[meteorite-list] - "witness" to July 6 Fireball PA

From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 06:37:20 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <498627.13647.qm_at_web53108.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Dear Steve and List,
  Your answer points to the need of an advance-prepared press release so that reporters get their facts straight and so that there is less chance of a mis-quote. Reporters are infamous for making headlines and ignoring the facts.
  Good use of the reporter and news to get the word out for video evidence.
  Have a great day in your hunt! Best, Dirk Ross...Tokyo

--- On Thu, 7/9/09, MeteorHntr at aol.com <MeteorHntr at aol.com> wrote:

> From: MeteorHntr at aol.com <MeteorHntr at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] - "witness" to July 6 Fireball PA
> To: drtanuki at yahoo.com, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 10:23 PM
> In a message dated 7/9/2009 4:46:27
> A.M. Central? Daylight Time,
> drtanuki at yahoo.com
> writes:
> Regarding what a meteorite is? worth.... it is worth
> what you or someone is
> willing to pay, so I suggest that? you re-phrase the
> question to the
> reporter when asked, and reply that "I am? willing to
> pay up to... (or a realistic
> price) range".???
>
> Dirk,
>
> The problem is that I am not willing to pay anything for
> a? meteorite, at
> least not now. I didn't come here to buy a meteorite. And
> as such,? I didn't
> talk to the media about buying one.? I was asking for
> people to? check their
> video and to come forward if they had any footage with the
> fireball.?
>
> The reporters didn't ask me what I was willing to
> pay.? They asked? me
> somewhere in the context of "All this effort,spent time and
> money, to come up?
> here and do all this work, are meteorites worth it?"?
> Which I answered with?
> the normal response of how they can be valuable to science,
> bla, bla, bla,
> and? that museums and researchers and private
> collectors are interested, bla,
> bla,? bla.? And then I was asked "Well, what are
> meteorites worth?"
>
> And,? even if I was wanting to buy a meteorite, I
> still would not quote a
> price,? because I don't give quotes for purchase when
> I don't know how big it
> is, what? condition it is in, or the supply and demand
> factors involved at
> the moment of? making the offer.? All that can
> change, and about the only
> thing certain,? is that when the time might come to
> make a real offer on a
> real meteorite, I? would most likely be willing to pay
> more or less, maybe far
> more or far less? than any quote I would give back in
> the hypothetical
> stage.? ?
>
> Again, the question to me wasn't what I was willing to pay,
> but what?
> meteorites are worth.?
>
> Now, I have some work to do, and some rocks? to go
> find.
>
> Have a nice day.
>
> Steve Arnold
> of "Meteorite Men"?
>
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Received on Thu 09 Jul 2009 09:37:20 AM PDT