[meteorite-list] Your First Meteorite - When did you Get It

From: star_wars_collector at yahoo.com <star_wars_collector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:29:54 +0000
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My first meteorite and how I got into meteorites is a neat story...
I home schooled my daughter for her first year.

I was using tumbled earth stones to help teach my little girl math as I found the stones helped to keep her into it.

A very good friend Buddy Haney of JBH imports was kind enough to get her a meteorite to add to her counting stones. It is a basic campo crystal which we still have.

Up until then, I had never imagined I could actually touch something from space.

I did research about the stone and came across Bob C who was simply a wonderful person to buy my first meteorites from.
I bought several kilos of campos and a 1/2g martian.
He provided me with such good paperwork, I felt comfortable with buying more and came across Mike Farmer and the Hupes, both who also like Bob were awesome people who were very helpful in fueling me and my daughters passion for just what meteorites offered us the chance to take part in... Space!!!

Another person who I owe a great deal to, more then I can ever pay back is Anthony Love. The time he has been so kind to share with me and what he continues to teach me is something I will never be able to repay.

The rest, is history and Wandering Star Meteorites was born. Me and my Heaven are the "owners" and the time it has given us is worth far more then anything I could ever have hoped to come from what started out as teaching her to count.

That's my (our) story.
Hope everyone is good.

Greg C



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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:06:47
To: Greg Stanley<stanleygregr at hotmail.com>; <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Your First Meteorite - When did you Get It

My first was a Mundrabilla as well.
It can be seen published in the book by Marvin Killgore : Southwest Meteorite Collection" pictured on page 109.
Marvin Considers it to be amongst the finest examples on the planet. But should also be noted that this was originally purchased by me in 1989 from Bob Haag as a bob Haag self find. During a weak moment I then stupidly sold it to Marvin around 1995. He calls it Camel shape. I called it an Alien.
Carl

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---- Greg Stanley <stanleygregr at hotmail.com> wrote: 
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> Hi List:
> 
> Gives me an idea for a new thread:
> 
> What was you first meteorite?? When did you acquire it?
> 
> Greg S.
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