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Say Cheese! Pictures needed!

Hello List,

I am working on building a new website with my genius website designer, Geoff
Notkin.  We are needing some photos for my "How To Identify A Meteorite" page.
I am not a collector personally, and I am not a "dealer" from the standpoint
that I have an inventory of stuff, and I am not near a great museum full of
everything I need, therefore I thought I would ask all of you experts for
assistance.

Our goal here is to provide photos of very typical characteristics, NOT the
abnormal ones that most people love to show off.  No need for blue halite and
sylvite salt crystals, or transparent olivines in a pallasite, or
Widmanstatten figures.

As a reward to those of you who can help us out, if you submit a photo for a
specific category and our distinguished judges pick it to be posted to the
site, and you give the appropriate releases, you will win an impactite and a
small (but cute) shale fragment from the world famous Monturaqui Crater in
Chile.  Not only is this site next to impossible to travel to, but there has
been less than 3 kilos of shale found from around this 380 meter diameter
crater!  Or if you would rather, you can get an olivine crystal from the
Admire pallasite.

And shortly after the site is open we will have an open house and invite all
the list members, and we will have a vote to see which is the best photo `out
of the batch.  And the winner will receive a really cute 0.8g fragment of
Cachari with a cool glass vein going through it, OR if we win the legal battle
and get to represent the finders of the Monahans 1998, you will be able to
trade the Cachari piece in for a 1g fragment of the Monahans 1998!  (Which if
all the rest of it ends up in a research collection, that little piece could
become VERY valuable!)

This is just our way to say thanks to any of you who help us out here.

These are the photos we are looking for:

1   A 6lb iron (Not Cleaned) being held in a hand
2   A 3 lb weathered looking stone being held in a hand
3   A weathered or semi weathered stone w/ smooth rounded corners
4   A Fresh dark gray or black stone
5  A fresh fallen IRON (please no Sikhote-Alins)
6  A  semi fresh brown stone (plainview etc.)
7  A  rusty looking stone (dimmitt etc.)
8  A rusty iron - (odessa etc,)
9  A fresh stone fusion crust, show where a break in the fusion is on surface
10 A weathered stone with fusion crust demonstrated
11 Flowlines - (Millbillillie etc.)
12  thumbprints in a stone 
13   thumbprints on a weathered iron
14  Deeper cavities in an iron (Gibeon etc.)
15  weathered stone with broken interior OR polished face w/ metal specks
(dark brown)
16  fresh stone with broken interior OR polished face w/ metal specks (light
gray)
17 solid iron interior (face of an end cut WITH NO ETCHING)
18 magnet stuck on the side of a stone
19 magnet on a string barely sticking to the side of a stone
20 An ordinary 1-2lb NON-Meteorite rock being held in hand

Please send pictures by email attachment to Geoking@intercall.com and a copy
to meteorhntr@aol.com  Or you may send hard copies to Geoff Notkin, 644
Boulevard East, Weehawken, NJ 07087 USA.

Winners will be notified shortly, and we will keep you posted for our open
house to happen in a week or so.

Thanks,
Steve Arnold
www.meteoritebroker.com
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