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

From: Pekka Savolainen <pekka.savolainen_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Nov 22 14:03:56 2004
Message-ID: <41A23876.2010901_at_dlc.fi>

Well, this is one reason, why some serious collectors don?t
accept NWA:s in their collection.

I?m stil wondering, to be or not to be...;- Anyway, not the
best way to advertise these beauties - to make them as the
easter-eggs.

best pekka s



mark ford wrote:

>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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