[meteorite-list] meteor-wrong (most likely)

[j.divelbiss at att.net]

Marcin, Adam and others:

While I provided Marcin's site to the list as a location to buy this meteorwrong...I will not spend a penny on what I also think is man-made material for profit. Maybe someday I'll get a piece for free, or by having one thrown into a trade for something else to add to my "wrong" collection. For now it is for somebody else to buy, not me.

John



-------------- Original message from "Meteoryt.net" <marcin at meteoryt.net>: -------------- 


> > Cheap is a relative term. It is a lot cheaper now versus when it was first 
> sold as a new pallasite find. But since it is "cool" looking material that 
> appears to be similar to a pallasite, it is still not $0.10/g or 
> less....like cheap chondrites and irons. Pricing is still in the $1 to $3 
> per gram range. See the site below for pieces at $1.50/g. 
> > http://www.polandmet.com/ 
> 
> Thanks 
> Someone can laugh that pallasite-wrong cost few times more than Brahin 
> pallasite(ebay curiosity), but there is just areound 3 importand reassons 
> for this in my opinion: 
> First 
> Shirokovsky is verry stable. I personally in around 800g of slices find only 
> one with rust. This looked like accident in preparing this single slice. 
> Second, 
> Half of market success of Shirokovsky is this how this mineral was prepared. 
> Give us 1mm thin brahin slices with 90% transparent olivines, and I (and not 
> only me) pay more than for Shirokovsky. 
> Third 
> Its just cool looking thing, and we collecting cool things, so its 
> "must-have" specimen in our collections not mater if this is meteorite or 
> not. 
> 
> Good night all 
> 
> -----[ MARCIN CIMALA ]-----[ I.M.C.A.#3667 ]----- 
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