Re: [meteorite-list] New Orleans

2005-09-05 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Bob, this would be certainly the best way. The only problem there is, that one can't issue receipts to the donators, which they could use for their tax declaration. But perhaps, we should just collect the money now and discuss later, where it should go to? I see there no pressure, cause from

Re: [meteorite-list] Hitler Autograph disguised as meteorite coin

2005-09-04 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Dirk, I was answering Darren's question, not checking Matteo's link. And when I took a look earlier that day on his coin, I didn't click on that postcard, as postcards are collected by many people and if they stem from that period, they don't have automatically distgusting pictures on them. So

Re: [meteorite-list]OT Hitler Autograph disguised as meteorite coin

2005-09-04 Thread Martin Altmann
!! Second, I sale what I want on ebay, not sure I cancel a auction why a person not like this type of collections3th in Germany on ebay write iìon search Adolf Hitler and take a look what exit, where its forbidden??? Matteo --- Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Hi Dirk, I

[meteorite-list] Coins on meteorites

2005-09-04 Thread Martin Altmann
village, 14 km (9 miles) east of Pafos Tel: (06) 432180 Daily: 09:00-17:00 (Summer: 09:00-19:30) Entrance fees: C£0,75 All the Best. Martin By the way, on the other topic of the cultural heritage re coins and old tempel finds, I disagree with my dear collector friend Martin Altmann from Munich

Re: [meteorite-list] AD - Rare roman coin with meteorite theme on Ebay

2005-09-03 Thread Martin Altmann
Yes, Darren, one stone survived. The holy stone of the temple of Paphos on Cyprus, which is depicted on many classical coins (Traian, Vespasian, Drusus, Caracalla and so on), was recovered by excavations on the temple site more than hundred years ago. It was kept in the cellar and the stock of

Re: [meteorite-list] AD - World Biggest Ben Guerir LL6 Slices

2005-09-03 Thread Martin Altmann
Bravo Marcin, that's what I call a good preparation. But are you sick to offer it at 3$/g??? That's much to cheap!! Take a look at the dealers' pages, where you find Benguerir in a worse quality at 6-12$/g! Man, that's not an NWA!! - Original Message - From: Meteoryt.net [EMAIL

Re: [meteorite-list] AD - Rare roman coin with meteorite theme on Ebay

2005-09-03 Thread Martin Altmann
, that the stone was recovered The rest, I will write you offlist, for not risking my neck more than I have already done. Gosh, why I'm always so choleric. Martin - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 3:22

[meteorite-list] Terminological question: SMB vs. IMB

2005-09-02 Thread Martin Altmann
Hello list, On the occasion of an ebay auction, namely NWA 2704 SMB H4, I was asked by a collector, what the difference could be between an impact melt breccia IMB and a shock melt breccia - SMB. Honestly I don't know the difference, as I never heard this term SMB before and was thinking, that

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: New Orleans blamestorming

2005-09-02 Thread Martin Altmann
Something, what I never will understand, is, that so many homes in USA also in the so called Hurricane Alley are made out of wood. Why not of stone? Tradition? Price? Martin, the second of the Three Little Pigs - Original Message - From: Chris Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: New Orleans, I am apalled at the pathetic Bush responce.

2005-09-02 Thread Martin Altmann
Let's put piece of the New Orleans fall on ebay, as a gesture. I haven't any, but would bid. - Original Message - From: RYAN PAWELSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 9:14 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Re: New Orleans,I am apalled

Re: [meteorite-list] Charity Meteorite Raffle for New Orleans

2005-09-02 Thread Martin Altmann
respond today we should be able to have this all wrapped up in 48 hours, with $$ on the way to where it's needed. Hats off to Martin Altmann, Martin Horejsi, Adam Hupe, Herman Archer, and Moni Waiblinger-Seabridge who had the ideas and got the ball rolling. I will include raffle in the subject

Re: [meteorite-list] Sahara 99555, a Rosetta Stone! OT: Tired of untruths!

2005-08-31 Thread Martin Altmann
(Sorry, if this mail arrives twice, but I think first time I sent it in html, so that it didn't made it...) Hi Luc, I think the collectors can't understand, why you didn't clearly state the pairings of your finds in selling them. You adapted the Antarctic field number system for your Sahara

[meteorite-list] Young chondrules in Gujba and HaH237 - Where is the beef?

