On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:05:28 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>You bring up a good  point!  The problem I see is that I do not believe the 
>term "Main Mass" in  the listings has been truly a peer reviewed subject of 
>scientific  interest in most cases, but rather a rubber stamp that has gone 
>unstudied for  the reason of having no true scientific value in the majority 
>of 
>cases. 

And it seems that the collector interest in being able to call their piece a 
"main mass" is more of
an ego thing than a deep concern for the science.  So maybe they should call it 
the Definite
Ultimate Mass, abbreviation pronounced dum-ass.
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