[meteorite-list] Welcome Gary

[Gary K. Foote]

Hiya Clyde/MexicoDoug,

I figured that the few $$$ that flow into NWA from meteorite sales ought to buy, oh say, 
about 1/10,000th of the necessary materials to build a nuke, so it must be hype.  But 
being me I had to ask.  Yeah, I'm a tail twister.  lol

My collection is new and small and growing.  My interest in astronomy goes back to my 
first childhood visit to a planetarium in LA.  Then I found an interesting meteorwrong 
[at least I think it's a wrong].  It sat on my desk until one day last winter when I was 
ored and began to look up such things online.  One thing led to another and now I have 
another addiction to add to my list - collecting, and someday hunting, the elusive 
perfect meteorite.  My Honda is quiet so I figure I may sneak up on one someday.  :)

For now I have my wrong, a Campo and a Campo coin and a Barringer fragment.  I'm going to 
have my wrong sliced and analyzed before formal declaration of what it is.  I just don't 
have the 1K+ to buy a good saw yet.

I thought Aussie meteorites were off the list of touchables?  Local law or something?

Shiny side up,

Gary 'Old Man of the Mountains' Foote

On 21 Dec 2005 at 4:19, MexicoDoug at aol.com wrote:

> Hey Gary and welcome to the Glanggang!  I hope you have a good time  here, 
> and it is nice to have you.  Twisting the wick already?  That  hype-sucking 
> "terrorism" question for ape-hanging monkey butts and RUBs is  like looking for 
> back warmers...among a serious Harley chick  club on your Honda.  It has been 
> discussed so extensively and  mostly everyone has already rumbled that wants to. 
> You can see all the reruns in  the archives by searching using the word 
> "terrorism", if the old anchs  get into a snafu.
> 
> Are you planning on starting a meteorite collection, or  just learn about 
> them second hand? What got you interested, was it the  big one found in Kansas?  
> People collect for many reasons.  Some  are scientific, but some just like the 
> dates they fall.  Some like the  names.  How about "Rabbit Flat" from the 
> colorful land of kangaroos,  aborigines and Australian meteorites?  A road gang 
> found it near the most  remote roadhouse in Australia, that is closed most of 
> the days of the week, as  far as I can Google.  The live-in caretaker 
> supposedly runs people off with  a shotgun.  Sounds like a thrilling place to hunt, and
> bike, if only there  were a bridge to Australia...
> 
> Keep the dirty side down,
> Clyde
> 
> 
> In a message dated 12/21/2005 2:27:49 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> SaharaTeam at aol.com writes:
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:38:05 -0500, "Gary K.   Foote" <gary at webbers.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> >Does anybody lend any  credence  to this   theory?
> >
> >http://www.saharamet.com/meteorite/data/Sahara/Nwa.html
> 
> 
> Two   facts:
> 
> 1) NWA meteorites are for 95%, contraband items, coming from   Algeria and 
> the 
> whole Sahara (9 million square kilometers). These rocks  are  centralized in 
> one point (South Morocco, Erfoud). 25 Algerian  policemen have  been 
> especially 
> trained to stop this contraband.
> See  two links (you can use  Google language tools to translate from  French) 
>   :
> http://www.elwatan.com/print.php3?id_article=15125
> http://www.algerie-dz.com/article1665.html
> 
> 2)   Trans Saharan Counterterrorism Initiative.
> Saharan contraband is well   organized and linked with army groups. That's 
> the 
> reason why a budget  of  $  500 millions will be allocated by the US 
> government to stop  it. Ten sub-Saharan  countries are associated to the 
> project. Half 
> of  the budget will be allocated  for helping the population to develop their 
> 
> economy, the other is dedicated to  the fight against army groups and  the 
> contraband controlled by them. See this   link:
> http://www.defense.gov/news/May2005/20050516_1126.html
> 
> And   also for an external point of   view:
> http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/caocl/Africa/Pan-Sahel/Readings/Islamist%20Terrorism
> %20in%20the%20Sahel--Fact%20or%20Fiction.pdf
> 
> 
> Richard   & Roland  Pelisson
> http://www.SaharaMet.com
> 
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