[meteorite-list] AD: Piggyback Undercut

2006-01-25 Thread Martin Altmann
Hola list those, who stayed home! Remember the Canyon Diablo Cohenite Bomb? http://www.spacerocksinc.com/Jan23.html Very rare one finds so much cohenite worms and so nicely arranged in a Canyon Diablo. Look down to the left, there is a schreibersite inclusion too. Interesting enough, despite

Re: [meteorite-list] The most beautifull fresh andoriontedpallasiteever seen

2006-01-25 Thread Martin Altmann
For me, conservative as I am, with an oriented meteorite one should reckognize easily, where the front and the back is. I'm still missing a publication, where the aerodynamic processes of sculpturing such oriented shapes are explained - smth like that series for orientation at tektites we had in

Re: [meteorite-list] The most beautifullfreshandoriontedpallasiteever seen

2006-01-25 Thread Martin Altmann
Wrong! :-) The second Neuschwanstein find was almost rectangular, but on one of the two small sides, there were superb radial flow lines like a star or sund rays. - Original Message - From: Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: M come Meteorite Meteorites [EMAIL PROTECTED];

Re: [meteorite-list] Article on Stardust

2006-01-24 Thread Martin Altmann
Yep, because it was discovered by an Swiss astronomer Paul Wild. For pronouncation I find this online dictionary very helpful (infact the best for German -- English). If you click the speaker symbol at the word in your search, you'll hear it. Buckleboo! Martin - Original Message -

Re: [meteorite-list] Harvey Awards - New Catagory

2006-01-24 Thread Martin Altmann
Yes. Of course. Especially for Geoff. (Steve Arnold's reward was already some hundredweights of PAL...) Martin Altmann - Original Message - From: Greg Hupe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 8:24 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Harvey

Re: [meteorite-list] Jailbird Harvey Award

2006-01-24 Thread Martin Altmann
I'd rather suggest a Rudo Award, for those people, who had most bad luck with meteorites or who are considered to be the greatest simple minds in the meteorite scene (and I even know already an excellent candidate.). Buckleboo! Martin - Original Message - From: McCartney Taylor

Re: [meteorite-list] Faulty Safe Cited in Moon Rock Theft

2006-01-23 Thread Martin Altmann
Huh Dave? forced to pay restitution Yes, she should. The article says: The stolen samples are uninsured and have no official monetary value, according to NASA. and If the moon rocks have been removed from their containers, they lose their scientific value. So they have no value at all :-) In

Re: [meteorite-list] Lectures in Tucson

2006-01-20 Thread Martin Altmann
Why not? That's a pretty wise decision in my eyes! Supposedly in a meteorite dealer many abilities meet better than in any person from the academical branch. A meteorite dealer: - overpeers the meteorite valley - knows where to get from interesting material - knows where to hunt and with which

Re: [meteorite-list] UofA giving collection to dealer control.

2006-01-20 Thread Martin Altmann
And Buehler (Swiss Met Lab), old veteran collectors, harr, like me will remember, an highly appreciated dealer and author of the still best meteorite book in German languague, was a curator. - Original Message - From: Matt Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Re: [meteorite-list] UofA giving collection to dealer control.

2006-01-20 Thread Martin Altmann
Hmmm Henry Augustus, wasn't he a kind of dealer too, didn't he put the FieldsMuseum a bug in the ear to found a meteorite collection? Hehe, as a curator-dealer I would rather do it other way round, not to milk the collection, but to sell them my meteorites?? Let's see pre-judgments never

[meteorite-list] Main Piece !

2006-01-20 Thread Martin Altmann
Uff List, what a discussion, never expected that to be such an issue, as in most cases with sanity and reason the obvious becomes evident and if I understand right, we are argueing about, whether we are allowed to stick a label onto a stone, where is written the very words main mass! If this is

Re: [meteorite-list] UAz Sothwest Meteorite Center

2006-01-20 Thread Martin Altmann
At least everyone has to agree, that their pictorial catalogues of specimens and thin sections are not only highly educational, but simply the best meteorite picture books published. Would be great if they could do smth similar for the UAz collection. - Original Message - From: Marc

Re: [meteorite-list] Stardust SRC Hot to the touch?

