[meteorite-list] Guns made of meteorite: Price tag $1 million

From: Anne Black <impactika_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 14:02:02 -0500
Message-ID: <15246aa752c-25a-de41_at_webprd-m79.mail.aol.com>

Hello Peter,

Since you asked................

I am sorry if I upset your friend or yourself, but destroying a meteorite just so you can redo it was simply idiotic. Why break something just so you can glue it back together? and losing in the process the Widmanstatten pattern, the very identity of the meteorite that simply cannot be re-created.
As for this latest idea....... Using a meteorite that came down in peace, that helped early men learn the value of iron, and then turn it into a gun, this might be the ultimate insult.

See you soon in Tucson.

Anne M. Black
www.IMPACTIKA.com
IMPACTIKA at aol.com


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From: Peter Davidson via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
To: 'Tommy' <tommy58 at hvc.rr.com>; Meteorite List (meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com) <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Fri, Jan 15, 2016 8:40 am
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Guns made of meteorite: Price tag $1 million

Dear Tommy and All

I will be interested to see the reaction of listees to this article. A few years ago I posted a small "flyer" for the work of an artist who had taken a piece of Campo, made a mould of it, melted the meteorite then cast it in the mould she had made earlier and put it on display in an exhibition of her work. This piece of news generated a great deal of, mainly negative, comment on the list. Can someone point out to me how this use of a meteorite, to make a weapon, is different (for better or worse) to the artwork my friend created?

Cheers

Peter Davidson
Senior Curator of Mineralogy

Natural Sciences Department
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
TEL: 0131 247 4283
E-mail: p.davidson at nms.ac.uk

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Regards!

Tom

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