Mike, If you got a shippment of meteorites from the Amgala strewnfield , would you bother to have it classified or just sell it as Amgala ? Regardless of who had the initial sample classified.
NWA #'s are not proprietary. I know that people such as Adam wishes they were. If you get a shippment from Morocco .......... you trust your supplier. This is something that will always be a problem. All we really can do is trust the dealer we choose to buy from. Because god knows once the material is in the hands of a moroccan dealer we really cant be 100% sure where they got it from , unless we were there to pull it out of the sand ourselves. Bob E ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Farmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 9:56 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite numbers > To clarify something that is obviously causing some problems in the > meteorite world right now, I want everyone to know that > NWA 788, 787, and NWA 482 are numbers that came from rather large or > meteorites with hundreds of pieces bought during one of my expeditions. > The Hupes and many other people have the right to those numbers. > Now, there are other numbers being widely used without proper title (as Dr > Grossman has stated publicly and with finality that people do not own > numbers, but numbers are assigned to specific meteorite specimens and must > not be used with other meteorites just because you heard or someone told you > it is the same). > Let's all please stop this practice as it is really hurting our business and > hobby. Virtually every dealer including myself has been or is guilty of > this, we are in the process of correcting the situation and to start people > MUST immediately comply or this will just spiral downward as we see tonight. > > I perused eBay today and it is still rampant with sellers using numbers they > seem to have drawn from a hat. So please ask you seller next time you buy > something, how they got that number, who it was assigned to and if not them, > just how they came to call it that. > Mike Farmer > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
