[meteorite-list] Another meteorite millionaire wannabe

[Impactika at aol.com]

Let me make one thing perfectly clear:
 
The IMCA is NOT using Funds but Time, a whole lot of time, on this.
 
It used to be that one or at most two Directors were able to answer all the 
questions that we receive on our _Questions at IMCA.cc_ 
(mailto:Questions at IMCA.cc)  address. This is not true anymore, now the whole Board participates, 
and Yes, 99% of the questions fall in the "I found a meteorite" category.
And so far this year, only one turned out to be a real meteorite. I am 
sorry none of us took the time to count out many questions we received, but I 
can assure you they were many, and in quite a few cases it took more than one 
email to explain that the found rock was nowhere near being a meteorite, not 
even a good meteowrong.   
 
I hope this clears up that issue.
 
Anne M. Black
_http://www.impactika.com/_ (http://www.impactika.com/) 
_IMPACTIKA at aol.com_ (mailto:IMPACTIKA at aol.com) 
Vice-President, I.M.C.A. Inc.
_http://www.imca.cc/_ (http://www.imca.cc/) 
 
 
In a message dated 9/12/2010 1:20:29 PM Mountain Daylight Time, 
star_wars_collector at yahoo.com writes:
> I was told that the IMCA is tying up a huge amount of resources on 
meteorite wrongs these days

Why? This is more of an IMCA issue and I dont want to get into it too much, 
but why is the IMCA using funds to test wrongs and who is approving the use 
of this? The is the first I have ever heard of the IMCA helping to identify 
meteorites and using funds to do so! As a member of the IMCA, I would like 
to have some say in what the money is being spent on, and testing wrongs is 
NOT one of the things I would use money on. I can get preliminary testing 
done for free, why cant anyone else?