[meteorite-list] Howardite Blow Out - what a shame

From: Christian Anger <christian.anger_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Sep 23 13:31:30 2004
Message-ID: <20040923173128.630D48D982_at_six.pairlist.net>

Yeaaahhh,

now the things that I have been awaiting (since the last year) is going to
be reality.

Market slows down and the QUIET RESERVES are opening.

Many, many, many collectors have been faked with "low TKW" of most of the
rare classification meteorites from NWA. As I posted to the list some months
ago regarding the famous "olivine diogenites" that were showing up the last
year and still are showing up.

How strange that one olivine diogenite followed the other in short time
periods ( or howardites like NWA 1929 or twisted sisters etc...............)

Or mesosiderites - regarding to an abstract of the MAPS Supplement 2004
August "Two large mesosiderites : NWA 1817/1878/1979/2042 and NWA
1827/1879/1882/1912/1951/1982/3055" by Wittke, Bunch , Irving and Kuehner.

How many scientific resources have been misused to classify one and the same
meteorite 4 or up to 7 times !!! What a waste of public money. What a waste
of time for scientists.

Now most of the collectors noticed what happened the last years and like me,
they feel faked. I am waiting for the next "rare meteorites" that will show
up in near future - maybe a bulk of desert lodranites, brachinites,
shergottites or something else "sensational new materials".
I am wondering about there's now new NWA 011 like meteorite ?
Come on, open your stocks and let us know how much of each "rare one" does
really exist.

My advice to new collectors: Don't buy fast - have patience - a year or
more. You can get everything for a fraction of the original price.
Check out Michael Blood's Market Trends and watch the common times.

Cheers to Martin Altmann (hope to meet you again in Munich) and many other
collecting friends which made the same experiences in the last year.

Awaiting Munich and guessing how much kilos of all the "rarities" are
showing up there,

Christian
 


IMCA #2673
www.austromet.com
 
Christian Anger
Korngasse 6
2405 Bad Deutsch-Altenburg
AUSTRIA
 
email: christian.anger_at_aon.at
-----Original Message-----
From: meteorite-list-bounces_at_meteoritecentral.com
[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces_at_meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Martin
Altmann
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 5:35 PM
To: Michael Farmer; meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Sale - Howardite Blow Out

It's easy to handle.
First we open a new numbers series and call the NWA "BMA" - Bought Meteorite
of Africa.
Second the Hupes, you, Matteo, Bessey and other twisted sisters organize a
foundation together with the IMCA, asking from each seller, who dares to
sell such a desert baby, a sample for the thin section and 5% from the
selling price
and with this funds there will be 2 or 3 poor mineralogists employed, for
doing nothing else than to find out the pairings
and voila in 30 years those Humpty-Dumptys are all set together again,
ready to recieve their NWA number.

Again prosit!
Martin



----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Farmer" <meteoritehunter_at_comcast.net>
To: "Bernhard "Rendelius" Rems" <rendelius_at_rpgdot.com>
Cc: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Sale - Howardite Blow Out


> Bernhard, don't do that. I also have felt that way, but love for the
> meteorites themselves keeps me sane. Unfortunately all the travel I do
costs
> a small fortune, so selling keeps me and my family alive, while building
my
> collection.
> This is simply an issue that needs some sort of fixing. I don't really
know
> how to do it. I
> Mike Farmer

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