[meteorite-list] WG: meteorites not being able to

From: Armando Afonso <armandoafonso_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:08:52 +0100
Message-ID: <001f01c89f3c$f70f0530$0301a8c0_at_TOSHIBA>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Armando Afonso" <armandoafonso at oniduo.pt>
To: <valparint at aol.com>; <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] WG: meteorites not being able to


> If I understood well, the right thing to do with a new meteorite is to
> sell it in ebay!
> I prefer to say that a standard protocole must urgently be implemented by
> the authorities of each country, with the objective of properly mapping
> the strewfield, collecting and preserve all the material for serious
> scientific studies.
> I hate to see little turtles and coins made of meteorites, for sale.
> AA
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <valparint at aol.com>
> To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 5:10 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] WG: meteorites not being able to
>
>
>> We need only look to Peru to understand the expertise and efficiency that
>> governments can bring to bear in order to secure critical scientific
>> data.
>> The carpetbaggers that plundered the site of the recent fall merely
>> recorded locations, masses, eyewitness accounts, and such like. They did
>> absolutely nothing to secure the all-important mud hole! Maybe they are
>> not all bad, though. They did donate specimens to scientists that had
>> real
>> microscopes and ion probes and what not.
>>
>> Concerning the "unknown they are losing", is that the known-unknown or
>> the
>> unknown-unknown?
>>
>> Paul Swartz
>>
>>> Any scientific data that is lost to the country. Right now it might seem
>>> trivial, but just like antiquities, they are a non-renewable resource.
>>> That
>>> meteorite will never fall again.
>>> And in the future, knowing where strewnfields are, how they oriented,
>>> what
>>> class and quantity, could have some significant meaning.
>>> It's the unknown they are loosing.
>>>
>>> Mark Ferguson
>>
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