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

From: Gingell, Tim <Tim.Gingell_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:30:28 +0100
Message-ID: <100F37D3A283C749B712FC0923D7AB5B06669C3C_at_GLAMSG58.europe.jacobs.com>

My first meteorite was a 24g sikhote alin purchased from Rob Elliot back in
2003 along with a 160 g tektite and that was me hooked.
Since then I thought I'd try and get UK meteorites which led to a purchase of
Barwell, Limerick and a good sized piece of Strathmore.
My collection to date still consist of these but with an addition of Brahin,
Esquel, a 2kg campo 50g Taza, numerous moldavites (which are my favourite)
some canyon Diablo individuals and spheroids, various thin slices and a
really nice heavily thumbprinted Sikhote I purchased from Jim Strope 5 or 6
years ago.

Unfortunately these will be up for sale soon as my other half has given me
the ultimatum of collecting meteorites or keeping my motorbike fanatics up so
I'm afraid the rocks will have to go but dare say I'll still keep a few


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Marco
Langbroek
Sent: 25 June 2010 12:09
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Your First Meteorite - When did you Get It


It depends a bit if you regard iron shale as "meteorite" too - in that case,
a
small piece of Canyon Diablo shale I got as a present from Peter Jenniskens
in
1991 was my first.

My second then was a 75 grams individual of Mbale (in 5 fitting pieces, the
largest 45 grams) I got, again as a present, from Hans Betlem (who mapped the

strewnfield) in 1992.

I bought my first meteorites in 1999, a nice 134 grams Sikhote-Alin from Rob
Elliot; and a small 2.4 grams slice of Allende with a nice CAI and a fragment
of
Vaca Muerta from Jawerbaum.

My initial goal was simply to have a sample of each main class of meteorite:
chondrite, achondrite, iron, and stony iron. That goal fulfilled, I started
to
ad subclasses.

Noting that irons do not keep well in the Dutch climate, my main focus over
the
years has been on stones. Criteria for buying are:

- a type I do not yet have, and/or;
- visual esthetics, and/or;
- it shows a petrological aspect very well

Currently, my display case is full so I seldom buy anymore (very
occasionally, I
ad a small piece of a rare type, or can't resist a new L3 slice packed with
chondrules...). I have 57 different meteorites in my collection now, and in
addition tektites and impact glasses, and a couple of impact crater stone
samples (the latter are fascinating too, and remarkably cheap).

- Marco
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