Re: [meteorite-list] European lost orders

2005-02-14 Thread Martin Altmann
This seller obviously tried to safe money on the wrong side The seller or the buyer? One should always clear before, who will bear the risk and the mode of shipping. Hardly a buyer, my experience, is willing to pay the extra fees for fully insured shipment. Don't we have frequently the

Re: [meteorite-list] Michael Cottingham

2005-02-14 Thread Martin Altmann
Sometimes Dr.Cott needs a little longer than other children, but until now, I recieved everything and I have to say, extraordinnary well packed. And sometimes among his 40%-60% off sales there are some goodies, which are so low priced, that they're even good for competitive resale. Thus it

[meteorite-list] AD: Introducing Low CRW meteorites

2005-02-13 Thread Martin Altmann
Hola list, in getting common with Kevin's new price finding tool, the Catalogue Repository Weight, CRW, I loaded up two examples on ebay, where tkw and crw enormously differ. Sao Juliao de Moreira, an IIAB-iron, where the whereabouts of the main mass of 159kg of 162kg tkw (and Sao Juliao was a

Re: [meteorite-list] RE: haag pieces are in demand-$$$$$??

2005-02-13 Thread Martin Altmann
Bob, let me be your daughter!! Please adopt me!! I was worried, when I read Steve's posting, that we should now should keep Haag pieces to show it to the grandchildren telling that he was a second Nininger... I had to ask first: Rob Haag is at good health! May he live long and prosper. Martin

Re: [meteorite-list] 1.3kg Millbillillie - another Haag piece

2005-02-11 Thread Martin Altmann
Piggy Rodeo! Matt, congratulations on your Chiang Khan! To avoid you to be tempted to cut slices from the exceedingly rare stone, I want to mention, that there are two specimens left from the sale for the Aids help project, the 23 gram and the 25 gram fragments

[meteorite-list] The Art of Collecting Meteorites

2005-02-11 Thread Martin Altmann
Hola List, I just received my copy of Kichinka's new book. My first impression: Excellent! So I want to tell the European members of the list, who maybe hesitated because of the shipping costs: Take it! It's more than well worth the price! Cheers! Martin

Re: [meteorite-list] European lost orders

2005-02-11 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Mike, better ask Paypal before, I'm not sure, if they will accept as proof track numbers of UPS. From DHL they do definetily not, as here in Germany the former state-run post outsorced the parcel branch completely to DHL, so that everything is sent now by DHL and in no case of loss Paypal

Re: [meteorite-list] Schreibersite - Inclusions or Plates?

2005-02-08 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Jeff, of course schreibersite can form larger inclusions, irregular shaped - then it's not looking like the big troilite drops you mentioned, but exactely like the many cohenite inclusions in the IAB and IIICD irons, which appear often as little wormlets, irregular blobs with short, rounded

Re: [meteorite-list] Schreibersite - Inclusions or Plates?

2005-02-08 Thread Martin Altmann
Ooops, I forgot to mention, that the schreibersite in Sikhote-Alin or in the IIGs irons forms immense, cm-large, angular crystals, mostly skeletonize. Take one of the many overcleaned or tumbled Sikhotes from ebay, if you see there someting more silvery looking out from the surface, cut it and

Re: [meteorite-list] Is Brahin a ruster ?

2005-02-08 Thread Martin Altmann
available at the moment through Sergej Vassiliev Moritz Karl. Guess something around 15$/gm for translucent slices. PPS: I had a tiny Admire from Buehler many years ago. It's still in good condition. - Original Message - From: Jörn Koblitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Altmann [EMAIL

[meteorite-list] Photos of Schreibersite

2005-02-08 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi list, better than to stay in remembrance only because of silly comments, I should share some educational pictures of schreibersite. Loaded up some photos with all the features, rhabdites, ribbons, planes, large crystals. Unfortunately in that yahoo-thing, the pictures are displayed somewhat

Re: [meteorite-list] Is Brahin a ruster ?

