[meteorite-list] My Top 10 of classic meteorites for Beginners

From: Tom aka James Knudson <knudson911_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:17:40 2004
Message-ID: <003101c3bda3$6daed880$74cc43d8_at_malcolm>

Martin, I feel like you forgot one! My most valued meteorite of all, the
only one that will never leave my collection is my 7 gram Gold Basin! The
GB is my first find and means more to my than all the rest!
Thanks, Tom
Peregrineflier <><
Yea, that's right,
The proudest member of the IMCA # 6168
----- Original Message -----
From: Martin Altmann <Altmann_at_Meteorite-Martin.de>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 7:56 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] My Top 10 of classic meteorites for Beginners


> Hi - here's my Beginner's Top Ten,
>
> because I'm sometimes asked, which meteorites would be suitable for the
> beginning collector.
>
> 1. Mundrabilla (etched)
> 2. Juancheng
> 3. Sikhote-Alin
> 4. Allende
> 5. Millbillillie
> 6. A big unclassified NWA
> 7. DaG 735
> 8. A meteorite from your home country
> 9. Vaca Muerta
> 10. Dho 461
>
> Remarks:
> 1. Mundrabilla with a proper etching is one of the most beautiful iron
> meteorites. The lamellae are short and the fields small , thus already on
> small surfaces there are a lot of details and the pattern visible
(Neumanns,
> Troilit eyes, sometimes barred..).
> If you don't find an etched Mundrabilla, take a Gibeon, but take care,
that
> the Widmannstättern are not faible.
>
> 2. Juancheng
> It's an obseved fall, cheap and much fresher than the Gao-Guenies. Perfect
> Peas like Pultusk.
> Cut, it's one of the best breccias, which you will find for the money.
>
> 3. Sikhote, of course. A famous fall, well available. Choose an entire
> specimen with good regmaglypts (no shrapnel) and try to get a "blue" one
> with real fusion crust.
> It's the largest iron shower in modern times and the single one which
> produced such an immense number of complete, regmaglypted fresh
individuals.
> No similar iron is available at a comparable low price.
>
> 4. Allende.
> one of the cheapest CV3. Covers the corbonaceous group. Contains the
> oldest known minerals of the solar system. Observed fall. Take care not to
> buy a brownish weathered specimen, choose a cut specimen with those large
> witish, irregular shaped inclusions, called CAIs.
>
> 5. For the HED-Group Achondrites Millbillillie is ideal, it's fresh, a
> classic locality and not more expensive than most of the weathered desert
> eucrites. Take a fullslice or an endcut. Pay not more than 15/g at a
dealer
> or try to get it cheaper from ebay.
>
> 6. Now you'll need a real big specimen for putting on the desk, for
> impressing your friends, for playing and for satisfying your haptic
desires.
> Take an unclassified desert find from ebay, don't pay more than 80-120/kg,
> except it is a fresh crusted or oriented one. Criteria for the choice:
You
> just have to like it and it has to be LARGE!
>
> 7. All beginners want to have a piece from Moon or Mars!
> DaG 735 is fresher than DaG 476, both are the cheapest SNCs. Normal
> price on ebay would be +/- 250$/g nowadays. Beware of those enthusiasts,
who
> still have them on their pages at prices from years ago of 1200/g and up.
>
> 8. All collectors will feel after a while, that they urgently need a
> meteorite found as near as possible to their homes. Search the BMH-online
> database to find the finds&falls of your home county and then: happy
> hunting!
>
> 9. Vaca Muerta is by far the cheapest Mesosiderite. Cheaper than all
rusty,
> crusty desert Mesos.
> Take a cut specimen, it should be as fresh as possible (take a look if
> it has much fresh metal) and choose that one, which has the largest
variety
> of inclusions. Pay not more than 2 - 2.5$/g.
> If it should be a Pallasite: Brenham and Brahin are by far the cheapest,
but
> problematic concerning rust. Choose a sealed slice (and this is still no
> guarantee, that it will remain stable!). Take a Brahin from ebay and don't
> pay more than 2$/g.
> More expensive, but aesthetic and good boys, are Imilac and Esquel. Very
> stable without any prevention. Translucent slices of Imilac (forget the
> individuals of Imilac, mostly they are skeletons without olivines) starts
> approx. at 15/g, but are more difficult to find than Esquel.
>
> 10. See 7. Why Dho 461? Because some fools recently got hysteric about a
> little oscillation of the Moon prices and didn't get it yet, that the
prices
> are now again the same as before this short period, so that they still
throw
> away their Dho 461 at 500$/g, which is a somewhat silly cheap price, hehe.
>
> Keep your fingers away from Nantan, Campo del Cielo, Dronino - they are
dirt
> cheap, but often rust like hell, so that it's no fun at the beginning and
> they will stay cheap until you are more experienced.
>
> Any comments?
> Martin A.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "mark ford" <markf_at_ssl.gb.com>
> To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 12:35 PM
> Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] My Top 10 of classic meteorites
>
>
>
>
> Here's my top ten
>
> 1 Allende
> 2 Allende
> 3 Allende
> 4 Allende
> 5 Allende
> 6 Allende
> 7 Allende
> 8 Allende
> 9 Allende
> 10 Allende
>
> But hey I'm not fussy.
>
> :)
>
>
>
>
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