[meteorite-list] Looking for hunting success story

[STARSANDSCOPES at aol.com]

Hi Dean and list,  This is Tom Phillips the  micrograph guy.  I have 
purchased from Dean close to 200 Kg. over the  years.  He sure goes through the 
quantity of product.  I don't think  any one would have the time to closely examine 
everything he has sold.   Good stuff is out there to be found, even in the (or 
some times especially in)  the Dean Bessey Sunday night extravaganzas.

I still have several left  uncut big ones from your "huge" collection you 
sold me 4 years ago.  Once  in a while, I cut an other one.  Kind of like popping 
the cork on a special  bottle.

Two points:

Just because it's unclassified dosen't mean it  cant be something good and 
there is no such thing as an "Ordinary"  chondrite.

In a message dated 5/19/2007 4:26:35 P.M. Mountain Daylight  Time, 
deanbessey at yahoo.com writes:
I have done OK with unclassified NWAs. In  the catagory
of the worst, most weathered ugly stuff that you ever
see in  morocco I once had a 400 gram meteorite on ebay
for $77. Was a likely H  chondrite as it had the
magnetic qualities of an H. After not selling it  I
figured that it was so ugly that nobody would ever buy
it at any price  so I decided to chop it up. A saw
blade gets about a quarter inch into and is  totally
worn away. I figure that the blade is old and replace
it - getting  another quarter inch before the new blade
is shot. So now I figure something  is strange here.
After banging the half inch or so off with an hammer  I
see an obvious ureilite and I get over $5000 for
something I would have  been happy getting $77 for a
few hours earlier.
I also found the worlds  only EL3 outside antarctica (I
think another has been found since) and a CO3  cutting
what I thought would be an LL. 
There are others but these stand  out in my memory this
morning. I think I found a new EH5 or 6  a  couple
weeks ago randomly cutting what I thought would be an
H but I dont  know for sure yet.
Cheers
DEAN
http://www.meteoriteshop.com  




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