2006-01-18 Thread Martin Altmann
Unbelievable! I recommend to train upcoming NASA-reentry-capsule-recoverers in a special program. To proof cost efficency, I'll could develope such a program for only 120.000bucks. The program is: Come on, little princes and pashas, 60°C - 140F, protective gloves???! What about you helping a

Re: [meteorite-list] Campo Preservation

2006-01-17 Thread Martin Altmann
Easiest way of iron preservation is to collect stone meteorites. - Original Message - From: Gary K. Foote [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 7:20 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Campo Preservation Hi List, I recently picked up a

[meteorite-list] My favourite....

2006-01-17 Thread Martin Altmann
My fafourite link for this week. Highly recommended: http://www.dudeman.net/siriusly/ufo/art.shtml Buckleboo! Martin __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] D'orbigny

2006-01-14 Thread Martin Altmann
Meteorites are like stocks, as long you don't sell them, you won't have any losses Keep it some years more. Buckleboo! Martin - Original Message - From: M come Meteorite Meteorites [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 8:25 AM

Re: [meteorite-list] a new Quiz

2006-01-14 Thread Martin Altmann
Piece of Millbillillie, which you forgot to take out of the pocket, before you gave the trousers in the washing machine. Martin - Original Message - From: Christian Anger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 10:10 AM Subject:

Re: [meteorite-list] Nitrogen for safe storage ?

2006-01-14 Thread Martin Altmann
Years ago I read an article, that there was a company, where millionarios could store brand new expensive cars in nitrogen filled balloons for some decades, to have later brandnew and valuable veteran cars for their kids and grandchildren. ;-? Buckleboo! - Original Message - From: Lars

Re: [meteorite-list] Scales

2006-01-12 Thread Martin Altmann
Hiho, and on ebay one finds a lot of digital pocket scales with an acurracy (at least reads the display like that) of 0.01g. They are quite affordable with 50-60$, seem to be an important acessory for potheads. Range is up to 50grams or 60grams. I think for a collector it's sufficient. Until one

Re: [meteorite-list] my meteorite in pocket

2006-01-09 Thread Martin Altmann
Wow, I hope you`re wearing a jockstrap too I carry around in my pocket the lost main mass of Sao Juliao. My girl and all my friends left me since, as they say, that I`m a couch potato... I`m back, Buckleboo! - Original Message - From: Steve Arnold, Chicago!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [meteorite-list] NWA paying for terrorism?

2005-12-21 Thread Martin Altmann
Heehehehe, with that little amount of stones and with that prices paid there for meteorites, poor terrorists, they would starve and for the next assault they would have to ride with donkeys into the Pentagon. I imagine Rumsfeld, the hero, holding the poor donkey by the tail to avoid a

[meteorite-list] Byeeee

2005-12-20 Thread Martin Altmann
Hohoho listees, tomorrow I'm leaving until 8th of January, again without internet. Sorry to all those, to whose emails of the last 2 weeks I didn't respond. Had a computer breakdown, lost data, chaos - just write again, if it was important. Sooo, for the dealers and hunters I wish some quiet

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite finder list

2005-12-16 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Rob, The book Bernd mentioned - NININGER H.H. and NININGER A.D. (1950) The Nininger Collection of Meteorites: A Catalog and a History (American Meteorite Museum, Winslow, Arizona. 144 pp.). contains maps of US-finds. Those which were definitely traceable to the field activities of the

Re: [meteorite-list] Spreading the wealth ........of information! Who Iare??

2005-12-15 Thread Martin Altmann
Yes. - Original Message - From: dfreeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 2:16 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Spreading the wealth of information! Who Iare?? Dear List; This coming Monday, I will address

[meteorite-list] This not normal anymore

2005-12-15 Thread Martin Altmann
Help list! After a longer pause, I looked into ebayso many different sellers, - since when there are so many Nantan-wrongs appeared? http://cgi.ebay.com/13LB-AAA-Grade-VALUABLE-IRON-METEORITE-NanDan-CHINA_W0QQitemZ6588371385QQcategoryZ3239QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Re: [meteorite-list] Viedma?

