[meteorite-list] Meteorite numbers

From: Michael Farmer <meteoritehunter_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Nov 20 23:36:00 2004
Message-ID: <00a501c4cf83$a14ed4e0$0200a8c0_at_S0031628003>

Bob and all, that is why I dont take shipments any more
I got a few, but the only way to buy is boots on the ground, this 33 trips
completed to Morocco.
Mike Farmer

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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite numbers


> 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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