2005-08-28 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi list, I read again the posts and links about that sensational discovery of young chondrules and the subsequent revolution for the theory of the formation of the solar system, but I have the problem, that nowhere the ages are given - did I miss them? Bernhard sent me the abstract of the

Re: [meteorite-list] Dhofar 025 Real or Phony

2005-08-27 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Don, I bought a crumb and I was more than skeptic too. Beside that it looked to vesicular, the story the seller told can't be true. She stated that her husband acquired a chunk through ebay at a time were the finder sold it exclusively and indeed he never sold fragments or endcuts but only

Re: [meteorite-list] Ambitious Mission Hopes to Return Bits of Asteroid(Hayabusa)

2005-08-25 Thread Martin Altmann
a four-year $100 million mission to attempt to capture a total of one gram of surface Do the Japanese know, that they could buy the stuff for a few bucks per kilo on ebay? Do the collectors, who complain that 2-8$ for a regolith breccia is a rip-off, know, that the Japanese spend 100 millions

Re: [meteorite-list] Poll

2005-08-21 Thread Martin Altmann
But Michael, the 2% stems from me. I run so often down the staircase, but when I arrived, always both spheres were already there. So you never know. Buckleboo. - Original Message - From: Michael L Blood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sergey Vasiliev [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite List [EMAIL

[meteorite-list] Am I an idiot? Rumuruti pairings

2005-08-19 Thread Martin Altmann
Quiet boys, I have another question concerning the pairings of the NWA-Rumurutis. Has anyone a little an insight or suspection, which of them are likely paired? I mean it's not common stuff like howardites, eucrites, olivine diogenites (just a joke). And if one takes a closer look, please use

Re: [meteorite-list] SOHO Spots Its 1000th Comet

2005-08-18 Thread Martin Altmann
Scarmato said. I want to dedicate the SOHO 1000th comet to my wife Rosy and my son Kevin to and For his accomplishment, Scarmato will receive a SolarMax DVD, a SOHO T-shirt, solar viewing glasses, and more. How scrooge and grumpy they are, they could have named the comets at least

Re: [meteorite-list] RE: RC's age of the universe???

2005-08-17 Thread Martin Altmann
Objection, Euer Ehren! Bishop Ussher, who calculated the day of the creation was an anglican protestant from Ireland. And if I remember right, in Spencer Tracy's The trial of the Hulk, the opponent was a protestant zealot. I for my part never met a catholic priest with had doubts on the age of

Re: [meteorite-list] Alfianello.. Anyone At All???

2005-08-16 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi list, and check also the contemporary newspaper article about the fall of Alfianello in Mark's great archive! http://www.meteoritearticles.com/znpalfianello.html Hihi, the angry land owner - an ending like in a fairy tale. Buckleboo! - Original Message - From: Martin H. [EMAIL

[meteorite-list] Alfianello.. Anyone At All??? AD

2005-08-16 Thread Martin Altmann
Sorry, if it appears twice, but I think that I forgot to switch from html to text version and it didn't vome through. (Take Ryan's piece, Alfianello is a must have for each historical collection!) Piggy-backing: For the low budget collector I could supply a few micros. But I'll refuse to do

[meteorite-list] Alfianello.. Anyone At All??? AD

2005-08-16 Thread Martin Altmann
Sorry, if it appears twice, but I think that I forgot to switch from html to text version and it didn't vome through. (Take Ryan's piece, Alfianello is a must have for each historical collection!) Piggy-backing: For the low budget collector I could supply a few micros. But I'll refuse to do

Re: [meteorite-list] Alfianello.. Anyone At All??? AD

2005-08-16 Thread Martin Altmann
Piggy-backing: For the low budget collector I could supply a few micros. But I'll refuse to do so, as long as Ryan hasn't get rid of his specimen! Martin Buckleboo - Original Message - From: M come Meteorite Meteorites [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent:

[meteorite-list] Da new style....

2005-08-14 Thread Martin Altmann
Holla list, aut delectare aut necesse: http://cgi.ebay.de/Mesosiderit-Vaca-Muerta-Herrliches-Endstueck_W0QQitemZ6200101937QQcategoryZ44608QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Or just insert item number 6200101937 I'm curios to know your opinion about this type of auctions. Comments? It's in

[meteorite-list] For curios people....

