[meteorite-list] Meteorite Histories

[tracy latimer]

Amen regarding the removal of curating numbers from meteorite specimens.  
For many collectors and dealers, having a specimen from the Monnig 
collection or other famous institution is an important part of their 
meteorite's history.  The outcry would be huge if it were found that those 
same institutions were quietly sanding off specimen numbers from fossils so 
that less well preserved specimens could be traded up for newer better ones. 
  All the secrecy smacks of some type of academic skulduggery, and could 
backfire.  Keep it all in the open, I say.

Tracy Latimer

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