2005-02-07 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Lars, Brahin is untreated a hefty ruster like Brenham. With two of the main suppliers of Brahin I made the experience that Afanasjev (cometshop) did a good job in varnishing his slices. My oldest slice from him I had for almost 7 years without any problems and many others I had in stock for

Re: [meteorite-list] Shirokovsky etching

2005-02-07 Thread Martin Altmann
Because they were to scrooge to use a good mixer, when they created it. My question is what it is ? Why this pattern looks like this ? http://www.meteoryt.net/ebay/shirokovsky_112a.jpg http://www.meteoryt.net/ebay/shirokovsky_112b.jpg http://www.meteoryt.net/ebay/shirokovsky_112c.jpg

Re: [meteorite-list] STILL not clear - Park Forest Meteorite, Winslow St. House

2005-01-29 Thread Martin Altmann
Gosh, this park-forest-smasher-hammer-damage-hype is the strangest I heard ever. My PF hit a curb stone, my PF hit a fence, my PF hit a meadow.. Dear beginning colletors: meteorites tend in general to fall on something. That's why experts call it a fall. Soon I'll offer a real smasher - a

Re: [meteorite-list] Ad- best deal on CV7 meteorite in the galaxy!

2005-01-27 Thread Martin Altmann
Anyway, let's hope that finmet will get it in his fingers. He will make a Volga out of it. http://www.kanjidic.com/Gaz21/volga_skyline_front.jpg Skol __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: AW: [meteorite-list] Ad- best deal on CV7 meteorite in the galaxy!

2005-01-27 Thread Martin Altmann
But Bernhard, you misunderstood. Da Hupes are out of the business, they're selling old cars now. It's 2CV not CV7: S: http://www.microcar.org/carspecs/citroen2cv.html - Original Message - From: Bernhard Rems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'stan .' [EMAIL PROTECTED];

Re: [meteorite-list] ya think your so smart, what's this?

2005-01-25 Thread Martin Altmann
Wow Tom, It's a paleolontoligical sensation! Namely a piece of a lithified giraffe! You have to know, that the archaic percursors of our giraffes today were smaller. Only 10 inches tall. Like this they could survive the shock waves of the Chicksaloop impact 60 million years ago without break away

Re: [meteorite-list] ya think your so smart, what's this?

2005-01-25 Thread Martin Altmann
and back. You're welcome. Martin - Original Message - From: Tom AKA James Knudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 4:24 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] ya think your so smart, what's this? a piece

Re: [meteorite-list] ya think your so smart, what's this?

2005-01-25 Thread Martin Altmann
Zelimir, and nowadays giraffes have adapted better to digest siderites (which they have to do, to keep the iron in the knobs of their antennas fresh). That's the reason, why we find substantially less irons in Africa than in Australia. Skol Martin - Original Message - From: Zelimir

Re: [meteorite-list] ya think your so smart, what's this?

2005-01-25 Thread Martin Altmann
a giraffe war, but later a well known painter used his popularity in revealing the whole truth and started to paint his famous Burning Giraffes. Martin - Original Message - From: David Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Zelimir Gabelica [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] ya think your so smart, what's this?

2005-01-25 Thread Martin Altmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com; David Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 7:36 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] ya think your so smart, what's this? Dear List contributors: Wyoming press release: Wyoming's state

Re: [meteorite-list] Hajar al-Aswad/Related

2005-01-20 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Dirk, not to forget the numerous potential meteorites warshipped in temples on places of pilgrimage of the Mediterran ancient world. I repeat myself, one of them, is the stone of Paphos on Cyprus pictured on many ancient coins, recovered and excavated in 1888, getting mouldy for a century in

[meteorite-list] Mundrabilla designation question

2005-01-16 Thread Martin Altmann
Sal list, in painting my specimen chits, I ask myself, how to denominate Mundrabilla correctly. Old Catalogue has simply IRANOM, 2000er Grady Catalogue says IIICD and anomalous, now with the finer Au-stuff and the subgroups, I read, that Mundrabilla and Waterville are close to sLL. Shall I write

Re: [meteorite-list] Mundrabilla designation question

2005-01-16 Thread Martin Altmann
Oviously David Weir's answer didn't made it through and because most have it listed as Iranom or IIICD: Hello Martin, In my opinion it is best described at this point in time as Iron, IAB complex, Mundrabilla duo Regards, David __ Meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Mundrabilla designation question

2005-01-16 Thread Martin Altmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 2:49 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mundrabilla designation question Hello List, My source from which I formed my opinion is the paper by J. T. Wasson and G. W

[meteorite-list] Old Rocks From Space Pictures of the Day ?