2005-12-09 Thread Martin Altmann
It's because Matt isn't a carnival barker and perhaps to modest for that branch. I know that stone, be assured that the provenance is flawless and the material remarkably fresh, a lucky find, cause it's almost not weathered. I personally would have set the price a little bit higher, as the tkw is

Re: [meteorite-list] baygorria vs. campo

2005-12-08 Thread Martin Altmann
And can me someone tell me details about NWA 849 vs. Campo? http://www.michaelbloodmeteorites.com/HB2W.jpg Looks so similar and the values are so similar. - Original Message - From: Steve Arnold, Chicago!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, December

Re: [meteorite-list] baygorria vs. campo

2005-12-08 Thread Martin Altmann
to be similar to Campo del Cielo, everything else is a fraud. Expressing my opinion, if in doubt, check it out! Adam Hupe The Hupe Collection Team LunarRock IMCA 2185 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2005-12-07 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Al(l), on the german meteorite list was reported the output of diamonds: annual: 12.4 metric tons estimated total since ancient times: 680 tons Keep that in mind folks, if you let pass on ebay an R-chondrite at 5$/g R-chondrites - annual output (estimated): 0.0005 tons total: 0.021tons

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

2005-12-07 Thread Martin Altmann
- Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 5:32 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites? On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 15:39:25 +0100, Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's amazing

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

2005-12-07 Thread Martin Altmann
to describe a market Cheerio! Martin - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:45 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites? On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 18:55:53 +0100, Martin Altmann

[meteorite-list] total number of meteorite collectors

2005-12-07 Thread Martin Altmann
(Hola list, Zelimir asked me to forward this mail, as he can't come through since months) Hi list, Interesting debate about the number of meteorites related to the market (Martin, I appreciated your clever views). This question is by no means also more or less directly related to the actual

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

2005-12-07 Thread Martin Altmann
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 PROTECTED] Cc: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 8:29 PM Subject: Re

Re: RE:[meteorite-list] Fake russian meteorite

2005-12-04 Thread Martin Altmann
I wouldn't say, that that person who measured the isotopes is an idiot, as he is sine 30 years in meteoritics, when there even wasn't a little Matteo planned. - Original Message - From: M come Meteorite Meteorites [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent:

[meteorite-list] Ad: December Issue of The Rollin' Rock Meteorite Sales Letter is up!

2005-12-04 Thread Martin Altmann
specimens are certainly well worth to be viewed! Enjoy! Martin Altmann on behalf of the Rollin' Rock Team __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Swedish impressions

2005-11-30 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi List, on doing some recherches I stumbled about this fine site. http://www.muonionalustameteorites.com Fine pictures from hunting Muoniounalusta. Buckleboo! Martin __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Shield-shaped meteorites

2005-11-27 Thread Martin Altmann
The last unsolvable mystery of meteoritics: How does Cabin Creek looks from behind? Did anyone ever saw the back? Buckleboo! - Original Message - From: Jim Strope [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 1:58 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [meteorite-list] Shield-shaped meteorites

2005-11-27 Thread Martin Altmann
Not that bad: Karakol http://www.geokhi.ru/~meteorit/opis/karakol-e.html Is it still a shield or already a nose cone? Famous Bazkowka of course http://astro.ia.uz.zgora.pl/~simkoz/meteoryt/galeria1/baszkowka.jpg (don't forget, Rollin-Rock sales letter: my slice will be there only for a few days

Re: [meteorite-list] OT what is weg?

