[meteorite-list] Meteorite market trends - a critical note

[Darren Garrison]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:23:35 -0700, you wrote:

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>  Hi Darren,
>
>  I couldn't agree with you more.  I love meteorites just because of what they are.....rocks from space.  
>I love all meteorites.  I, like you, wish that everyone had access to tons of meteorites of all kinds....

I use the term "meteorite" to describe the stuff I wish that I had access to
arbitrarily large amounts of, but of course I don't require that it pass through
the Earth's atmosphere (in a destructive way) first.  As much as I love a nice,
fresh fusion crust, the big hunks could be straight off the asteroid.  :-)
Wouldn't paneling your walls in L 3.0 or H 3.0 look great?  Or a coffee table
made from a single slab of etched (and sealed for moisture, of course) iron?
Forget stained glass windows, have very thin pallasite windows!  (Of course, I'd
still want one of these tables http://www.fossilhunter.co.uk/id12.html).  Lunar
sample?  I call dibs on this one:
http://apod.oa.uj.edu.pl/apod/image/9709/boulder_a17.jpg

And as long as I have that hypthetical space ship, I could still toss a few
meteorites into the atmosphere to get that fusion crust look!  (Okay, maybe I
should use Titan's atmosphere-- tossing rocks at the Earth might not make me too
popular-- even if I didn't make strangelets, monopoles, and quantum black holes
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/28/lhc_cern_hawaiian_botanist_lawsuit)