2005-01-15 Thread Martin Altmann
Hello Michael, is there a place, where the last year's Pictures of the Day are visible? Couldn't find them anymore or will they be hosted at Bernhard's forum? I'm very sure, that I'm not the only one from the list, who enjoys to browse frequently the old pictures. When I came back from vacancies

[meteorite-list] Read it all: Now really SERIOUS !

2005-01-15 Thread Martin Altmann
List, look what Michael The Picture Johnson just answered me: all the older pics are gone. With all the junk going on the list two weeks ago I really didn't think anyone cared or appreciated my efforts. I stopped posting and at the time decided not to do again. But there is hope: However I

Re: [meteorite-list] Very Topic: Surface picture from Titan

2005-01-14 Thread Martin Altmann
Your link didn't work, I use this: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/index.html (Nasa-site seems to be overcrowded sometimes). Martin - Original Message - From: Bernhard Rems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 10:44 PM

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Rover Discovers A Potential Meteorite

2005-01-14 Thread Martin Altmann
I hope it will be a meteorite, as I plan to design a CD with a complete database of all known meteorites on Mars. Suscription price for list members: 14.95$ - yearly updates available for 4.95$. Free ship. Martin __ Meteorite-list mailing list

Re: [meteorite-list] Elbogen + Vienna pictures

2004-12-20 Thread Martin Altmann
Raab [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 2:40 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Elbogen (was: Ensisheim) Martin Altmann wrote: annual festivals are held on the castle nowadays, but they have only a cast of the iron, the main mass is in Vienna... And it's

RE: [meteorite-list] Elbogen + Loket picture

2004-12-20 Thread Martin Altmann
Sergej didn't come through, his mail: That's another 14.3kg stone of Elbogen in small museum of Loket, Czech Republic and Mrs. Marcela Bukovanska from Prague NHM. http://sv-meteorites.jodoshared.com/images/Elbogen.jpg All the best, Sergey Sergey

Re: [meteorite-list] Elbogen + Loket + castle picture

2004-12-20 Thread Martin Altmann
to European's most famous historic spa: Karlovy Vary/Karlsbad. Would be a fine trip! And of course on the last day, we all visit Sergej in Praha. Martin - Original Message - From: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 3:45 PM Subject: RE

[meteorite-list] The Chiang Khan Pool

2004-12-20 Thread Martin Altmann
Promised list, the last call for Chiang Khan. Only the 23g and the 25g are left. http://photos.yahoo.com/metmartinde If they will be gone, Chiang Khan will have been gone. That's it. (No problem for me, I have my collection piece, but you?...) So hush, hush! 37% - 100% for charity. Second

Re: [meteorite-list] The Chiang Khan Pool

2004-12-20 Thread Martin Altmann
Good Heavens I typed: 37% - 100% for charity Should be: 37$/g - 100% for charity (and now I broke my promise, that it should have been the last posting for King Khan).. Martin - Original Message - From: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 21

Re: [meteorite-list] Ensisheim

2004-12-19 Thread Martin Altmann
I haven't, but Dieter has the true first observed European Fall for sale, Elbogen, fell in 1400. Cheaper than the small amount, which came out 2 years ago. Elbogen, visited by Goethe, when he celebrated his 74th anniversaire on the castle of Elbogen, mentioned by the Grimm Brothers in their

[meteorite-list] Clarification

2004-12-18 Thread Martin Altmann
Holla list, as I was asked how much money from the Chiang Khans will be used for the HIV- and streetchildren project - as Oliver wrote on his page a huge part.. - in fact 100% of the money will be used, ALL, suta la suta, everything and of course I do not take any comission or provision for

Re: [meteorite-list] Etching perfected!

