Re: [meteorite-list] Best ways to send payments from Canada to Morocco

2009-11-12 Thread Melanie Matthews
Hi Brian, listers. Actually it was a postal money order that I mailed out to him (Mr. Abdellah Afiniss), and yes it included the cost of the stones plus the shipping costs. I asked him to mail it back to me and he said he did. Once I get the slip back I'm going to get back the money I put onto

Re: [meteorite-list] Full time meteorite people.

2009-11-12 Thread Mexicodoug
Dear Greg L., I would offer to speculate that the purpose of the post from Eric Webb (who I am not familiar with), is that we might be better off distinguishing between economically sustainable activities in the meteorite supply chain and those that are not. It would seem a reasonable follow

Re: [meteorite-list] Full time meteorite people.

2009-11-12 Thread GREG LINDH
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[meteorite-list] Allende complete slice, Claxton huge slice, Bonita Springs part slice, etc. AD

2009-11-12 Thread Dave Gheesling
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[meteorite-list] Pairings/ scaring people

2009-11-12 Thread Abdelaziz Alhyane
Dear list members, The subjest was " why to scary people from buying meteorites direcly from Morocco" as I said before, if a Moroccan stole you, tell it in the list and we will help to refund you publicaly, but to tell collectors that moroccans are robbers and you keep buying from them, that i

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Self-Pairing = No-No!

2009-11-12 Thread Matthias Bärmann
Greg, just my own experience on this field as a simple private collector (of course not as far as extensive as that of you professional dealers). I've bought from several Moroccan dealers, well, not the ultra rare planetary stuff, but, for example, material of the last Maghreb falls such

[meteorite-list] YD impact and NASA criminal negligence

2009-11-12 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi Paul - Just to be upfront about my bias, contempt of Congress is a serious crime, one which Michael Griffin appears to have committed in his response to the George Borwn Jr. amendment, as near as can be made out. Now moving on to the minor points: "First a problem is that Native American o

Re: [meteorite-list] National Geographic Channel - Naked Science:Countdown to Impact

2009-11-12 Thread ensoramanda
Yesand many thanks to Siegfried Harberer for tracking some down and allowing us to be proud owners of a slice. Greg Hupe wrote: > Hi Richard, > > A huge, "Congratulations" to you for initially discovering 2008 TC3!! It is > truly an amazing story of asteroid discovery, followed by rec

[meteorite-list] NASA to Begin Attempts to Free Sand-Trapped Mars Rover

2009-11-12 Thread Ron Baalke
Nov. 12, 2009 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.br...@nasa.gov Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 guy.webs...@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-263 NASA TO BEGIN ATTEMPTS TO FREE SAND-TRAPPED MARS ROVER PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Self-Pairing = No-No!

2009-11-12 Thread dave carothers
Rob, Well said. We can't thank Greg, Adam, Mark, Svend, Mike, Martin and all the other reputable dealers enough for maintaing a high level of integrity in their efforts to bring meteorites to us collectors. Regards, Dave - Original Message - From: "Rob McCafferty" To: "Greg Hupe

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Self-Pairing = No-No!

2009-11-12 Thread Rob McCafferty
Greg Wrote "I am very passionate about what I do and try to keep it as accurate as possible. When games and fraud is perpetrated by those who do not care about the science or collectors, I get upset and tend to be vocal. If I seem too quick to reply, or type a single word in haste or anger, I

[meteorite-list] [Clarify] Meteorite Self-Pairing = No-No!

2009-11-12 Thread Greg Hupe
Dear List Members, To clarify and/or add to my previous post "Self-Pairing = No-No!": Where I wrote, "It seems once I do announce a new meteorite, "guaranteed pairings" start to be offered by different Moroccan stone traders." I am NOT referring to my new lunar, NWA 4932 which I just announce

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Self-Pairing = No-No!

2009-11-12 Thread Greg Hupe
Hello Carl and List, Carl brought up some excellent questions. To answer as briefly as possible, but without a single word reply, I will try to explain a little bit of my dislikes with self pairing to Classified material. I have had many different meteorites classified over the years. I typic

Re: [meteorite-list] Full time meteorite people.

2009-11-12 Thread Erik Fisler
John Wolfe hunts for meteorites so he can sell them for pennies on the dollar at quartzite or dirt cheap to fellow list members so that he can have enough pocket change to put gas in his truck and get a few cans of beans. It's hard not to have a constant stream of income. [Erik] > From: gee..

Re: [meteorite-list] Best ways to send payments from Canada to Morocco?

