[meteorite-list] Enough

[Steve Witt]

Speaking of identification, how about a signature or name at the bottom of your email?

Respectfully,
Steve


 Steve Witt
IMCA #9020
http://imca.cc/


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From: "plagioklas at arcor.de" <plagioklas at arcor.de>
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com 
Sent: Sunday, June 9, 2013 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] My apology to Mike Farmer

I have enough qualifications to be able to talk about rocks. Otherwise i wouldnt talk about these here.

Im
a experienced mineral collector since 25 years. I saw tenthousands of 
samples live in shops, museums and in the field and i saw much more in 
images. I dont need to tell, how often i watched my own collection. I do
this just because i love watching and searching minerals. I read during
an average day at least 5 A4 pages about minerals and rocks to learn 
more. Of course i have many books, among these is one of the biggest and
most detailled textbooks about minerals, which was available in germany
(Röslers Lehrbuch der speziellen Mineralogie), which i bought while i 
had an age of less than 10 years, just because the commom books became 
too boring. I have read every of my books during
my live more then 10 times, some even so often, that they begun to 
disintegrate.

So i think im maybe even a bit more qualified to 
identify minerals, than the average people, who study some years and put
after this studium the textbooks in the corner and do just their jobs.

And i say again, they dont look like fulgurites. Even weathered ones should show glass and especially bubbles.

You
say a Nasa geologist? They are not gods, they are also just humans. And
most geologists are specialised to certain kinds of knowledge to do 
their jobs. You would wonder alot, if you would show common already 
identified mineral samples to a group of common geologists to let em 
identify these. Especially, when they not look like these in the 
textbooks. Has your geologist put some hydrocloric acid on your 
fulgurites? Or have you?

Occurrences of fulgurites does not mean,
that every thing with a hole is a fulgurite and does also not exclude 
the
occurrence of wrong fulgurites. Its the same thing as with meteorites. 
Not every black stone in a desert is a meteorite and the occurrence of 
meteorites does not exclude the occurrence of wrongs.