2004-12-18 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Tom, a fine decent etch. Good work and a remarkable piece as it has especially much cohenite! Well done! Martin - Original Message - From: Tom AKA James Knudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 10:01 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Etching

Re: [meteorite-list] Chiang Khan

2004-12-17 Thread Martin Altmann
Khan I got from Martin Altmann. I have no idea why they took these and nothing else. Bernhard PS: No insurance. Me idiot. __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Chiang Khan tkw

2004-12-17 Thread Martin Altmann
As it didn't made it through, Jörn Metbase Koblitz found additional pieces: So we know now somewhat slightly over 7kg. In two hours or so, I will upload the new pictures of the remaining pieces for sale - at the moment a very prominent list member is taking his choice. Martin Additionally to

[meteorite-list] Photos CHIANG KHAN, finally!

2004-12-17 Thread Martin Altmann
Hola list, finally I created an album containing the pictures of all available Chiang Khan specimens. Use this link: http://photos.yahoo.com/metmartinde Click on the picture there and 22 photos made under the despiteous hibernal sun, hiding nothing, should appear. The weights are indicated under

Re: [meteorite-list] Chiang Khan

2004-12-17 Thread Martin Altmann
A hunt in the fall region, one can forget. Tightest vegetation and full of hot rocks. Oliver hunted for 3 months with a detector, digging hundreds of holes - the result was: 2 stones. The larger is the 70g for sale. - Original Message - From: Herbert Raab [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

[meteorite-list] Cohenite Question

2004-12-16 Thread Martin Altmann
Ho ho ho list, did anybody from the list found cohenite in another group than in IAB and IIICD? (picture?) Norton: It is good to keep in mind that, unlike schreibersite, cohenite usually does not occur in iron meteorites having over 7 wt% nickel. I never saw a hexaedrite, a IIG, a IIAB, a IIE, a

Re: [meteorite-list] John's Interesting Iron Meteorite, NWA 2677

2004-12-12 Thread Martin Altmann
Intersting to me, that some lamellae in that slice are somewhat twisted from mechanical stress as one can find in many irons of large tkw, which broke up. Gibeon, Henbury and of course from most crater builders. So I would bet, that there are many more specimens still to be found in desert

Re: [meteorite-list] Catalogue of Meteorites?

2004-12-10 Thread Martin Altmann
And also interesting would be, whether the database from the Catalogue can be updated, as promised in the Catalogue. Btw it seems to be lousy programmed, in my CD the combined search set of records does work only for Windows versions =2000. Lower versions produce errors, as two variables remain

Re: [meteorite-list] 17th century fireball illustrations

2004-12-10 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi, tired as I am, my first answer wasn't as stupid as.: Found just a page where you have the Hevelius print vs Mallet for comparision: http://wwwusr.obspm.fr/~crovisie/promenade/pro_comete_dessin.html You have to scroll a little bit down. So you see Mallet took f.e. the sword shape, the

Re: [meteorite-list] 17th century fireball illustrations

2004-12-10 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Svend, may you let the swedish guy scan the the pages with text at Mallet to this picture? I'm quite sure that it is depictinig comets in the tradition of Plinius Naturalis Historia, where the comets were categorized by their different shapes (I think 11 or 12 different?) Often found also in

Re: [meteorite-list] ** French meteorite book : forthcoming release ! **

2004-12-09 Thread Martin Altmann
I hope you'll prepare some autographed copies for the list members Congrats. A comprehensive book about German meteorites as well as good book in German about meteorites in general, is missing. Best, but not available anymore, is still Rolf W.Buehler's: Meteorite - Urmaterie aus dem

Re: [meteorite-list] The most expensive hobby??

2004-12-09 Thread Martin Altmann
Sleep - it costs you a third of your life. Good night! Martin - Original Message - From: Steve Arnold, Chicago!!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 11:18 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] The most expensive hobby?? Hi list, and goodafternoon.I had a

Re: [meteorite-list] Opinions? Ideas?

