Hi Greg, Aziz, All,
I would like to thank Aziz and others on their informative input on buying
meteorites from Morocco.
I'm confused about this pairing of meteorites and I think Greg touched on this
briefly. This has been bugging me since I started collecting. I don't want to
start a flame war so please, PLEASE think twice before hitting the send key on
this reply.
Take for example a dealer/collector buys a 300g stone from Morocco, gets it
classified and it is named NWA 9999, a very, very rare Diogenite. Later, more
stones are found and it sure looks like NWA 9999. I understand the original
300g stone is NWA 9999 but the others found later should be considered paired
unless it has the lab work and documents to back it up.
Using this logic, all subsequent finds of Holbrook, Franconia, Gold
Basin,...etc. should be considered pairings and not in fact Holbrook,
Franconia, Gold Basin? Is this because these meteorites have established strewn
fields, respectively, but the NWA meteorites do not? How can anyone be sure a
stray meteorite has not fallen and was collected in these U.S. strewn fields
without cutting it or lab work done on each? Perhaps an experienced meteorite
hunter would know the difference but what of a novice like myself?
Carl
Greg wrote:
>"...Treat the meteorites right; as in, accuracy of type, TKW, self-pairings
(fraud), etc., and you will not have problems!!!"...
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