[meteorite-list] Larry's Holbrook Holy Grail Find and Bob Haag's Venus Stone

From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:42:22 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <246473.38165.qm_at_web51705.mail.yahoo.com>

Hello Alex and All,

Well, Alex, it is almost 10 years now that we have
been exchanging email and posting to this List, and
over that entire time I have considered you my am
besten freund. And as the saying goes, "the more time
goes by, the less things change".

And so, I can see that we are still in disagreement
about cutting meteorites. In fact, when you just
wrote:
"NEVER EVER cut specimen like these just for the sake
of getting some classification data", I am more in
disagreement with your statement than ever before.

For one thing, over the past few years there have been
advancements in stone cutting and sampling. One
method with uses a long, but small diameter, diamond
coring device can extract enough groundmass to make a
classification, but barely leave a mark on the
specimen.

Admittedly this wouldn't be enough sample material to
qualify for a type specimen, but with regards to this
subject "Venus Stone", at least it can be classified
and then we could finally put to rest this rumor that
this stone and the Holbrook fall are related.

Now, how I came to know this, will have to wait until
my next post.

Guten morgen mein Freund,
Bob V.

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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:34:30 +0100
From: "Alexander Seidel" <gsac at gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Larry's Holbrook Holy
Grail Find and Bob Haag's Venus Stone

++++++++++++

This is one very special nice example of a
flight-oriented meteorite, where the rule applies:
NEVER EVER cut specimen like these just for the sake
of getting some classification data! Why? Because a
cut would destroy the "character" of the piece!

And so we don?t know what?s inside this beautiful
meteorite, we can only make some assumptions from
non-destructive observation.

Alex
Berlin/Germany
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