[meteorite-list] My Eyes Are Glazing Over- Need "Scorecard"

From: mark ford <markf_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Nov 22 10:53:23 2004
Message-ID: <6CE3EEEFE92F4B4085B0E086B2941B3124485C_at_s-southern01.s-southern.com>

Yes it is confusing!

To me, all it's done is make every single meteorite label in our
collections questionable. - i.e 'a probably rather than an actually'

Clearly there is no way to guarantee authenticity if people sell
unchecked stuff, - yes even if someone in a bar in Morroco said it
originated from a known strewnfield. So as long as everyone appreciates
that then fair enough.

Personally, I say never mind the dealers, the Buyers should get stuff
checked! - I certainly will from now on, all Lunar Martian stuff etc I
buy will gonna be checked over a lot more stringently than usual...


Best

Mark Ford




-----Original Message-----
From: Paul H [mailto:bristolia_at_yahoo.com]
Sent: 22 November 2004 15:26
To: meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
Subject: [meteorite-list] My Eyes Are Glazing Over- Need "Scorecard"

As someone, who is trying to follow this discussion,
my eyes are starting glaze over with NWA 1110 this;
NWA 2223 that; NWA 3133 is mine; NWA 3133 is not
yours; my NWA 1906 is real; your NWA 1906 is fake;
may the real NWA 788, NWA 787, or NWA 482,
please stand up. It is hard to search back through
the innumerable posts, given the lack of a search
engine specifically for the archives, to find out the
details behind each specific number is being talked
about.

At some point, it seems someone needs to provide
a "scorecard" of some sort, if it doesn't already
exist, about what each of these "players" (meteorites)

in the number game are about. It would help the soft
core, uninitiated lurkers better understand what is
 the significance of NWA XXXX versus either
NWA YYYY or NWA YYXX.

As the posts go back and forth about these numbers,
I think of a song to the tune of "This Land is Your
Land" that starts out as "NWA 1110 is My number,
NWA 1110 is not your number from Uranus to Mercury..."
appearing at some point.

Yours,

Paul
Baton Rouge, LA



                
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