[meteorite-list] Meade Telescopes diversifying their product line?

[tracy latimer]

Yep, Meade has sold boxed sample sets for a while now, apparently as a 
sideline.  They are nice, but more pricy than buying on ebay, or even some 
dealers.  Still if you want to be sure you get a real meteorite and don't 
know the good dealers, it's a start.

Earlier this year, I accompanied my husband on an appointment, ostensibly to 
keep the client occupied while he fixed their computer.  It turned out they 
collected gemstones, and while they had a nice collection of precious and 
semiprecious stones, they were very proud of a "meteorite sphere" they had 
bought from a NY dealer.  I couldn't face telling them that the "meteorite" 
was nothing but nicely finished terrestrial iron pyrites and other 
concretions.  We went back the next day for a followup, and I brought some 
of my real meteorites to show them; I especially wanted them to see what a 
nice pallasite looked like; that, and a chunk of the Moon and Mars.

My little exhibit apparently fired their imagination.  Last week, my husband 
had another computer appointment with them, and the gentleman proudly showed 
off his new Meade meteorite collection.  Now if only we can convince him 
that the so-called meteorite sphere is a meteorwrong.

Tracy Latimer
p.s.  I may have this Mike Reynolds confused with someone else, but I 
thought he was a sci-fi author and aerospace consultant, not a meteorite 
authority.

>From: "Martin Horejsi" <accretiondesk at gmail.com>
>To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>Subject: [meteorite-list] Meade Telescopes diversifying their product line?
>Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:36:09 -0600
>
>I just stumbled across this:
>
>http://meade.telescopes.com/products/meade-meteorite-kit-limited-edition-collectors-set-43894.html
>
>Seems that the specimens are prepared using the Mason method. As in Bill 
>Mason?
>
>Also, this piece of text I find a little interesting:
>
>"Along with each Meteorite Kit is a certificate of authenticity signed
>by one of the world's foremost meteoriticists, Dr. Mike Reynolds."
>
>Hmmmm.
>
>Martin
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