[meteorite-list] Meteorite market trends - a critical note

From: GREG LINDH <geeg48_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:06:47 -0700
Message-ID: <BLU121-W8AB6884D68CF2512BF868C9F80_at_phx.gbl>

  Hi again, Darren,

  Once again, we agree. I'd love to have access to pristine "space rocks" as they exist before entering our atmosphere. How nice it would be to travel from asteroid to asteroid, to the moon and all of the planets and their moons and grab a piece of each.
  Lately, I find that I've become envious of those who have large, eclectic collections. I have only 21 meteorites. Then I realize that it was just a year and a half ago that I was unaware that meteorites were available to the public. I purchased my first one from the Kitt Peak Observatory Gift Shop. It is an oriented Sikhote-Alin....one and a quarter pounds. Whenever I find myself starting to covet what others have, I just remind myself that it was only a short time ago that I had no meteorites. Now I have 21 pretty special rocks. They sit before me on my computer desk and on my book shelves.
  I'm a lucky man.

  Greg Lindh




> From: cynapse at charter.net
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:44:28 -0500
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite market trends - a critical note
>
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:23:35 -0700, you wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Darren,
>>
>> I couldn't agree with you more. I love meteorites just because of what they are.....rocks from space.
>>I love all meteorites. I, like you, wish that everyone had access to tons of meteorites of all kinds....
>
> I use the term "meteorite" to describe the stuff I wish that I had access to
> arbitrarily large amounts of, but of course I don't require that it pass through
> the Earth's atmosphere (in a destructive way) first. As much as I love a nice,
> fresh fusion crust, the big hunks could be straight off the asteroid. :-)
> Wouldn't paneling your walls in L 3.0 or H 3.0 look great? Or a coffee table
> made from a single slab of etched (and sealed for moisture, of course) iron?
> Forget stained glass windows, have very thin pallasite windows! (Of course, I'd
> still want one of these tables http://www.fossilhunter.co.uk/id12.html). Lunar
> sample? I call dibs on this one:
> http://apod.oa.uj.edu.pl/apod/image/9709/boulder_a17.jpg
>
> And as long as I have that hypthetical space ship, I could still toss a few
> meteorites into the atmosphere to get that fusion crust look! (Okay, maybe I
> should use Titan's atmosphere-- tossing rocks at the Earth might not make me too
> popular-- even if I didn't make strangelets, monopoles, and quantum black holes
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/28/lhc_cern_hawaiian_botanist_lawsuit)
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