From: "Martin Altmann" <[email protected]>
I don't know, since I opened my webpage, I was bombarded with tons of
emails, pictures... several thousands.
If the photos are half-decent, sharp and not made during a solar eclipse,
one can exclude in 90% of the cases immediately, that it's a meteorite. 5%
are meteorites, which people got as a gift. Usually Sikhote and such
stuff.
4.5% do at least resemble to a certain degree a meteorite, there you can
ask
the people to do home some simple tests (magnet, streak test, density or
to
break off a corner).
For that you don't need a lab. Every experienced collector or dealer can
handle that.
0.4 are worth to cut off a corner to look inside or in case, that it's
sheer
iron to make a nickel test and/or to etch a surface.
And 0.1% or less are then still so interesting, that they should be tested
in a lab. And I say tested, not classified. Classification is a step
further.
O.k. that ratios are from my experiences here in Europe, where we have no
deserts, they might be different in USA.
Heh well said Martin.
Just same situation here. 9 yerars as Im on a scene as a dealer and 9 years
of answering "Sorry but Your sample is ordinary rock".
From my observations peoples in Poland have completly no ***** idea how
meteorites looks like. I receiving mostly basalts and pieces of old man-made
iron. Thats sad and Im really tired of all this emails with 20 photos of
same rock, each out of focus and in size 2MB/photo, but... I still have
stupid hope that some day someone will send me photo of his 20kg type 3 :D
acha and next fall in Poland
acha, sure Im naive
nite all.
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