2004-12-07 Thread Martin Altmann
I'm a technical idiot, but this trail looks so straight to me. With a common standard objective, wouldn't have such a trail of such a large angle be pictured at least slightly as a bow? - Original Message - From: MarkF [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteoryt.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: meteor list

Re: [meteorite-list] A note of excuse

2004-12-05 Thread Martin Altmann
Hohoho, do you have a reciple, how to cook spicy cider? Spicy cider from apples? Sounds interesting. Here in Germany they drink spice hot red wine. In Romania, Andrei give the reciple, hot self destilled plum brands boiled with pepper grains. Martin - Original Message - From: David

[meteorite-list] f instead of s - Martin was a good boy

2004-12-05 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Mark, Bernd, Bernhard, list, It's a little bit boring for most listees perhaps and certainly OT, but when I started to write, it got longer and longer, so I send it. The f instead of the s was as far as I know in use since the Carolingian Minuscule, the standard font in Europe from the

Re: [meteorite-list] Hmmmm....

2004-12-05 Thread Martin Altmann
Once my cat kicked a little lunaite behind the piano, standing at the wall. Meanwhile I sold it and then I searched the whole house for 2 weeks. Fortunately the client was patient and I found it. So I let her play only with small irons. They a so havy, that she quits cicking them around quite

Re: [meteorite-list] benguerir fall

2004-12-04 Thread Martin Altmann
Hiho, sometimes I mean to hear a certain tenor in that mails, which annotate, that now the Morrocans ask to high prices. Why should they not ask prices, which are closer to that, what a collector has to pay? Meteorites are meteorites, no matter where they fall. What is the difference between a

Re: [meteorite-list] Clarifying some things

2004-12-04 Thread Martin Altmann
Consensus: It's a strrange but beautiful world. Let's turn to something less annoying and enjoy our Geminids, which will have this year a comfortable maximum for the working Europeans. (hope our specialists from the list will catch some nice pictures). Cheers! Martin - Original Message

Re: [meteorite-list] Tagish Lake

2004-12-03 Thread Martin Altmann
O Dear! some larger - they are huge !!! If only all dealers on the list would be so modest like you... Congratulations. Martin - Original Message - From: Eric Twelker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 6:41 AM Subject:

Re: [meteorite-list] Pellisson, the end of a free meteorite hobby?

2004-12-03 Thread Martin Altmann
. Read it by your own. You may take it for the usual rants between jealous dealers, I for my own am Martin Altmann and a collector and certainly not in a need nor in the mood to be discredited and libelled by such persons with low attitude and of doubtfull character to have supported criminals in owning

Re: [meteorite-list] Pellisson, the end of a free meteorite hobby?

2004-12-03 Thread Martin Altmann
on the list here and no fun anymore. Sleepily yours Martin - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 2:30 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Pellisson, the end of a free meteorite hobby

Re: [meteorite-list] Sylacauga and Mbale

2004-12-02 Thread Martin Altmann
And Chiang Khan, which hit a fisherman on his boat. http://www.meteorite-oliver.com/index.html (charity..X-mas!!) Martin - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 1:27 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Sylacauga and Mbale The

Re: [meteorite-list] Habibi's Photos of new Moroccon Fall

2004-12-01 Thread Martin Altmann
Bonjour Aziz. Hey it's exactely looking like Marcins Lampiayrie and Bogande, the new Burkina Faso falls. (Also not yet classified). Check ir out there: http://www.polandmet.com/ Look - brecciated, lightish grey matrix, small troilites, dark grey larger clasts. I guess a brecciated L. Are there

Re: [meteorite-list] Self Proclaimed Pairing List

2004-11-12 Thread Martin Altmann
The easiest way for a collectors to avoid to buy a Zag instead of an Amalga: If the stone is so fresh and displays a crust, which you'd like to touch only with gloves, fresh like a Bensour for instance, then it's an Amgala for sure. I never saw a Zag, which could mess with Amgala in freshness.

