[meteorite-list] Collecting Habits

From: Eduardo <rockhoundm_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:33 2004
Message-ID: <200310210756663.SM00207_at_WorldClient>

Hi
I have different collecting areas.
One is a systematic. I try to have different types. This include
varieties (i.e in diogenites a green like Tatahouine and a white like
Bilanga). On this ones I prefer falls but a rare find is OK too.
A second one is a "private" collection which includes specimens from my
country (Argentina), and falls/finds related with my birthday. Of course
this make some pieces to be in 2 or 3 areas, like Acapulco which is in
the systematic collection but also fall in my 13th birthday.
In the two above I prefer end-pieces, if possible with crusted back.
A third one is meteorites with "history". Examples are Morasko (find when
digging in a war), Oued-el-hadjar (broken in a wedding), Winona (found in
stone cist), car smashers, killers, and of course the typical historical
ones like Ensisheim, L'Aigle, Siena (this one still missing in my
collection), etc
Finally the odd collection: I like meteorites with natural holes. I have
A nice Sikhote-Aline (like many collectors have) but also a Nantan, a
Henbury, a Nuevo mercurio individual (from King collection)... and a
Moldavite! If you have a different one for trade let me know. (I don't
collect not natural holes like the iron slices with holes made by missing
troilite inclusion).

Eduardo

 
 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Walter Branch
> To: Meteorite Mailing List
> Sent: 10/20/2003 6:45:42 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Collecting Habits
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
Received on Tue 21 Oct 2003 06:56:44 AM PDT