[meteorite-list] FW: Meteorwrongs

From: Dennis Miller <astroroks_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:20:04 -0500
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Hello Peter! I see that you are collecting a few wrongs. Several years ago, at one of Mr. Bloods auctions,
I gave Richard Norton a piece of material to take and study. As it turned out it was a "Meteorwrong", but
a good one. It appears in Norton and Chitwood's book "Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites" page 176
Figure 9.4. If you would like, I'll send you a slice for your examples of "Wrongs" to the address you
included in your post. Let me know.
Dennis Miller


> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:10:03 +0100
> From: P.Davidson at nms.ac.uk
> To: stanleygregr at hotmail.com; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorwrongs
>
> Greg
>
> There is no outright policy on collecting meteorwrongs in the museum. That is not to say that we have not acquired a number of these over the years. Our most famous meteorwrong is the so-called Newstead Meteorite which was recognised as a bona-fide meteorite until the early part of the Twentieth Century when it was discredited and removed for the British Museum's (now the Natural History Museum of London's) Catalogue of Meteorites.
>
> Now that I am expanding my activities into teaching and demonstrations in schools and elsewhere, using meteorwrongs is a very good way of showing people how to differentiate potential finds. It is therefore essential that I build up a good collection of wrong 'uns to use as examples. Thus whenever I get a meteorite enquiry, I always ask the inquirer if they would like to donate the object to the museum. Most people are happy to do so as it saves the trouble of having to dispose of them. It is, I admit, a fairly ad-hoc arrangement but I now have quite a few to work with.
>
> Hope everyone has a great weekend
>
> Peter Davidson
> Curator of Minerals
>
> Department of Natural Sciences
> National Museums Collection Centre
> 242 West Granton Road
> Edinburgh EH5 1JA
> Scotland
> Tel: 00 44 131 247 4283
> E-mail: p.davidson at nms.ac.uk
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> From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Thunder Stone
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> Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorwrongs
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> List:
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> Does anyone have a meteorwrong collection?
>
> And I don't mean black magnetic rocks you may have found (like ones in my garage), but a collection of really 'good' meteorwrongs that could perhaps fool people. That actually would be quite interesting.
>
> Greg S.
>
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