[meteorite-list] ID cards

From: mark ford <markf_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:52:57 -0000
Message-ID: <6CE3EEEFE92F4B4085B0E086B2941B316581C1_at_s-southern01.s-southern.com>

Not sure it needs to be anywhere near that complicated!! a standard piece of paper with where it is from, and what it is, not too difficult really??, I get that when I buy a car?

  I doubt the majority of meteorites are sold/exchanged any more than 3 or 4 times before they are in someone's cabinet for good.

There is nothing to control?, no central institution. it's just a piece of paper with a history of the piece, where people can add their own comments/name to the list on the card and when they sell it they pass it on, (or if its cut, then it is photocopied and the new details written on for the new piece....

Either that or we all agree an industry standard set of things to put on a card, so that everyone's card has the same basic information on it, because at the moment I get cards with rocks that don't even tell you the weight?!!

Mark





-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Altmann [mailto:altmann at meteorite-martin.de]
Sent: 16 November 2006 15:53
To: mark ford; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Subject: AW: [meteorite-list] ID cards

Hmm, I understand,

most professional dealers will add that kind of information, simply because
it makes a piece more covetable.

But to maintain a superordinate comprehensive system, which would allow to
trace back each specimen from the 20kg chunk to the entropical speck,
isn't workable without compulsion.

First one would need a central institution, who would record each cutting
process and the results, those who pledge themselves to that system, would
have to work with highiest discipline.
Imagine a piece is going through 8 different hands, each time portionated
into smaller sevings.

PF 14.25.7.3.1.2.4.1141
(figure on last place was falling the hammer for the specks...).

Who could this control? IMCA?
They would have to print and distribute blank forms, numbered for the case,
that some would have to be barred, if a abuse appears.
Uuh and remember already now some people complaining about the horrible
yearly fee.

And you would have to buy a lot more from Chladni's Heirs, for them being
able to employ a secretary for the paperwork gotten out of hand.

Martin Buckleboo


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ford
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True but I was thinking more about a 'traceable route' than just a glorified
label, things like TKW, even classification can change over a meteorites
life ... but information like 'I sprayed VCI all over it', 'ex nininger',
'part of the piece that smashed up a house' all this information is
important stuff, especially if it was ever studied scientifically.

 You can of course just collect 'space rocks', but many of us collect
historic meteorites too !! I am concerned that we are not leaving much
historical stuff for future generations.

 How many pieces of the Garza stone are now sitting in plastic boxes with a
label saying 'Park Forest'?? What about the story behind it or the fact that
it never touched the ground or got wet in the rain?

I could go on a million times but I will leave it at that.
Mark
Received on Thu 16 Nov 2006 11:52:57 AM PST