Hello all, I guess I am a yes and a no. I still have the first
meteorite I ever bought, It was bought from Keith who came to the
place I worked and applied for a job. On his application it said in
his work history "meteorite hunter 10 years" I bought a 385 gram
Canyon Diablo for $100 and it is still in my collection. In fact that
is how my collection started.
I went to Gold Basin to hunt for meteorites, the first day I had a
small zip lock bag about half full of meteorites. They were fairly
ugly to me at the time and I never considered if I should keep the
first one for my self. Later I did collect several Gold basins, but
they have other special characteristics. The biggest, oriented, found
this one twice. But the first one is gone.
On 3/16/07, Darren Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:00:45 +0100, you wrote:
>one important possibility for the veterans of pre-internet times is missing
>:-)
>
>12. Fairs & Shows.
>
>I got my first meteorite in 1981 on the Munich show as a boy. A schoolmate's
>father was paleo-biologist at the Bavarian states collections, so we got
>free tickets. As I was highly interested in astronomy, I really was
>wonderstruck, that meteorites weren't locked away in scientists' labs, but
>that indeed one could buy them!
>Of course I took one.
>3 weeks later I was somewhat disappointed, cause I found out, that the stone
>which was sold to me, was "only" a tektite.
>Soooo I couldn't await next years' show, there I bought of course a real
>one! A 50gram individual of Mundrabilla from famous Walter Zeitschel,
>to whome I send again here my best wishes to hospital!
Out here in the country I never run across meteorites at fairs or shows. In
fact, in all my life I've seen exactly one meteorite without having actually
bought it myself over the internet. That was an iron one I saw at a flea market
as a early teen in the 1980s. It was about fist sized, and even never having
seen a meteorite "in real life" before it was obvious what it was without even
asking. At over $100 and with the guy only passing through, though, there was
no chance of my getting it (if he had stuck around, I'd have done some serious
allowance saving). I did buy a number of nice tektites (nice ones, even looking
at the from a more experienced/jaded perspective today) and still have (most) of
them. Back then, the lunar origin of tektites was still pretty mainstream.
I've shared a photo of one of them on the list before:
http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/tektite.jpg
Weighs about 40 grams. And, if you are counting impactites, then it pushes my
"first meteorite" back into the 1980s.
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