dealt with meteors, comets, and m e t e o r i t e s. One day, in the early eighties, I bought my first moldavite from an Austrian dealer - a Mr. Zensinger, then an Australasian tektite (an indochinite) at a mineral and gem shop in Heidelberg, and, then my first "real" meteorite - a small, round, cut and etched Mundrabilla slice about the size of a quarter from the Zeitschels. Of course I still have this one to behold and to cherish. But I still had not developed any special interest in meteorites - I merely thought it was the proper thing to have for an amateur astronomer. A Canyon Diablo soon followed, then an Odessa, an Allende for about $ 1.00/gr (!) and a Nuevo Mercurio for $ 1.00/gr (!) and from then on I absolutely agree with Ron's fitting description of the situation: "By that time, the disease had spread and was inoperable!" -- I had become addicted to meteorites, I was on the hook and will probably stay there for the rest of my life :-) Bernd Show your support at the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund - http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ts/my-pay-page/PKAXFNQH7EKCX/058-5084202-7156648 _______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
