[meteorite-list] NWA BIG QUESTION

From: Matteo Chinellato <mcomemeteorite2000_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:52:21 2004
Message-ID: <20020823061938.71520.qmail_at_web10303.mail.yahoo.com>

Hello all

My NWA's, no the first but the last I have buy, is all
buy from a moroccan person live in Erfoud, He go in
the Sahara to the nomads for take the meteorites, he
pay the nomads and return to Erfoud and send the
meteorites. The problem is that hour also the nomads
begin to recognize which are the more important
meteorites and which it are not, therefore hour begin
to ask various prices for meteorites, when once they
wanted all the same price.
regards

Matteo

--- drtanuki <drtanuki_at_tkc.att.ne.jp> wrote:
> Dear Ray,
> There are 1) many nomads 2) no nomad trusts
> another, 3) batteries(expensive) and
> technology(dangerous if in the wrong area of the
> Sahara..ie.border
> areas) are easy to sell for money, 4) they cannot
> see any personal gain from it since others will have
> their location, 5), and 6) they nomads may be the
> source of the meteorites; but they are basically not
> the ones selling them to the foreign buyers. I
> tried to leave my GPS with a "nomad" basically
> seller
> and he didn't want to bother to learn to use it.
> Cultures are different and persons different. Go to
> the Sahara and then you can understand more clearly
> what I am saying.
> Your solution is perfectly logical; but maybe
> impossible. Dirk...Tokyo
>
> impactearth_at_space.com wrote:
>
> > Perhaps Dean could call up the Nomads on their
> cell
> > phones, provided they are currently wondering the
> area
> > of the desert with cell phone reception, and ask
> them
> > to start documenting the finds. WHY HASN'T THIS
> > HAPPENED? Maybe ship them a GPS unit and some
> graph
> > paper to map out the strewn field? I mean, in
> this day
> > and age of communication, the only reason the
> "nomads"
> > aren't doing this is for 2 reasons. 1 being they
> are
> > too lazy, 2 being, no one has asked them to.
> Think of
> > the what could happen, the next NWA's to be found
> could
> > acutally be documented, knowing the TKW, location,
> etc.
> > Why isn't this happening? Everyone, collectors,
> > dealers, NOMAD'S, could be making more money.
> >
> > Ray
> >
> > On Fri, 23 August 2002, drtanuki wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Dear List Members;
> > > A meteorite cannot be paired unless analysis
> is
> > done
> > > to prove so. A
> > > practice that is common in the market is to
> classify
> > > one stone
> > > (sometimes more) and call the remainder the
> same. The
> > > fact that they
> > > are &quot;called&quot; the same does not prove
> that
> > they are the
> > > same type of
> > > meteorite or even paired. Dean's NWAs all look
> > similar
> > > due to the local
> > > environment that they were found (probably
> within the
> > > same region of the
> > > Sahara).
> > > Desert varnish or sand erosion covers most
> of the
> > > meteorites and
> > > rocks in the Sahara and other deserts. Desert
> varnish
> > > is characteristic
> > > in colour or texture depending on the local
> > > environment; and even the
> > > terrestrial rocks look similar in appearance.
> > > I hope this answers some of the questions
> that I
> > > have been asked to
> > > respond to. Sincerely, Dirk Ross....Tokyo
> > >
> > >
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Received on Fri 23 Aug 2002 02:19:38 AM PDT