On a more serious note, you have done all that you can do and some folks will
simply keep asking around until they get the answers that they are looking for.
Unfortunately there seem to be more and more individuals out there today that
have acquired the get rich quick mindset and they will not be easily deterred
by honest and factual answers that shatter their hopes and dreams.
Recently encountered this myself when I was taken to a gentleman's house who
was certain that he had discovered a strewnfield. As I entered the house and
looked at the coffee table, I noticed that he had gathered up a really nice
collection of magnetite and was unwilling to accept any other answer than that
they are in fact meteorites and he was going to put his children through
college with the cash he would get from selling them.
Oh well.
T Parker
On Friday, March 19, 2021, 8:26:58 AM MST, drtanuki via Meteorite-list
<[email protected]> wrote:
List,
Out of over the 200-plus people that I have helped.
Two had found meteorites and I verified them in person.
Two other kept sending me wrongs, but were willing to learn and listen;
The one finally a piece of the Old Woman and Gold Basin meteorite.
The second, no only did he find a meteorite, but his wife and son each found
OCs.
Plenty of nut-jobs out there but sometime some of the persons contacting me
have paid their dues and listened, studied and spent the time to finally have
success.
The "believers" will never take advice and always think that they have
something RARE. I just explain the I cannot help a "believer" and ask them not
to call me again.
Batting 4/200.
PS' Save your time and ask them to do some study and look for the most common
instead of rare mets....
Dirk Ross...Tokyo
On Friday, March 19, 2021, 11:15:06 PM GMT+9, Michael Mulgrew via
Meteorite-list <[email protected]> wrote:
Tell them to have it classified by a laboratory, and then ignore them. Chances
are these types won't even listen to a laboratory, but it takes the onus of
reply off of you.
-Michael in so. Cal.
Virus-free. www.avg.com
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 1:17 PM tracy latimer via Meteorite-list
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> I've been fielding a lot of e-mails this week from someone who is certain
>that a meteorite nearly hit their house. The picture they sent me is of what
>looks like a weathered lava bomb that likely washed free of an upslope
>location and rolled/fell/bounced into his yard. They found it the following
>day after a "loud thump that shook the house", then picked it up and hosed it
>off, so don't have any pictures of it in situ, just a shallow hole with muddy
>splash marks. I've told them several times that it doesn't look like a
>meteorite: vesicles, not regmaglypts; no fusion crust, nothing that identifies
>it as a likely meteorite, but they don't want to hear it. Anyone who has
>dealt with a persistent "meteorite" finder, how did you eventually get them to
>listen to reason/experience -- or not?
>
>
>
>
> Best!
>
> Tracy Latimer
>
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