[meteorite-list] Provenance of Universities' Material

[MexicoDoug]

Hey Sterling and Adam

"Why? Because in 500 years, untouched
asteroids will become contact-prohibited
quarantined nature preserves."

If we buy a Golden Age Passport now, can we get a Grandfather clause 
both to visit and to collect a daily BLM-sized 25 pounds plus one large 
piece up to 250 pounds per year?  BTW, it seems coins found on US 
managed public lands over 100 years old are now in the illegal to 
remove column.

Golden Age Passport:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_Passport

Kindest wishes
Doug

-----Original Message-----
From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
To: Meteorite List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wed, Jan 18, 2012 2:59 pm
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Provenance of Universities' Material


Adam, List,

100 years from now, we'll be de-orbiting
asteroids and moving them into HEO (high
Earth Orbit) to chew them up as a resource.

300 years from now, we be in the Zone,
dismantling them there, surveying, sampling,
coring, lasering... Contaminating. Every
REALLY fresh meteorite currently found
on Earth now should be curated en vacuo
and handled in a reasonably sterile lab
manner for the next half-millennium.

Why? Because in 500 years, untouched
asteroids will become contact-prohibited
quarantined nature preserves.

Of course, not going to happen... unless
a university does it with select specimens.


Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Hupe" <raremeteorites at yahoo.com>
To: "Adam" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Provenance of Universities' Material


Hopefully the scientists and curators of the future will be more sample
oriented. A meteorite from the asteroid belt, Mars,the Moon or any 
other
yet to be proven locations doesn't care where it lands. A hundred years
 from now, future stewards of the stones may ask" what the hell were 
they
thinking back then?"

Best Regards,

Adam
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