[meteorite-list] TKW New Shergottite from Tata

[MexicoDoug]

Hi Darryl,

Congratulations on being the first person in this hemisphere to offer 
this material to collectors.  Whoever got that first piece, wow: 
well-worth it!Really when you think about it, it's priceless to be the 
first collector to receive a fresh piece of Mars before the the 
recovery gears can cool off from their red-hot situation.  I'm envious!

Hopefully more of this material will be recovered as the hunters hit 
the hills again, but ... "Who knows what additional mass lurks in the 
hills of men? Only the shadow knows ;-)

Best wishes
Doug


-----Original Message-----
From: Darryl Pitt <darryl at dof3.com>
To: Meteorite-list List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tue, Jan 3, 2012 9:30 am
Subject: [meteorite-list] TKW New Shergottite from Tata



Hi,

The 0.652 gram specimen of the new shergottite from Tata sold on ebay 
for $315
or $483/g.

I was asked what prompted my first auction on eBay. Candidly, I had 
been
thinking about doing this for a really long time.  (Facebook is next  
;-)
Given the number of fragments associated with this fall, and my being 
advised I
was the first U.S. dealer to have received material, it just seemed 
like the
perfect moment to do so.  My next auction offering will include a small 
specimen
of the most difficult to obtain Martian meteorite publicly available:
Governador Valadares.  Look for it later today or tomorrow.

==========

TKW of the New Shergottite from Tata

There has been a lot of banter concerning the TKW of this extraordinary
meteorite.  Some folks have suggested there are nearly twenty kilos and 
that
there will be "more than enough for everyone" while other have 
expressed a more
constrained amount of material.   It would appear a hybrid of both 
statements is
accurate.

Numerous sources on whom I've long relied assure me we are ultimately 
looking at
less than 10 kg of material.  However, there IS more than enough for 
everyone!
Apparently numerous meteorites shattered on impact after having struck 
a rocky
outcropping, and exploded into THOUSANDS of sub gram fragments.  If 
there was
ever a planetary that did not have to be sliced (except for thin 
section needs)
and where cut loss does not factor into the economics----this is it.   
Even at
$1000/g or more, a price point we should anticipate in the near future,
specimens will be within reach.

In the meantime, I still have a few specimens for sale here:
http://www.rocksfromspace.org/MARS.html

If you're interested in additional sub-gram specimens, please contact 
me off
list.

If you haven't already done so, you want to acquire a bit of this 
meteorite as
soon as possible. You do not want to be one of the folks muttering  "I 
can't
believe I didn't buy [Sanctioned Name] when it first hit the market 
Christmas
2011"



All the best / Darryl















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