2005-11-27 Thread Martin Altmann
Or it means gone. Very important on parcels, it's the confirmation, that it's sent, already when one is still writing weg on the label... - Original Message - From: Peter Marmet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteoritenliste Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005

Re: [meteorite-list] New Iron-Nichel posphide official name

2005-11-26 Thread Martin Altmann
Hehe, the Museo played some jokes with you. Melinite is an explosive, invented by Eugène Turpin (1848-1927) (a relative of Ben Turpin?) http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/p4556.htm was used at that time as filling of grenades. And melinite is an anagram of ilmenite, found in moon

Re: [meteorite-list] FUKANG METEORITE

2005-11-26 Thread Martin Altmann
You can buy your slice at a Bonham's auction in L.A. on 4th of Dec. Help Flash version Copyright © 2002-2005 Bonhams 1793 Ltd., Images and Text All Rights Reserved Lot No: 8084 Fukang Meteorite Slice - An Important New Discovery Stoney Iron - Pallasite Fukang, China An extraordinary discovery

Re: [meteorite-list] FUKANG METEORITE

2005-11-26 Thread Martin Altmann
Esquel or Imilacanother, I ask to some persons its go to Munich Show if have seen this kilos of Fukang, but any have say to have seen this material exibhited. Matteo --- Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: You can buy your slice at a Bonham's auction in L.A. on 4th of Dec

Re: [meteorite-list] New Iron-Nichel posphide official name

2005-11-26 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Göran, I have another guess. At the Museo di Scienze Planetarie of Prato (http://www.mspo.it/ingl/homei.html) is working a mineralogist a certain Marcello Mellini (Modesty is his middle name). In a sudden fit of unassumigness, he decided to name the new mineral nahabedite. Matteo couldn't

Re: [meteorite-list] Auctioneer Abuse of Meteorites was: Pallasite

2005-11-26 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Doug, I see it more pragmatically. The termsconditions the seller/buyer knows before. Don't know whether they are so different from other auction houses like Christie's, Sotheby and all the rest of them. Nor do I think, that they are meteorite pimps, maximum meteoritically pimply. (I guess the

Re: [meteorite-list] Auctioneer Abuse of Meteorites was: Pallasite

2005-11-26 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Mike, in priciple I imagine the idea to sell meteorites via an auction house to be not so absurd. (Must exist more serious enterprises than this one.) You know it by your own, if one has larger and rare, thus expensive pieces for sale, how one has to slog to sell it at an acceptable price,

[meteorite-list] Matteo's own prices, take a look! - was: AD - World Biggest Impact Melt slices

2005-11-23 Thread Martin Altmann
Dear Matteo, in almost every third case a dealer or collector advertises here on the list, you feel the need to empty your bowels and you crow on the list, that the price would be exaggerated and how much you paid for that locality or that you once saw it on ebay ending at a lower price. Apart

[meteorite-list] Texas collectors here? We have something rare for you!

2005-11-23 Thread Martin Altmann
Howdy, those, who are focussing on meteorites from Texas, please contact me, we have a rare and very hard to find name for you! (Don, you already have it, would be perhaps an upgrade). Thanks! Buckleboo __ Meteorite-list mailing list

Re: [meteorite-list] fukang pallasite

2005-11-22 Thread Martin Altmann
Do you have the laws in written form? The idiocies for me are always those speculations where, what, when is forbidden to export or to collect and nobody knows the wording and terms of those laws of each country concerned. So Matteo, job for you: Collect the actual law textes of all countries

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Seymchan pallasite end cut for SALE

2005-11-21 Thread Martin Altmann
How large is the tkw now, after the recent finds? Thanks! Martin - Original Message - From: Ivan Kutyrev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 6:58 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Seymchan pallasite end cut for SALE Please

Re: [meteorite-list] ad : proto-planetary collision results inre-condensation of interest

2005-11-19 Thread Martin Altmann
Hiho, Yes, I fully agree, I saw Hanno's slices in Munich and he priced them with his 35-40$/g very affordable. For those, who prefer Gujba: Eric Twelker has at the moment the best offers on market. With 40-50$/g he's not only cheaper than Gujba often ends on ebay, but also his slices are

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Stones From ... Mystery ParkMeteorites

2005-11-18 Thread Martin Altmann
A little side note: von Däniken bought a large part of the meteorites of the Bally-Prior Museum in Switzerland, which closed down in 2003. They had a remarkable meteorite collection, consisting of specimens from the colln of Bally-Prior (1847-1926), who bought meteorites from the Ward-Coonley

Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 869 TKW

2005-11-17 Thread Martin Altmann
We had it on the list here. According to assertions and estimations from dealers and Morocco travellers, it should be something around 4-5 tons. But of course not confirmed, as one can't check every single stone and it's only an rough estimation, derived from the circumstance that NWA869er stones

