[meteorite-list] Meteorite talk in tucson

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I used to think Dean was "the largest meteorite guy in the world." That last picture looks like he's lost that stature. Married life must agree with him. He's going to love New Zealand.

Best regards,

Bill


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From: "Alexander Seidel" <gsac at gmx.net>
> Who of the *r e a l* high rollers regarding privately owned meteorites in
> this world will fully and publicly tell you quantities or qualities, for
> reasons whatever...?? I mean there are definitely quite a bunch of
> collectors around with collections truly deserving an adjective like
> "giant". Some of them are shy and won´t talk about it at all, some of them
> are modest and won´t talk about it too much in the public, others raise
> their voice much too loudly, some may know this list, some not....
> 
> "The largest in the world", sort of a "world-record-collector", makes no
> sense in this respect. And it definitely is not only a play of numbers, but
> instead much more adds to a qualification which may come close to what you
> are musing about.
> 
> P.S.: to me (subjectively, of course) Bob Haag still is the ultimate
> collector and undisputed highest of all the living high rollers which I know
> of in this field. This has not only to do with his enormous collection
> figured in numbers but what he eventually *d i d* as a frontierman
> especially in the (non-internet-)years when many of us even did not even
> know how to spell the m-word. He obviously is not on this list, as he
> probably doesn´t care for this kind of communication, whatever is going on
> here every now and then. On the other hand there are lots and lots of other
> high rollers, but then again numbers alone don´t count...
> 
> Alex
> Berlin/Germany
> 
> > What determines the "largest in the world". Number of pieces, quality, 
> > rare? I wanna know since this title gets tossed around ALOT.
> > 
> > ===============
> > Matt Morgan
> > Mile High Meteorites
> > P.O. Box 151293
> > Lakewood, CO 80215 USA
> > http://www.mhmeteorites.com
> > ebay id: mhmeteorites
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > DNAndrews wrote:
> > 
> > > Hmmm....I had no idea that Marvin had the largest private meteorite 
> > > collection in the world.  Learn something new everyday.
> > > Also, I hope the Flandreau gives proper credit to John Blennert for 
> > > all the "freebies" he has donated to them over the years.
> > > Sounds like a nice event indeed.  Thanks for sharing Eric.
> > > Dave
> > >
> > > star-bits at comcast.net wrote:
> > >
> > >> FYI for those in the Tucson area.
> > >>
> > >>
> >
> <http://uanews.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/UANews.woa/wa/MainStoryDetails?ArticleID=1
> 0995>
> 
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> -- 
> > >> Eric Olson
> > >> ELKK Meteorites
> > >> http://www.star-bits.com
> > >>
> > >>
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