[meteorite-list] NWA meteorites, TO BE OR NOT TO BE?

Tue Aug 31 19:26:08 EDT 2010

Hi Martin and Listers, 

Wow I want what ever your taking and so does my fingers. Any whos thank you for sharing your thoughts Martin and telling me I can answer some of my questions myself.

WOW I forgot that the List was a place to talk about meteorites and ask questions. My bad, I must be at the wrong Meteorite List.... I bet I got phished. Dang, I need a new virus protection program :)~

Back to NWA meteorites, I find it interesting that there isn't much write ups about them. So from a person that has only been around..... mmmmmm lets say 8 months, I think it was a good time to say something about this topic and see what some of the old timers thought about NWA meteorites.

And lastly I hope a meteorite doesn't care where it lands, but from a collectors stand point, we do care, and from a science stand point, they care as well, cause if they didn't then I wouldn't see why the need for strewn fields or coordinates of where the meteorites are recovered from.

Shawn Alan
IMCA1633
eBaystore
http://shop.ebay.com/photophlow/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340 

[meteorite-list] NWA meteorites, TO BE OR NOT TO BE?
Martin Altmann altmann at meteorite-martin.de 
Tue Aug 31 10:48:18 EDT 2010 

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Hi Shawn, 

I think, you can answer some of your questions by yourself. 

Outstretch your arm. On your extended arm look on the tip of your little 
finger. 
The finger nail of your pinky is the Earth. 

Imagine, your room has no walls - or go in the garden. 

250 yards away from your fingernail, that's where the meteorites come from. 

So it's possibly not so important, where exactly on your fingernail they 
will hit. 

...and as strained you'll squint your eyes, 
it's impossible to match a Shawn, a Mike, an Aziz, a Martin, a Bevan... on 
your nail :-) 

Best! 
Martin 

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Hello Listers, 

I was doing an Internet search today on meteorites and came across a write 
up about NWA meteorites. I would have to say it was a good write up 
considering there isn't much about the history of NWA's on the Internet. The 
write up covered topics from the NWA gold rush, to how this affected sales 
and peoples desert meteorite collections, and how NWA meteorites by some can 
be seen as inferior to other meteorites. All these points do bring up some 
interesting view points in the meteorite community. I wonder what peoples 
take is on NWA meteorites and how the classification works or doesn't work 
with some finds? 

Why I ask this is because some of the NWA meteorites on eBay are NWA xxx 
meteorites, meaning those meteorites haven't been classified and probably 
wont. Now to me for every NWA meteorite excluding the Lunar and Martian 
meteorites could be almost unique in its owe if there is only a select few 
people that get these stones classified, making the NWA meteorite market 
confusing and regulated by only classifying certain meteorites and 
disregarding others. And as for selling NWA meteorites how does one 
determine the price point when the TKW and location is unknown? 

Is it to be or not to be when collecting NWA meteorites..... this draw back 
could affect the classification and make it more confusing compared to finds 
in the US and Europe. If I went to the Muffin strewn field and found some 
meteorites, I wouldn't have to get them classified because of the 
documentation of a fall being there. But on the other hand, if I went to 
Africa and found some meteorites I would be SOL and the only way I could 
know what the meteorite was is if I got it classified, which I am not sure 
how much that costs, but I bet it can be a pretty penny depending what your 
getting done on it. 

Now could this be a problem in some peoples eyes why they think NWA's might 
be questionable because locations cant be accountable? And from a collectors 
stand point what features does one collect NWA's? From my take it seems like 
that some NWA meteorite are unique in its own way by rarity or uniqueness 
cause of lack there of, and because of the way NWA's are collected, cant 
this affecting price point and investment for ones collection? 

Here is an abstract from the write up about NWA's 

NWAs: Second Class Meteorites? 

By Norbert Classen, May 2003 

On the collector's market, the prices of most Northwest African meteorites 
are still dropping while witnessed falls and historic specimens are getting 
more expensive. Are NWA meteorites less valuable, or is it a subliminal form 
of chauvinism making some people treat them like second class meteorites? 

The NWA Dilemma 

In the late 1990s, an increasing number of meteorites from the hot deserts 
of northwest Africa hit the market, most of them having been recovered by 
so-called "nomads", i.e. by native people from Morocco and Western Sahara. 
After having acquired several meteorites at the local markets, the French 
fossil hunters, Bruno Fectay and Carine Bidaut, started to educate their 
local team not only to look for fossils, but also for meteorites - with 
great success. 

link 
http://www.meteorite.fr/en/news/feature.htm 

NWA, to be or not to be? 

Shawn Alan 
IMCA 1633 
eBaystore 
http://shop.ebay.com/photophlow/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p 
4340 
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