[meteorite-list] Macrochondrules/Saratov

[Martin Altmann]

Acquittal - Judge Doug!

The Saratov was sold long time ago and I don't have any other forsale.

My homepage is many years old, I never found time to renew it (and had not
the feeling to do so, as most of my pieces I distribute directely to the
collectors from whose I know, that they might interested in).

Cheers!
Martin


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <MexicoDoug at aol.com>
To: <Altmann at Meteorite-Martin.de>; <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Macrochondrules/Saratov


Martin A. wrote:

>And the most affordable way to obtain a megachondrule
>is to look for a Saratov, which costs at most dealers not
>more than 2$/g and as it's very crumbly one can easily
>isolate the megachondrules.  But start now, to be in time
>for Xmas, if you plan to present your girl a chondrules-
>necklace.

Martin, You may have stumbled upon an opportunity for the bead industry
with
your shameless ads...when a nanodiamond- or pearl-necklace won't  do...
Let's see... Since you have that very nice 276g Saratov 1918  witnessed fall
slice
at $1.70 per gram it might be profitable, especially if  someone else is
interested in the rest of the grains and micromineral  fragments!,

A one centimeter in diameter spherical chondrule must weigh very close to
1.67 grams (geek comment: density drops as size increases - a suspicion that
the
 big chondrules are created by a different mechanism than the little ones).
I'll give you $3 a gram (Almost double asking price) for some freshly
shucked
 pearly chondrules of diameter 1.00 cm +/- 0.06 cm.  For 40 of those
chondrules, that would come to 40X1.67X$3= just about US $200.   Not shabby
at all
for such as treasure.    Hopefully  shucking for chondritic pearls won't
becoming viewed as cherry-picking the  chondritic cocktail (Saratov
Cocktail?).  That
offer's good until I see a  better deal on some menthe or sirops à  l’
Springwater:-)
http://www.meteorite-martin.de/chondrit_meteorit.html
Saludos,  Doug