[meteorite-list] Book Wasson, Meteorites 1974

2005-11-16 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi, I have a bibliophilic question too. I just sold my Wasson, , John T.: Meteorites; Classification and Properties. SpringerVerlag, New York, 1974 That orange hardcover standard work. But I'm not sure about, which price I should ask, as I don't know anymore, what I paid for, nor am I able to

Re: [meteorite-list] way to go steve

2005-11-15 Thread Martin Altmann
What about AfanasjevTeam, Carion, Chladni, Franco, Haberer, Karl, Koutyrev, Sniadecki, Vassiliev and many, many others? Steve, meteorite hunting isn't an exclusively American 20th century matter. Buckleboo - Original Message - From: Steve Arnold, Chicago!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [meteorite-list] Ad - 77 Auctions Ending, Great Stuff!

2005-11-15 Thread Martin Altmann
Luther said twice per week. Theoretically it can be from Saturday to Tuesday continously, can't it? But then not before next week on Monday. Once per week means to me, once per week and not once every 8th day. If uncle doctor says, take one once per day, he doesn't bother, whether you take it

[meteorite-list] AD: St. Martin's Day Sale

2005-11-11 Thread Martin Altmann
Rabimmel List! Today is St.Martin's Day and as I am such a Martin, I need some bucks for having goose, lampions and apples, therefore I sell two Christmassy falls, which you could make to your own gifts. BARWELL Leicestershire, England Fall 1965, December 24, 16:20hrs Tkw 44kg Olivine

Re: [meteorite-list] Ourique

2005-11-11 Thread Martin Altmann
I have to correct myself, I looked in my old lists and Matteo is right, Mike's price was 10$/g when he brought it to market. Anyway, that 14.3$ I ask now, is justifiable, as it's nothing new, that European falls tend to be very expensive, especially if they have a mere tkw and if the material is

Re: [meteorite-list] From when Marc Labenne live in Czech Repubblic?

2005-11-10 Thread Martin Altmann
Cash bills are always the worst way, also from Switzerland to Germany they seem to dissapear. But those guys have paypal and as Czech Republic is part of EU, wire transfers, if they have an account in Euro, are free for all EU-residents. However, to carve figurines from meteorites is for my

Re: [meteorite-list] Best Wishes to Joel

2005-11-07 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Jeff, aren't among all those meteorite enthusiasts any to be found, who have some experiences in editing to continue the magazine? I mean in our digital times it can be done from everywhere on the globe. The format of the textes and pictures are known, the publishing company and their

[meteorite-list] Sikhote sold

2005-11-07 Thread Martin Altmann
The Sikhote is gone. Thanks! Martin __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] OT: Warning list member adressed virus mails

2005-11-07 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi list, some OT. Seems that a robot collected some email-adresses from a meteorite site. I recieved several mails with adresses from different well known meteorite people from different countries with their adresses as sender and a virus in the attachement. Others recieved them too. Don't open

Re: [meteorite-list] Rust needed :)

2005-11-06 Thread Martin Altmann
Wow Marcin, do you have a date? A girl who likes dirt I imagine you hanging your Droninos in the kitchen over the hob, when you're preparing the food for a candle light dinner and grinding down the coating from Brahin for a later sauna round...strange, but romantic! I keep my fingers

Re: [meteorite-list] Questions regarding Unclassified meteorite sales

2005-11-06 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Patrick, Darren, Kevin... I neither would say, that in past it happened, that collectors were discouraged by anyone to purchase unclassified stones or classified NWAs, it was rather about to tell, that most collectors (and dealers) hold them not exactely the same dear as classical finds or

Re: [meteorite-list] Questions regarding Unclassified meteorite sales

2005-11-06 Thread Martin Altmann
Good point, I have no idea, what the gram-price for an Antarctic meteorite would be, but to me it seems, that the ANSMET searches are a little bit more sumptuous, than to have travelled to Morocco to buy ALL stuff in bulk. The original strewnfield information is lost also with the Antarctic

