[meteorite-list] General Meteorite Interest Has Increased 100% In Last Year

[MARK BOSTICK]

Hello List,

"The Meteorite Market is Crashing!", "The Meteorite Market Has Crashed the 
Last Two Years!", "Things Are Not Selling", "The Market is Ruin".....it 
seems a common theme or underlined theme in the meteorite community.  I have 
never seen this to be true.  In fact, it appears to me that sales and 
interest has done nothing but increase.....and at a really amazing pace.

As we continue to increase the inflow of meteorites, it makes it harder and 
harder to get a large piece of everything, but I do not think that means 
things are not selling or the market has crashed. And to show this I present 
some of my website stats.  Which show a general interest in meteorites is up 
almost 50%.  While this does not mean sales are up 50%, the two factors are 
very closely related.

The following is a list of different visitors, per a month, to my website, 
www.meteoritearticles.com.  This is not page hits or visits a month, which 
are both larger numbers.  Such information is usually kept private but I 
think some of you will find it of interest.

Date - Different Visitors

Sept 2004 - 4,484 (not over yet....but almost)
Aug, 2004 - 4,239
Jul. 2004 - 3,244
May 2004 - 2,754
Apr 2004 - 3,069
Mar 2004 - 3,605
Feb 2004 - 3,352
Jan 2004 - 2,942
Dec 2003 - 2,480
Nov 2003 - 2,449
Oct 2003 - 2,393


Clear Skies,
Mark Bostick
www.meteoritearticles.com