2005-08-13 Thread Martin Altmann
Hist! What I found... http://www.meteor-center.com/trombinoscope/ Martin, who saw only 2 Perseids __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] What are the FeO/MnO Ratios for the Kalahari 008, 009?

2005-08-10 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Adam, I don't know strewnfield stats so well, but for the case, that they aren't fragments of the same stone, which were transported later by a mechanism, the heck I dunno which, wouldn't it be highly improbable, that two stones of a fall landed so close to each other, especially as they have

Re: [meteorite-list] Question on oriented SA shrapnel

2005-08-10 Thread Martin Altmann
Göran, Mark, Jeff, List here a nice vizualisation of the fragmentation processes of Sikhote. According to this model, the pieces of the 3th and 4th fragmentation can't have flow lines. http://www.geocities.com/diane_va/sikhote-alin/index_E.html (click on The fragmentation) Martinho. -

Re: [meteorite-list] Sikhote-alin question

2005-08-10 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Jim, watch the fine film of 1956 here: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/odhenin/download.htm Tons of shrapnels!!! Harbarth Buckleboo - Original Message - From: Jim Strope [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list Meteoritecentral meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, August 10,

Re: [meteorite-list] goran Lindfors lunar stuff

2005-08-07 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Göran, wie had that Lindfors-Kasus 3 or 4 times on that list, look in the archive. So I think all is said. But unbelievable good news: Talassaheurekajeronimo!!! I recieved today a mail from the yahoo-meteorite-sale-list. It was from Stevey. He did it. He managed it. FINALLY. Bravo

Re: [meteorite-list] (AD) (SALE) please stop the bashing

2005-08-06 Thread Martin Altmann
lets just all get along and stop this idiotic bashing of me and other good people,please. Please delete other. - Original Message - From: Steve Arnold, Chicago!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 3:29 PM Subject: [meteorite-list]

Re: [meteorite-list] Nice troilite inclusion

2005-08-06 Thread Martin Altmann
Fine piece, Peter! Seems to me, that the L and LL parent bodies had more sulphur than those of the H. Or is my impression wrong due to the recent falls with larger troilites? Some H's out there, which can rival Peter's slice? (Wow, a really meteorite related mail, thanks) Martin - Original

Re: [meteorite-list] (AD) (DELETE) please stop the bashing

2005-08-06 Thread Martin Altmann
also this? http://images.amazon.com/images/P/BDG5UE.01.LZZZ.jpg - Original Message - From: stan . [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 10:56 PM Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] (AD) (SALE) please stop the

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars life concerns redux - Asparagus on DaG 476

2005-08-06 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Darren, list (at least on Mars genetically engineered plants wouldn't provoke so much opposition like in Europe). Here some results of testing the soil fertilities of DaG 476, Murchison Allende. Good news for Bernd, ordinnary Asparagus can germinate in Mars soil!

Re: [meteorite-list] To be or not to be.....Taza!

2005-08-03 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Cj, as desert irons are very rare - commonly they are reffered to with their proper names, rather than with their number. Especially with Taza, everybody says Taza and knows immediately, which meteorite is meant. NWA859 takes a cerebral second longer as it sounds similar with the ubiquist

Re: [meteorite-list] Defining 'Planet': Newfound World Forces Action

2005-08-03 Thread Martin Altmann
The word planet is simply not a scientific word, it is a cultural word. - Mike Brown, leader of the 10th planet discovery team Certainly. And I would say the cultural definition is obviously: A hermetical place. I find more planets in actual use than 9: Drivers Planet, Animal Planet,

Re: [meteorite-list] To be or not to be.....Taza!

2005-08-03 Thread Martin Altmann
was never reported. So call it whatever you like, but it would be a good idea if a label included the formal name, NWA 859. jeff At 07:07 AM 8/3/2005, Martin Altmann wrote: Hi Cj, as desert irons are very rare - commonly they are reffered to with their proper names, rather than

Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomers to Decide What Makes a Planet

2005-08-03 Thread Martin Altmann
But should the soap fit in the box or should the box be fitting for the soap?? - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 5:47 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomers to

Re: [meteorite-list] (AD) Art...delete me or SSteve from herenow! Thank you! AD OT, OT AD.

