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Re. Meteorite "worth"


<<  it seems to me that a meteorite has 
 different values, i.e. a purely physical "value" (the value of its various 
 elements), a commercial "value" (how much collectors are willing to pay for 
 it to own it) and an aesthetic "value" >>

I think you're absolutely right.  The different "values" are the only way one 
*can*
explain something like beanie babies, wherein the physical value is so
totally different from the market value.  And meteorites fall into
the same category.  People much more poetic than I, have posted 
very impassioned messages on this list describing the feelings of awe which 
their 
meteorites inspire.  Feelings that, as a collector, I share.  But those are 
the
sorts of things which determine the "aesthetic" value you describe above.  
But the friendly (I hope!) but impassioned debate that Steve and I have been 
enjoying
was strictly about "commercial value".  Had there been a recognition that
meteorites can have different values depending on the criteria of judgment, 
there
would be no argument.   Gregory

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