Meteorite List Archives for [meteorite-list] Fw: Not an answer they like

List,
? Out of over the 200-plus people that I have helped.
?Two had found meteorites and I verified them in person.?
Two other kept sending me wrongs, but were willing to learn and listen;?
The one finally a piece of the Old Woman and Gold Basin meteorite.?
The second, no only did he find a meteorite, but his wife and son each found OCs.

? Plenty of nut-jobs out there but sometime some of the persons contacting me have paid their dues and listened, studied and spent the time to finally have success.
? The "believers" will never take advice and always think that they have something RARE.? I just explain the I cannot help a "believer" and ask them not to call me again.

Batting 4/200.

PS' Save your time and ask them to do some study and look for the most common instead of rare mets....

Dirk Ross...Tokyo




On Friday, March 19, 2021, 11:15:06 PM GMT+9, Michael Mulgrew via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote: 





Tell them to have it classified by a laboratory, and then ignore them.? Chances are these?types won't even listen to a laboratory, but it takes the onus of reply off of you.

-Michael in so. Cal.


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On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 1:17 PM tracy latimer via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
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>??I've been fielding a lot of e-mails this week from someone who is certain that a meteorite nearly hit their house.? The picture they sent me is of what looks like a weathered lava bomb that likely washed free of an upslope location and rolled/fell/bounced into his yard.? They found it the following day after a "loud thump that shook the house", then picked it up and hosed it off, so don't have any pictures of it in situ, just a shallow hole with muddy splash marks.? I've told them several times that it doesn't look like a meteorite: vesicles, not regmaglypts; no fusion crust, nothing that identifies it as a likely meteorite, but they don't want to hear it.? Anyone who has dealt with a persistent "meteorite" finder, how did you eventually get them to listen to reason/experience -- or not?
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