[meteorite-list] Ourique

From: Martin Altmann <Altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Nov 11 17:16:00 2005
Message-ID: <004101c5e70f$3d60b1c0$904d9a54_at_9y6y40j>

I have to correct myself, I looked in my old lists and Matteo is right,
Mike's price was 10$/g when he brought it to market.

Anyway, that 14.3$ I ask now, is justifiable, as it's nothing new, that
European falls tend to be very expensive, especially if they have a mere tkw
and if the material is sold out, the prices later will be higher.
Here the golden rule, that directly after the fall a meteorite is first
expensive, then drops in price and after a while is raising again, doesn't
fit,
as Mike was quite the only person to spread material.
So freely I recommend urgently to the observed-falls-collector, who don't
has Ourique yet, but for whom my specimen is to large dimensionated to pick
up Mike's last specimens (those with crust!) from his homepage:
http://www.meteoriteguy.com/catalog/ourique.htm

Hmmm Grandpa Bernd, may you ask your children to adopt me? I could curate
and enlarge your collection........

Martin

----- Original Message -----
From: <bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de>
To: <Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 11:01 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Ourique


> Mike Farmer wrote:
>
> > I have no Ourique left, only tiny ebay fragments I found in the crater,
all rusty.
>
> Bucklebee, Rabimmel, Meow Martin wrote:
>
> > if they are gone, they are gone ...
>
> "Gone with the Wind" said the owner of 16.66 grams of Ourique that I
purchased from
> Mike Farmer back in 1999. It is a brecciated partslice with plenty of NiFe
and a big,
> squarish lighter clast measuring 2 x 2.5 cm. I also call a rectangular
thin section
> with numerous light-colored chondrules my own.
>
> Believe it or not, my elder grandson Fabian (6 years young) also owns a
fresh (!)
> piece of Ourique that he got from Mike back in 1999 a few days after his
birth.
> Mike then wrote:
>
> "I'll send an extra fragment of Ourique for you to give him when he is old
enough."
>
> This has become Fabian's "good luck charm" and may also be the first
meteorite of
> a budding meteorite collector ... who knows. His grandpa will one day
leave behind
> a collection that needs to be curated and continued ;-)
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Bernd
>
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