2005-08-03 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Captain, John, Sterling, perhaps John wanted to express that what, I guess, Laotse said: An ingrown toenail can suck more than a broken leg. Planet Buckleboo - Original Message - From: Michael L Blood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite List

[meteorite-list] Wanted-AD: Nantans

2005-08-03 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi list, is this kind of posts also to mark with AD? A client of mine is looking for cleaned, shiny-shiny silvery Nantans: 500g of minute chips of 1.5mm - 2.5mm size 750g of fragments of 2-4 grams. Please contact me, if you have such stuff for sale (I never sold Nantans). Thanks Martin

Re: [meteorite-list] WHAT IS A PLANET?

2005-07-31 Thread Martin Altmann
In the case of both 2003 UB313 and 2003 EL61, we see that these bodies are surprisingly bright and the first question that comes to mind is Why did nobody discover them before now? They weren't looking in the right place,... Hence I propose as a name for one of them:Waldo Buckleboo! Martin

Re: [meteorite-list] WHAT IS A PLANET?

2005-07-31 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Sterlinglist, The naming issue seems to me almost the more interesting problem than the definition, from when on a lump of rock should be called planet (greek: wandering star). Does size matter? Perhaps. (at the moment a range from tiny Mercury and Pluto up to giant objects around other

Re: [meteorite-list] sedirlites??

2005-07-31 Thread Martin Altmann
Sedir id the turkish word for latin Cedrus, the cedar. A Cedar-lite (greek lithos = the stone) is a stone from a cedar. From this stones the Irish extract the fermentation agent for an aromatic cheese, the ceddar or cheddar. Hope this helped. Your Harbarth Buckleboo. - Original Message -

Re: [meteorite-list] sedirlites??

2005-07-31 Thread Martin Altmann
Can't find that auction, but Pinus Eisenstejn whispered in my ear, that you misspelled the terms from the item's description from the Ward book auction. Siderite, siderolite, aerolites are archaic denominations for the meteorite types irons, stony-irons and stones. - Original Message -

Re: [meteorite-list] The metachondrite question answered

2005-07-29 Thread Martin Altmann
Huh. anyone to sell a parachondrite? Stefan? - Original Message - From: Tom Knudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: met list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 6:41 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] The metachondrite question answered Hey List, I found out what a

Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - July 29, 2005

2005-07-29 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Bernd, my favourite metaphoric meteorite for the night sky is El Kachla, myriads of metal flakes from the tiniest speck to large 1 mag blobs in a bottomless black matrix. Not randomly squirted, but in dynamic streams around silent islands Quiet Doug, it's not an AD, I'm sold out. Perhaps

[meteorite-list] OT: To Razvan

2005-07-27 Thread Martin Altmann
Sorry for using the list. Razvane, my mails got bounced back from your server, gimme another address, we must bild the Fort-St.John-Tractor-Peekskill-Car-Roadshow. Martin __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - July 26, 2005

2005-07-26 Thread Martin Altmann
N'Goureyma gives the impression to me to be a perfect copy of Dronino en miniature. Has exact the same inclusions, also in similar distributon, but on a minor scale. I remember Vassiliev/Karl had some small slices in Ensisheim. Any pictures available? Buckleboo, just back. - Original Message

[meteorite-list] OT: Bye, I'm out of town.

2005-06-30 Thread Martin Altmann
Sorry for abusing the list, but I lost a bunch of Emails (I heard that this Gates is still a free man...apropos Gates, once with that handicapped Romanian boy, where so many of you donated so much, I wrote to the Gates-foundation, whether I could have the Windows on the laptop for free, as

Re: [meteorite-list] Omani meteorite museum

2005-06-29 Thread Martin Altmann
But Steve, Mike, John I may imagine the hunts in Antarctica and the storage of the specimens are also somewhat expensive, if you turn-over the costs into gram prices. Culture costs. What is the price for, let's say, a single old bomber like an F-16, without maintainance, which stands around

Re: [meteorite-list] Some Images of the Randsburg California Iron

2005-06-28 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Matteo, is not the first time a meteorite is passed for a new meteorite and after the analysis is confirmed is a Campo del Cielo yes, you're right - what about the values of your new Italian iron, can't remember, Umbria tralala? Are they ready? As the uncut piece looked like a cleaned

