[meteorite-list] NWA 6292 (BRA) IS paired to NWA 5400 !

From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 23:02:33 +0200
Message-ID: <007901cb5f50$796b7920$6c426b60$_at_de>

Hi Shawn,

>I find collecting from a classification aspect with NWA's to be very
cumbersome because of the slight >variations in meteorites which some people
say its rare.

Once I was also a relatively strict historics collector.

Until I realized, that NWA will open to me a WHOLE NEW WORLD!!!


Hey, I simply didn't knew, where to take it from, if I had to pay a 1000$ a
gram for an Acapulco,
or a couple of hundreds for a How or R, or 100+ for an CK, or some hundreds
of thousands for a Calcalong.
And there were many types simply unavailable.
Or today, each beginner has a fat black-cruster OC of several kilos as
paperweight on the desk,
where should I get it then from? Even at my earliest times the Gaos were
already brown :-(

Now I can play around with the whole solar system or at least with the whole
asteroid belt, Moon and Mars in my hands! And imagine, I need no microscope
or magnifier and haven't to overstress my fantasy anymore to watch my
specimens!

O.k. now I don't have to my stone the story that Barney Geroellheimer Jr.
from Possum Trot, AL,
used it from 1953-57 as a chamber pot, until the mineral collector and medic
Dr.Zampone took it as payment for a successful treatment against cholera,
whose widow donated his collection later to the Smithsonian, where in 1972
the esteemed Dr.Macarius Seltsam found organic compounds in the stone and
building blocks of life....
And so what! - if it's a rare type - and, Shawn, AT THIS PRICE!!! - I can
live excellently with that.

And if I do some sports and if I give up some habits, which make life
liveable,
then most probably I will still live to hear our desert stones of today
being called by the collectors of the next but one generation: historical.


;-)
Martin



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[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Shawn
Alan
Gesendet: Dienstag, 28. September 2010 21:57
An: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 6292 (BRA) IS paired to NWA 5400 !

Hello Count and other Listers :)


Count said;

What would command more of one's treasure. An Ensesheim with provenance, or
a stone of the same classification from NWA? How about the first meteorite,
with COMPLETE analysis, that is the first of it's kind found to be tied to
the earth's early formation? Say NW 5400?

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Count all meteorites that are given a name are all complete with an
analysis, so this doesn't make NWA 5400 more special. Also if you look at it
every meteorite in its own right,?can be deemed as different. Look at Vesta,
I wonder how many meteorites come from that asteroid and here we have
variations in each meteorite from that parent body. I find collecting from a
classification aspect with NWA's?to be very cumbersome because of the
slight?variations in meteorites which some people say its rare.

Now lets talk about rarity, I would take an Ensisheim over a NWA any day of
the week and even if its the "the first of it's kind found to be tied to the
earth's early formation?" as how you put it with a question mark. Now the
dilemma with this unproven theory is that wouldn't the cosmic-ray-exposure
age of NWA 5400 be 4 billion years old when the Earth had the catastrophic
event to eject material of the planet? The oldest date with stony meteorites
is about 100 million year for the CRE. I find it odd that the CRE hasn't
been test yet? That in its self would prove or disprove the theory and put
it at rest.
?
Shawn Alan
IMCA 1633
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