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Re: Meteorites are just rocks

What's all the excitement about meteorites? Maybe there's just a lot of
enthusiastic hype about selling and keeping-up-with-the Jones's. 'My
Gibeon's more gnarly than yours.' Someone tell me why you think its
worth giving meteorites a second thought. What makes them click for
*you*?
I see what you mean Calvin.  I threw mine out in the garden with the other
rocks after reading your critique.
ken Carpenter
-----Original Message-----
From: Calvin Shipbaugh <calvin@rand.org>
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
<meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thursday, June 17, 1999 8:32 PM
Subject: Meteorites are just rocks


>What's all the excitement about meteorites? Maybe there's just a lot of
>enthusiastic hype about selling and keeping-up-with-the Jones's. 'My
>Gibeon's more gnarly than yours.' Someone tell me why you think its
>worth giving meteorites a second thought. What makes them click for
>*you*?
>
>Rare? Hundreds of tons have been identified. There must be a thousand
>times as much sitting out there waiting to be found. Doesn't sound so
>rare.
>
>Few reliable source fields or methods to retrieve them?  Modern
>acceptance of their nature came late but then lot's of meteorites showed
>up with farmers, and Nininger...  then there was Antarctica.  Then
>Sahara.  Think the new places and ways of extracting them are at end? I
>doubt it.
>
>Valuable?  Why?  Are they an industrial ore? Are they prettier than gem
>quality stones? Do they teach us how to grow more crops? Scientific
>value maybe? Can you prove any have fossils from elsewhere? You mean we
>have to send a probe to check that out? Could have thought of that
>without meteorites.
>
>So a meteorite is a stone that fell to ground later than sooner. The
>Earth is just one big meteorite.
>
>How important is it that this H5 has chondules this size, or that H5 has
>a different color matrix? You've seen one H/L/5/6 you've seen 'em all. I
>want to hear why that's wrong. So there are new meteorite types found
>now and then.  What's so special about a brachinite anyway, has it
>changed our picture of the solar system? Never heard of one from another
>part of the galaxy.
>
>Perhaps you like meteorites because you think they look wild? Maybe you
>like fusion crust and think it is the neatest thing?  Maybe I think it
>is waste surface that been's destroyed.  Maybe you like being able to
>slice them thin and show off lots of surface area and features?  Maybe I
>think they're more apt to deteriorate all in the name of show.
>
>So Tut wore LDG and had a dagger. We can make nicer tools, and a lot of
>ornanments today. Tektites and meteorites carry some special meaning
>beyond the casual scientific, beyond the immediate sales price, and
>(maybe even) beyond the sheer joy of being different.
>
>I know meteorites are more than  Pet Rocks circa 2000 to members of the
>list. I'd like to hear more of the stories "why", more of the reasons
>for caring.
>
>
>
>
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