[meteorite-list] Meteorite Men on American Chopper Thursday on TLC

From: Richard Kowalski <*damoclid_at_meteoritecentral.com*> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 10:04:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <33004.86736.qm_at_web113601.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> · damoclid_at_meteoritecentral.com

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Richard Kowalski
Full Moon Photography
IMCA #1081
--- On Tue, 8/31/10, tett <tett at rogers.com> wrote:
> From: tett <tett at rogers.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Men on American Chopper Thursday on TLC
> To: meteorhntr at aol.com
> Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 4:35 PM
>  Steve,
> 
> Now that is cool.? My two passions are meteroties and
> motorcycles.? Both keep me in the poor house and you
> can nevert have too many of either.? Now combine in one
> episode!
> 
> Will see if I can get it taped from the States
> 
> Cheers and Concratulations on your show.
> 
> Mike Tettenborn
> 
> On 31/08/2010 11:38 AM, meteorhntr at aol.com
> wrote:
> > All,
> > 
> > Greetings from Sunny London.? Finally a break in
> our shooting of the second season of Meteorite Men, just in
> time to get home to watch some TV.
> > 
> > Just as a quick heads up, Geoff and I are going to be
> guests on American Chopper this Thursday on TLC.
> > 
> > For those who don't know, we get our meteorite bike
> from Orange County Choppers so it should be fun.
> > 
> > Steve Arnold
> > 
> > 
> > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Martin Altmann"<altmann at meteorite-martin.de>
> > Sender: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
> > Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:48:18
> > To:<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NWA meteorites, TO BE OR
> NOT TO BE?
> > 
> > Hi Shawn,
> > 
> > I think, you can answer some of your questions by
> yourself.
> > 
> > Outstretch your arm. On your extended arm look on the
> tip of your little
> > finger.
> > The finger nail of your pinky is the Earth.
> > 
> > Imagine, your room has no walls - or go in the
> garden.
> > 
> > 250 yards away from your fingernail, that's where the
> meteorites come from.
> > 
> > 
> > So it's possibly not so important, where exactly on
> your fingernail they
> > will hit.
> > 
> > 
> > ...and as strained you'll squint your eyes,
> > it's impossible to match a Shawn, a Mike, an Aziz, a
> Martin, a Bevan... on
> > your nail :-)
> > 
> > 
> > Best!
> > Martin
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
> > [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com]
> Im Auftrag von Shawn
> > Alan
> > Gesendet: Dienstag, 31. August 2010 03:25
> > An: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> > Betreff: [meteorite-list] NWA meteorites, TO BE OR NOT
> TO BE?
> > 
> > Hello Listers,
> >???I was doing an Internet search today
> on meteorites and came across a write
> > up about NWA meteorites. I would have to say it was a
> good write up
> > considering there isn't much about the history of
> NWA's on the Internet. The
> > write up covered topics from the NWA gold rush, to how
> this affected sales
> > and peoples desert meteorite collections, and how NWA
> meteorites by some can
> > be seen as inferior to other meteorites. All these
> points do bring up some
> > interesting view points in the meteorite community. I
> wonder what peoples
> > take is on NWA meteorites and how the classification
> works or doesn't work
> > with some finds?
> >???Why I ask this is because some of the
> NWA meteorites on eBay are NWA xxx
> > meteorites, meaning those meteorites haven't been
> classified and probably
> > wont. Now to me for every NWA meteorite excluding the
> Lunar and Martian
> > meteorites could be almost unique in its owe if there
> is only a select few
> > people that get these stones classified, making the
> NWA meteorite market
> > confusing and regulated by only classifying certain
> meteorites and
> > disregarding others. And as for selling NWA meteorites
> how does one
> > determine the price point when the TKW and location is
> unknown????Is it to be or not to be when
> collecting NWA meteorites..... this draw back
> > could affect the classification and make it more
> confusing compared to finds
> > in the US and Europe. If I went to the Muffin strewn
> field and found some
> > meteorites, I wouldn't have to get them
> classified? because of the
> > documentation of a fall being there. But on the other
> hand, if I went to
> > Africa and found some meteorites I would be SOL and
> the only way I could
> > know what the meteorite was is if I got it classified,
> which I am not sure
> > how much that costs, but I bet it can be a pretty
> penny depending what your
> > getting done on it.
> >???Now could this be a problem in some
> peoples eyes why they think NWA's might
> > be questionable because locations cant be accountable?
> And from a collectors
> > stand point what features does one collect NWA's? From
> my take it seems like
> > that some NWA meteorite are unique in its own way by
> rarity or uniqueness
> > cause of lack there of, and because of the way NWA's
> are collected, cant
> > this affecting price point and investment for ones
> collection?
> >???Here is an abstract from the write up
> about NWA's
> >???
> > NWAs: Second Class Meteorites?
> > 
> > By Norbert Classen, May 2003
> > 
> > On the collector's market, the prices of most
> Northwest African meteorites
> > are still dropping while witnessed falls and historic
> specimens are getting
> > more expensive. Are NWA meteorites less valuable, or
> is it a subliminal form
> > of chauvinism making some people treat them like
> second class meteorites?
> > 
> > The NWA Dilemma
> > 
> > In the late 1990s, an increasing number of meteorites
> from the hot deserts
> > of northwest Africa hit the market, most of them
> having been recovered by
> > so-called "nomads", i.e. by native people from Morocco
> and Western Sahara.
> > After having acquired several meteorites at the local
> markets, the French
> > fossil hunters, Bruno Fectay and Carine Bidaut,
> started to educate their
> > local team not only to look for fossils, but also for
> meteorites - with
> > great success.
> >???link
> > http://www.meteorite.fr/en/news/feature.htm
> >???NWA, to be or not to be?
> >???Shawn Alan
> > IMCA 1633
> > eBaystore
> > http://shop.ebay.com/photophlow/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p
> > 4340
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