Carl. Odd meteorites are found in known strewn fields all the time. If you are lucky you will find an odd one. Bob Haag once purchased a box of Millbillillie eucrites from Australia and found the now famous Calcalong creek lunar in the same box. Calcalong Creek turned out to be the first lunar found outside of the ice field s and the first lunar available to collectors. To answer your question; You are correct. They would all be Holbrook etc unless you prove otherwise by having it checked. NWA there is no clue unless you are a Mike Farmer. He can spot a paired meteorite a mile away like no others. My 2 cents. Carl -- Carl or Debbie Esparza Meteoritemax
---- Carl 's <carloselgua...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Greg, Aziz, All, > > > I would like to thank Aziz and others on their informative input on buying > meteorites from Morocco. > > I'm confused about this pairing of meteorites and I think Greg touched on > this briefly. This has been bugging me since I started collecting. I don't > want to start a flame war so please, PLEASE think twice before hitting the > send key on this reply. > > Take for example a dealer/collector buys a 300g stone from Morocco, gets it > classified and it is named NWA 9999, a very, very rare Diogenite. Later, more > stones are found and it sure looks like NWA 9999. I understand the original > 300g stone is NWA 9999 but the others found later should be considered paired > unless it has the lab work and documents to back it up. > > Using this logic, all subsequent finds of Holbrook, Franconia, Gold > Basin,...etc. should be considered pairings and not in fact Holbrook, > Franconia, Gold Basin? Is this because these meteorites have established > strewn fields, respectively, but the NWA meteorites do not? How can anyone be > sure a stray meteorite has not fallen and was collected in these U.S. strewn > fields without cutting it or lab work done on each? Perhaps an experienced > meteorite hunter would know the difference but what of a novice like myself? > > > Carl > > > Greg wrote: > >"...Treat the meteorites right; as in, accuracy of type, TKW, self-pairings > (fraud), etc., and you will not have problems!!!"... > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft's powerful SPAM protection. > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141664/direct/01/ > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141664/direct/01/ > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
