Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites and "effeteness"

2005-12-08 Thread Gerald Flaherty
Thanks Bernd, Jerry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 3:48 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites and "effeteness" "Yes, it was those unpredictable and unexplicable "feelings"

Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

2005-12-08 Thread Gerald Flaherty
Be cool Tom this ain't a cartoon. Jerry - Original Message - From: "Thomas Uza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gerald Flaherty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 2:59 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites and "effeteness"

2005-12-08 Thread Meteoriteshow
100% with you Bernd! Have a nice evening, Fred B. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 9:48 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites and "effeteness" > "Yes, it was those unpredictable and unexpl

[meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites and "effeteness"

2005-12-08 Thread bernd . pauli
"Yes, it was those unpredictable and unexplicable "feelings" that I was alluding to. Why we collectors stare at and handle these rocks requires a knowledge and appreciation unknown to "outsiders". I for one cherish my inclusion in such an esoteric group." "I've never read a statement that was more

Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

2005-12-08 Thread Thomas Uza
> Yes, it was those unpredictable and unexplicable > "feelings" that I was > alluding to. > Why we collectors stare at and handle these rocks > requires a knowledge and > appreciation unknown to "outsiders". > I for one cherish my inclusion in such an esoteric > group. I've never read a stateme

Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

2005-12-08 Thread Gerald Flaherty
you Frederic. Jerry Flaherty - Original Message - From: "Meteoriteshow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gerald Flaherty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Martin Altmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 4:31

Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

2005-12-08 Thread Meteoriteshow
ROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Martin Altmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 12:41 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites? > Darren, Martin and list > Value is personal and subjective. Worth is social and relati

Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

2005-12-07 Thread Gerald Flaherty
Best soo far! laugh,laigh, laugh Jerry Flaherty - Original Message - From: "dean bessey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 6:50 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites? Two examples: "how much something costs

Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

2005-12-07 Thread Roman Jirasek
bject: Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites? > Two examples: > "how much something costs to produce": > How much it costs to produce a child? > A hopefully romantic evening and a glass of wine. > Price: 5$. > Two glasses of wine $10 Three beer $9 Four shooters $16

Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

2005-12-07 Thread dean bessey
> Two examples: > "how much something costs to produce": > How much it costs to produce a child? > A hopefully romantic evening and a glass of wine. > Price: 5$. > Two glasses of wine $10 Three beer $9 Four shooters $16 Two martinis $11 Bringing home the girl who drank all this: PRICELESS

Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

2005-12-07 Thread Gerald Flaherty
spend $$$ to possess it. No? Jerry Flaherty - Original Message - From: "Darren Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Martin Altmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 2:29 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Me

Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

2005-12-07 Thread Dave Carothers
Martin, In your message Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 1:56 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites? > Two examples: > "how much something costs to produce": > > How much it costs to produce a child? > A hopefully romantic evening and a

Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

2005-12-07 Thread Alexander Seidel
> We'll find it perhaps out in discussing Zelimir's pos? > Martin Surely not all subscribers of the former "Meteorite" magazine are/were collectors, but may be quite a solid majority. Definitely not all subscribers of "MAPS" are collectors, these are very probably only a clear minority, small by

Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

2005-12-07 Thread Darren Garrison
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 23:05:51 +0100, "Martin Altmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Yah Darren, > >I guess we can't meet in our definitions about "value". >If I'm thinking to poor people going to a pawnhouse, where they get a priori >a lower price than the value of an item, as that sector lives from t

Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

2005-12-07 Thread Martin Altmann
ery, very strange market, if each week on ebay are more offers listed than collectors exist? We'll find it perhaps out in discussing Zelimir's pos? Martin - Original Message - From: "Darren Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Martin Altmann" <[EMAIL P

Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

2005-12-07 Thread Darren Garrison
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 19:56:35 +0100, "Martin Altmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm not a philosopher, >but both of your definitions mean to me correct definitions for price, not >for value. > Value is what worth "the market" places in an item. As long as there are people willing to pay x price

Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

2005-12-07 Thread Martin Altmann
an universal variable to describe a market Cheerio! Martin - Original Message - From: "Darren Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:45 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites? On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 18:55:53

Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

2005-12-07 Thread Darren Garrison
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 18:55:53 +0100, "Martin Altmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Wrong. >You're talking about prices not values. >You want to pay a price below value for your iPod. > No, you are wrong. You missed my point entirely. I said that value can mean "how much something costs to produce

Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

2005-12-07 Thread Martin Altmann
t's meet in 3 years and talk about prices and values of NWA-achondrites..:-) Buckleboo!! Martin - Original Message - From: "Darren Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 5:32 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of

Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

2005-12-07 Thread Darren Garrison
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 15:39:25 +0100, "Martin Altmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It's amazing also with the ordinary desert stuff. If you are not living near >a desert, blue ice field or a site, where once a meteorite was found, you >can get out of the door and run around for the rest of your life

Re:[meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

2005-12-07 Thread MexicoDoug
<< "If you take the info in the MetBull database on face value, you find that there are ... Irons + stony irons: 521 tons" >> Wow, regarding weight that's about a ton for every collector, give or take...time to rent a U-haul to pick up mine:) Just as there are good comments about the foolishnes

Re-2: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

2005-12-06 Thread bernd . pauli
Jeff kindly wrote: "If you take the info in the MetBull database on face value, you find that there are ... Irons + stony irons: 521 tons" Hi All, Now, even *if* you take these 521 tons at face value, one must be careful. Most of these 500+ tons come from a maximum value for the estimated total

Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

2005-12-06 Thread Jeff Grossman
If you take the info in the MetBull database on face value, you find that there are 581 metric tons of approved plus provisional meteorites out there, broken down as (rounded to nearest ton): Irons+stony irons: 521 tons Ordinary chondrites: 52 tons Carbonaceous chondrites: 3 tons HED achondrite

RE: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

2005-12-06 Thread Frank Prochaska
st Subject: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites? Dear Listees: Greetings all. I was interviewed by a reporter today for a follow-up on the Brenham story, and he asked me a good question, which was along the lines of: "What is the total known number of different meteorites, including all

Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

2005-12-06 Thread Martin Horejsi
Oops. I got ahead of myself. This is still 2005. Hopefully there will be more named specimens by this time next year. Cheers, Martin On 12/6/05, Martin Horejsi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Geoff, > > Good question. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin Database, as of > November 19, 200

Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

2005-12-06 Thread Martin Horejsi
Hello Geoff, Good question. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin Database, as of November 19, 2006, there are 31227 valid meteorite names and 2419 provisional names. http://tin.er.usgs.gov/meteor/metbull.php As far as the quote, I am still working on that. Seems to me that I read it even befor

Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

2005-12-06 Thread Darren Garrison
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 10:18:18 -0700, "Notkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dear Listees: > >Greetings all. I was interviewed by a reporter today for a follow-up on >the Brenham story, and he asked me a good question, which was along the >lines of: "What is the total known number of different meteor

[meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

2005-12-06 Thread Notkin
Dear Listees: Greetings all. I was interviewed by a reporter today for a follow-up on the Brenham story, and he asked me a good question, which was along the lines of: "What is the total known number of different meteorites, including all Antarctic Finds and all classified NWAs?" Anyone have