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Arriving at the Inn Suites Courtyard
Meteorites were for sale right up the stairs behind the big tree which was full of fresh oranges - about ten different rooms at this hotel had meteorites available - the Inn Suites was the highest concentration of dealers
Date: 01/01/2000
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Inn Suites Room 230
This is the room that Anne Black and Geoffrey Notkin have each year at the show - a great selection of meteorites as well as a good social meeting point for collectors
Date: 01/01/2000
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Russ Finney and Anne Black
This was my first stop on the hotel room-to-room meteorite tour and I finally got to meet Anne - she has an incredible French accent - her well organized meteorite selections were pretty fantastic as well
Date: 02/08/2010
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Zag and Travis County (b)
My first purchase - these slices were big and colorful with inclusions! - PLEASE note: The photos throughout this album were taken quickly with no processing - to see the higher quality versions - take a look in my categorized albums
Date: 01/01/2000
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Texas Bediasite and Moorabie
Two more purchases from Anne - a Texas impactite that is new for my collection - and a nice Australian meteorite specimen which fills a hole in my collection
Date: 01/01/2000
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Palo Verde Mine and Bendegó
I picked up these two new ones from Anne as well - the colorful thin sliced Palo Verde Mine is an Arizona meteorite and Bendegó is a historical meteorite found in 1816 in Brazil - you can see the main mass in Rio
Date: 01/01/2000
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Erich Haiderer
I made the drive over to the Riverpark Inn to see Erich and his amazing selection of Lunar and Martian meteorites - he had some eye popping slices and individuals which were way out of my budget - but I did find a few in my price range
Date: 01/01/2000
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Russ Finney and Erich Haiderer
I had a two hour parking limit for the hotel and I spent every minute of it in Erich's room - he was busy with many visitors but he managed to keep a conversation running with me the entire time - he is a great guy to do business with
Date: 02/08/2010
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Lunars and Martians!
Erich filled some big holes in my collection! NEA 003, DaG 262 (the smallest spec in the photo - remember this for later), Dhofar 378, Dhofar 489, Dhofar 490, NWA 2700, and JaH 479 - Thanks so much Erich!
Date: 01/01/2000
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Eduardo Jawerbaum of Southern Minerals & Meteorites
Eduardo - on the left - is another really great dealer and I made my way over to the Executive Inn to visit his room - as I was walking in Maria Haas was walking out and she took this picture of Eduardo, me, and his meteorite hunter friend
Date: 02/08/2010
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Mercedes, Esquel, and Kem Kem
Eduardo sold me some really cool items - the Mercedes was found by the other guy in the photo with me - the Esquel was sliced by Robert Haag, and the cut-in-half Kem Kem came from the Casper collection and it is stone #11
Date: 01/01/2000
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Blaine Reed
Blaine has been one of the longest full-time active dealers in the business - I bought my first meteorite from him over ten years ago - his brother is sitting behind him and they both are walking encyclopedias of meteorite information
Date: 02/08/2010
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Typical Scene in Blaine's Room
Blaine's Room was at the Ramada and what you see here is pretty much what it looks like the entire show - the big iron meteorite on the bed was being sold by Mike Martinez - it weighed over 106 pounds
Date: 02/08/2010
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NWA 2724 and NWA 736
Two great new items for me from Blaine - NWA 2424 - an eucrite that reminds me a little bit of Millbillillie - and NWA 736 - a chondrule filled H3.7
Date: 02/09/2010
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Santa Fe Shatter Cones
I bought several items from Santa Fe, New Mexico on this trip - Blaine sold me these shatter cone specimens from a newly discovered crater northwest of Santa Fe
Date: 01/01/2000
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Ruben Garcia and Greg Hupé
I went to the other side of the Ramada and found Ruben and Greg in Said Haddany's room looking at some of the fresh meteorite discoveries from Morocco - either that or they were really just drinking a couple of beers
Date: 02/08/2010
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Said Haddany
Said had some really interesting stones which appeared to be potential rare meteorite types - I ended up puchasing about four kilos of unclassified NWA material during my time at the show from the various Moroccan dealers
Date: 02/08/2010
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Said Haddany and Ruben Garcia
Ruben holds up a dark black crusted meteorite - how much does that one cost? - I need to bring more money next year...
Date: 02/08/2010
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NWA Unclassifieds
During the event I visited the rooms of the various dealers from Morocco - I ended up buying about four kilograms total of unclassified NWAs - I took a few pictures of some sample items I cherry picked from boxes and tables
Date: 01/01/2000
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NWA Unclassifieds
I mainly chose stones based on crust characteristics, the level of magnetism, and the potential for a rare find
Date: 02/09/2010
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NWA Unclassifieds
Other stones I chose just because they were oriented or fully crusted - these pictures represent about half of what I came home with - but they give a good idea of what was available for really reasonable prices!
Date: 02/09/2010
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