How did I find out you could buy meteorites?
This is somewhat strange.
Where I work, I asked for some photocopying to be done
and they were charging 10p (20c) for a staple. I
worked out, that the cost per staple was over
£500/gram and I wanted to know if there was anything
more expensive than
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Question: Just How ...?
How did I find out you could buy meteorites?
This is somewhat strange.
Where I work, I asked for some photocopying to be done
and they were charging 10p (20c) for a staple. I
worked out, that the cost per staple was over
£500/gram and I
Hiho,
one important possibility for the veterans of pre-internet times is missing
:-)
12. Fairs Shows.
I got my first meteorite in 1981 on the Munich show as a boy. A schoolmate's
father was paleo-biologist at the Bavarian states collections, so we got
free tickets. As I was highly interested
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:00:45 +0100, you wrote:
one important possibility for the veterans of pre-internet times is missing
:-)
12. Fairs Shows.
I got my first meteorite in 1981 on the Munich show as a boy. A schoolmate's
father was paleo-biologist at the Bavarian states collections, so we got
Hello all, I guess I am a yes and a no. I still have the first
meteorite I ever bought, It was bought from Keith who came to the
place I worked and applied for a job. On his application it said in
his work history meteorite hunter 10 years I bought a 385 gram
Canyon Diablo for $100 and it is
I received my first meteorite in 1996 from Dr. William Cassidy, the Father of
the ANSMET (Antarctic Search for Meteorites) Program. It is a 21.2 g Henbury
and is proudly displayed in the Natural Sciences Section of my Living Room
along with 78 other meteorites ranging from .001g to 26.5
Hello List,
There was a lot of interest and positive comments on
the thread concerning whether or not members still had
their first meteorite. I'd like to ask a related
question that I think might be interesting.
The question is: How did you find out that it was
possible to actually BUY a
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Question: Just How ...?
Hello List,
There was a lot of interest and positive comments on
the thread concerning whether or not members still had
their first meteorite. I'd like to ask a related
In a message dated 3/15/2007 9:34:35 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The question is: How did you find out that it was
possible to actually BUY a meteorite!?
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1) Saw Robert Haag's ad in Sky Telescope and ordered my 1st Canyon
Interesting question Robert.
# 7
I have known Alain Carion for much longer than either one of us will care to
admit. He used to come to the Denver Show every year, and of course he always
had some meteorites. So, I suppose I have known that you could buy
meteorites from the very beginning.
Dear Robert:
Missed one! I was a diamond prospector and gold prospector in need of a
new metal detector; and I found a White's metal detector dealer just
three blocks from my house! My new associate says that I could find a
meteorite besides gold and I was all earswith in a minute I was
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:33:54 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
The question is: How did you find out that it was
possible to actually BUY a meteorite!?
Ebay. I had been buying fossils on Ebay for years and, one day, started
wondering what other weird things were sold on there. Meteorites popped into
Robert and all,
My story is a little twisted and includes some good
educational insights.
As a field geologist, I saw everyone's curiosity
rocks. I skipped work to go visit meteorite (wannabe)
craters that suddenly appeared in fields.
My first quality meteorwrong was a big hunk of the
Hello Robert and all,
Interesting topic. Like Norm, I'm also a geologist
and have been consulting for about 20 years now. Every
once in a while someone would bring in the family
Rock, ...that treasure they had carried from place to
place over the years because they knew it was
valuable. Back in
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