> In February David Weir wrote about the MetBase Library and how his > collection is included in it. > I was wondering how many private collections are included in MetBase > and how big it has to be, to be included?
The person to answer this with more competence than me is the author of MetBase himself, Joern Koblitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). He probably is a member of this list and will let you know all the facts in more detail than I can do here. But for the sake of a quick late night (local time) answer from Europe: there is no lower limit for a private collection to be included, in fact there are many "collections" with only 1 meteorite in "them" :-). Then again, in my last version of the program I count 236 entries with 10 or more meteorites in the collection, and a new version seems to be at the doorstep. Joern will add to this, when he reads it. As I said in one of my earlier mails, these private collection data represent nothing but a snapshot in space and time, which is obvious since we live in an ever changing world - and collector X´s collection data provided for publication in say 2002 will most probably have changed by now. But nonetheless you will at least have sort of a good overview here, and postal addresses of the collectors are included, which is a value by itself. > What are the criteria for being included, and how do you get a > collection included? Just contact Joern at [EMAIL PROTECTED], and (afaik) sending your collection summary (meteorite names and weights) will be all that is needed to get an entry with the next update. Alex Berlin/Germany ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
