[meteorite-list] Looking for hunting success story

From: STARSANDSCOPES at aol.com <STARSANDSCOPES_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 19:50:36 EDT
Message-ID: <d02.fe82b5d.3380e74c_at_aol.com>

Hi Dean and list, This is Tom Phillips the micrograph guy. I have
purchased from Dean close to 200 Kg. over the years. He sure goes through the
quantity of product. I don't think any one would have the time to closely examine
everything he has sold. Good stuff is out there to be found, even in the (or
some times especially in) the Dean Bessey Sunday night extravaganzas.

I still have several left uncut big ones from your "huge" collection you
sold me 4 years ago. Once in a while, I cut an other one. Kind of like popping
the cork on a special bottle.

Two points:

Just because it's unclassified dosen't mean it cant be something good and
there is no such thing as an "Ordinary" chondrite.

In a message dated 5/19/2007 4:26:35 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
deanbessey at yahoo.com writes:
I have done OK with unclassified NWAs. In the catagory
of the worst, most weathered ugly stuff that you ever
see in morocco I once had a 400 gram meteorite on ebay
for $77. Was a likely H chondrite as it had the
magnetic qualities of an H. After not selling it I
figured that it was so ugly that nobody would ever buy
it at any price so I decided to chop it up. A saw
blade gets about a quarter inch into and is totally
worn away. I figure that the blade is old and replace
it - getting another quarter inch before the new blade
is shot. So now I figure something is strange here.
After banging the half inch or so off with an hammer I
see an obvious ureilite and I get over $5000 for
something I would have been happy getting $77 for a
few hours earlier.
I also found the worlds only EL3 outside antarctica (I
think another has been found since) and a CO3 cutting
what I thought would be an LL.
There are others but these stand out in my memory this
morning. I think I found a new EH5 or 6 a couple
weeks ago randomly cutting what I thought would be an
H but I dont know for sure yet.
Cheers
DEAN
http://www.meteoriteshop.com




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Received on Sat 19 May 2007 07:50:36 PM PDT