Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-03 Thread jason utas
: Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 11:53 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy To: Adam meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com You have heard the saying give an inch and they will take a mile Richard Norton tried to warn anybody who would listen a decade ago. Meteorites

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-03 Thread Jodie Reynolds
: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy To: Adam meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com You have heard the saying give an inch and they will take a mile Richard Norton tried to warn anybody who would listen a decade ago. Meteorites are no more antiques than the rocks in my back yard

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-03 Thread jason utas
. Freedom isn't for free, Adam - Original Message - From: jason utas jasonu...@gmail.com To: Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Cc: Sent: Sunday, December 2, 2012 9:34 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy Hello All, I'd like to point out

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-03 Thread Peter Scherff
: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of jason utas Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 5:25 AM To: Meteorite-list Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy Hello Jodie, You're nit-picking terminology more than

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-03 Thread Adam Hupe
3, 2012 12:38 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy Hello Adam, All, You're insinuating a heck of a lot with phrases like Twisting laws to fit a bureaucrat's immediate needs is not the proper way to go about it and is unconstitutional. I've already clearly explained

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-03 Thread Martin Altmann
2, 2012 at 4:04 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Hi Fred, Artifact would imply that your legislative authorities do believe in the existence of highly developed aliens somewhere between Mars and Jupiter. Maybe we can

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-03 Thread jason utas
From: Adam Hupe raremeteori...@yahoo.com Date: Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 6:37 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy To: Adam meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com I have never sold a single piece I have found on federal land and this is not what it is about for me. I do

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-03 Thread Adam Hupe
already doing so. Jason From: Adam Hupe raremeteori...@yahoo.com Date: Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 6:37 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy To: Adam meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com I have never sold a single piece I have found on federal land

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-03 Thread Martin Altmann
Gesendet: Montag, 3. Dezember 2012 16:07 An: Meteorite-list Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy Adam...with all due respect... You can't substantiate a single thing you say, but insist that I'm the gullible one. I just told you how a system like that might operate based off

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-03 Thread MikeG
- Original Message - From: jason utas jasonu...@gmail.com To: Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Cc: Sent: Monday, December 3, 2012 7:07 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy Adam...with all due respect... You can't substantiate a single

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-03 Thread Danny Mills
From: Nicholas Gessler, Ph.D. nick.gess...@duke.edu To: meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, December 2, 2012 7:08 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy Regarding the BLM's policy on Collection of Meteorites on Public Land posted

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy (Thar she blows!)

2012-12-03 Thread Martin Altmann
Yep, were hard times then, so they were for meteorite hunters. Here Mike you see Tashtego, Starbuck, Captain Ahab and Ishmael hunting the White meteorite. http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1271/995914327_613befae01.jpg Watch out, what will happen! Here, Rob L. found that horrible testimony... be

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-03 Thread Dennis Miller
2012 11:18:26 -0500 From: meteoritem...@gmail.com To: raremeteori...@yahoo.com CC: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy Every inch of BLM land and all of America was stolen from native American Indians - the true owners

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-03 Thread Richard Montgomery
already doing so. Jason From: Adam Hupe raremeteori...@yahoo.com Date: Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 6:37 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy To: Adam meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com I have never sold a single piece I have found on federal land and this is not what

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-03 Thread Doug Ross
This Meteorite List is turning into a Politics List! lol I can understand both sides of the debate, and as a small time private hunter, sure I would like for the BLM to explicitly grant me broad, unrestricted permission to hunt meteorites to my heart's content on public land. But is that

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-03 Thread MikeG
Hi Doug and Numerous Listers, I apologize for my little Indian rant earlier. It's obvious that this issue is not only controversial, but it also touches upon issues of politics and culture. There is a lot at stake here, and the issue merits attention. But, we must be smart about it. Tempers

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-03 Thread Michael Blood
Hi Michael and all, I have opinions about these things and in the next METEORITE MARKET TRENDS in the January issue of METEORITE TIMES I will address them. In the mean time, folks, the louder we yell about this the more likely we are to create resistance to impacting this situation

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-03 Thread bill kies
@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy Hi Michael and all, I have opinions about these things and in the next METEORITE MARKET TRENDS in the January issue of METEORITE TIMES I will address them. In the mean time, folks, the louder we yell about

[meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread Nicholas Gessler, Ph.D.
Regarding the BLM's policy on Collection of Meteorites on Public Land posted at: http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/info/regulations/Instruction_Memos_and_Bulletins/national_instruction/2012/IM_2012-182.html I have written three emails of complaint to Lucia Kuizon, National Paleontologist and

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread Adam Hupe
. nick.gess...@duke.edu To: meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, December 2, 2012 7:08 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy Regarding the BLM's policy on Collection of Meteorites on Public Land posted at: http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/info

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread John Lutzon
Here 'tis http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2002M%26PSB..375S - Original Message - From: Adam Hupe raremeteori...@yahoo.com To: Adam meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2012 11:00 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread Jim Strope
-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, December 2, 2012 7:08 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy Regarding the BLM's policy on Collection of Meteorites on Public Land posted at: http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/info/regulations

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread Richard Montgomery
on it. HUGE thanks to Nick for taking the initiative. -Richard Montgomery - Original Message - From: Jim Strope fa...@yahoo.com To: meteorite central meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2012 8:46 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy You

