Very enjoyable reading! Barry
2010/7/29 Gabriel Gonçalves <gabisfunn...@yahoo.com.br>: > 1) When did you start collecting? (how long ago) > Around 4 or 5 years ago. > > 2) What first interested you about meteorites? > My mom teach me to love astronomy, but I've always looked for something more > tangible in it. Once, in a meteor shower, I've realised that meteorites could > be a way. Then, I've started to learn about meteorites and that I could > collect them. > > 3) What was your first meteorite purchase, and from whom? > Well, there were two "first" meteorites. My first "first" meteorite I've > bought from a mineral store in a city called Campinas (here in Brazil), but > one year later I realise that it was a meteorwrong. My second "first" > meteorite is a Bendego that I've bought from a serious brazilian dealer. > > 4) How many meteorites or localities do you currently have in your collection? > 23 and growing (slowly, but growing, hehe). > > 5) If you had to know for insurance purposes, what do you value your > entire collection at? - in dollars - ballpark figure OK, or just say > "none of your business". > I don't know. I think that I'll never stop to calculate how much they could > cost, they are priceless for me. > > 6) What is your favorite meteorite and why? > My favorite meteorite from my collection or from all? > In my collection is my Campos Sales - It shows the exact things that I could > expect from an stony meteorite, from the crust untill the condrules. > >From all the meteorites in the world it's the Marília meteorite - It's > >fallen only 30 km from where I live but it'd happened 18 years before I've > >been born. Its strewfield is the only one I've ever been in. > > 7) Have you ever found a meteorite in the field? > Unfortunately no... > > 8) Did you ever get the deal of a lifetime on a meteorite? If so, what was it? > No. > > 9) Did you ever go through the ordeal of a lifetime to obtain a > meteorite? If so, please explain. > Well, I'm still in a 5 years battle to get at least a small amount of the > Marilia from one of the hard-to-deal museums from Brazil. > > 10) Have you ever consumed meteoritic material? (If so, how or under > what circumstances?) > Probably. Last month I was trying to open a small window in a uNWA in my home > and it made a lot of dust. Probably some fell over some biscuits near me that > I ate after end the work, hehe. > > 11) Does your spouse share your meteorite passion, is ambivalent > towards it, or resents it? > My girlfriend says the they are nice, but doesn't go beyond this. > > 12) Have you ever let a bill go unpaid or late to buy a meteorite? > No. > > 13) A perfectly oriented, fully crusted, baseball-sized, lunar > meteorite crashes through your roof and lands in your lap while you > are reading this. It's the most gorgeous aesthetically-superior > specimen you have ever seen - like Lafayette, but better. It legally > belongs to you. What do you do with it? > Well, first of all, I'd go nuts! After some hours to calm down, I think I'd > take some photos and document everything. I'd take the pieces of the roof and > of everything touched by the meteorite (less me, of course, hehe) to donate > to a museum. I'd cut the meteorite in half and take the front part for me. > The other half I'd take to classify and the rest I'd donate to museums and > closer friends that collect meteorites (except one slice that I'd swap for a > Marilia piece). > > 14) Statistics have caught up with someone. Anne Hodges will no > longer be the only documented person to be struck by a falling > meteorite. Assuming the next person struck could be anyone and you > could pick that person, who would it be? (silly answers only, nothing > mean or political) > If it wouldn't wound anyone, I think I'd choose my daddy. He'd finaly look > the meteorites with other eyes, hehe. > > 15) You are awarded the honor of selecting one specimen to keep from > any meteorite collection in the world. What would it be? > OMG, this is really a hard question... All meteorites that I can think of > (even the Marilia) are so incredibly beautiful that, if I could get them, I'd > put in a museum again... > > 16) Have you ever sold or donated your entire collection, and then had > to rebuild it? > No. > > 17) Summarize what you think about tektites in one sentence. > Interesting material that calls the people attention due its history and that > make a nice presence in a meteorite collection. > > 18) Which do you prefer - thin sections, whole specimens, slices, or endcuts? > In order: whole specimens, end cuts, slices and thin sections. > > 19) Do you collect meteorwrongs? > I'm at university by now, I don't have money enought for this and for the > meteorites at the same time, hehe. Maybe something for the future... > > 20) Have you ever dropped a tiny crumb of a rare meteorite and lost it? > Fortunately no (yet). > > Nice questions. I laught a lot thinking to answer them! > > > > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
