[meteorite-list] Send me your Meteorite Picture now

[Tim Heitz]

Being a dealer of meteorites means being able to buy and sell.  That's the 
definition of dealer in the dictionary. Is a person
that buy and sells.  The reason I decided to be a dealer in meteorites was 
the chance to build a collection as a collector.
So why would anyone want a collection of meteorites?
To hold in your hand a piece of the solar system, a rock from space older 
than the earth itself, this is whats so intriguing about collecting 
meteorites. Tumbling through space from places unknown, these stones 
survived a violent passage through the atmosphere to crash land on earth. 
For many millions, even billions of years they have been floating in space 
in total darkness, at zero gravity conditions, and at extremely cold 
temperatures and now after all that, it has come to rest in your hand. (now 
thats cool !)



Like most collectors of anything,  if they get a chance to buy 10 at a big 
discount , so they can sell 9 of them at a profit to pay for 1

that will go into their collection they will do it.   On an average I get 4 
phone calls a month with someone telling me they have a meteorite.

And the story goes like this,   My grand father found it on his farm, it 
responds to a magnet.  I read about meteorites on the internet
it looks like a meteorite on your web site, its brown and I can see crystals 
in it.   So, my first answer to this is,  please send me a picture.

The other type of call I get is something like this, I have a meteorite that 
belonged to my father who has died a few months ago and he collected all 
kinds of rocks.
He was a rock hound and he had a meteorite in his collection, I have it for 
sale.        My answer to this is,  please send me a picture.

So what happens when you get the picture and it does look like a meteorite?

I have bought meteorites from all over the World like this, thats why I put 
up a meteorite web site in the spring of 1997, it was for the chance of 
finding
a newly discovered meteorite.   My web site was the fourth meteorite web 
site on the internet in 1997, sure I didn't know a lot about meteorites at 
the time,
but I sure did want to mingle with those that did and that was 15 years ago.

Ya, meteorites are cool!   So send me your picture       You may never know 
what surprise may be in store

Sincerely,
Tim Heitz