My thoughts: The gov regularly sells at auction all manner of objects and the final price bears no relationship to the price the gov paid. "Priceless" has $ value - the bidder decides.
Lunar material would have to sell at auction to establish a market value. As a collector I would have no interest in the 113g UNLESS unequilibrated meteoritic material were offered; such is my specific collecting interest (however, if unequilibrated material was available I would ravage my credit cards and still loose to any collector with serious bidding interest) . So for value I suggest dealers who remain in touch with the 'great' collections canvass their owners with the hypothetical. The value would remain static or decrease over time as industrial development of the moon would effectively create a NWA syndrome. This is not investment material. A fragment of ALH84001 on the other hand (If the collector is convinced that evidence of life has in fact been found in this specimen) would find a much larger field of bidders who, I suspect, would 'shoot the moon' to acquire this first evidence. Michael M ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