Re: [meteorite-list] $2.95 AMGALA SALE

2004-11-12 Thread Martin Altmann
Hmmm, if the Amgala would have arrived some hours later, perhaps it would have felt in New Orleans... would this have had changed the properties of the rock? Would 1500$ then be exaggerated A fall is still a fall, I really hug you all, and please contact Marcin if anyone is interested in the

Re: [meteorite-list] AD - eBay auctions ending today, Excellent Values

2004-11-10 Thread Martin Altmann
Steve Schoner alread made an attempt to clean this list, creating a yahoo group for ebay ads and there are two yahoo groups more for sales adds. But obviously it's hopeless Other dealers with the need for permanent ads opened their own groups, perhaps a good idea for Uncle Steve and les Hupes?

Re: [meteorite-list] AD - eBay auctions ending today, Excellent Values

2004-11-10 Thread Martin Altmann
Message - From: Greg Hupe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 6:55 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] AD - eBay auctions ending today, Excellent Values Dear list, I, for one, thoroughly enjoy the sale announcements

Re: [meteorite-list] main masses continued

2004-11-05 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Steve, I'll pass the flowers on Sigfried Haberer and fellows, they found the stones, not me, did the field work, took care for the classification. Here is his homepage with pretty good textes! http://www.haberer-meteorite.de/english/Home.htm Cheers! Martin

Re: [meteorite-list] Ad Ebay meteorites

2004-11-04 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Adam, List, I see a substantial problem with the approval of likely or possible paired material: With the desert rush we just don't have the lab capacities to make analyses of each paired stone. For instance here in Germany we have perhaps five or six places, where classification can be done

Re: [meteorite-list] ebay auction meteorites

2004-11-04 Thread Martin Altmann
Pairing in quite obvious in many cases. Which cases Mark? From Dhofar mainly paired Moons got different numbers, the reasons for I don't know exactly, but everybody knows it, the sellers always gives the paired numbers in their descriptions, the coordinates are published. (Don't forget, that

Re: [meteorite-list] ebay auction meteorites

2004-11-04 Thread Martin Altmann
Wait in a month or so, I'll start a sale of Dho's not only mainly massive, but with the complete finds (missing only the type specimens' cut offs). Directly from the finder. Sorrowful collected. All datas. Published. True low tkws. Ordinary chondrites. W3 and worse. Oman climate seems to be

Re: [meteorite-list] ebay auction meteorites

2004-11-04 Thread Martin Altmann
Hiho Mark, the region does not make the difference, the finders do! In Antarctica it's the common process, to number each stone seperately - take a look at the Bulletins, there you'll find rare types, found in the same place on the same day with different numbers. Sahara in general is different,

Re: [meteorite-list] ebay auction meteorites + collectors hint

2004-11-04 Thread Martin Altmann
AS: this mail didn't made it through, sorry if it will appear twice. Hi list, a kind of price Catalogue can easily be compiled by each list member using PaulJim's dealers_list with more than hundred meteorite dealers/collectors: http://www.meteorite.com/dealer_list.htm Mail additionally to the

Re: [meteorite-list] RE: Ad ebay meteorites

2004-11-04 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi list, a kind of price Catalogue can easily be compiled by each list member using PaulJim's dealers_list with more than hundred meteorite dealers/collectors: http://www.meteorite.com/dealer_list.htm Mail additionally to the offerors with broken links (or to those, who don't give prices on

Re: [meteorite-list] RE: Ad ebay meteorites

2004-11-04 Thread Martin Altmann
- Original Message - From: Bernhard Rendelius Rems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Martin Altmann' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 3:29 PM Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] RE: Ad ebay meteorites You forgot something, Martin: A lot of these dealers offer SUBSTANTIAL

Re: [meteorite-list] ebay auction meteorites

2004-11-04 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi AlAll, not necessarily. Nothing to say against a fat NWA as a doorstop, paperweight or if it displays fine features like fresh crust, orientation, interesting clasts or to fill up the systematical collection with the subgroups of rare classes. But if one has the choice between classified

Re: [meteorite-list] RE: Ad ebay meteorites

2004-11-04 Thread Martin Altmann
PROTECTED] To: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Bernhard Rendelius Rems [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 4:30 PM Subject: AW: [meteorite-list] RE: Ad ebay meteorites Dear Listees, In the decades around 1900 it was fancy to circulate tables showing the values

