[meteorite-list] ebay auction meteorites

[Greg Hupe]

Hi Mike,

I concur! The gold rush is already showing signs of ending. The Moroccans 
are pulling out their "good" material and acting in a feverish, money lust, 
frenzy to get the last buck from those who deal there.

Greg

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Farmer" <meteoritehunter at comcast.net>
To: "Martin Altmann" <Altmann at Meteorite-Martin.de>; "MARK BOSTICK" 
<thebigcollector at msn.com>; <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] ebay auction meteorites


> On two expeditions in Oman, we found over 100 meteorites before finding my 
> first achondrite, a rare type of Ureilite.
> Achondrites are rare, the flood from Morocco will soon end.
> Mike Farmer
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Martin Altmann" <Altmann at Meteorite-Martin.de>
> To: "MARK BOSTICK" <thebigcollector at msn.com>; 
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 7:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] ebay auction meteorites
>
>
>> Hiho Mark,
>>
>> the region does not make the difference, the finders do!
>>
>> In Antarctica it's the common process, to number each stone seperately -
>> take a look at the Bulletins, there you'll find rare types, found in the
>> same place on the same day with different numbers.
>> Sahara in general is different, in Oman never were so much hunters around 
>> as
>> in Libya and the Oman stuff does not end up in Morocco.
>> And the teams in Oman give always all their finds from one aerea as a 
>> bunch
>> in classification, most in the same place. So different conditions as 
>> with
>> the NWA-stuff.
>> Meanwhile a beginning collector must have the impression, that a 
>> howardite,
>> a mesosiderite, a CV3 or a olivine diogenite must be something extremely
>> common, as always when a new one is coming out, in the months to follow,
>> appears a dozen numbers of the same material.
>> But ask f.e. Afanasjev or Haberer how many ordinary chondrites you have 
>> to
>> hunt down, until you'll find an achondrite! Make some stats NWA versus 
>> Dho,
>> with the latter I suppose you will get different ratios of rare types to
>> common ones, if you count the numbers as own finds.
>>
>> And of course many of the OCs from Oman are similar looking as in most
>> cases, they ae very weathered, W3-4. But take a look in the lists from 
>> the
>> Bulletins, where you can see from the date of find and the coordinates, 
>> that
>> mostly a large series of subsequent numbers were found on the same trip,
>> there you have a wide variety of Ls and Hs with different Fa and Fs 
>> values
>> and weathering degrees.
>>
>> So I think, if it costs the same, Stevey is not wrong to prefer Dho 
>> instead
>> of NWA, as in my eyes, they have a higher collector's value (and I'm 
>> really
>> no fan of desert chondrites, I'm sooo conservative and collect names).
>>
>> Cheeers!
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "MARK BOSTICK" <thebigcollector at msn.com>
>> To: <Altmann at Meteorite-Martin.de>; <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 2:38 PM
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] ebay auction meteorites
>>
>>
>>> Hello Martin,
>>>
>>> I do not keep a list of paired meteorites or possible paired meteorites.
>>>
>>> Dhofar is no different then DaG or other like regions.  I have traded 
>>> more
>>> in DaG so I could tell you some pairs in it.  I have seen a few tables 
>>> of
>>> Dhofar's where you have several H5 or L6's that look a lot alike.
>>>
>>> There have been pairing studies done in DaG, Roosvelt County and 
>>> Anartica.
>>> In all of these high collection places pairings were found to be pretty
>>> common.  Which I do not see as any problem and that was not a negative
>>> Dhofar comment.  Anyone thinking it was negative is free to send me all
>>> their Roosevelt County meteorites.  Should a pairing study be made, I
>> think
>>> the numbers say you will find Dhofar no different then other areas of
>>> meteorite concentration.
>>>
>>> The naming rules in all these areas say pretty much, unless it fits
>>> together, it gets a different name...or number as it is.  We seem to 
>>> have
>>> changed this a little to, found within a few feet, as many of the DaG's
>> with
>>> the same number do not fit together.
>>>
>>> On my website you will find I have many Dhofar, DaG and other like
>> numbered
>>> meteorites.  However, if you check the gallery, you will see in my
>> personal
>>> collection, I avoid like classification meteorites from regions of high
>>> meteorite concentration.
>>>
>>> http://www.meteoritearticles.com/photogallerymeteorites.html
>>>
>>>
>>> Mark Bostick
>>> www.meteoritearticles.com
>>>
>>>
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