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Re[2]: MetCAB?


     Geez, Gene, thanks for taking sides with my wife.  She says the same 
     thing, "You're buying another meteorite?  If you want a meteorite, go 
     out and find one"!  So, as a result, my small collection is more than 
     half "self-found" (4 Gold Basin & 30+ sand-grained size Holbrooks)
     
     --Hey! Don't turn your nose up on my minuscule L6's. A handful of them 
     are complete individuals. Through a microscope they look just like 
     their big brothers and sisters.  I've tried to capture this on my web 
     site--  http://members.tripod.com/~bolidechaser/trip4/holbrook.htm
     
     Think about what kind of prospect we will have as a collectors if in 
     the future half of our collection is confined to "self-found"?
     Wait a minute, just because I find a meteorite, it doesn't necessarily 
     make it mine.  Darn!
     
     But in my original post, bemoaning rising prices wasn't my main 
     point.  I was amplifying on Gene's earlier post about "Response 
     Strategy".  Not only to be more PR conscious, but to assure the 
     underfunded institutions that we're just as interested that they 
     continue to receive specimens.  Like us, they may have to "make do 
     with smaller pieces".  Either that, or they work closer with the 
     amateur collector/hunters and "search and search some more to find 
     them".
     
     My concern is that the opposite appears to happening.
     
     Bob V.
     
     
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Subject: Re: MetCAB?
Author:  rmarlin@network-one.com at Internet 
Date:    6/24/98 4:15 PM
     
Matt Morgan wrote:
>We (from the collector view point) will just have to buy a 5g slice instead of 
>a 20g slice, and be happy we can still hold a piece of another world.  Just my 
>thoughts.
     
This is really inevitable, but Monahans didn't help. Years ago, you 
could buy meteorites at $1 per pound!!! Alas, this inflation will never 
stop, but I am sure there are thousands more meteorites waiting out in 
godforsaken deserts the world over for us to find, you just have to 
search, and search, and search some more to find them.