[meteorite-list] Courtesy and Patience

From: trandall_at_idsi.net <trandall_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:46 2004
Message-ID: <a05100300b867aa208500_at_[216.91.17.191]>

   Alana,
     You have to understand that Mohamed has been posting every day
about his "meteorwrongs" for quite a while now and claims without
knowledge that they are the real things. He came to the list to ask
for expert help and opinions and got EXCELLENT advice from the pros
here but he just flat out refuses to heed it. Advice from people who
eat, sleep and breath meteorites. He needs to learn that the common
field tests for meteorites are not the last word but a start.
Suspected meteorites need to be tested by a meteoritical lab for
absolute verification. What he needs to do is buy every book on
meteorites he can find and STUDY THEM. Getting a good book on rocks
and minerals is also a very good idea. You just do not go out in your
neighborhood and find Lunar meteorites, I should say not normally
anyway! Earth has a LOT of very wonderful and interesting rocks and
minerals in it but meteorites are not like any one of them. Their
structure and composition are different. I've only been studying and
collecting meteorites since 1988 so I'm certainly no expert yet and
I'm ALWAYS learning something about these wonderful "rocks from
space". Mohamed has a lot to learn yet but that's o.k., that's part
of what this list is all about.

   The folks on this list are absolutely fantastic people and provide
TONS of help and information but even they can only take just so much.

The folks here will GLADLY answer any question you may have so please
feel free to join us and ask away. They are a great bunch of folks
here.

Regards,
Tom Randall
www.idsi.net/~trandall/welcome.html


>
>I'm one of the lurkers on your list. I lurk on behalf of my
>collector husband, and pass this and that on to him. In so doing,
>I've learned enough to become interested also.
>
>I had a trip planned to a dry river-bed in the Death Valley area, to
>RaceTrack Playa to those who may be familiar the place. I'd planned
>to take one of those magnetic detectors and no doubt I'd have come
>back with a pile of rubble, 'cause I love picking through rocks.
>Then anything not tossed by husband, what would I do? I'd post a
>pic and my (his) best guess and ask you folks. Who else we gonnna
>ask? The trip was canceled, so the list was spared.
>
>I can sense a new passion in the making and I hate to see it
>possibly squelched by attitude problems amongst the regulars here.
>If you can't say something thing nice, say nothing 'till such
>opportunity arises. Fondle your rocks for a while.
>
>Alana

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