Hello Everyone, I don't like the idea of marking in any way a meteorite specimen.
Over the years, I have bought planetary specimens from Jim Strope and I think Jim has a great way of producing an adequate paper record of a specimen. Jim scans the specimen and prints a COA with the scanned image, large enough to unmistakenly identify the specimen. He also adds a brief description of the specimen (weight, clasification ,etc.).
Scanning works well for flat specimens such as slices but for individuals, a picture would serve the same purpose.
I remember seeing a piece of software a few years ago that was a database of geological specimens, meant for collectors. The fields could be customized for a meteorite collection and images could be incorporated as part of the recoard for a given specimen. I can't remember if it was a flat file or relational type database. Has anyone seen this?
-Walter Branch
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