[meteorite-list] NASA could sell...

From: Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:13:43 -0400
Message-ID: <BANLkTimsNVd8HjX2WpKPwTX63wvep3b=AQ_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi List,

Agreed. I have a customer who works for NASA that has an appetite for
planetary specimens.

If I only get that person to work a trade! :)

Can you imagine the grief one of us would catch if we ran around
saying "All scientists are unethical." But yet, a few of them feel
justified in slandering and defaming all of us.

For the record - I don't think scientists are unethical, just making a point.

Best regards,

MikeG

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On 6/26/11, Impactika at aol.com <Impactika at aol.com> wrote:
> Well, Richard,
>
> Obviously, not all NASA people fell that way, as I have sold meteorites to
> NASA.
> Very recently, two nice chunks of Almahata Sitta!
>
> Besides that I agree with you.
>
> (And I am just back from Ensisheim and still going thru 100s of emails!)
>
> Anne M. Black
> _http://www.impactika.com/_ (http://www.impactika.com/)
> _IMPACTIKA at aol.com_ (mailto:IMPACTIKA at aol.com)
> President, I.M.C.A. Inc.
> _http://www.imca.cc/_ (http://www.imca.cc/)
>
>
>
> In a message dated 6/26/2011 5:29:34 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
> damoclid at yahoo.com writes:
> Nice fantasy Steve, but the idea would never fly; Not even 1/2 second.
>
> You have to remember that there are still many influential people at NASA
> who believe that no one should own any meteoritic material, period. (Yes,
> even highly weathered H chondrites.)
>
> No need to tell me how much science has benefited from the meteorite trade
> and those individuals do not care one iota about all of the good done for
> science. Their position is hardened.
>
> I recently had one prominent name tell me to my face that all "meteorite
> hunters and dealers are unethical..."
>
> Now try to convince them that not only should individuals be allowed own
> meteorites, but you are going to sell our nations crown jewels for a very
> short term financial gain? Like I said, wouldn't fly for even 1/2 second.
>
> Considering the United States is only a single flight away from abandoning
> manned space flight, that a return to the moon is at least 20 or 30 years
> away, and will not be the US returning then, if ever, the idea of selling
> even
> a milligram of this material is unacceptable, even to me.
>
> --
> Richard Kowalski
> Full Moon Photography
> IMCA #1081
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Received on Sun 26 Jun 2011 08:13:43 PM PDT