Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite 20 Questions - Answer and Share if you Dare. :)
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
Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite 20 Questions - Answer and Share if you Dare. :)
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
Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite 20 Questions - Answer and Share if you Dare. :)
I'm going to do this I guess...;) 1) When did you start collecting? (how long ago) RIGHT AFTER I FOUND MY FIRST LUNAR METEORITE..OF COURSE IT'S NOT TESTED YETABOUT 6 MONTHS AGO.:) 2) What first interested you about meteorites? I'VE ALWAYS BEEN INTERESTED, JUST NEVER KNEW YOU COULD ACTUALLY OWN ONE. 3) What was your first meteorite purchase, and from whom? FIRST PURCHASE WAS AN ETCHED NWA 859 FROM MIRKO GRAUL..GERMANY...NICE 4) How many meteorites or localities do you currently have in your collection? I HAVE AROUND A HUNDRED (OR MORE), I'M EMBARRASSED TO SAY... 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. THAT' NONE OF MY WIFE'S BUSINESS... 6) What is your favorite meteorite and why? I LIKE THE WHOLE UNCLASSIFIED ORIENTED...LARGER THE BETTER 7) Have you ever found a meteorite in the field? A LUNAR...I'M CONVINCED... 8) Did you ever get the deal of a lifetime on a meteorite? If so, what was it? A JOHN HIGGINS POLISHED BEAUTIFULLY WHOLE WITH END CUT.I STOLED IT AND APOLOGIZED... 9) Did you ever go through the ordeal of a lifetime to obtain a meteorite? If so, please explain. YES...AND I REALIZED... TRUST IN PEOPLE 'YOU KNOW' IS MOST IMPORTANT. 10) Have you ever consumed meteoritic material? (If so, how or under what circumstances?) YES..GOT ALL OVER MY CIGARETTE... 11) Does your spouse share your meteorite passion, is ambivalent towards it, or resents it? NO FOR ALL THREE...SHE IGNORES IT FOR THE MOST PART 12) Have you ever let a bill go unpaid or late to buy a meteorite? WE'LL SEE, MY TAX TIME IS COMING UP! 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? HIDE IT 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) SMALL ONE..MY WIFE AND IT BOUNCES...LARGE ONE REAL FAST..GLEN BECK...THAT'S NOT POLITICAL IS IT 15) You are awarded the honor of selecting one specimen to keep from any meteorite collection in the world. What would it be? MY LUNAR I FOUND 16) Have you ever sold or donated your entire collection, and then had to rebuild it? NOT YET 17) Summarize what you think about tektites in one sentence. PRETTY, NOT MY CHOICE 18) Which do you prefer - thin sections, whole specimens, slices, or endcuts? WHOLE!!! 19) Do you collect meteorwrongs? NO ON PURPOSE 20) Have you ever dropped a tiny crumb of a rare meteorite and lost it? NEVER HAD ONE __ 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
[meteorite-list] Meteorite 20 Questions - Answer and Share if you Dare. :)
1) When did you start collecting? (how long ago) 2) What first interested you about meteorites? 3) What was your first meteorite purchase, and from whom? 4) How many meteorites or localities do you currently have in your collection? 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. 6) What is your favorite meteorite and why? 7) Have you ever found a meteorite in the field? 8) Did you ever get the deal of a lifetime on a meteorite? If so, what was it? 9) Did you ever go through the ordeal of a lifetime to obtain a meteorite? If so, please explain. 10) Have you ever consumed meteoritic material? (If so, how or under what circumstances?) 11) Does your spouse share your meteorite passion, is ambivalent towards it, or resents it? 12) Have you ever let a bill go unpaid or late to buy a meteorite? 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? 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) 15) You are awarded the honor of selecting one specimen to keep from any meteorite collection in the world. What would it be? 16) Have you ever sold or donated your entire collection, and then had to rebuild it? 17) Summarize what you think about tektites in one sentence. 18) Which do you prefer - thin sections, whole specimens, slices, or endcuts? 19) Do you collect meteorwrongs? 20) Have you ever dropped a tiny crumb of a rare meteorite and lost it? -- Mike Gilmer - Galactic Stone Ironworks Meteorites http://www.galactic-stone.com http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone __ 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
Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite 20 Questions - Answer and Share if you Dare. :)
My Answers from Greg S. Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite 20 Questions - Answer and Share if you Dare. :) 1) When did you start collecting? Started in 1997 2) What first interested you about meteorites? Since I was little, I like racks and fossils and my brother liked astronomy so a natural fit as I grew older 3) What was your first meteorite purchase, and from whom? A Canyon Diablo - that Meteorite Store on Hwy 40 near Holbrook 4) How many meteorites or localities do you currently have in your collection? ~100 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. 6) What is your favorite meteorite and why? My first one I found in 2006 - a ~16.5 gram L4 found a Superior Valley Dry Lake 7) Have you ever found a meteorite in the field? Many... found more than I've bought 8) Did you ever get the deal of a lifetime on a meteorite? If so, what was it? yes - but no comment 9) Did you ever go through the ordeal of a lifetime to obtain a meteorite? If so, please explain. not really - just many 1000's hours hunting 10) Have you ever consumed meteoritic material? (If so, how or under what circumstances?) Nope 11) Does your spouse share your meteorite passion, is ambivalent towards it, or resents it? No - she calls them boring and ugly black rocks, but I still love her 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? First do the meteorite Dance then Take about 1000 pictures... perhaps sleep with it for about a week or so... and then finally cut 20 grams for classification. I would donate much to museums throughout the world - perhaps half. 