Re: [meteorite-list] Some Images of the Randsburg California Iron

2005-06-28 Thread Martin Altmann
Farmers are often more clever than rock dealers.. and as you said, he addressed you after he saw an interview with you in the newspaper. You already have Ge, Ga, Ir? - Original Message - From: M come Meteorite Meteorites [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [meteorite-list] RE: Goran Spam

2005-06-28 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi, Yes, that Lindfors is resistent against all good willing help. I recommended him, where he could get a look for free onto his slags, all as a response I got, were tons of pictures and him yelling, that I would be only jealous as the Moons I'm selling would be fakes. I wonder only, wherefrom

Re: [meteorite-list] Fwd: Moroc scam? from Mohamed? .fr

2005-06-27 Thread Martin Altmann
It's a special agent from MAROC, looking for new meteorite clients innocent victims. (MAROC = Martin Altmann Rocks Of Cosmos) Muhaddin Alaman - Original Message - From: drtanuki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 11:01 PM Subject

[meteorite-list] OT: Problems with the Met.Bulls

2005-06-26 Thread Martin Altmann
Hola, since some days I'm unable to open the pdfs of the Bulletins from the Bulletin's homepage: http://www.meteoriticalsociety.org/simple_template.cfm?code=pub_bulletin Anyone else these problems? Help? Also from the new tool, Grossman kindly introduced, I can't open the Met.Bull. Sniff.

Re: [meteorite-list] Steve Arnold Landslide

2005-06-26 Thread Martin Altmann
And Bernd, if we would name an asteroid to honour our Steve, I'm sure it would hit Earth within his next orbit as a global killer. We missed you in Ensisheim! Buckleboo! - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005

Re: [meteorite-list] Fwd: To all interested Parties

2005-06-23 Thread Martin Altmann
Hiho, that, what is positive on that homepage, is that it settles all the rumours about that incident, but the conclusions drawn, in my opinion at least, are somewhat strange. My regret is to John Blennert, who obviously blames with this homepage a whole country for him having been unable to

[meteorite-list] AD: The Published Papers of H.H.Nininger rare!!

2005-06-23 Thread Martin Altmann
Hola list, have a must-have-book for Nininger fans for sale, Mike Jensen would say: Very Rare, Mark Bostick would give 5 blue @ = a book to kill for, actually not to find in the anticarian search engines. George A.Boyd (ed.): The Published Papers of H.H.Nininger - Biology and Meteoritics,

Re: [meteorite-list] RE: [off topic] Fwd: To all interested Parties

2005-06-23 Thread Martin Altmann
As for Oman and Meteorites it's still not exactly clear if the government wants to control the export of meteorites!? That's almost the point! I think, it was clear, as also before John was leaving a license for hunting and an export permit was obligatory. Could he knew before? I think it was

Re: [meteorite-list] Ensisheim 2005 part 2

2005-06-21 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Peter, of course I have to add an important correction: The subtitle on the pic showing your stall is misleading! Your specimens weren't that humble :-) I saw some rare localities and the best, and how could we expect it other from you as a history specialist, many of them stem from a famous

Re: [meteorite-list] Ensisheim 2005, part 1

2005-06-20 Thread Martin Altmann
-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 12:11 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Ensisheim 2005, part 1 Hi Peter, Thanks for the great pictures. I even see a piece of Allende I sold to Martin Altmann a while back (and trying to convince him he needs to sell it back to me

Re: [meteorite-list] Ensisheim

2005-06-15 Thread Martin Altmann
Most stable of all pallasites is Imilac, you will enjoy it for decades without any traces of rust. Similar problematic as Brahin are Brenham and Admire. Of course Brahin is by far the cheapest of all - but from a higher investment you will profit for the rest of your life. Perhaps Karl/Vassiliev

Re: [meteorite-list] Ensisheim

2005-06-15 Thread Martin Altmann
Or Vincent, easiest is to buy a sealed slice, it's not looking so perfect as it's more shiny but then you have not so much worries anymore. Afanasjev has such sealed ones, they are stable, Koutyrev, the second largest Brahin supplier adverised with the gimmick, that you could keep his stabilized

