[meteorite-list] high-end collectors high-end meteorites and rareness

[Stephan Kambach]

Hello, All

If I combined Michael Farmers and Greg Hupes writing up about high-end 
collectors and high-end meteorites,
so I should come to the conclusion that dealers aiming know a days to 
collectors with big wallets.
Regardless to the amount of money you can effort for collecting meteorites, 
for myself,
the high-end collector is the one, who understand in deeper details what he 
is collecting.
Means, before he can real enjoy it, he must crack his head by studying in a 
private or profesional way
mineralogy, physics, (bio)chemistry and etc. . Otherwise, confrontated with 
the foolishness,
he can only marveling with an open mouth, but the real enjoy comes be 
looking at a meteorite
with the specialed (knowlege) view about what you are looking at.
Collectors like David Weir for example buying the small samples, but they 
are the high-end collectors.
Some companies or also some single rich peoples (or even the most) often 
have rudimentär interest in meteorites
but supporting the interest of the nature of an dealer – that's a own class 
of high-ends.

Last at least, something about lunar and martian meteorites. Meanwhile the 
amount of it rised up
to huge amounts compare to some real rare space samples, for ex. the 
ungrouped cc's like NWA 5958 from Greg Hupe.
A sample like this, unique by it's O-isotopes compared to the rest of all 
meteorites, provide an absolutely
less amount of material compared for ex. to a NWA 5000, but comes in price 
much more efordable.
Martians and Lunaites describe more a less a single parent body 
history/evolution but a CM2 like a Murchison,
a Tagish Lake or CI spans with it's information through the rise of the 
solarsystem and
in some way also beyond. Some of such CC's you find in between the 393 CC's 
of the MetBull 101 to 103.

My regards,  Stephan Kambach


PS. my special thanks to David Weir supporting all the real collectores for 
his well done work and
also to the scientists, who let us, they one who is opend enough for it, to 
understand the value of the meteorites