[meteorite-list] Keeping a meteorite database

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:57:52 -0400
Message-ID: <e51421551003191157x67a3799cw8165e0490db674e3_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi Elizabeth and List,

I am a dinosaur and I use WordPad documents for all of my records,
including my personal collection catalogue. I keep them backed up on
two different USB thumb-drives, just in case my netbook crashes.

I list the my personal catalogue reference number, the meteorite name,
type, specimen weight, specimen physical description (brief), who I
acquired it from, when I acquired it, and what I paid for it. Also,
if I later sell that specimen, I make a note of who bought it, when,
and how much I sold it for.

I also have photographs of all of my specimens on hard-drive and
thumbdrive. Recently, I started keeping a backup record on the
Encyclopedia of Meteorites website.

Best regards,

MikeG


On 3/19/10, Richard Kowalski <damoclid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> HI Elizabeth.
>
> I'm not using anything more fancy than Open Office's "Calc", the freeware
> spreadsheet.
>
> The fields I use are:
>
> Meteorite Name
> Classification
> Weight / Form
> Notes
> Price Paid
> Price/Gram
> Dealer
> Date Purchased
>
> Most are self explanatory save for maybe the "weight / form". Form is micro,
> part slice, full slice, fragment, individual.
>
> Maybe not all the details that other may want, but it works for me. I don't
> include images of my specimens, but it would be easy enough to add this to
> the data if I so desired.
>
> I'm still pretty new too, seriously collecting for less than a year. 106 in
> the collection and one more currently on the way.
>
> Richard Kowalski
>
>
>
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