[meteorite-list] meteorite coins and other ridiculous wastes oftime

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:31:36 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <52870.35150.qm_at_web33101.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

My god Armando,
We are not talking about Mars rock here, we are
talking about Campo del Cielo, a meteorite with
HUNDREDS, actually THOUSANDS of TONS of material. Now,
I do not break up Campo to make the coins, I buy the
shredded and tumbled scraps from people who do cut
them up, they are the large crystals which actually
fall apart when the meteorite is cut/smashed apart.
They are pretty much useless since most weigh 1 gram
or less. So I found a unique usage for them, and
people can enjoy a tiny piece of meteorite with
information on the coin, rather than in a plastic
baggie.
Give me a break Armando, this is getting old, grow up
and if you do not like what I am doing, keep it to
yourself, or buy up all the Campo on the market.
Michael Farmer
--- Armando Afonso <armandoafonso at oniduo.pt> wrote:

> Sorry Mike.
> I am back OK, but in compensation, you are here all
> the time.
> I forget all the time how sensitive you are...
> Yes, it is ridiculous to make coins, frogs and
> Mickey mouses from
> meteorites.
> This materials deserve a bit more respect than that.
> Ridiculous too, is to reduce interesting meteorites
> to dust, only to be
> abble of selling them (in little bags of 1mg) to
> children. A piece of Mars,
> wow!
> I dont think that this is a service to science.
> To collect this things is acceptable, but the
> specimen value should be
> preserved.
> This are rocks, so the texture and structural
> features should be visible in
> the smallest specimens, or their pedagogic value is
> reduced to zero.
> The chemical composition should be preserved.
> Engine oil, acrylic resin substituting olivine do
> not comply with my
> definition of cosmic material.
> If the concern is the conservation of the
> meteorites, they should be
> de-hidrated and stored in inert gases, maybe in nice
> glass containers, why
> not?
> Please excuse me again.
> Warm regards.
> AA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Farmer" <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com>
> To: "Armando Afonso" <armandoafonso at oniduo.pt>;
> "Martin Altmann"
> <altmann at meteorite-martin.de>; "'Thaddeus Besedin'"
> <endophasy at yahoo.com>;
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 3:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite coins and
> other ridiculous wastes
> oftime
>
>
> > Armando is back, I knew it would not take long for
> him
> > to start calling people names again.
> > Michael Farmer
> > --- Armando Afonso <armandoafonso at oniduo.pt>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Martin.
> >> You are nearly to be erradicated from the list,
> >> acused of beeing a
> >> comunist...
> >> Each time I spoke against this and others
> >> "scientific" uses of meteorites I
> >> was insulted by the pirates.
> >> I warned you.
> >> AA
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Martin Altmann"
> <altmann at meteorite-martin.de>
> >> To: "'Thaddeus Besedin'" <endophasy at yahoo.com>;
> >> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> >> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 11:44 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite coins and
> >> other ridiculous wastes
> >> oftime
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Thaddeus,
> >>
> >> what are your suggestions to improve those
> >> circumstances?
> >>
> >> For me personally, it would be interesting, how
> many
> >> of the list members
> >> opine, that meteorites shouldn't be objects of
> >> commerce.
> >>
> >> Can somebody set up a poll?
> >>
> >> Martin
> >>
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> >> Im Auftrag von Thaddeus
> >> Besedin
> >> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 29. M?rz 2007 07:38
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> >> Betreff: [meteorite-list] meteorite coins and
> other
> >> ridiculous wastes of
> >> time
> >>
> >> List,
> >> Do we need Franklin Mint-esque coins to hype the
> >> insuperable wonder of
> >> actual meteoritic material free of made-to-order
> >> home shopping network (no
> >> trademark) gimmick?
> >> These rank amongst the greatest achievements of
> Mike
> >> Farmer, capitalist of
> >> little self-control and imagination. Give us
> rocks,
> >> and that's it: you sell
> >> rocks. Collectors can become humorously obsessive
> >> when all reference to our
> >> target interests are accepted. Coins will
> distract
> >> from oxidation,
> >> reduction, recrystallization, and chondrules.
> >> -Thaddeus Besedin
> >>
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