>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Guesstimate on number of meteorite collectors. > >For What it is worth-- I think about 10 years ago or so I did an analysis of >the numbers world wide and the number of meteorite collectors outside the >casual novelty owner of one SA, Nantan, Campo or CDs was under 3000 if not >under 1000. It was a very very small group that the members of this list >tended to overestimate, perhaps biased by their own belief that everyone would >be in love with the romance of owning stock which was out of this world. > >I think I looked at the number of distinct ebay buyers and extrapolated to get >a SWAG. Maybe got input from catalog offering dealers as to their client >base(?). Too may controversies and My mASS is bigger than your mASS squables >ago to really remember what I reported back. Ebay no longer allows one to do >that kind of research with the hidden bidder feature. >Maybe Michael Blood kept a hard copy. > >Elton ______________________________________________
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