Re: [meteorite-list] New Lunar Meteorite Discovered - NWA 3163

2005-11-02 Thread Martin Altmann
Exciting stuff! Do you have hints yet about the terrestial age? Jelously, Buckleboo - Original Message - From: Greg Hupe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Matson, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 2:04 AM Subject: Re:

[meteorite-list] Proposal: Joe Six Pack's Weathering Scale

2005-11-02 Thread Martin Altmann
One can't determine, but one can guess macroscopically and if one has had a lot of stones in one's hand, the later correct determination of the weathering degree, often is as supposed :-) Let's be constru- and instructive, that's what the list is for, and try to built up together a scale for

Re: [meteorite-list] New Lunar Beauty - NWA 3163

2005-11-02 Thread Martin Altmann
Not to forget Dho 910, which is very fresh, but has no separate entry in the Bulletin :-( Buckleboo - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 6:29 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] New Lunar Beauty - NWA 3163

Re: [meteorite-list] Asteroid models

2005-11-02 Thread Martin Altmann
Rhett Bourland was selling them a few years before. Very decorative, I have a set on my shelf. Once I had them on a fair as eyecatcher on my table - some thought, they were meteorites and were really impressed, that science is able to assign meteorites so precisely to a certain asteroid ---

[meteorite-list] ...and my Munich notes

2005-10-31 Thread Martin Altmann
Hidiho too, my notes about the show are also somewhat short, as I had to run these days like a marathon man, so we have to wait for the photos and the notes of the other visitors and for the report by Norbert Classen in Joel's meteorite magazine. Mike is right, the Moroccans brought again less

[meteorite-list] test

2005-10-27 Thread Martin Altmann
list down? __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Announcment: Rollin' Rock Meteorite Sales Letter - First issue ready for Launch !

2005-10-27 Thread Martin Altmann
and collectors of excellent reputation, who naturally adhere to the highest standards. Suscription is free, can be revoked anytime, hence: Watch the preview www.rollin-rock.com and suscribe for not missing the first issue on 1st of November! Martin Altmann, on the behalf of the Rollin' Rock Team

Re: [meteorite-list] Announcment: Rollin' Rock Meteorite Sales Letter -First issue ready for Launch !

2005-10-27 Thread Martin Altmann
Africa to Munich is only a cat's jump, as we say here. - Original Message - From: Greg Hupe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 8:58 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Announcment: Rollin' Rock

Re: [meteorite-list] Munich Show

2005-10-27 Thread Martin Altmann
and many meteorite people, but no Bernd :-( Today was still the setting up of the tables and stalls, so that I can judge the complete pomp not before tomorrow. Evident, as also last year, the NWA-flood dries out. Meanwhile Dean seems to have more stones than all Moroccains together :-) (there

Re: [meteorite-list] Munich

2005-10-25 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Francesco, list, thanks for the work. Some remarks: During the last years many mineral dealers found out, that meteorites are an attraction, hence they give it in their assortment in the exhibitors' list, although many of them have perhaps only a handfull of lousy indochinites or a dozen

Re: [meteorite-list] Munich

2005-10-25 Thread Martin Altmann
2cent. Ciao Francesco Moser http://web.tiscali.it/francesco.moser/ IMCA #1510 www.imca.cc There's just one kind of man that you can trust, that's a dead man, or an IMCA like me. - Original Message - From: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Moser Francesco [EMAIL PROTECTED

[meteorite-list] MUNICH - FRIDAY, How to get there hints

2005-10-24 Thread Martin Altmann
Hello list, just back from a internetless (sorry) 3 weeks' trip, I found several mails, asking, how to get to the Friday evening cometogether. First of all, no panic, I'll be there on the show already on Thursday, trying to shake hands with everyone (and perhaps dristibuting plans, how tofind it)

Re: [meteorite-list] Black stone of Paphos

2005-10-01 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Chris, I brought it several times to the attention of the list, check the archives. with my temper, it's better not to repeat it :-) Short-info: Nobody tested it, nobody is interested in testing it and nobody is knowing why noone of the professionals is interested in testing it. The stone of

[meteorite-list] OT or a little OnT: Munich show, accomodations, Friday evening

2005-10-01 Thread Martin Altmann
the entrance and to visit the show on the business and expert visitors day and NOT the invitation tickets, where the dealer has to pay) send it to me. Martin Altmann Mangfallstr. 2d 81547 Munich Germany (I'll refund you of course the shipping costs) I'm obviously not in the computer of the organisation

Re: [meteorite-list] AD - Do you want a rareandimportantMetachondrite?

