[meteorite-list] correction / Might Something Need To Be Done Department

From: Darryl Pitt <darryl_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:38:53 -0500
Message-ID: <2BCF67D0-DB43-4CA1-A31C-713B929D5C8E_at_dof3.com>

Sorry....

I meant to write.....

"Millbillillie's value is still compromised as a result of it once
having sold so inexpensively."

d,


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Darryl Pitt <darryl at dof3.com>
> Date: February 16, 2009 12:34:32 PM EST
> To: "Martin Altmann" <altmann at meteorite-martin.de>
> Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Might Something Need To Be Done
> Department
>
>
>
> Hiya....
>
> Every meteorite which is sold at an inexplicably low price is the
> result of a particular "event," and the contamination that results
> from such events can take years or decades to be corrected.
>
> The situation between Millbillillie and Allende is not really
> similar, and the story with Millbillillie is as follows:
>
> My memory is a bit shaky, but it was around 1990 there was a
> Millbillillie price war at a Denver show. An American dealer and an
> Australian dealer had a go at it---and there was room to go down
> because even though Millbillillie first arrived in the U.S at $10/g
> wholesale---a large shipment subsequently landed stateside for $1/
> g. I personally witnessed the price of Millbillillie plummet
> precipitously over a period of hours from $20 to less than $2, and I
> ended up buying Millbillillie at $2/g that year and the year
> following. Millbillillie's value is still compromised as a result
> of selling so inexpensively; inordinately low prices possess their
> own "memory gravity" (unless of course there is another "event"
> which provides the correction).
>
>
> All best / d,
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 16, 2009, at 11:49 AM, Martin Altmann wrote:
>
>> Hi Pat,
>>
>> the Bulletin Database has as tkw for Allende of 2 metric tons =
>> 2000kg.
>> (And some say 3 tons).
>>
>> It felt at a time, where naturally there weren't such myopic laws
>> like today
>> and there were less collectors than today. And it felt in a country
>> with
>> good accessibility.
>>
>> To make it short: Allende was the NWA 869 of the 70ies.
>>
>> It's a little bit similar to Millbillillie,
>> Sometimes collectors ask, why an NWA-EUC can cost more than a
>> Millbillillie.
>> But if you check the stats: Every second eucrite is a
>> Millbillillie :-)
>>
>>
>> Murchison had a relatively high tkw.
>> Also a few collectors and Australia was still a free country, a
>> meteorite-democracy.
>> I often told the anecdote, a German veteran collector told me.
>> He came to know of the Murchison fall by a short note in a newspaper.
>> So he wrote a letter, asking about the circumstances and what had
>> happened,
>> and sent it to Murchison, Australia.
>> Weeks later he received a parcel, with a nice answer, cause they were
>> astonished and amazed that someone from so far away was interested
>> in what
>> had happened in their little town and as a little tank you, a 100g+
>> sample
>> of Murchison was included.
>>
>> Allende could be one of the reasons for the misconception of some,
>> who are
>> bemoaning that the prices of meteorites pretendendly would have
>> "soared"
>> and who have the imagination that in earlier years meteorites cost
>> virtually
>> nothing.
>> But Allende was always one of the exceptions, cause of its mass
>> availability.
>>
>> Best!
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Murchison TKW 100Kg per the Meteoritical Bulletin
>>> Allende TKW >100Kg per the Meteoritical Bulletin
>>>
>>
>>
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