2009-11-12 Thread Greg Stanley
All: It is my understanding that a true "paired" stone would need to be lab tested to match the first find (NWA ) or it would have to physically "fit' to the first stone (NWA ).  Perhaps this is not correct.  I collect a lot on dry lakes and in that environment you can have many differ

Re: [meteorite-list] Best ways to send payments from Canada to Morocco?

2009-11-12 Thread Carl 's
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 w

Re: [meteorite-list] freebies and on another note

2009-11-12 Thread Howard Steffic
Steve. I hate to be rude but do you make a career out of being clueless? Non-paypal members are free to just use their credit cards to make payments. So what is the incentive to take credit card payments directly, The service charge is basically the same. Howard Steffic

Re: [meteorite-list] Best ways to send payments from Canada to Morocco

2009-11-12 Thread Brian Cox
Hello Melanie and list, In regards to your question of sending payments to Morocco, I have to ask a couple of questions and others also mentioned they weren't clear on your question since you didn't seem to be including shipping costs. I'd like to help you out and I mean this in the most thoug

Re: [meteorite-list] Best ways to send payments from Canada toMorocco?

2009-11-12 Thread Aid Mohamed
Hello List; I  just want to know what is the aim of Greg in that? all the time when something is happen to Maroccan dealers, he's intervention is usually negative, as a Moroccan dealer I hate this manner, Plesae don't generalize! if anyone had a problem with someone, please try to solve it frien

Re: [meteorite-list] Full time meteorite people.

2009-11-12 Thread Ausgangspunkt Erde
Hi Greg and all. I locate the fall area. And I find meteorites. That's my job. I have researched in this year four meteorite falls here in Europe and at two falls I was successful. More information here: www.erfm.eu Best wishes from Germany Thomas Grau European Research Center for Fireballs an

Re: [meteorite-list] YD impact - doing as best they can

2009-11-12 Thread oxytropidoceras
In response to " Newly Published Junk Science on Younger Dryas Impact" at: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2009-November/058066.html E.P. Grondine stated: "All I can do is re-iterate that there is no reason for several of the peoples to have made up stories of this impact, other

Re: [meteorite-list] National Geographic Channel - Naked Science:Countdown to Impact

2009-11-12 Thread Greg Hupe
Hi Richard, A huge, "Congratulations" to you for initially discovering 2008 TC3!! It is truly an amazing story of asteroid discovery, followed by recovered meteorites from when the asteroid fell to earth. Another "Congratulations" goes to all who helped track it through earth's atmosphere and the

[meteorite-list] National Geographic Channel - Naked Science: Countdown to Impact

2009-11-12 Thread Richard Kowalski
Hello all, I just got word from the producers that we have a date for the premier of the program, Naked Science: Countdown to Impact The hour long program about the discovery of 2008 TC3, the prediction of it's impact in northern Sudan and the subsequent recovery of it's meteorite fragments

[meteorite-list] National Geographic Channel - Naked Science: Countdown to Impact

2009-11-12 Thread Richard Kowalski
Hello all, I posted this yesterday from my work address, but it hasn't come through yet. Apologies if it does and this posts twice. ~ I just got word from the producers that we have a date for the premier of the program, "Naked Science: Countdown to Impact" The hour long program about the

Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - November 12, 2009

2009-11-12 Thread Richard Kowalski
$15 today and no samples permitted... -- Richard Kowalski http://fullmoonphotography.net IMCA #1081 --- On Thu, 11/12/09, spacerocks...@aol.com wrote: > From: spacerocks...@aol.com > Subject: [meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - November 12, > 2009 > To: meteorite-list@mete

[meteorite-list] Test - Delete

2009-11-12 Thread Greg Hupe
Testing, please delete Best regards, Greg Greg Hupe The Hupe Collection NaturesVault (eBay) gmh...@htn.net www.LunarRock.com IMCA 3163 Click here for my current eBay auctions: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZnaturesvault

Re: [meteorite-list] Best ways to send payments from Canada toMorocco?

2009-11-12 Thread Michael Fowler
Hi Greg, I don't think there is any benefit to your holier than thou responses to Aziz. All I think he was trying to do, in his as yet imperfect English, was to chide you for your flippant answer to Melanie's question about shipments to Morocco. Don't you think you could have done better than j

[meteorite-list] Full time meteorite people.

2009-11-12 Thread GREG LINDH
To all, I've often wondered how many people are full time hunter/collectors of meteorites. In other words, how many people earn their living strictly from the hunting, collecting, trading, and selling of meteorites, and have no side jobs to supplement their meteorite income? What pe

[meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - November 12, 2009

2009-11-12 Thread SPACEROCKSINC
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