It's just the regular politics of a new fall. Everyone loses their minds. I'm happy, I found mine so I'm leaving the strewnfield and avoiding the circus now that it's gone public. Love to watch the fireworks though. Michael Farmer
> On Nov 20, 2015, at 8:49 PM, Gmail via Meteorite-list > <[email protected]> wrote: > > IMCA members can and do sell unclassified and provisional meteorites. As long > as that is properly disclosed and the actual type is listed as "possible" or > some other clear descriptor, then there is no issue. The material has been > properly identified. > > Now, for scientists publishing papers in MAPS, for example, then by the rules > of that publication, they must wait for final approval. To be clear though, > not every meteoritic publication has that requirement. > > If anyone wants to further clarify, please do. I'm on my iPhone, and > unwilling to type a super long email. > > Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend, > > Mendy Ouzillou > > On Nov 20, 2015, at 9:54 PM, ian macleod via Meteorite-list > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Its obvious that the slices Ruben is selling is of a fresh fall, > however until its actually classified its still a 'possible L6' as Adam > pointed out. > I really don't care about pricing anymore, however I have noticed the ball is > really getting dropped on full classification/publishing before sale from > some folk on ebay sell stones not even yet published. I thought IMCA folk > were not allowed to use the Provisional names when selling? >> >> Ruben may I ask a question? you said 'This fall is not for everyone - it >> couldn't be - as there was only 59 grams worth of slices to go round. I >> emailed universities last night and gave them first shot at owning a slice. >> Many of them acquired specimens and were happy to do so.' >> >> My question : what sort of University would be interested in a>$1500 tiny >> slice of possible L6 meteorite even if its fresh and witnessed, there is no >> scientific value in a witnessed fall unless the trajectory can be calculated >> from its parent body to Earth? >> >> its just adds to the pile of 30,000 meteorites we have that seem to be ever >> increasing or decreasing in value! Where are they all from respectively? >> This is the biggest question >> >> collecting because its witnessed is just romantic collecting >> >> I'm sorry but this does not make sense to me.........<div >> id="DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><table style="border-top: 1px >> solid #aaabb6; margin-top: 10px;"> > <tr> > <td style="width: 105px; padding-top: 15px;"> > <a > href="https://www.avast.com/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail"; > target="_blank"><img src="https://ipmcdn.avast.com/images/logo-avast-v1.png"; > style="width: 90px; height:33px;"/></a> > </td> > <td style="width: 470px; padding-top: 20px; color: #41424e; font-size: > 13px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">This > email has been sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast. <br /><a > href="https://www.avast.com/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail"; > target="_blank" style="color: #4453ea;">www.avast.com</a> > </td> > </tr> > </table><a href="#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" > height="1"></a></div> > ______________________________________________ > > Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the > Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ > > Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the > Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
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