[meteorite-list] Collecting Habits

From: tracy latimer <daistiho_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:33 2004
Message-ID: <Sea2-F44HexWvR1aDeA000049fb_at_hotmail.com>

Because of space considerations, my collecting habits are simple: micros.
Most of my collection is under 5g each, and I cannot scorn Bessey Specks,
because for many types (notably SNC and lunar) they are all I can afford.
If possible, I like individuals, but otherwise my goal is simply as many
different meteorites as I can, space and price considered. I have a lovely
pinky-nail sized Esquel, gotten from Mike F. years ago, that, to me, is the
classic micro for the type: equal parts bright green peridot crystal and
clean metal.

Tracy Latimer


>From: "Walter Branch" <branchw_at_bellsouth.net>
>To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
>Subject: [meteorite-list] Collecting Habits
>Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 18:30:06 -0400
>
>Hello Everyone,
>
>I have been thinking of the different ways to collect meteorites (e.g.,
>type, class, location, etc.) and I was wondering if anyone would care to
>describe their collecting specialties or subspecialties. The reason I ask
>is because I have gotten interested in a sort of unusual specialty area -
>the find or fall consisting of a single specimen. TKW is not an issue as
>it would be paired with no other specimen.
>
>An image comes to my mind of a single, lonely meteorite, a common
>chondrite, out on the plains of the midwest US (for example) sitting there
>for hundreds if not thousands of years, just waiting to be found by anyone.
> Maybe it was looked and wondered about scores of times by many a passerby
>or maybe just ignored.
>
>Anyone else have this interest? I would be interested in hearing about
>others collecting interests.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>-Walter
>------------------------------------------
>www.branchmeteorites.com
>Walter Branch, Ph.D.
>Branch Meteorites
>PO Box 60492
>Savannah, GA 31420
>
>

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