[meteorite-list] What makes a hammer a hammer?

From: John.L.Cabassi <John_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 19:37:10 -0800
Message-ID: <002201c96e1d$bd9d7650$4564fea9_at_TITAN>

G'Day List
This thread has been very interesting. Hammers have really not played an
important part of my quest to seek knowledge, meteoritically speaking. But
the discussions have been an eye opener, especially when it comes to a few
mets that I had not considered.

Mike, thanks for starting this. Steve, you continue to amaze me.
Dave, what can I say? Thanks for all your input. I for one, have definitely
benefited from it.

As for my little humor on hammers, I sincerely apologize. It was in jest and
not to throw anybody off the subject presently being discussed. I'm just a
happy person by nature.

Cheers
John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Gheesling" <dave at fallingrocks.com>
To: <cynapse at charter.net>; <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What makes a hammer a hammer?


> Good points, Darren...and the list of collecting criteria could go on and
> on
> ad infinitum. Yet it would also be interesting to measure this hammer
> issue
> not in units but in dollars (or Euros or whatever currency). Like you, I
> have no solid statistics here (this arena really needs them badly, by the
> way), but, when looking at market price and/or relative price/gram (i.e.
> "value"), the representative percentage of both collectors in the
> community
> and specimens in collections would obviously be substantially higher than
> on
> a units basis. Whatever the statistics, it is true that a significant
> premium is paid by collectors for "hammers," and we could probably all (at
> least most) agree it would be a good thing to have a better definition of
> that term...at least a consistent one.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Darren
> Garrison
> Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 10:18 PM
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What makes a hammer a hammer?
>
> On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 21:50:18 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>I thought you meant to say the community of hammer collectors within
>>the meteorite collecting community was small -- relative to the
>>international meteorite collecting community itself.
>
> I would say that it probably is, when defined as a "main concern" for the
> collectors-- you have people who collect by type, people who collect by
> location, people who collect only witnessed falls, and people who collect
> based on wherther or not it hit some human artifact. At most, what
> percentage of meteorite collectors have "hammers" being a main collecting
> criteria? 10%? I'd bet that it doesn't approach 25%. It is, then, a
> small
> percentage of what is already a tiny (compaired to world population and
> compaired to other areas of
> collecting) group of people.
>
> My point being-- a term in use by such a small number of people and known
> by
> such a small number of people woukd, I think, be more vaguely defined than
> something-- say-- that would reach The OED or Encyclopedia Britannica
> (leaving the Urban Dictionary and Wikipedia out of the equation for the
> moment).
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