From: Martin Altmann <[email protected]>
Sent: Sep 28, 2010 9:17 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 6292 (BRA) IS paired to NWA 5400 !
But, Shawn, Count, all..
with NWA you get material, which you couldn't afford, if you'd have to buy
it in form of historics,
material, where not sufficient quantities for all, collectors&scientists,
are available among the historics,
you get NEW material and sometimes material not to be found among
historics
and you get it at an all-time-in-history-rock-bottom-low-price.
(See my boringly lengthy posting from yesterday on the IMCA-list)
And I don't know, always this volatileness...
I mean for most collectors, meteorites are more than only an episode of
two
or three years,
NWA we have for only 10 years now,
all in all I don't have the impression that a price decline of NWAs
happened, to me it seems rather, that the recent years they're getting -
some slowly, some faster - more expensive.
And if you think on the somewhat longer run, mid-term,
I think, then it won't carry weight, whether today a NWA costs a couple of
dollars more or less.
Btw. meteorites are much more than curios or collectibles,
they are objects of current cutting-edge research.
Other than with fine art, antiques, coins, books, baseball cards ect. that
field isn't so concludingly closed in that respect.
And really..., it is certainly not the business of the research institutes
and universities,
to serve as certifiers and consultants for the valuation of meteorites as
commercial collectibles.
They do research and science.
And that is one point, which makes meteorite collecting so fascinating,
that
you can participate to a certain degree in the red-hot space research!
Best!
Martin
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[mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Shawn
Alan
Gesendet: Dienstag, 28. September 2010 17:46
An: [email protected]
Betreff: [meteorite-list] NWA 6292 (BRA) IS paired to NWA 5400 !
Adam wrote:
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This issue is not unique to NWA meteorites. The same thing could be said
for
Antarctic or other desert finds. Yes, Antarctica is a desert. The same
issue
applies to falls. How much Allende is really out there? Nobody knows for
sure,
the same can be said for Murchison. You can make the same claim for just
about
any fall.
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Adam the difference between NWAs and all the other falls is that NWA
nobody
knows where the strewn fields are. As for the rest, there is data on
strewn
fields and correct documentation that is used to asses the fall or find.
But with a NWA I find that people say that only buy my NWA because its the
real deal and the pairs are inferior. The problem with that is with NWAs
are
collected and through out the months or year the same meteorite gets
recycled back to dealers and in a since every NWA stone has to be
classified
cause of the collection process.
Good example is NWA 2999, I think this meteorite has 2 other pairings if
not
more and think how many pairs it will have in a few years from now? And
another good example is NWA 5400 which could have a few pairs, which are
very likely.
Now when people bank of there NWA as being rare cause of low TKW it seems
that it this could be misleading cause of the circumstances that NWAs
present to science and they way they are collected.
Shawn Alan
IMCA 1633
eBaystore
http://shop.ebay.com/photophlow/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p
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