Re: [meteorite-list] Poor Brahin

2005-06-15 Thread Martin Altmann
Humm, Eagle Station is a Ni bomb, but quite unaffordable - Original Message - From: Dave Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; metlist meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 6:29 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Poor Brahin ... that is about one

[meteorite-list] AD: Martin packs his trunk - 70 falls to leave your lover

2005-06-14 Thread Martin Altmann
Hola list, Buckleboo packs his bags for Ensisheim - wanna have a look in Little Red Riding Hood's basket? It's a pity, that so many of you can't join the show - well, I'm sitting here, packing, perhaps someone, of those, who have to stay at home will shout: Me, me - ease the weight of your

Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 869

2005-06-13 Thread Martin Altmann
Yes Martin, Mike, Jeff who ever had some cut specimens of NWA 869 in his hands has to confess, that it's a remarkable stone, very characteristical and distinct from the desert average, not only because it's fresher, but because it's a marvellous breccia with so many features, excellent

[meteorite-list] Michael's meteorite market trends

2005-06-09 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Michael, your suppositions are right, first of all it's the greed for the best bargain or sometimes to get a missing piece into the collection. To buy from totally unknown offerers is a behaviour, which developped from ebay-trade, where the sellers are anonymous and the buyer will come to know

[meteorite-list] Re: Introduction of European dealers N°1 was Michael's meteorite market trends

2005-06-09 Thread Martin Altmann
/English/english.htm Passionate NWA-collector. Specialized in micromounts of desert meteorites as well as rareclassic material. Often in German ebay. and a certain Martin Altmann.. At all those you will served at a high standard. If I forgot someone - help me to complete the list. And now

[meteorite-list] AD: Remarkable pre Ensisheim ebay items - Malampaka, Meteorite of the Month, Huss, Vintage collection sets, Zeitschels, LDG neolithic tool, Bondoc.....

2005-06-08 Thread Martin Altmann
Hiho list! For rising funds for tarte flambee, meteor beer, meteorite wine ect. and because not all can visit the Ensisheim Show and finally because the time is right, as Steve is in Mexico... I listed 3 x 7 auctions on ebay with some really unique and several fine specimens almost all starting

Re: [meteorite-list] a bunch of competitors in Ensisheim

2005-06-08 Thread Martin Altmann
So it's allowed to bring meteorites there? I was bemused by Mike's report... - Original Message - From: Zelimir Gabelica [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 2:46 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] a bunch of competitors in Ensisheim Hi

Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - June 7, 2005

2005-06-07 Thread Martin Altmann
Indeed a phantastic stone! (I can say this now, as my Scurry with Huss-number was sold before) But I'm always scared, that the fine pictures will get lost in time. Did you find webspace for free meanwhile, to store them online? If it didn't work with Rems, I suggest, that the IMCA should take

Re: [meteorite-list] What was he thinking?

2005-06-06 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Bob, as far as I know DaG 113 was found in 1996. At those times meteorites were highly treasured and appreciated. Imagine, some collectors and scientists treated them as they would be pieces from other worlds, out from space, as they would be more rare than gold! I heard, that ordinary

Re: [meteorite-list] AD: Video Footage of our trip to Oman

2005-06-05 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Captain Blood, many thanks for your words. I wish you could speak German to tell this to some of the German collectors. Can't understand that discussion. If someone thinks, that the DVD is to expensive, no one will force him/her to buy and he/she should say: No thanks. If one thinks that

Re: [meteorite-list] Water in Meteorites

2005-06-01 Thread Martin Altmann
As Zag is very widespread among the collectors as one of the most affordable observed falls - did anyone observed those salt crystals yet? They seem to be quite rare Meow? Martin - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday,

[meteorite-list] Lost/stolen Morasko

2005-06-01 Thread Martin Altmann
Hello list, a cut, etched Morasko individual of 288grams with fine Neumann lines was lost or rather stolen by Polish post these days. Please contanct me ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) or Andrzej Pilski ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ), if you find it offered somewhere. A picture: http://jba1.republika.pl/defkom.htm

Re: [meteorite-list] R help

2005-05-31 Thread Martin Altmann
Knudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 1:39 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] R help Martin, David's web site is one of my first book marks! I looked there and it does not answer my question. Unfortunately

Re: [meteorite-list] R help

2005-05-30 Thread Martin Altmann
But Tom! I won't tell the solution. Try David Weir's Studies! http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/9278/ It is always the first place to look for answers for questions like yours now. Simply the best place on web and I bed in this respect better than your books. Buckleboo! Martin -

Re: [meteorite-list] Ensisheim 2005

2005-05-28 Thread Martin Altmann
Who will come to Ensisheim? I'll be there! Martin - Original Message - From: Pelé Pierre-Marie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MeteoriteList meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 12:14 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Ensisheim 2005 Hello to the List, Just to tell that

[meteorite-list] Goodbye list!

