[meteorite-list] Angrites & Healthy Meteorite Market

[Greg Hupe]

Dear List Members,

There has been quite a bit of talk on the List regarding the health of the 
meteorite market. I believe it is very healthy and meteorites are getting 
more International attention with all of the new (and current) space 
missions. Take for instance NASA's Messenger spacecraft which made a 33-year 
return trip to Mercury January 14, 2008, again October 6th and will again 
January 2009. During a fourth and final encounter on March 18, 2011, 
Messenger will settle into orbit around Mercury . Hopefully some questions 
can start to be answered, for instance, are "Angrites" from the planet 
Mercury?

Getting back to the meteorite attention and the meteorite "Market", in the 
November 2008 issue of "Astronomy" magazine (now in news stands), there is a 
good article about Angrites, in particular NWA 2999, NWA 4801 and NWA 4590 
"Tamassint". If you own a piece of any of these, you may just see your 
collection piece in this issue! An indicator in how this helps is this 
week's auction closing price for a fragment of NWA 2999, $4,000.00 per gram! 
Granted it was a small piece, but new collectors are being born every day 
with the great meteorite press.

Another good article about NASA's Messenger mission was in the May 2008 
issue of "Sky & Telescope" magazine.

Best regards,
Greg

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