AW: [meteorite-list] Collections in MetBase

From: Jörn Koblitz <koblitz_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Mar 9 04:28:11 2006
Message-ID: <492FFD0696089A4CB72BDBDCB2FC1A14029C7A_at_server2000>

Hello Mike,

You are welcome to send me your collection details. There is no firm criteria as to whether a collection is included in MetBase or not. Naturally, private collections are by far more "dynamic" than institutional. This often causes problems to keep the information up-to-date. I usually don't consider meteorites with total specimen weight less than 1 grams, except for very rare types or low TKWs. Less than 20% of all (700+) collections listed in MetBase are private. This is not surprising, since many private collectors don't publish catalogs or inventory lists or at least don't want to have their collection data disclosed. Further, public repositories holding just a single meteorite (the main mass) are always named in the Meteoritical Bulletins (a prime source of information), whereas private possessors are often undisclosed.

Best regards,

J?rn Koblitz
MetBase editor




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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
>
>
>
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