[meteorite-list] Meteorite Men on American Chopper Thursday on TLC

From: tett <tett_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:35:51 -0400
Message-ID: <4C7D91D7.3040606_at_rogers.com>

  Steve,

Now that is cool. My two passions are meteroties and motorcycles. Both
keep me in the poor house and you can nevert have too many of either.
Now combine in one episode!

Will see if I can get it taped from the States

Cheers and Concratulations on your show.

Mike Tettenborn

On 31/08/2010 11:38 AM, meteorhntr at aol.com wrote:
> All,
>
> Greetings from Sunny London. Finally a break in our shooting of the second season of Meteorite Men, just in time to get home to watch some TV.
>
> Just as a quick heads up, Geoff and I are going to be guests on American Chopper this Thursday on TLC.
>
> For those who don't know, we get our meteorite bike from Orange County Choppers so it should be fun.
>
> Steve Arnold
>
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Martin Altmann"<altmann at meteorite-martin.de>
> Sender: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:48:18
> To:<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NWA meteorites, TO BE OR NOT TO BE?
>
> Hi Shawn,
>
> I think, you can answer some of your questions by yourself.
>
> Outstretch your arm. On your extended arm look on the tip of your little
> finger.
> The finger nail of your pinky is the Earth.
>
> Imagine, your room has no walls - or go in the garden.
>
> 250 yards away from your fingernail, that's where the meteorites come from.
>
>
> So it's possibly not so important, where exactly on your fingernail they
> will hit.
>
>
> ...and as strained you'll squint your eyes,
> it's impossible to match a Shawn, a Mike, an Aziz, a Martin, a Bevan... on
> your nail :-)
>
>
> Best!
> Martin
>
>
>
> -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Shawn
> Alan
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 31. August 2010 03:25
> An: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Betreff: [meteorite-list] NWA meteorites, TO BE OR NOT TO BE?
>
> Hello Listers,
>
> I was doing an Internet search today on meteorites and came across a write
> up about NWA meteorites. I would have to say it was a good write up
> considering there isn't much about the history of NWA's on the Internet. The
> write up covered topics from the NWA gold rush, to how this affected sales
> and peoples desert meteorite collections, and how NWA meteorites by some can
> be seen as inferior to other meteorites. All these points do bring up some
> interesting view points in the meteorite community. I wonder what peoples
> take is on NWA meteorites and how the classification works or doesn't work
> with some finds?
>
> Why I ask this is because some of the NWA meteorites on eBay are NWA xxx
> meteorites, meaning those meteorites haven't been classified and probably
> wont. Now to me for every NWA meteorite excluding the Lunar and Martian
> meteorites could be almost unique in its owe if there is only a select few
> people that get these stones classified, making the NWA meteorite market
> confusing and regulated by only classifying certain meteorites and
> disregarding others. And as for selling NWA meteorites how does one
> determine the price point when the TKW and location is unknown?
>
> Is it to be or not to be when collecting NWA meteorites..... this draw back
> could affect the classification and make it more confusing compared to finds
> in the US and Europe. If I went to the Muffin strewn field and found some
> meteorites, I wouldn't have to get them classified because of the
> documentation of a fall being there. But on the other hand, if I went to
> Africa and found some meteorites I would be SOL and the only way I could
> know what the meteorite was is if I got it classified, which I am not sure
> how much that costs, but I bet it can be a pretty penny depending what your
> getting done on it.
>
> Now could this be a problem in some peoples eyes why they think NWA's might
> be questionable because locations cant be accountable? And from a collectors
> stand point what features does one collect NWA's? From my take it seems like
> that some NWA meteorite are unique in its own way by rarity or uniqueness
> cause of lack there of, and because of the way NWA's are collected, cant
> this affecting price point and investment for ones collection?
>
> Here is an abstract from the write up about NWA's
>
>
> NWAs: Second Class Meteorites?
>
> By Norbert Classen, May 2003
>
> On the collector's market, the prices of most Northwest African meteorites
> are still dropping while witnessed falls and historic specimens are getting
> more expensive. Are NWA meteorites less valuable, or is it a subliminal form
> of chauvinism making some people treat them like second class meteorites?
>
> The NWA Dilemma
>
> In the late 1990s, an increasing number of meteorites from the hot deserts
> of northwest Africa hit the market, most of them having been recovered by
> so-called "nomads", i.e. by native people from Morocco and Western Sahara.
> After having acquired several meteorites at the local markets, the French
> fossil hunters, Bruno Fectay and Carine Bidaut, started to educate their
> local team not only to look for fossils, but also for meteorites - with
> great success.
>
> link
> http://www.meteorite.fr/en/news/feature.htm
>
> NWA, to be or not to be?
>
> Shawn Alan
> IMCA 1633
> eBaystore
> http://shop.ebay.com/photophlow/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p
> 4340
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