[meteorite-list] Meteorite Histories

From: Pierre-Marie PELE <pierre.pele_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Sep 14 09:58:54 2004
Message-ID: <15889837.1095170331273.JavaMail.www_at_wwinf4004>

This is a great idea which could help keeping tracks for successive owners.

But to keep a certain independance, there could be a website (with login access) where successive owners of a certain piece could register their ownership.

CONCEPT
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Here's a complete example (fictionous) :
1. A meteorite hunter finds an Allende individual. He wishes to sell it.
2. This meteorite hunter goes on the website, enters its login/password and creates a file (for example with the ID ALLENDE025). This ID will follow the meteorite from owner to another owner. The file is full with size, weight, presentation (individual, slice, fragment...), picture if any, ...
3. I wish to buy the Allende025 meteorite to the owner. I update the file Allende025 by changing the name of the previous owner and by replacing it with my name. Of course, the previous owner name would be kept for tracking.
4. And the same if I buy the meteorite to a 3rd owner...

This database could be validated by IMCA.

MY PROPOSAL
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As a meteorite collector and website creator, I'm able to build such a site. That's a long work but it could be useful for anyone.
I could manage this list, with the acceptance of IMCA authority (I'm an IMCA member also).

COST OF WEB HOSTING
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The cost of website hosting (ASP server, 200Mb, fast server, 20Gb transfer volume a month, 5 Access databases) is US$1200 a year with domain name. Anyone wishing to be a member should pay for the service or the hosting could be paid by advertising.



Let me know what you think of all this !

Pierre-Marie PELE
www.meteor-center.com
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Received on Tue 14 Sep 2004 09:58:51 AM PDT