[meteorite-list] WG: meteorites not being able to

[Armando Afonso]

If I understood well, the right thing to do with a new meteorite is to sell 
it in ebay!
I prefer to say that a standard protocole must urgently be implemented by 
the authorities of each country, with the objective of properly mapping the 
strewfield, collecting and preserve all the material for serious scientific 
studies.
I hate to see little turtles and coins made of meteorites, for sale.
AA

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Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 5:10 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] WG: meteorites not being able to


> We need only look to Peru to understand the expertise and efficiency that
> governments can bring to bear in order to secure critical scientific data.
> The carpetbaggers that plundered the site of the recent fall merely
> recorded locations, masses, eyewitness accounts, and such like. They did
> absolutely nothing to secure the all-important mud hole! Maybe they are
> not all bad, though. They did donate specimens to scientists that had real
> microscopes and ion probes and what not.
>
> Concerning the "unknown they are losing", is that the known-unknown or the
> unknown-unknown?
>
> Paul Swartz
>
>> Any scientific data that is lost to the country. Right now it might seem
>> trivial, but just like antiquities, they are a non-renewable resource.
>> That
>> meteorite will never fall again.
>> And in the future, knowing where strewnfields are, how they oriented,
>> what
>> class and quantity, could have some significant meaning.
>> It's the unknown they are loosing.
>>
>> Mark Ferguson
>
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