[meteorite-list] What are the latest Iron Falls?
From: Alexander Seidel <gsac_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Mar 21 13:24:55 2005 Message-ID: <8841.1110586878_at_www8.gmx.net> > ... as irons are more eye-catching than stony meteorites Isn?t it all in the eyes of the beholder? > A layman, who wishes to own a single object from space always > an iron, as a stone meteorite does look to him/her, well not very > intriguing, just like a "stone", but with an iron, one easily can see, > that it must be smth uncommon. A few years ago I used to help a well-known European distributor of meteorites at the Hamburg mineral (.. and, on a very much smaller scale, meteorites) show. Two days of observing walking-by-people, who were having a closer look, as they seemed to be interested in the offers displayed at the booth, showed me they were interested in the optically appealing specimens only, namely the Gibeon irons and spheres and eggs displayed, and not so much in the other, more rare stuff there, including some real goodies on the stony side. They preferred to buy a small-budget Gibeon as their first meteorite, but what is wrong with this? All the rest of it is nothing but EDUCATION, isn?t it, and for the sake of just that there are quite a few very good books around at the meantime (hi out there, Kevin Kichinka, and Richard and Dorothy Norton!) Alex Berlin/Stade, Germany Received on Fri 11 Mar 2005 07:21:18 PM PST |
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