[meteorite-list] Magnet canes are evil

[almitt2 at localnet.com]

Greetings,

The problem with using magnet canes are, once a meteorite is touched 
then the weak field in the specimen (and the parent body it came from) 
will be altered. A magnet field may be one way of pairing specimens to 
certain parent bodies. Now and in the future.

While it saves a lot of bending over there may come a time when a 
specimen's fields might be ruined in which magnetic studies may want to 
be done. Since there are many unique specimens found by meteorite 
hunters, using the canes may not be in the best interest of science and 
as Richard points out may allow you to miss some types of meteorites, 
lunites included.

--AL Mitterling
Mitterling Meteorites