[meteorite-list] Meteorite numbers

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Date: Sat Nov 20 23:15:16 2004
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Mike,

If you got a shippment of meteorites from the Amgala strewnfield , would you
bother to have it classified or just sell it as Amgala ? Regardless of who
had the initial sample classified.

NWA #'s are not proprietary. I know that people such as Adam wishes they
were.

If you get a shippment from Morocco .......... you trust your supplier. This
is something that will always be a problem. All we really can do is trust
the dealer we choose to buy from. Because god knows once the material is in
the hands of a moroccan dealer we really cant be 100% sure where they got it
from , unless we were there to pull it out of the sand ourselves.

Bob E
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Farmer <meteoritehunter_at_comcast.net>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 9:56 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite numbers


> To clarify something that is obviously causing some problems in the
> meteorite world right now, I want everyone to know that
> NWA 788, 787, and NWA 482 are numbers that came from rather large or
> meteorites with hundreds of pieces bought during one of my expeditions.
> The Hupes and many other people have the right to those numbers.
> Now, there are other numbers being widely used without proper title (as Dr
> Grossman has stated publicly and with finality that people do not own
> numbers, but numbers are assigned to specific meteorite specimens and must
> not be used with other meteorites just because you heard or someone told
you
> it is the same).
> Let's all please stop this practice as it is really hurting our business
and
> hobby. Virtually every dealer including myself has been or is guilty of
> this, we are in the process of correcting the situation and to start
people
> MUST immediately comply or this will just spiral downward as we see
tonight.
>
> I perused eBay today and it is still rampant with sellers using numbers
they
> seem to have drawn from a hat. So please ask you seller next time you buy
> something, how they got that number, who it was assigned to and if not
them,
> just how they came to call it that.
> Mike Farmer
>
>
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