[meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - June 11, 2007

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In a message dated 6/11/2007 10:14:41 A.M.  Mountain Daylight Time, 
cynapse at charter.net writes:
>Good  Lord......   another unclassifed meteorite as Picture of the  day?    
>Yawn.
>
>There should be a  rule.  No unclassifieds as Picture of the   day.
>
>Don
>
>________________________________
>
>Sorry  you're  disappointed Don but you know you don't have to view them if  
>you choose not  to!
>
>I post what collectors send me  and if they want to share with others  
rather 
>classified or not I  see nothing wrong with  it.


I disagree entirely with the  original post.  That's a beautiful meteorite, 
and
saying that it has to  be classified to be worth showing is more of the 
"where it

This hobby is  about the rocks!  I find unclassified meteorites to be, at 
times, more  interesting because there is still mystery left.  I like nothing 
more than  a beautiful "different looking" unclassified meteorite.  Lets not 
forget  where they all come from and not long ago (15 years?), the meteorite 
featured in  the Picture of the Day would of drawn a lot of interest from nearly 
all in this  hobby regardless of where it was found or if it had been pigeon 
holed  yet.

To limit ones interest to only the classified "Hot ticket"  meteorites flies 
dangerously close to Pokemon card collecting.  "I have a  Bulbasaur!"  "Well 
that's nothing, my Bulbasaur is Base Set!"

I'm  going back to the microscopes to examine some more mysteries.  Who 
knows,  maybe I'll find a Charizard!

Tom  




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