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) My wife... ha.. ha just kidding... hmm My Mother in Law while she's visiting my home - so I get to keep the meteorite. 15) You are awarded the honor of selecting one specimen to keep from any meteorite collection in the world. What would it be? ALH84001 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. Very little interest, but think they are interesting 18) Which do you prefer - thin sections, whole specimens, slices, or endcuts? Here's my order or preference: Whole specimens Endcuts Slices Thin sections 19) Do you collect meteorwrongs? No - I think they are silly - I have 1000's of them 20) Have you ever dropped a tiny crumb of a rare meteorite and lost it? Yes, perhaps - two cases on rocks I found. One time in a restaurant (turned out not to be a meteorite) another that I think may have been and never found it. -- Mike Gilmer - Galactic Stone Ironworks Meteorites http://www.galactic-stone.com http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone __ 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
Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite 20 Questions - Answer and Share if you Dare. :)
To answer my own questions : 1) When did you start collecting? (how long ago) A little over 4 years ago. 2) What first interested you about meteorites? I have always been an avid amateur astronomer, so after years of observing objects in space, I wanted to own a few. 3) What was your first meteorite purchase, and from whom? A handful of NWA 4293 pebbles from Bob King. 4) How many meteorites or localities do you currently have in your collection? About 100 localities and about 1000 meteorites. 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've never sat down and calculated the value, but I'd guess it's worth a few thousand dollars. 6) What is your favorite meteorite and why? A 110g oriented uNWA with nice crust and a pleasing shape. I've had this stone since my first few months of collecting and I just love how it looks. It's shaped like a twinkie - Tallahassee from Zombie Land would be tempted to eat it. 7) Have you ever found a meteorite in the field? No, although I have found a couple of convincing meteorwrongs. 8) Did you ever get the deal of a lifetime on a meteorite? If so, what was it? Yes, but I am not at liberty to discuss it. 9) Did you ever go through the ordeal of a lifetime to obtain a meteorite? If so, please explain. No. 10) Have you ever consumed meteoritic material? (If so, how or under what circumstances?) Yes. I have eaten and drank - NWA 998, NWA 482, NWA 4734, SAU 005, Murchison, Tagish Lake, NWA 6026, and Allende. I was trying to gain telekinesis, the ability to fly, invisibility, or some other super-power. All but the Allende were consumed in a beverage. The Allende was snorted, accidentally, while trying to detect an aroma in a baggie of fragments. I have probably consumed more carbonaceous chondrite than any person on Earth and it's likely that my gastro-intestinal tract is contaminated with nanodiamonds. 11) Does your spouse share your meteorite passion, is ambivalent towards it, or resents it? She does not collect, but she fully supports my obsession and is working on some meteorite-related artwork that will be offered on my website in the future. 12) Have you ever let a bill go unpaid or late to buy a meteorite? Yes. I have intentionally over-drafted my bank account more than once to purchase meteorites. 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? I'd have it classified. Then, I put the meteorite on a loaner program to various schools and institutions, with the condition that the meteorite is never cut or altered in any way. I would have a mold made and sell casts of the meteorite - like the Venus Stone. 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) Me - assuming I am not permanently disabled or killed. I would have it classified. Then, if the stone was not aesthetically-pleasing or a rare type, I would slice up half of it and sell the slices. I would keep the biggest endcut for myself. 15) You are awarded the honor of selecting one specimen to keep from any meteorite collection in the world. What would it be? This is a tough one. Probably the Willamette iron or the Tucson Ring. I would erect a meteorite museum around the specimen. 16) Have you ever sold or donated your entire collection, and then had to rebuild it? Yes, twice. Both times due to medical bills. I am currently building my third collection. 17) Summarize what you think about tektites in one sentence. Tektites are fascinating objects that have an allure that is different from meteorites, but no less interesting because their exact origins are still under some debate. 18) Which do you prefer - thin sections, whole specimens, slices, or endcuts? Whole stones. 19) Do you collect meteorwrongs? Yes, but only the very unusual ones or ones I have found. 20) Have you ever dropped a tiny crumb of a rare meteorite and lost it? Yes, several times. Right now, there is a piece of Ensisheim in my carpet somewhere. On 7/28/10, Galactic Stone Ironworks meteoritem...@gmail.com wrote: 1) When did you start collecting? (how long ago) 2) What first interested you about meteorites? 3) What was your first meteorite purchase, and from whom? 4) How many meteorites or localities do you currently have in your collection? 5) If you had to know for insurance purposes, what do you value your entire collection at? - in dollars
