[meteorite-list] - "witness" to July 6 Fireball PA

[drtanuki]

Dear Steve,
  Thank you for your, Ruben`s and other`s efforts in searching for the Penn. meteorite!
  Regarding what a meteorite is worth.... it is worth what you or someone is willing to pay, so I suggest that you re-phrase the question to the reporter when asked, and reply that "I am willing to pay up to... (or a realistic price) range".  No dealer is likely to pay $1000/gr in the field for any fall unless it is extremely extremely rare and even then highly unlikely, as you should know.  Setting unrealistic prices in the news creates unrealistic expectations.   Maybe preparing in advance a "press release" for the press is important for reducing incorrect quotes?

  
  Beyond the above, I have no comments.  Best in your and others successful hunt!  Dirk Ross...Tokyo

--- On Thu, 7/9/09, MeteorHntr at aol.com <MeteorHntr at aol.com> wrote:

> From: MeteorHntr at aol.com <MeteorHntr at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] - "witness" to July 6 Fireball PA
> To: drtanuki at yahoo.com, cynapse at charter.net, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 2:12 PM
> Dirk,
> 
> Yea, it is hard to answer the question: "What are
> meteorites  worth?"  
> Personally I don't like to lie to people and say they are
> not  worth anything.   
> 
> Especially when a simple search on ebay will  show
> that meteorites are 
> indeed worth from around 5 cents a gram up to $1,000
> a  gram.  
> 
> When the reporters pressed me how much these would be
> worth,  I refused to 
> give a number. I told them I didn't know, and there were
> too many  factors 
> that would determine what they are worth. So I guess they
> went with the  
> simple shorter quote.
> 
> I am not sure what you mean by "Anther Pirate 
> show?"  Would you expound?
> 
> Steve Arnold
> 
> 
> 
> In a message dated 7/9/2009 12:03:44 A.M. Central Daylight
> Time,  
> drtanuki at yahoo.com
> writes:
> Meteorites are worth 5 cents a gram to $1,000 a  gram,
> depending on how 
> rare they are, Arnold said. 
> 
> Another Pirate  show?
>  
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