Hi Bob, thanks for your nice words, yes we´ve known each other from the list for almost a decade now...
> For one thing, over the past few years there have been > advancements in stone cutting and sampling. One > method with uses a long, but small diameter, diamond > coring device can extract enough groundmass to make a > classification, but barely leave a mark on the > specimen. This is true. I did not have this in mind when I wrote "never ever", but rather thought of some disturbing cut. It could be done on the quite unspectacular backside of the stone. Do you know why Bob Haag doesn´t want this to be done? Perhaps this may have to do with the ongoing Holbrook discussion in a way... Best wishes, Alex Berlin/Germany > Hello Alex and All, > > Well, Alex, it is almost 10 years now that we have > been exchanging email and posting to this List, and > over that entire time I have considered you my am > besten freund. And as the saying goes, "the more time > goes by, the less things change". > > And so, I can see that we are still in disagreement > about cutting meteorites. In fact, when you just > wrote: > "NEVER EVER cut specimen like these just for the sake > of getting some classification data", I am more in > disagreement with your statement than ever before. > > For one thing, over the past few years there have been > advancements in stone cutting and sampling. One > method with uses a long, but small diameter, diamond > coring device can extract enough groundmass to make a > classification, but barely leave a mark on the > specimen. > > Admittedly this wouldn't be enough sample material to > qualify for a type specimen, but with regards to this > subject "Venus Stone", at least it can be classified > and then we could finally put to rest this rumor that > this stone and the Holbrook fall are related. > > Now, how I came to know this, will have to wait until > my next post. > > Guten morgen mein Freund, > Bob V. > > ------------------------------ > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:34:30 +0100 > From: "Alexander Seidel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Larry's Holbrook Holy > Grail Find and Bob Haag's Venus Stone > > ++++++++++++ > > This is one very special nice example of a > flight-oriented meteorite, where the rule applies: > NEVER EVER cut specimen like these just for the sake > of getting some classification data! Why? Because a > cut would destroy the "character" of the piece! > > And so we don?t know what?s inside this beautiful > meteorite, we can only make some assumptions from > non-destructive observation. > > Alex > Berlin/Germany > -------------------------------------------------- > > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
