Hello Al and others, I have been at collecting for about 4 years after finding some of the most convincing meteorwrongs you'll ever see. Someday I'll get them up on web for you all to see. It turned out to be a rocky-like slag that had a lot of flux in it from oldtime smelting. Melted surfaces with cupped features, ball-like surface features that looked like chondrules, etc...might fool many early collectors. Amigo Bob (Haag) finally gave me the bad news. I actually studied, watched auctions, etc. for about a year before I started buying.
I wonder how many other folks start out by finding a meteorwrong? Quite a few I would bet. As for Arizona...I visited once in 1962...but my parents drove right by the crater. Too bad. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "almitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 9:14 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] oldest collector > Hi All, > > Looks like we have some old collectors out there errr.........I mean people that have > collected for quite some time. My first collection piece was from Meteor(ite) Crater > in the 1960's. Probably 1965 or 1966. Went to the crater as a kid. They sold Canyon > Diablo Meteorite oxide (shale) on a card. I still have the cards which are purple, > reddish in color and say "From Outer Space" showing a meteor in flight with the oxide > glued in the center of the fireball. It has information about the impact on the back. > I can't say that I really got serious about collecting until the 1980's though. I did > make an effort to obtain a iron meteorite from Meteor(ite) Crater in 1979 but they > didn't like the idea of selling iron meteorites to just anyone, so I settled for a > larger chunk of iron oxide which I still have in my collection. After that I got > serious. Thank-you Robert Haag! Also Thank-you Blaine Reed!!!!! > > John Sinclair wrote about the attractions around Tucson. I agree with him on all of > his well suggested places. One such place he mentioned was Tombstone and the shoot out > at the O.K. Corral. There was also another infamous shoot out at that location (1996?) > which another list member no doubt has not soon forgot :-) > > --AL Mitterling > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