Re: [meteorite-list] ebay auction meteorites

2004-11-04 Thread Martin Altmann
. Time to buy, eech and I'm short of money Martin - Original Message - From: Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]; MARK BOSTICK [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 5:27 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] ebay auction

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite prices

2004-11-04 Thread Martin Altmann
] To: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]; MARK BOSTICK [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] ebay auction meteorites On two expeditions in Oman, we found over 100 meteorites before finding my first achondrite, a rare type

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite prices

2004-11-04 Thread Martin Altmann
will decide to release the antarctic stuff, as their funds will have been cut off. Then all dealers will start to sell old cars or will start to carve Hummel figures out of Martians. - Original Message - From: Bernhard Rems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Martin Altmann' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL

Re: AW: [meteorite-list] meteorite prices

2004-11-04 Thread Martin Altmann
John Dawn Bernhard Rems wrote: -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Martin Altmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 04. November 2004 18:58 An: Bernhard Rems; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite prices And Bernhard, as always, I answer

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite prices

2004-11-04 Thread Martin Altmann
in other countries become educated and see $, the flood will come again. Matt Morgan Mile High Meteorites http://www.mhmeteorites.com PO Box 151293 Lakewood, CO 80215 USA ebay id: mhmeteorites - Original Message - From: Bernhard Rems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Martin Altmann' [EMAIL

Re: AW: [meteorite-list] RE: Ad ebay meteorites

2004-11-04 Thread Martin Altmann
Yip, I understood. I just wanted to emphasise, that with the Dhofars the chance of possible pairings is much lower than with the NWAs and that it might be possible to find out the pairings later, as there exist the field datas, which in the cases of NWA are lost (o.k. some finders had bad luck,

Re: AW: [meteorite-list] Ad ebay meteorites

2004-11-04 Thread Martin Altmann
2) not the fall, but an artificial high price in some cases (tkws, equipping same material with different numbers). 3) A price guide, as I suggested a beginning collector should compile, based on the web offerings, actualized each year, could be very helpful. I see no other chance for

Re: [meteorite-list] Munich Evening on friday

2004-10-30 Thread Martin Altmann
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 9:08 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Munich Evening on friday Hi all, yesterday's evening at the Fliegerbräu was marvellous and we had a big lot of fun. there has been : Martin Altmann Hanno Strufe Me Serge Afanasiev, Dima and Sascha Dimitri

Re: [meteorite-list] Largest stony meteorites

2004-10-27 Thread Martin Altmann
You forgot about Kunya-Urgench (Turkmenistan) - 900kg (?) - Original Message - From: Sociedad Meteoritica Argentina [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 3:54 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Largest stony meteorites What about the largest stony

Re: [meteorite-list] Dhofar 018 howardite question

2004-10-26 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Jeff, Bernd list, it's remarkable that in the classical How HaH 285 the metal grains are all found in the grey matrix. Bilanga is brecciated, but has no xenolithic inclusions (a very, very few have black shock veins - my collection piece has two prallel black shock planes) - thus those metal

Re: [meteorite-list] Dhofar 018 howardite question

2004-10-25 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Bernd, Madam Vesta seems not to be so differentiated, as supposed. I remember thwo Bilangas DIO, who had each an iron flake, in NWA1109 EUC-P there are some, as well as in the HaH 285 HOW. By the way the latter both, I still have for sale. HaH 285 between 50$ and 70$, depending on size, many

[meteorite-list] Smth different: MUNICH Chiang Khan

2004-10-25 Thread Martin Altmann
I forgot, you may remember the Chiang Khans, the superrare Thai fall, which hit a fisherman in his boat, once advertised on that list. They are authentic. The finder still is hoping to sell them, as he needs the money urgently to bring up his planned AIDS-station and porc farm in the

[meteorite-list] Munich plan of the halls

2004-10-25 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi List, here you have a link to a PDF-file with the plans for all 3 halls with all stalls of the Munich fair: http://www.mineralientage.de/bilder/pdf_pops/Hallenplan_2004.pdf Cheeers Martin __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [meteorite-list] RE: MUNICH - FRIDAY - How to get there hints.

