[meteorite-list] Meteorite talk in tucson

From: joseph_town_at_att.net <joseph_town_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 21 18:24:13 2005
Message-ID: <042120052224.12230.4268281F00092A5700002FC621603831160299019BA1089F0A9C0106_at_att.net>

Geese Michael. Are you casing the joint or what?

Bill


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Michael L Blood <mlblood_at_cox.net>
> Hi Alexander & all,
> Every major collection owner I know has specifically asked me to
> keep my knowledge of their collection sub rosa. There is an over riding
> and single reason for this: they fear the possibility of robbery.
> The single exception is Bob Haag, who's collection is in a room
> built into a giant rock with a bank vault door out of the movies. It would
> take THE ITALIAN JOB type force headed by Bruce Willis, Edward
> Norton & Robert Deniro to break in. So, he has little to fear other
> than another K-T event. Most others do not have quite as much security,
> though I have seen some that would present overwhelming difficulties
> to any would be burgler. In any event, they prefer a degree of anonymity -
> at least limited to showing their collections to people they know.
> Of course, even there, there is a risk, as a magician demonstrated
> to Bob Haag once why he needs video cameras running at all times
> when anyone is in his collection room. (Those who have seen
> ROUNDERS are familiar with the phenomenal abilities possessed by
> someone with highly developed slight of hand skills). So, now he not
> only has perhaps the greatest secure room in the meteorite collecting
> world, but also has video tapes of the entire room any time anyone
> enters. Few, if any, institutions are so secure.
> Best wishes, Michael
>
> on 4/21/05 11:08 AM, Alexander Seidel at gsac_at_gmx.net wrote:
>
> > Who of the *r e a l* high rollers regarding privately owned meteorites in
> > this world will fully and publicly tell you quantities or qualities, for
> > reasons whatever...?? I mean there are definitely quite a bunch of
> > collectors around with collections truly deserving an adjective like
> > "giant". Some of them are shy and wonīt talk about it at all, some of them
> > are modest and wonīt talk about it too much in the public, others raise
> > their voice much too loudly, some may know this list, some not....
> >
> > "The largest in the world", sort of a "world-record-collector", makes no
> > sense in this respect. And it definitely is not only a play of numbers, but
> > instead much more adds to a qualification which may come close to what you
> > are musing about.
> >
> > P.S.: to me (subjectively, of course) Bob Haag still is the ultimate
> > collector and undisputed highest of all the living high rollers which I know
> > of in this field. This has not only to do with his enormous collection
> > figured in numbers but what he eventually *d i d* as a frontierman
> > especially in the (non-internet-)years when many of us even did not even
> > know how to spell the m-word. He obviously is not on this list, as he
> > probably doesnīt care for this kind of communication, whatever is going on
> > here every now and then. On the other hand there are lots and lots of other
> > high rollers, but then again numbers alone donīt count...
> >
> > Alex
> > Berlin/Germany
> >
> >> What determines the "largest in the world". Number of pieces, quality,
> >> rare? I wanna know since this title gets tossed around ALOT.
> >>
> >> ===============
> >> Matt Morgan
> >> Mile High Meteorites
> >> P.O. Box 151293
> >> Lakewood, CO 80215 USA
> >> http://www.mhmeteorites.com
> >> ebay id: mhmeteorites
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> DNAndrews wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hmmm....I had no idea that Marvin had the largest private meteorite
> >>> collection in the world. Learn something new everyday.
> >>> Also, I hope the Flandreau gives proper credit to John Blennert for
> >>> all the "freebies" he has donated to them over the years.
> >>> Sounds like a nice event indeed. Thanks for sharing Eric.
> >>> Dave
> >>>
> >>> star-bits_at_comcast.net wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> FYI for those in the Tucson area.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> > <http://uanews.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/UANews.woa/wa/MainStoryDetails?ArticleID
> > =10995>
> >
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Eric Olson
> >>>> ELKK Meteorites
> >>>> http://www.star-bits.com
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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