[meteorite-list] Meteorite Substitution- What if...

[Mike Groetz]

Darren-
   In a sense- you are right.
   But in another aspect- the find location and
historical link is also part indivdual preferences.
   Heck- even Walter Branch and I agreed one time that
the diversity and originality of names of the
locations can add some excitement and wonder to the
piece.
   You have a good point- but also- why pay $10 a gram
for piece when in reality it could have been bought
for a $1 a gram. And be mislead.... There was a comic
to this effect one time in Meteorite magazine.
Mike

--- Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 16:22:51 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
> 
> >   What is to stop someone from buying a nicer, low
> >weathered, unclassified NWA meteorite and
> >claiming/submitting it for analyzation and naming
> as a
> >find from a local desert- say in the western US?
> 
> I'd say, so what if they do?  I agree there is SOME
> value in knowing WHERE a meteorite landed-- an
> idea of the total mass, an idea of the orbit-- but
> those are two of the least important, most
> cosmetic and incidental aspects of the meteorite. 
> The main scientific value lies in the contents of
> the stone itself.  So I would say that just about
> the only harm that would be done would be to the
> wallets of the collecters trying to get stones from
> specific locations.
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