I was up on one of the rivers feeding into the Frasier River in Canada last summer and found a chunk of rock that for about an half hour had me thinking it might be a meteorite, that is til I found a whole ledge of the stuff....some kinda fun though Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: John Divelbiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: almitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 7:36 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] oldest collector
> 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 ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