2005-09-28 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Stan, ask the veteran collectors. Meteorites in general are heftily UNDERhyped in these times. Don't expect that that silly cheap pricing will continue until eternity. Let's speak about pricing of rare types in 2 or 3 years from now on - you'll see! Buckleboo, did you know, that tomorrow

OT Re: [meteorite-list] : Munich show - hotels

2005-09-26 Thread Martin Altmann
(let me know, wheter you'll join too ASAP): Will be there: Serge Afanasjev(cometshop http://www.meteorites21.com/ ) + 1 hunter + 1 hunter Martin Altmann (Buckleboo) Razvan Andrei(oneonly Romanian collector) + wife Christian Anger ( http://www.austromet.com ) Uwe Arendt (German

Re: [meteorite-list] Capot Rey...photos please of the H5

2005-09-24 Thread Martin Altmann
, isn't it? Cheerio! Martin - Original Message - From: Jeff Kuyken [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 3:57 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Capot Rey...photos please of the H5 Hi Martin, I can

Re: [meteorite-list] Capot Rey...photos please of the H5

2005-09-24 Thread Martin Altmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 10:29 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Capot Rey...photos please of the H5 Hello again, Again, you have missed my point. I am simply saying that the proper science

Re: [meteorite-list] Capot Rey...photos please of the H5

2005-09-24 Thread Martin Altmann
. Matteo --- Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Hi again too, and again I say: Holy IMCA do something for your image and find a place, where this IMB-Capot-Rey will be examined. Here in Germany you have to beg the few universities on your knees, that they accept

Re: [meteorite-list] Capot Rey...photos please of the H5

2005-09-23 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Jeff, as far as I understand the term IMB does not name a completely and uniformly molten rock. Else, I would have have problems to understand the B, if there aren't any fragments of the precessor material to be found in the melt (and I think, we easily will sled into the PAC corner).

Re: [meteorite-list] Capot Rey...photos please of the H5

2005-09-22 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Dirk, contact Carsten [EMAIL PROTECTED] He has some for sale. On his homepage ( http://www.gi-po.de/main_eng.htm )are listed only two samples, but I think he has more and better pictures. Capot Rey is quite spectacular looking. I'd rather say a H5 with IMB. Dark broad streams of melt around

Re: [meteorite-list] Terminology, meteorite collector?

2005-09-18 Thread Martin Altmann
Baetylophages. Starrockers Telepetrologists. Meteorists (smells). or simply Wackos? (I guess that's what your families will would say..) - Original Message - From: Bob King [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 7:10 PM Subject: Re:

[meteorite-list] Donator correction: Thanks to Sigrid WENGERT (Vernon County)

2005-09-13 Thread Martin Altmann
Hidiho, the generous donatrix of Vernon County is Sigrid WENGERT (not Sigrid Leenen). I always mix the names up, my fault, sorry. Thanks to Partick Hermann for his respectable bid he paid for the specimen. And for the case, that Geoff hasn't one yet, of course his great full activity should be

Re: [meteorite-list] 1848: light produced when meteorite sawn -possible or...

