[meteorite-list] Conservation of Meteorites]

From: Lars Pedersen <lbp_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:31:25 2004
Message-ID: <000901c3f919$0ad9a440$815ea150_at_starg>

>Even private land meteorites in Canada are not the
> propert owners to own, in the name of conservation......

Same thing here in Denmark.

If I found a meteorite in my garden, I could not keep it.
It belong to the state, and must be turned over to the geological museum in
Cobenhagen.

Same goes for rare kinds of fosils.

I guess that in some way it is good ... but as a collector I would like more
flexible rules.

Best wishes
Lars Pedersen

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Freeman" <dfreeman_at_fascination.com>
To: "meteorite-list" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 7:02 AM
Subject: [Fwd: Re: [meteorite-list] Conservation of Meteorites]


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> Conservation as in lock them up for science? Yes, the Canadian
> government is very active....just ask a few list members...how do we
> spell "Tagish Lake"? For you new met. list members, Tagish Lake landed
> on a frozen lake and by the time acadamia got their act together, the
> lake had thawed and the majority of meteorites went to the bottom. Some
> conservation act there. The Canadien Government won a "Harvey Award"
> a year ago in Tucson for this bungle. Canada already is heavily into the
> conservation mode. Even private land meteorites in Canada are not the
> propert owners to own, in the name of conservation......
> Bar code all of our private specimens! Makes it easier for the meteorite
> police to locate them. I personally see the term "conservation" as
> very threatening....What I find, I offer my part (10%) as type specimen
> deposit for science but do not think science should control meteorites
> as they have the public land vertibrate fossils. Sort of borders on
> communism to my way of thinking.
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> Just my opinion, I think that term "conservation" has a very negative
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> collecting~free~enterprize~let~conservation~collect~its~own. The
> Smithsonian is turning away common H and L's now anyways I have heard.
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> > As a slight digression from a post on the "aims of the IMCA,"
> > I'd like to initiate some discussion on meteorite conservation.
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> > I used to be a museum director/curator and conservator of
> > "conventional" archaeological and ethnographic items.
> > I know there has been some discussion on meteorite "conservation" and
> > I wonder if anyone is gathering this information in one place?
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> > I may go down to the Getty Conservation Institute and see what they
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> > I know the Canadian Conservation Institute is quite active.
> > But I don't think either of them have addressed the conservation of
> > meteorites, at least not yet!
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> > Perhaps I should start an information page on the subject.
> > What I would like to see are scientific papers on the pros and cons of
> > various techniques.
> > Especially important would be comparative tests of different techniques.
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> > If anyone could forward citations on any relevant published papers, I
> > would be pleased to put them on the Web.
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> > Best wishes,
> > Nick
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