[meteorite-list] Collections in MetBase

From: Mike Fowler <mqfowler_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Mar 8 19:13:03 2006
Message-ID: <CE859AB9-6738-44FD-A232-1522B0267E66_at_mac.com>

Alex,

Thanks for taking the time to post re my question. I realize that I
could have emailed Joern Koblitz myself for the answer, but I figured
there would be many besides myself who would probably be curious to
know the answer.

Mike


> > In February David Weir wrote about the MetBase Library and how his
>
> > collection is included in it.
> > I was wondering how many private collections are included in MetBase
> > and how big it has to be, to be included?
>
>
> The person to answer this with more competence than me is the author
> of MetBase himself, Joern Koblitz (koblitz at microfab.de). He
> probably
> is a member of this list and will let you know all the facts in more
> detail than I can do here.
>
> But for the sake of a quick late night (local time) answer from
> Europe: there is no lower limit for a private collection to be
> included, in fact there are many "collections" with only 1 meteorite
> in "them" :-). Then again, in my last version of the program I count
> 236 entries with 10 or more meteorites in the collection, and a new
> version seems to be at the doorstep. Joern will add to this, when
> he reads it.
>
> As I said in one of my earlier mails, these private collection data
> represent nothing but a snapshot in space and time, which is obvious
> since we live in an ever changing world - and collector X?s collection
> data provided for publication in say 2002 will most probably have
> changed by now. But nonetheless you will at least have sort of a good
> overview here, and postal addresses of the collectors are included,
> which is a value by itself.
>
> > What are the criteria for being included, and how do you get a
> > collection included?
>
> Just contact Joern at koblitz at microfab.de, and (afaik) sending your
> collection summary (meteorite names and weights) will be all that is
> needed to get an entry with the next update.
>
> Alex
> Berlin/Germany
>
>
>
Received on Wed 08 Mar 2006 07:12:54 PM PST