Dear Michael, List; To simplify your post: COLLECT ALL METEORITES!
Insomniac, Dave F.
Michael L Blood wrote:
Hi John & all,
John - you have nothing, whatsoever for which to apologize.
There are many ways of approaching meteorite collecting - for instance,
I can hardly stand it when I don't have at least a piece of any meteorite
that hit something - or, as I call it, a "hammer" (because it "nailed"
something/someone).
Some collect only witnessed falls, others collect for geographic
distribution, some collect only whole specimens - others, only end
pieces, and most certainly, collecting by "type" is one of the more
popular approaches.
Some of us are REALLY greedy, and put together many different
collections (IE, my addictions include whole stones, micromounts,
macromounts, full slices, and by type, along with hammers)
And, for a type collector, NWA is a HUMONGUS boon! It is now not
only possible/affordable to have some of EVERYTHING - including
lunars, SNCs, urilites, lodronites(sp?), bencubinites, stunning brechias,
an LL3.0, etc - in most cases, it is reasonably affordable to have a decent
sized specimen of each - AND, multiples of any given rare type.
Yummy, yummy.
Michael
on 9/25/03 4:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
List members,
I know some of you guys/gals are not big NWA fans, but it is amazing to see the awesome specimens that are still coming out of Africa. For instance, Mike Farmer's new Howardite, NWA 1942 is truly an awesome specimen. I received a small slice this week and it looks like an achondrite goulash...meat, potatoes, all kinds of veggies in a nice sauce. What a mish-mash(mixture) of meteorite parts and pieces!! As Mike said in his description...it maybe one of, if not the nicest/coolest Howardite around. I only had one other sample of a Howardite before this one...I'm glad I waited.
The new NWA eucrites, urelites, C's, diogenites, mesosiderites, and other
rarities just keep coming. I'm sure new Lunars and SNC's are not far behind.
These numbered rocks certainly don't have the history or the romance of the
old standby's or new falls, but from a type collector's standpoint...they are
just stunning.
A problem we collectors have is that we can only buy so much...leaving the majority of NWA numbers to other collectors. Anymore, I have to be very picky because the numbers and options are just too much for me. I don't need everyone of the eucrites, etc.
My apologies if I've offended or irritated anyone including the more classical collectors, or those who have a problem with the NWA situation as a whole...this is just a simple, but overwhelmed collector's view on some great looking "rare" material.
Thanx for reading,
John
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