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

From: Stuart McDaniel <actionshooting_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:31:44 -0500
Message-ID: <D5AE68F31D174FA7BA4548444B0DCE51_at_StuartMcDaniel>

I too am a type collector but like Richard sais, I cannot afford to collect
all the little "nuances" types. I just try to get one of each type group,
i.e. IA, IB, IIA,IIB, and each one of the achondrites but not all the 3.8,
3.9, etc. Basically one of each "headings" you have listed.



Stuart McDaniel
Lawndale, NC
Secr.,
Cleve. Co. Astronomical Society
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Kowalski
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 8:07 PM
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Looking to Buy. Trying to "complete" my
typeset. THERE IS A NEW CHONDRITE TYPE....

--- 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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