[meteorite-list] Meteorite Histories

From: tracy latimer <daistiho_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Sep 14 15:15:10 2004
Message-ID: <BAY22-F16x3Vp20N39x0007fce1_at_hotmail.com>

Amen regarding the removal of curating numbers from meteorite specimens.
For many collectors and dealers, having a specimen from the Monnig
collection or other famous institution is an important part of their
meteorite's history. The outcry would be huge if it were found that those
same institutions were quietly sanding off specimen numbers from fossils so
that less well preserved specimens could be traded up for newer better ones.
  All the secrecy smacks of some type of academic skulduggery, and could
backfire. Keep it all in the open, I say.

Tracy Latimer

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Received on Tue 14 Sep 2004 03:03:45 PM PDT