[meteorite-list] Question: Just How ...?

[Martin Altmann]

Hiho,

one important possibility for the veterans of pre-internet times is missing
:-)

12. Fairs & Shows.

I got my first meteorite in 1981 on the Munich show as a boy. A schoolmate's
father was paleo-biologist at the Bavarian states collections, so we got
free tickets. As I was highly interested in astronomy, I really was
wonderstruck, that meteorites weren't locked away in scientists' labs, but
that indeed one could buy them!
Of course I took one.
3 weeks later I was somewhat disappointed, cause I found out, that the stone
which was sold to me, was "only" a tektite.
Soooo I couldn't await next years' show, there I bought of course a real
one! A 50gram individual of Mundrabilla from famous Walter Zeitschel,
to whome I send again here my best wishes to hospital!

The tektite I still have.
Martin