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

From: Mike Miller <meteoritefinder_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:07:15 -0700
Message-ID: <468bf6050703160807o7bee1359q65ebfd9dde3ae36d_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hello all, I guess I am a yes and a no. I still have the first
meteorite I ever bought, It was bought from Keith who came to the
place I worked and applied for a job. On his application it said in
his work history "meteorite hunter 10 years" I bought a 385 gram
Canyon Diablo for $100 and it is still in my collection. In fact that
is how my collection started.
I went to Gold Basin to hunt for meteorites, the first day I had a
small zip lock bag about half full of meteorites. They were fairly
ugly to me at the time and I never considered if I should keep the
first one for my self. Later I did collect several Gold basins, but
they have other special characteristics. The biggest, oriented, found
this one twice. But the first one is gone.

On 3/16/07, Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:00:45 +0100, you wrote:
>
> >one important possibility for the veterans of pre-internet times is missing
> >:-)
> >
> >12. Fairs & Shows.
> >
> >I got my first meteorite in 1981 on the Munich show as a boy. A schoolmate's
> >father was paleo-biologist at the Bavarian states collections, so we got
> >free tickets. As I was highly interested in astronomy, I really was
> >wonderstruck, that meteorites weren't locked away in scientists' labs, but
> >that indeed one could buy them!
> >Of course I took one.
> >3 weeks later I was somewhat disappointed, cause I found out, that the stone
> >which was sold to me, was "only" a tektite.
> >Soooo I couldn't await next years' show, there I bought of course a real
> >one! A 50gram individual of Mundrabilla from famous Walter Zeitschel,
> >to whome I send again here my best wishes to hospital!
>
> Out here in the country I never run across meteorites at fairs or shows. In
> fact, in all my life I've seen exactly one meteorite without having actually
> bought it myself over the internet. That was an iron one I saw at a flea market
> as a early teen in the 1980s. It was about fist sized, and even never having
> seen a meteorite "in real life" before it was obvious what it was without even
> asking. At over $100 and with the guy only passing through, though, there was
> no chance of my getting it (if he had stuck around, I'd have done some serious
> allowance saving). I did buy a number of nice tektites (nice ones, even looking
> at the from a more experienced/jaded perspective today) and still have (most) of
> them. Back then, the lunar origin of tektites was still pretty mainstream.
> I've shared a photo of one of them on the list before:
>
> http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/tektite.jpg
>
> Weighs about 40 grams. And, if you are counting impactites, then it pushes my
> "first meteorite" back into the 1980s.
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