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Re: Meteorites are just rocks

Ken,
     Where do you live? 8>)+

Jerry Hodges
Fossil Finds
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Kenneth Carpenter wrote:

> 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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