[meteorite-list] Best ways to send payments from Canada to Morocco?

From: Carl 's <carloselguapo1_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:35:10 -0800
Message-ID: <COL108-W50822C1BED25E2E3E9F1E09BA90_at_phx.gbl>

Hi Greg, Aziz, All,


I would like to thank Aziz and others on their informative input on buying meteorites from Morocco.

I'm confused about this pairing of meteorites and I think Greg touched on this briefly. This has been bugging me since I started collecting. I don't want to start a flame war so please, PLEASE think twice before hitting the send key on this reply.

Take for example a dealer/collector buys a 300g stone from Morocco, gets it classified and it is named NWA 9999, a very, very rare Diogenite. Later, more stones are found and it sure looks like NWA 9999. I understand the original 300g stone is NWA 9999 but the others found later should be considered paired unless it has the lab work and documents to back it up.

Using this logic, all subsequent finds of Holbrook, Franconia, Gold Basin,...etc. should be considered pairings and not in fact Holbrook, Franconia, Gold Basin? Is this because these meteorites have established strewn fields, respectively, but the NWA meteorites do not? How can anyone be sure a stray meteorite has not fallen and was collected in these U.S. strewn fields without cutting it or lab work done on each? Perhaps an experienced meteorite hunter would know the difference but what of a novice like myself?


Carl


Greg wrote:
>"...Treat the meteorites right; as in, accuracy of type, TKW, self-pairings
(fraud), etc., and you will not have problems!!!"...
                                               
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