2005-09-13 Thread Martin Altmann
Hiho, I have problems in understanding: In sawing the mass, globules were inflamed by the friction of the teeth of the saw, and a bright light produced. What for globules? Globules inside Braunau? In ignoring globules I'd say, that one never sees, while cutting, what is going on inside the

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: five-pointed stars vs six-pointed stars

2005-09-13 Thread Martin Altmann
Hola, and the six-pointed star is the symbol of the brewers. As it is composed by the triangle with point down, symbol of water, and the triangle with the tip up, fire. Skol. Need the raised fingers from those, who will meet with da beer in Munich on Friday! Martin - Original Message -

[meteorite-list] Last Call for raffle related sale of VERNON COUNTY

2005-09-11 Thread Martin Altmann
Hola list, last call for the charity raffle related sale of the slice of the ultrarare historic US-fall VERNON COUNTY Vernon County, Wisconsin, USA Fall 1865, March 26, 09:00hrs Olivine bronzite chondrite H6, veined Tkw: 1500grams (800g of them lost). (don't mix it up with Mount Vernon, the

[meteorite-list] Charity Sale VERNON COUNTY !!!, fall 1865

2005-09-10 Thread Martin Altmann
Dear List Members, just an instant ago, Sigrid Leenen called, wanting to make a very generous donation for the raffle. But as the deadline for prize donation was yesterday and I have the feeling, that still the value of the prizes exceeds the revenue of the until now sold tickets, let's just sell

Re: [meteorite-list] Sikhote' s seized

2005-09-09 Thread Martin Altmann
Where is the problem? Marcin, since when it's illegal to import meteorites to Poland? They should pay the taxes at customs and that's it. Meow! Tiiickets, tickets, tckets! Sooon will be deadline! Buy Tiickets!! - Original Message - From: Chauncey Walden [EMAIL

Re: [meteorite-list] Sikhote' s seized

2005-09-09 Thread Martin Altmann
Gosh - alcool and cigarettes, gas ect. I can understand, because of the high differences in the height of taxes, but meteorites? If I get a parcel from elsewhere outside from EU and the customs takes a look inside, I have to pay normal VAT of 16%, no matter what stuff it is. Well I heard, that

Re: [meteorite-list] Sikhote' s seized

2005-09-09 Thread Martin Altmann
Hehe, with the ownerless parcel, I'm sure you would have risen the finger in the bus! There are at least 3 meteorite sellers in Poland, Marcin. Marcin Cimala, the polish polisher! Andrzej Pilski, one of world's best iron preparator. Slawomir Derecki, excellent jewelery. Not the stuff, where they

Re: [meteorite-list] Sikhote' s seized

2005-09-09 Thread Martin Altmann
Meteorites are expensive Not at all. What would be a maximum selling price for a 150kg Sikhote-shrapnel? Like an acceptable Darjeeling Tea? 30$/kg Like prosciutto di Parma? 40$/kg Like a good malt whisky? 50$/kg Like a lobster? 60$/kg Like truffles? 2000$/kg (wow, I'm in the wrong branch.

[meteorite-list] Raffle without Paypal for Europeans

2005-09-08 Thread Martin Altmann
Hola European list members, for those, who don't have Paypal, but want to purchase tickets, you can contact me directly, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I'll pay for you through paypal and you can send me the money (8Euro or so) with a conventional method. An international bank transfer between

Re: [meteorite-list] Ben Guerir TKW and TAW

2005-09-08 Thread Martin Altmann
Yes, I suggest that, what all want to know, the newest concept: W (= the weight of da meteorite). All other tkws, taws, crws are functions of time. More seriously, I think the only possible approach, is the syssiphic labour Joern does with his Metbase. Difficult if one should informal notices

Re: [meteorite-list] Ben Guerir TKW and TAW

2005-09-08 Thread Martin Altmann
Reason for write this topic was not to find how much kilos of Bengi have other dealers ;-P, but what is real TKW of this fall. Humm, I might be not the most intelligent boy, but doesn't the TKW imply, how much also at the dealers is to be found? (Especially with Moroccain falls, which

Re: [meteorite-list] AD - Tafassasset CR7/Brachinite-like primitiveachondrite on Ebay

2005-09-08 Thread Martin Altmann
The cube is in ruin, bah. Tiickets, tckets, I've only 498 left!!! Buckleboo! - Original Message - From: M come Meteorite Meteorites [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 5:11 PM Subject: [meteorite-list]

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Raffle Major Update

2005-09-07 Thread Martin Altmann
But not enough yet, if we aim for an average of each list member having one ticket, hh :-) Wow, a hunting trip - that's really the coolest prize! Buckleboo! - Original Message - From: batkol [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Notkin [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite List

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