[meteorite-list] Meteorite 20 Questions - Answer and Share if youDare. :)

From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:47:22 +0200
Message-ID: <001901cb2e96$14488460$6502a8c0_at_name86d88d87e2>

1) 30 years ago

2) The interest in astronomy & the fascination to be able to touch a piece
of a celestial body (other than mine) with my very hands.

3) A Mundrabilla individual from Pope Walter Zeitschel

4) Not countless, but I never count them.

5) Meteorites get a monetary value only, if they are sold.
   The insurance would say, that they're irreplaceable and would refuse to
cover them. And the scientific meaning and what they mean to me: Priceless.

6) My favourite has to be the unfound meteorite.

7) My strewnfield at home grows every week. Soon I have to buy a detector...

8) Several. Most painful was a collection of a couple of often freshly
crusted stones, collected by a diplomat over decades on his travels through
Russia in the 19th century. The heirs had lost all documentation and records
about their identity. So they were like a box of UNWA OCs and I passed.

9) If meteorites begin to get the upper hand of your life, then it's time to
quit collecting.

10) Yes. The human senses of taste and smell are the finest analytical
instruments we have. Therefore... but to avoid health troubles, one should
consume only fresh planetary materials like Moon and Mars.

11) Most meteorite people avoid to ask that question, cause they want to
stay happy ;-)

12) No. (But inverse, I often get paid the bills for meteorites, I write,
paid late.)

13) I'll make a photo.
    Then I'll cut it completely down into thousands of small slices and
will distribute them as gifts among all these people, who accompanied me
through these meteoritical years, and among my friends and my kin.
And afterwards I'll slice down the roof and then the whole house into
myriads of micromounts (including the photo) and sell them to the hammer
collectors, acquiring so a legendary wealth.

14) If it will be a crater-maker: my tax office.
    If a tiny pebble only, perhaps people like Dr.Bevan as a
thought-provoking impulse
    or any person I love.

15) King Tut's meteoritic dagger.

16) Yes

17) They are somewhat terrestrial.

18) Endcuts

19) I do my best to avoid that.

20) I like vacuum cleaners just as much as my cats do.


Mike, my prize for having answered these question,
was just today in my letter box. Thanks a lot!
But will open it not before the weekend, when I'll have time to enjoy it.

Best!
Martin

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Betreff: [meteorite-list] Meteorite 20 Questions - Answer and Share if
youDare. :)

1) When did you start collecting? (how long ago)

2) What first interested you about meteorites?

3) What was your first meteorite purchase, and from whom?

4) How many meteorites or localities do you currently have in your
collection?

5) If you had to know for insurance purposes, what do you value your
entire collection at? - in dollars - ballpark figure OK, or just say
"none of your business".

6) What is your favorite meteorite and why?

7) Have you ever found a meteorite in the field?

8) Did you ever get the deal of a lifetime on a meteorite? If so, what was
it?

9) Did you ever go through the ordeal of a lifetime to obtain a
meteorite? If so, please explain.

10) Have you ever consumed meteoritic material? (If so, how or under
what circumstances?)

11) Does your spouse share your meteorite passion, is ambivalent
towards it, or resents it?

12) Have you ever let a bill go unpaid or late to buy a meteorite?

13) A perfectly oriented, fully crusted, baseball-sized, lunar
meteorite crashes through your roof and lands in your lap while you
are reading this. It's the most gorgeous aesthetically-superior
specimen you have ever seen - like Lafayette, but better. It legally
belongs to you. What do you do with it?

14) Statistics have caught up with someone. Anne Hodges will no
longer be the only documented person to be struck by a falling
meteorite. Assuming the next person struck could be anyone and you
could pick that person, who would it be? (silly answers only, nothing
mean or political)

15) You are awarded the honor of selecting one specimen to keep from
any meteorite collection in the world. What would it be?

16) Have you ever sold or donated your entire collection, and then had
to rebuild it?

17) Summarize what you think about tektites in one sentence.

18) Which do you prefer - thin sections, whole specimens, slices, or
endcuts?

19) Do you collect meteorwrongs?

20) Have you ever dropped a tiny crumb of a rare meteorite and lost it?

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