[meteorite-list] A Bunch of Irregular Stones I Found (+How I Think They May Have Originated)

From: William Bagwell <rb211_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 05:33:26 -0400
Message-ID: <201303230533.27016.rb211_at_tds.net>

On Friday 22 March 2013, Peter Richards wrote:
> P.S. Thank you anyone who can stand me having to hone my photography
> skills "on the fly" for this.

If you don't have access to a camera that takes excellent close ups, try a
flat bed scanner. Many people have been pleasantly surprised at how good of
pictures a scanner will take.

Not a serious collector though I have bought a couple of micro specimens...
Came to this list almost two years ago with a wrong I had owned for over 30
years. Never had much hope it was real but the 0.0001% chance that it might
be is why I held on to the huge ugly thing so long. Until I learned through
research that cutting a window in a 'meteorite' does not destroy its value.
At this point I went from 0.0001% maybe this thing is real to "Holy crap, I
have the missing third mass of Estherville!"

Sadly a test proved otherwise... If you don't want to wait months for someone
to test a piece of one of your specimens for free, you can pay a service $30
and know the results in days. The one I used even returned my small sample
despite my offer for him to keep it.

William
Received on Sat 23 Mar 2013 05:33:26 AM PDT