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Ignore my advice and you'll never see your meteorite again. That's really no skin off my back, but I think most people would rather have a neat "maybe-a-meteor
by slapfrog 5y ago
Ignore my advice and you'll never see your meteorite again. That's really no skin off my back, but I think most people would rather have a neat "maybe-a-meteorite" sitting on their own desk instead of having it sit on the desk of the researcher they sent it to. When these guys open your package to find what they immediately recognize to be a meteorite worth hundreds if not thousands of dollars, I can guarantee you they won't be annoyed at the inconvenience and they sure as shit won't think twice about the return postage you send with it. They'll add it to their collection.
- majormajor 5y agoYour advice - don't send them shit - is basically the same as their advice, though, just in your case you have a "maybe a meteorite" that you think is valuable, and in their case you probably just have a rock after following the flowchart. Even their advice if the flowchart says its interesting is to send pictures next, not send it in. My own behavior, if I sent pictures and they said "yes, that might be a meteorite" would be to arrange to bring it in in person, sometime. Mailing it blindly doesn't seem like it should be anyone's first instinct, but they certainly aren't saying anyone should do that.
- slapfrog 5y agoThe advice on that page is to not send your rock to the people at geoscience.unlv.edu, because they specifically will keep your rock. My advice is to not send your rock to any researchers at any organization because virtually all of them will keep your rock. > Mailing it blindly doesn't seem like it should be anyone's first instinct, Mailing it blindly? If you first contacted a university researcher asking about a rock and they said "sure send it to me and I'll check it out", and then kept your rock without telling you upfront they would keep it, you would be in good company. A whole lot of people have lost neat artifacts like this. Not just meteorites of course; crystals, fossils, archeological finds. Basically anything you think a scientist might find interesting, the scientist will keep for themselves for the same reason.