[meteorite-list] What private collector has the most localities?
From: actionshooting at carolina.rr.com <actionshooting_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:23:33 -0400 Message-ID: <20120321172333.186OH.233780.root_at_hrndva-web07-z02> I also have 80 different ones counting NWAs. -- ***************************** Stuart McDaniel Lawndale, NC IMCA#9052 http://spacerocks.weebly.com http://www.facebook.com/Stuart.McDaniel.No.1 ***************************** ---- Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike at gmail.com> wrote: ============= Hi List, This is a curiosity-based question. I know many list members have outstanding and enviable collections. The Hupes, Farmer, Cottingham, Strope, and Kilgore come to mind as dealers/collectors who have insane collections of meteorites that most collectors would drool over. Main masses, football-sized planetaries, coffee-table sized slabs of pallasite, and historical rarities populate many high-end collections. But, what I am curious about is - number of localities. What collector has the most localities represented in their collection? This number could include sub-gram micros, so I am thinking that the "biggest" collection (in terms of localities and not specimen size) might not belong to one of the obvious heavyweights we would expect. If there was a leaderboard for number of localities, who would be sitting on top of that list? Using the EOM website as a rough guide, it seems that Gerald Armstrong has an impressive catalog of localities. But not every major collector uses the EOM, so who is top dog? For the record, my own collection numbers about 80 localities. This number fluctuates frequently because my collection has a high turnover rate, and I have had to sell off my entire collection three times to pay bills. My locality count has dipped as low as 10 and peaked as high as 130. Of course, this is small potatoes. LOL. Best regards, MikeG -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Galactic Stone & Ironworks - MikeG Web: http://www.galactic-stone.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone Twitter: http://twitter.com/GalacticStone RSS: http://www.galactic-stone.com/rss/126516 ----------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-listReceived on Wed 21 Mar 2012 01:23:33 PM PDT |
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