Not sure if this counts but I started into the hobby of astronomy when I was
very young. At 13 years of age I went to the Strasenburg Planetarium here in
Rochester, NY. While I was there I bought a small book called "A Comet
Strikes the Earth" by Harvey Ninniger in the gift shop. On that book was a
glued a small piece of meteorite from the outside rim of the Barringer
crater. I still have that book and the meteorite. I will go out on a limb
and say then that I started collecting meteorites in 1973!
Cheers
Don Merchant
Founder-Cosmic Treasures Celestial Wonders
www.ctreasurescwonders.com
IMCA #0960
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Harris via Meteorite-list" <[email protected]>
To: "J Sinclair" <[email protected]>; "Meteorite List"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2015 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] 1996-2016 meteorite collectors / dealers
Hi John,
Jim and I were active before this but '95 & '96 is when the Internet
started taking off and the first meteorite websites were born. I think
Eric Twelker was the first with The Meteorite Marketplace.
Can't believe 2016 will be 20 years...
Paul
On 12/27/2015 5:11 PM, J Sinclair via Meteorite-list wrote:
Hello All,
20 years.
I noticed while looking at Matt Morgan's web site, he writes
"established in 1996"
The Meteorite Exchange site says "Impacting the Meteorite World Since
1996"
Did anyone else start collecting in '96. If not then... when? and why?
Many dealers and collectors were active before '96 and many more after.
In August 1996 I read on the front page of the local NC (Greensboro
Daily News) newspaper that NASA had found a possible life form in a
Martian meteorite found in Antarctica - Allan Hills 84001. This was
announcing there was life elsewhere in the Universe.
I figured people would want meteorites. I was already selling gems and
minerals at shows and had seen meteorites for sale in Tucson and
Denver. I had meteorites before the end of the year. The fist ones
were mailed from a dealer in Mexico - Tolucas, then Gibeon from the
S.African dealers Karl and Clive. Next was Esquel from Bob Haag. I
nearly sold out the first show I offered meteorites.
It was ALH 84001 that started it for me. How about the rest of you?
See you in Tucson.
John
MeteoriteUSA.com
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