2005-05-27 Thread Martin Altmann
Marcin, my last 2cents to this issue. Summary: List listen to the Fly-Fighter and Clairevoyant Martin Edmund Altmann: Soon all, who have smth for sale will claim equal rights for all. If Mr.Chicago is allowed to advertise daily or even more often, there is no reason for others not to do so too.

Re: [meteorite-list] Goodbye list!

2005-05-27 Thread Martin Altmann
Not I will leave the list, the list will leave us. Remain Martin, not go out from the list only for the faoult of a unique person not understand nothing when it explains him how it is the situation. Matteo __ Meteorite-list mailing list

Re: [meteorite-list] Now, Mr.Steve - This is my offer

2005-05-25 Thread Martin Altmann
Hello Mr.Arnold, Chicago, it is very nice of you, that you put AD in the subject line, but please observe the list rules 2) and 8): 2) Be courteous and professional at all times 8) Do not post -major advertisement- emails to the list - I counted now in May 22 emails from you concerning

[meteorite-list] AD: Nininger, Huss, Zeitschel, Krantz, Schoras specimens + Odd meteorite stuff Sale !

2005-05-25 Thread Martin Altmann
Hola list, next pedigree specimens sale! Some rare localities and some priced definitely to cheap. Explanations: Nininger - pioneer, founder god of American meteoritics Huss - son-in-law, director of the American Meteorite Laboratory Zeitschel- collector, owned once the largest

Re: [meteorite-list] half pricer update on meteorite sale

2005-05-24 Thread Martin Altmann
Let's be more constructive: May someone be so kind to explain Mr.Arnold, Chicago, how to open a yahoo-group? There he could advertise his stuff to the top of his bent to his heart's content and could keep the standings of his sales and giveaways minute-by-minute updated. All, who prefer to buy

Re: [meteorite-list] Macrochondrules

2005-05-24 Thread Martin Altmann
And the most affordable way to obtain a megachondrule is to look for a Saratov, which costs at most dealers not more than 2$/g and as it's very crumbly one can easily isolate the megachondrules. But start now, to be in time for Xmas, if you plan to present your girl a chondrules-necklace Martin

Re: [meteorite-list] Macrochondrules/Saratov

2005-05-24 Thread Martin Altmann
Acquittal - Judge Doug! The Saratov was sold long time ago and I don't have any other forsale. My homepage is many years old, I never found time to renew it (and had not the feeling to do so, as most of my pieces I distribute directely to the collectors from whose I know, that they might

Re: [meteorite-list] Macrochondrules/Saratov

2005-05-24 Thread Martin Altmann
With Bjurbole it works best like this: Put a fragment in a plastic display box, fix and pack it the best you can. Wrap it into paper, put it in a padded envelope and send it around with german post. The addressee will recieve a heap of dust with the isolated chondrules swimming on top. But the

[meteorite-list] Quinn Canyon, Nevada Question

2005-05-21 Thread Martin Altmann
Servus List, I've a question concerning the Quinn Canyon-iron, the 1st meteorite of Nevada, found 1908. The Catalogue says, that it is possibly part of the Nevada meteor of 1894 (February 1, 22:00hrs). Has anybody closer informations whether this could be true? I recieved a little piece and I'm

Re: [meteorite-list] THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHING

2005-05-21 Thread Martin Altmann
I have thought of getting a model with nicely done nails I remember Rob Elliott made a meteorite calendar but the model there hadn't only nails... - Original Message - From: Dave Freeman mjwy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 7:15 PM

