[meteorite-list] Question: Just How ...?

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:29:20 -0500
Message-ID: <gs6kv2t2a8v07trbqtcs98bmvit67sg5n6_at_4ax.com>

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:33:54 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

> The question is: How did you "find out" that it was
>possible to actually BUY a meteorite!?

Ebay. I had been buying fossils on Ebay for years and, one day, started
wondering what other weird things were sold on there. Meteorites popped into my
head, and I looked and found them. I thought that my first meteorite purchases
were in 2002, and the purchases start showing up there-- heres the SECOND one:

To: cynapse at greenville.infi.net
Subject: Good news! Zag Meteorite, Unusal H3-6 Regolith Breccia (Item
#2133904892) ended successfully!
From: endofauction at ebay.com
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 20:32:17 PDT

Congratulations darren_garrison!

The following eBay item was purchased instantly using Buy It Now.

Item Name: Zag Meteorite, Unusal H3-6 Regolith Breccia
Item Number: #2133904892
Item Price: $5.99
Quantity: 1





But then again, the first one that shows up in my archives is from 1998--

To: cynapse at greenville.infi.net
Subject: henbury meteorite
From: Michael Farmer <farmerm at concentric.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 06:55:38 -0700

You have won the 3.5 gram henbury meteorite on ebay. The total with
shipping is $10.99. Please email me your address. Please send check or
money order to me at




But I don't remember buying anything that far back-- I still have that Henbury
(shale) piece, but I must have bought it as a "one off" weird item and didn't
think about it again until 2002. Unless the e-mail was dated incorrectly?
Mike, were you selling meteorites on Ebay in 1998?
Received on Fri 16 Mar 2007 12:29:20 AM PDT