[meteorite-list] IMCA, Michael Blood's comments

2002-05-20 Thread Michael Blood
Hi Tom, John, the whole fan damly, Well, ok, then, howsabout a statement something like, All IMCA members guarentee their material to be authentic - as do some reputable non members. We encourage you to buy only from individuals that guarentee their material to be meteoritic. This does

Re: [meteorite-list] Moving to Tucson

2002-05-20 Thread wrecks463
Welcome to Tucson. Don't bother to bring a jacket. Its already hit 100! : Þ - Original Message - From: Bob Martino To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 8:52 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Moving to Tucson All,After years of looking to move on from

Re: [meteorite-list] IMCA, Michael Blood's comments

2002-05-20 Thread Tracy Latimer
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Michael Blood wrote: Hi Tom, John, the whole fan damly, Well, ok, then, howsabout a statement something like, All IMCA members guarentee their material to be authentic - as do some reputable non members. We encourage you to buy only from individuals that

Re: [meteorite-list] Moving to Tucson

2002-05-20 Thread Larry Twink Monrad
Hi Bob, The high school where you will be teaching is located in the district and very close to where Jim Kriegh (Gold Basin discoverer) and Larry and I live, how is that for a coincidence? As Mike Farmer stated, we all like to visit about meteorites so we will look forward to meeting you also.

[meteorite-list] Sahara 85001

2002-05-20 Thread Ing. Christian ANGER
Hi list ! I need information about Sahara 85001 Mesosiderite. Has anyone details ? Subgroup and so on. Best wishes from Austria, Christian IMCA #2673 www.austromet.com Ing. Christian ANGER Korngasse 6 2405 Bad Deutsch-Altenburg AUSTRIA email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [meteorite-list] Sahara 85001

2002-05-20 Thread MARSROX
Hi Christian: Sahara 85001 had something of an interesting history. I purchased a slice from Blaine with the Sahara 85001 name a couple of years ago. When I was typing out a label, it dawned on me that the Labenne Sahara series started with 97. So what was this 85 about. Then I found that it

[meteorite-list] Orguel [CI1]

2002-05-20 Thread PolandMET.com
Hello List Members I have in my collection small piece of Orguel (0.1g :-)) This is 2x2x1 mm. Yesterday I was look this under my microscope (binocular), and I saw somethin on this meteorite. Something growing on it !! Small, white crystals like snow or something. What is it ?

[meteorite-list] Irgizites

2002-05-20 Thread PolandMET.com
Hey. I have for sale 32 Irgizites from Zhamanshin Crater. If someone is interested, please go to www.PolandMet.com SU -[ MARCIN CIMALA ]--[ IMCA#3667 ]- http://www.meteoryt.net Meteorite Information Center http://www.polandmet.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Mercury Meteorite Puzzle

2002-05-20 Thread Ron Baalke
While it is still possible the parent body for the E chondrites and NWA 011 may be Mercury or Venus, you can't rule out asteroids just yet either. Both of these statements are incorrect. Both Mercury and Venus are differentiated bodies. Neither can be the source of chondrites of any

[meteorite-list] Orgueil

2002-05-20 Thread Bernd Pauli HD
Marcin wrote: I have in my collection small piece of Orgueil. ... under my microscope (binocular), ... I saw something ... growing on it !! Small, white crystals like snow or something. What is it? Hello Marcin and List, You were probably looking at some sulfate crystals. Reference:

[meteorite-list] Exit the list

2002-05-20 Thread Andrew Marshall
Please could you remove me from the list. THANK YOU! SIMON

[meteorite-list] M-Wrong Discussion Resume

2002-05-20 Thread Rafael Blando Torres
Hello list¡¡¡ I think some you have good ideas on how to stop fake ebays, but I liked the one that tell us to educate new collectors. I think if we want to finish this problem we have to take it out from the rooth itself, but this rooth is to educate new people on this bussines. But also this

[meteorite-list] Re: (update) Is really Richfield this?

2002-05-20 Thread SSachs9056
Matteo and list, Oh well...I sent an email to the Ebay seller of the Richfield meteorite(wrong) item #2104158466, included my telephone # and an offer to show him a few genuine meteorites as well as a quick field test on his specimen. I also suggested if he wanted to meet, we could so at a

Re: [meteorite-list] IMCA, Michael Blood's comments...another idea

2002-05-20 Thread John Gwilliam
After thinking about this issue all day, I've come up with an idea that can potentially educate all prospective meteorite buyers on Ebay. An auction(or several) could be run every week by various concerned meteorite people offering the winning bidder some simple printed information about how

[meteorite-list] why worry?

2002-05-20 Thread drtanuki
Dear List Members, Why do we even have to concern ourselves as to what is or isn't sold on ebay? Let the buyer beware! Part of any hobby is education. Call it tuition if someone buys a MW. Did someone teach you what to buy or not? Or did you, as many, take a risk and buy something

Re: [meteorite-list] IMCA, Michael Blood's comments...another idea

2002-05-20 Thread Charlie Devine
John and list: Matteo had the right idea when he provided a link to Ken Newton's About Me page in his own auctions. Ken gave everyone permission to do this. Ken's me page gives new collectors all the info they need on meteorwrongs and avoiding them on eBay. Any seller can simply preface this

Re: [meteorite-list] why worry?

2002-05-20 Thread Allen Shaw
Hear, here. ---Shaw. -Original Message- From: drtanuki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 12:33 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] why worry? Dear List Members, Why do we even have to concern ourselves as to what is or isn't sold on

[meteorite-list] Re: Mercury Meteorite Puzzle

2002-05-20 Thread Starbits
In a message dated 20-May-02 1:54:37 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since the planets are formed from chondritic asteroids, I don't think you can rule them out just because the meteorite is a chondrite. So are you proposing that there is remnant chondritic material on

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Mercury Meteorite Puzzle

2002-05-20 Thread colin wade
Hi folks greetings re the pallasite Q 2 ryals worth from Qatar from the frequency of fals /vs size , it appears to me that the majority of impacts are smaller ( why should impacts elsewhere be different from our observations (appart from a million reasons )) If the majority of meteorite

[meteorite-list] Re: Mercury Meteorite Puzzle

2002-05-20 Thread Ron Baalke
The evidence of linking E chrondites to Mercury or Venus is that the pyroxene in these meteorites contains no iron, only magnesium. The pyroxene in most meteorites would be expected to have a ratio of magnesium and iron depending upon the availability of oxygen. The lack of iron in the pyroxene