[meteorite-list] Wanted - unaltered Santa Catarina

2005-05-18 Thread Martin Altmann
Forwarded: Hello List, My friend from Saint Petersburg, Russia needs a small (about 10g) slice or fragment of non-oxidized part of Santa Catharina ataxite for study. If somebody have it, please contact me off list at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you! Sergey

Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - May 18, 2005

2005-05-18 Thread Martin Altmann
It's made with my new Nikon 4800. Great camera. Good optical zoom, you can go as close as 10mm and it will be so sharp, that without problems, one can excessively enlarge the picture later, very good colours, so that one has not to manipulate the pictures later and suitable for idiots like me -

Re: [meteorite-list] PAC vs Type-7 vs IMB? (Was: Portales Valley Classification Info)

2005-05-17 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Mr.Woolard, list Thanks for the oportunity, because I have a question: What are the hard criteria for to distinghuish from ot foe classifying a stone as Impact Melt Breccia versus pertological Type 7 versus Primitive Achondrite Until now I couldn't find nor anybody could give me an exact

Re: [meteorite-list] PAC vs Type-7 vs IMB? (Was: PortalesValley Classification Info)

2005-05-17 Thread Martin Altmann
Many thanks, this was the most helpful answer I got until now. (Ähem, can we place the ureilites somewhere there?) Martin - Original Message - From: Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 1:33 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list]

[meteorite-list] AD: PAC/type7/IMB special

2005-05-17 Thread Martin Altmann
Shameless I am no, in that context I want also call attention to the fine article of Andrzej Pilski about Zaklodzie in the very recent issue of the Meteorite Magazine, where obviously the same problems occured with the classification and all suggestions were made: EL6/7; IMB, PAC. As there

Re: [meteorite-list] COOL MESOSIDERITE PHOTO

2005-05-17 Thread Martin Altmann
Uuh 25-50$?? If it's one from the 10 paired mesos a la 1882, which als has sometimes immense large metal blobs, you can find it at 4.50$-8$/g e.g. at Stefan The Eye Ralew. Btw. etched such blobs can show tiny Neumann Lines. Privjet! Martin - Original Message - From: dean bessey [EMAIL

Re: [meteorite-list] Good advice for students

2005-05-14 Thread Martin Altmann
Another quote from Albert Einstein: The Lord is subtle, but not malicious. CAS -Original Message- From: Martin Altmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 14 May 2005 1:25 AM To: christopher sharp; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Good advice

Re: [meteorite-list] Kansas Legal Debate: Creation, Evolution andIntelligent Design

2005-05-14 Thread Martin Altmann
And again Einstein: If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us - Original Message - From: Mark Miconi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Treiman, Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005

Re: AW: [meteorite-list] Re: 13.5 kg lunar

2005-05-14 Thread Martin Altmann
Yeah, that is also the reason, why Esquel, Quijinge, Finmarken cost now 30cents like Brahin. Mihke - won't you offer some NWA 482 for 400$/g??? - Original Message - From: M come Meteorite Meteorites [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, May 14,

Re: [meteorite-list] Good advice for students

2005-05-13 Thread Martin Altmann
No, Einstein said: Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Original Message - From: christopher sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 3:52 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Good

Re: [meteorite-list] Ad- interesting carbonaceous chondrites

2005-05-12 Thread Martin Altmann
I can't see a great match between your photos and Stefan's material. All of you pictured stones are lacking the huge and often strange looking xenoliths in Stefan's material and his NWA 2001 has a lower chondrules density than all of your examples (and it does not look only like plastic, heated it

Re: [meteorite-list] Kansas Legal Debate: Creation, Evolution and Intelligent Design

2005-05-12 Thread Martin Altmann
Gosh, looks like a new film plot. But who will be Spencer Tracy this time? I suggest Gene Hagman and as opponent Jim Carrey, would give a special note to that fundamentalistic character. No, serious, a sensible topic. Perhaps the New-Born-Christians may cope with the thesis of Teilhard de Chardin

Re: [meteorite-list] Fake Lunar and new Pallasite

2005-05-10 Thread Martin Altmann
With all carefullness and expressing only my personal opinion: I wouldn't buy this Dho 025. I took a cheap fragment for curiosness (1.345g at 150$/g) and I'm convinced, that it isn't Dho 025 nor a lunaite at all. Much to vesicular. The story, the seller told me about the provenience can't be true

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