AW: AW: [meteorite-list] AD: METEORITE CLASSIFICATION SERVICE
From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Jul 12 17:09:36 2006 Message-ID: <017b01c6a5f7$76c624c0$4f41fea9_at_name86d88d87e2> Unfortunately I know only very few, which are interested in meteorites :-) Hehe, there are 35.000 known meteorites. Imagine you would be able to get access to all of them, also to the 25.000 Antarctic ones and all, which are closed away in museums and never were available. Well, if you would suggest to your wealthy client a nice complete collection of all meteorites of the world, let's say in fat 1" x 1" blocks of 10grams each, and you would tell a silly high price of 50$/g. No objection! I know that Mars and Moon and a very few other exotics and a fery few historical falls are paid higher - but what he mainly would get, are weathered ordinary chondrites and who would complain there to get it sold at 50$/g (and with such a buy-off). What would the customer have then to pay for the complete-world-and-history-collection? 17.5 million$. Hmm, I guess, there exist quite a bunch of robber barons mighty enough to pay that fun. Buckleboo! Martin PS: This instrument is always extremely helpful: http://tin.er.usgs.gov/meteor/metbull.php -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: meteorite-list-bounces_at_meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces_at_meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Michael L Blood Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. Juli 2006 22:46 An: Martin Altmann; Meteorite List Betreff: Re: AW: [meteorite-list] AD: METEORITE CLASSIFICATION SERVICE on 7/12/06 1:40 PM, Martin Altmann at altmann_at_meteorite-martin.de wrote: > There are thousands of other > people than Bill Gates, who could afford to clean up the market with a > fingers' click! > Buckleboo! > Martin ------------ Hi Martin, You are undoubtedly right - technically - but I think it does little to dissipate the point I was making. However, please do send me their email addresses so I can put them on my mailing list! Thanks, Michael -- The greater a person's sense of guilt, the greater his or her need to cast blame on others. Anon. -- "Is our children learning?" "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." "More and more of our imports come from overseas." "The very act of spending money can be expensive." George W. Bush ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-listReceived on Wed 12 Jul 2006 05:09:28 PM PDT |
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