[meteorite-list] And now what?

[Bob Evans]

You said " What now?"

Send some to me. I'll help you cut em up and see whats inside :-)

Bob
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Göran Axelsson" <axelsson at acc.umu.se>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 7:32 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] And now what?


> Hi list!
>
> A couple days ago I got my biggest meteorite
> shipment so far. Both in price, weight and numbers.
> I bought a 13 kg, 300 pieces mixed NWA:s from Eric
> Olson, a great seller. He sent me the packet in the
> beginning of mars. After a month I expected it to
> arrive but then I started to get nervous.
>
> Finally it arrived after 10 weeks in transit.
> (And I thought the mail wasn't shipped by sailboat
> theese days, but I guess I was wrong.... :)
>
> All together it was 300 uncut individuals in the
> range of 10-700 grams ...and one
> fossile!
> A rough sorting with my eyes gives two major groups
> and about 10-20 hard to place or different meteorites.
> Not surprisingly what I think is NWA869 is the biggest
> group.
>
> So now I'm facing a dilemma. What now?
> Is there any lab that is interested in classifying
> theese meteorites? I would be more than happy to
> give away type specimens from all if I only got
> it classified but from what I've heard on the
> list it's almost impossible to get the classification
> done without paying a high fee when dealing with
> ordinary NWA chondrites.
> I realises that no lab would want to analyse the
> smallest meteorites unless there is something
> special with them.
>
> Anyhow, I'm looking forward to go throught this
> lot and I will probably try to catalogue the whole
> lot with sizes, weight and photos of them.
>
> (Yeah, I have only collected meteorites for a year
> now, how could you tell?)
>
>     :-)
>
> Regards, Göran
>
>
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