Re: [meteorite-list] Collecting Habits

[tracy latimer]

Because of space considerations, my collecting habits are simple: micros.  
Most of my collection is under 5g each, and I cannot scorn Bessey Specks, 
because for many types (notably SNC and lunar) they are all I can afford.  
If possible, I like individuals, but otherwise my goal is simply as many 
different meteorites as I can, space and price considered.  I have a lovely 
pinky-nail sized Esquel, gotten from Mike F. years ago, that, to me, is the 
classic micro for the type: equal parts bright green peridot crystal and 
clean metal.

Tracy Latimer


From: "Walter Branch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [meteorite-list] Collecting Habits
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 18:30:06 -0400
Hello Everyone,

I have been thinking of the different ways to collect meteorites (e.g., 
type, class, location, etc.)  and I was wondering if anyone would care to 
describe their collecting specialties or subspecialties.  The reason I ask 
is because I have gotten interested in a sort of unusual specialty area - 
the find or fall consisting of a single specimen.  TKW is not an issue as 
it would be paired with no other specimen.

An image comes to my mind of a single, lonely meteorite, a common 
chondrite, out on the plains of the midwest US (for example) sitting there 
for hundreds if not thousands of years, just waiting to be found by anyone. 
 Maybe it was looked and wondered about scores of times by many a passerby 
or maybe just ignored.

Anyone else have this interest?  I would be interested in hearing about 
others collecting interests.

Best wishes,

-Walter
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www.branchmeteorites.com
Walter Branch, Ph.D.
Branch Meteorites
PO Box 60492
Savannah, GA  31420

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