Greetings,
Great Topic John!!
I technically started my collection in the mid 1960's with a visit
to Meteor(ite) Crater. I was hoping to buy an actual iron meteorite.
You could only buy shale, so I bought several on a square card that
had a purplish/red color with a fireball trail and
http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-are-hunting-down-frozen-meteorites-in-the-antarctic
Regards!
Tom
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Hi John,
Jim and I were active before this but '95 & '96 is when the Internet
started taking off and the first meteorite websites were born. I think
Eric Twelker was the first with The Meteorite Marketplace.
Can't believe 2016 will be 20 years...
Paul
On 12/27/2015 5:11 PM, J Sinclair
Not sure if this counts but I started into the hobby of astronomy when I was
very young. At 13 years of age I went to the Strasenburg Planetarium here in
Rochester, NY. While I was there I bought a small book called "A Comet
Strikes the Earth" by Harvey Ninniger in the gift shop. On that book
Dear List Members,
This is my last auction set of the year. You will find four examples of NWA
5000 started at just 99 cents with no reserve. I am having them ending on
Monday night instead for Tuesday to give myself time to ship them out
immediately after the auction ends. Every NWA 5000
Yes Paul,
There were very few of us when I opened my website sometime in the summer of
1998. And Ebay had maybe a dozen meteorites.
I had been working with Alain Carion for at least 10 years before that, got to
know Robert Haag, David New,, but that is when I decided to strike out on
my
Hello List,
For me it was 1997, I remember pining over the NEMS catalog for hours
and making lists of my dream locations. My first piece was a 107 gram
Gibeon slice, which I still treasure today. Looking back it is
amazing how that simple $80 purchase has completely changed my life,
so many more
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Edeowie Glass
Contributed by: Graham Macleod
http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=12/29/2015
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