[meteorite-list] Ad Announcing the "Count" cube Scale / Orientation cube

From: Starsinthedirt at aol.com <Starsinthedirt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:56:59 EDT
Message-ID: <2cb0b.792c3bb5.38cf0a0b_at_aol.com>

Hi Shawn, I am having fun with the whole naming thing.

The one inch cube has "1 INCH" stamped on it on the "T" side.

It is my understanding that a scale cube can be any size that is
appropriate to represent the sample. No rules. Many are not marked and the size of
the reference item (cube or otherwise) is conveyed to the image viewers in
the text accompanying the photo.

Tom



In a message dated 3/14/2010 9:50:33 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
photophlow at yahoo.com writes:
Hi Tom and List,

I like the direction your going with the wooden orientation cubes, however
I have a question. You had said......

"First off, I want you all to know I am not taking this
seriously, just having fun with it."

Now when you say your just just having fun with this and not taking this
seriously, is this in reference to the sizes of the new orientation cubes?
Why I ask is because when I was looking at some of the images that you had
posted on eBay with the new inch orientation cubes, I wasn't able to tell
which one was the inch cube and which on was the cm cube.I think this could
cause problems with documenting the size by using the inch orientation cubes
instead of cm cubes for reference of size. I feel there is a reason why in
science and meteorite science the metric system is used as a standard
practices for measuring/documentation, if there wasn't standard size in
measuring, science would be a mess.

Now I think if you made the inch orientation cube ornate looking and
pushed the humor by altering it so it doesn't resemble the cm wooden orientation
cubes, I could see people not getting confused with the inch orientation
cube and they would see the humor in it.

Shawn Alan


[meteorite-list] Ad Announcing the "Count" cube Scale / Orientation cube
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Sun Mar 14 19:48:40 EDT 2010

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Hi  List, First off, I want you all to know I am not taking this 
seriously, just  having fun with it. 
About a month ago I came up with the "Martin" cube.  A wood centimeter 
scale / orientation cube that would look good next to  historic meteorites. 
Hence the nick name "Martin Cube". 
Well as it  happened, I had just sent Count some Martin cubes when he made 
his fantastic  record setting 14.7 Kg Nevada chondrite find. I got to 
thinking the little  centimeter cube would look rather insignificant next 
to the 
monster. So I  made some 1 inch cubes. 
(I wanted to stay metric but I also wanted to  keep to even numbers or the 
whole scale easy size reference thing goes out  the window. One inch is 
about 25mm.) 
I listed some on eBay in sets  of three cubes; 1 Martin Cube, 1 new style 
cube with "CM" to designate  centimeter and 1 Count Cube (The big one!). 
The link is at  
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260569117864&ssPageName=S
  
TRK:MESELX:IT 
Thanks, Tom  
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