[meteorite-list] Looking to Buy. Trying to "complete" my type set. THERE IS A NEW CHONDRITE TYPE....

From: Richard Kowalski <damoclid_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:07:31 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <2731.29961.qm_at_web113608.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

--- On Mon, 2/14/11, Galactic Stone <meteoritemike at gmail.com> wrote:

> The intrepid type collector, forever
> at the mercy of nomenclature.
> What was once CV4 is now CK4.? Over time, the type
> collection
> continues to grow and grow.

Hey Mike.

Well yes, and no.
>
> According to David Weir's Meteorite Studies website, here
> is a
> condensed breakdown of the known types -

That is the expanded basis of my type set. When you pointed out a number of additions I was missing, I added those to my list and obtained more specimens.

A type collector can go nuts typing to pursue every single subdivision of any "set", but that's the same thing any collector has to deal with, no? On the other hand a collector could obtain a stone, an iron and a mesosiderite and consider his type set complete. Most of us are somewhere in between.

Realistically I can't chase the rarest of the rare sub-groups. There just isn't enough material available nor is my budget very large. I have to pick and choose what "complete" means for me and sometimes a few milligrams is all I have or can afford of the type. However this is enough to fill the hole in the set. I've had a number of people offer specimens that would fill some of my needed types, but is sizes that are out of my budget. Sometimes nearly complete is the best one can do...

One obvious thing that becomes apparent as the list expands is some types are just not available. Those are listed on my master sheet as such, but don't appear as "needed". If any of the unavailable types falls and becomes available to the collector market, then the type would be come "needed". The same goes for the rare sub-types, but for now I don't feel the need to include them.

Finally as collecting tastes change, the desire to maintain the type collection as complete as possible often wanes in the collector as new avenues of knowledge are opened.

Just some of my thoughts on collecting (not just meteorites) which I have acquired over the past few decades. I'm sure everyone else does things their own way...

Cheers

--
Richard Kowalski
Full Moon Photography
IMCA #1081
 
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