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread Adam Hupe
.  Happy Hunting, Adm   - Original Message - From: Richard Montgomery rickm...@earthlink.net To: Jim Strope fa...@yahoo.com; meteorite central meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Cc: Sent: Sunday, December 2, 2012 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread Yinan Wang
avocation. Happy Hunting, Adam From: Nicholas Gessler, Ph.D. nick.gess...@duke.edu To: meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, December 2, 2012 7:08 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy Regarding

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread Nicholas Gessler, Ph.D.
: meteorite central Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy My two cents on part of this topic: I think part of the problem we're having is that there is not enough clout or lobby for our hobby/industry. The BLM can easily ignore various individual emails/demands but it's

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread Martin Altmann
: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy Wichtigkeit: Hoch From my perspective, I think we ought not to go off half-cocked. Apparently, that is what the BLM has done, and it has gotten no one anywhere. But note what Schmitt has written on page B6, paragraph 3: Most Western European countries

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy (Swaziland)

2012-12-02 Thread Martin Altmann
Btw. by far the best of the coolest meteorite laws I found in Swaziland! Wait it's only a little bit complicate, but let me give you a summary: - Collecting of meteorites in National Parks is forbidden. - The removing and exportation of a meteorite needs the permission of the National Trust

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread Adam Hupe
TV entertainers and press-chasers have publicly turned looking for meteorites into a treasure hunt complete with grossly inflated price-tags to attract viewership. This is the same tired but effective method that the lame Antique Roadshow has used for over a decade.  Perhaps these entertainers

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread Martin Altmann
. Dezember 2012 22:46 An: Adam Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy TV entertainers and press-chasers have publicly turned looking for meteorites into a treasure hunt complete with grossly inflated price-tags to attract viewership. This is the same tired but effective method

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread Adam Hupe
to the owner of the surface estate. - Original Message - From: Martin Altmann altm...@meteorite-martin.de To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Cc: Sent: Sunday, December 2, 2012 2:23 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy I think, you're beating the wrong ones

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread Martin Altmann
Auftrag von Adam Hupe Gesendet: Sonntag, 2. Dezember 2012 23:40 An: Adam Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy Martin, I don't see how I can be wrong when I am basically quoting what was  stated the Meteorite Recovery Act.  I avoid the press and have turned down more

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread hall
, 2. Dezember 2012 22:46 An: Adam Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy TV entertainers and press-chasers have publicly turned looking for meteorites into a treasure hunt complete with grossly inflated price-tags to attract viewership. This is the same tired

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread Martin Altmann
Nachricht- Von: h...@meteorhall.com [mailto:h...@meteorhall.com] Gesendet: Montag, 3. Dezember 2012 00:32 An: Martin Altmann Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy Martin, is coffee a total cost of $7 per pound or are the taxes $7

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread Nicholas Gessler, Ph.D.
I think if we work together we can make some changes: I just wrote to the editor of MAPS suggesting that it was time for a rejoinder to Schmitt's article. I also suggested that I will put my 18 students on the task of data-mining the Meteoritical Data Base for information on who found what, who

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread Adam Hupe
Martin Wrote: (uh just read a while ago on web, that Botswana claims to have their cultural heritage back, the biggest lunar Kalahai 009 and asked the university muenster for it). Good, maybe they can provide us with an accurate weight and dimensions instead of rounding it off and hiding it

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread Michael Blood
Dear Nicholas, Please allow me to whole heartedly congratulate you on channeling Your energy in a manor that is most likely to produce a positive outcome! As the Brits would say, Brilliant! Michael On 12/2/12 7:08 AM, Nicholas Gessler, Ph.D. nick.gess...@duke.edu wrote:

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread Michael Blood
Perhaps we should all stop collecting selling meteorites. Also, stop giving to, selling or trading with institutions. All of these things bring attention to meteorites and the fact They are collected and valued by a very small few. Michael On 12/2/12 2:40 PM, Adam Hupe

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread bill kies
eyeballed. The media hype is an ongoing mistake. Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 18:07:56 -0800 From: mlbl...@cox.net To: raremeteori...@yahoo.com; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy Perhaps we should

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread Richard Montgomery
...@yahoo.com; Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2012 6:07 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy Perhaps we should all stop collecting selling meteorites. Also, stop giving to, selling or trading with institutions. All

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread Richard Montgomery
-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy I think, you're beating the wrong ones. These, you're thinking to be responsible due to their media presence are not so mighty, to create new laws and regulations. Btw. look it up in old magazines, even Saint Nininger was posing with meteorites in the press

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread Bryan Couch
Nick I'm with you, I think if we can get the FACTS out together we can make a change. All the finger pointing is pointless to point of making things worse. Wow a lot of points there. Most all activity is in some way regulated on fed land and we were lucky enough to skirt regulation so long so I

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread Adam Hupe
meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, December 2, 2012 6:07 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy Perhaps we should all stop collecting selling meteorites. Also, stop giving to, selling or trading with institutions.         All of these things bring

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread GREG LINDH
reaching government. Greg L. Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 08:00:05 -0800 From: raremeteori...@yahoo.com To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy It is interesting that the BLM has pulled the Antiquities Act out of a hat

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread jason utas
: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Hi Fred, Artifact would imply that your legislative authorities do believe in the existence of highly developed aliens somewhere between Mars and Jupiter. Maybe we can make here on the list a little

Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy

2012-12-02 Thread Adam Hupe
- From: jason utas jasonu...@gmail.com To: Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Cc: Sent: Sunday, December 2, 2012 9:34 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] BLM and Meteorite Recovery Policy Hello All, I'd like to point out a few things: As an active meteorite hunter/collector, the proposed