2004-10-22 Thread Martin Altmann
Come on - Beer testing is not such a hard work and finally it was Christian's Hanno's idea! They should get beer for free (I'm not an alcoolist yet). In fact I'm glad, that I still found some places in a nearby location bearing upon some bavaricity, as it had to be short-termed and the

Re: [meteorite-list] The phone pool

2004-10-22 Thread Martin Altmann
I'm so old fashioned, that I don't own a cell phone. Don't like to get my brain grilled, it's already smallhard enough. Will have to borrow one for Friday. Martin - Original Message - From: Razvan Andrei [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 6:53 PM

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

2004-10-21 Thread Martin Altmann
Hello list, After many hours of trying to customize a plan, how to get to the meeting at Friday, I decided, that I'm definetely to stupid for this world. Can't print out the maps, as I own only an old blackwhite printer and the results are unreadable. Now I customized 2 plans as pdf-files. If

[meteorite-list] MUNICH - Friday maps now online!

2004-10-21 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi, Serguey just put the maps online - and even as jpg, so that those who can't open pdfs can watch it - THANKS! So he deserves also some free beer! http://sv-meteorites.jodoshared.com/plan1.jpg and http://sv-meteorites.jodoshared.com/plan2.jpg As all what I try to mark dissapeared, when I

Re: [meteorite-list] MUNICH - Friday maps now online!

2004-10-21 Thread Martin Altmann
Ooops I'm tired. Mistake! CORRECTION: The fair areal is the large rounded, orange blob to the LEFT, - Original Message - From: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 10:22 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] MUNICH - Friday maps now online

[meteorite-list] test

2004-10-20 Thread Martin Altmann
test __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] test again

2004-10-20 Thread Martin Altmann
...but to the Moon, they could fly. Don't come thru __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] MUNICH Friday evening

2004-10-20 Thread Martin Altmann
now it works again Hello folks, as most asked me to find a place preferably close situated to the show, I reserved places in a minute brewery 1mile away for Friday from 7 p.m. on. Just back from testing. They brew a good wheat beer and a black beer too. Ate half a duck in beer sauce, was o.k.

[meteorite-list] Metal in Meteorites

2004-10-19 Thread Martin Altmann
Hola list, did anybody noticed yet this fantastic, upcoming site or am I late? http://www.meteoritemetal.com/ Click on Atlas on the left side. Such a place was urgently missing! Skol! Martin __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[meteorite-list] Re: Tagounite L3

2004-10-18 Thread Martin Altmann
classified, especially such an ugly one, so if someone knows a place... Cheers! Martin - Original Message - From: Zelimir Gabelica [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 3:45 PM Subject: Tagounite L3 Hello Martin, list

[meteorite-list] Re: the MUNICH checkpoint

2004-10-18 Thread Martin Altmann
it's cheaper and better. All tourists like it and you don't have to visit the dependance in Vegas anymore. Skol Martin - Original Message - From: Christian Anger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 18

[meteorite-list] Who, Friday evening MUNICH

2004-10-18 Thread Martin Altmann
- Original Message - From: Bernhard Rems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Martin Altmann' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 8:38 PM Subject: AW: [meteorite-list] Re: the MUNICH checkpoint I would suggest a place without umpah-music, where we can talk :-) Bernhard

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: the MUNICH checkpoint

2004-10-18 Thread Martin Altmann
But this was 90 years ago. Nowadays canes aren't en vogue anymore.. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Altmann Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 7:27 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Re: the MUNICH checkpoint Hello Martin and all, Beer

[meteorite-list] Meteorite-Martin's new list for sale and trade

2004-10-17 Thread Martin Altmann
Hola list! Finally I finished my new assortment list for sale and trade. So if you're interested in, please give me a note. I know, that for list members should be offered a discount, but if I compare my price level to that of the dealers and collectors on the famous dealer_list

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