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

From: Alexander Seidel <gsac_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:11:02 +0100
Message-ID: <20070223181102.197530_at_gmx.net>

Hi Bob,

thanks for your nice words, yes we?ve known each other
from the list for almost a decade now...

> 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.

This is true. I did not have this in mind when I wrote
"never ever", but rather thought of some disturbing cut.
It could be done on the quite unspectacular backside
of the stone. Do you know why Bob Haag doesn?t want
this to be done? Perhaps this may have to do with the
ongoing Holbrook discussion in a way...

Best wishes,
Alex
Berlin/Germany


> 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.
>
> ------------------------------
> 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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>
>
Received on Fri 23 Feb 2007 01:11:02 PM PST