Dana Jenkerson and Bob Verish
Back at the Inn Suites the Jenkersons were set-up with great displays of slices from some of their recent finds - I snapped a picture of Dana with Bob Verish - the finder of the two Los Angeles meteorite stones (basaltic shergottites)
Date: 02/08/2010
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Bob Verish, Paul Harris, Jim Tobin, and Keith Jenkerson
Paul and Jim have been publishing Meteorite-Times Magazine and working on various meteorite websites since 1996
Date: 02/08/2010
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Brenham
Dana and Keith sold me this nice, thick slice of Breham! It has some great colors when held up to a light - lime greens, orange, and reds - now if I can just keep it from rusting!
Date: 02/10/2010
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Mike Farmer's Room
Mike Farmer - on the right - has a look of serious questioning during a discussion in his shared room at the Inn Suites
Date: 02/08/2010
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Jim Strope Listens
Jim Strope - on the left - joins into the discussion - or maybe he is just listening - either way the conversation probably involves a big money transaction for an amazing specimen out of either Jim or Mike's case
Date: 02/08/2010
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Moritz Karl
Moritz and his father - seated in the chair - shared the room with Mike Farmer - Moritz had a dazzling assortment of slices available for puchase - many were about the same price as a large TV, or a motorcycle, or even a car!
Date: 02/08/2010
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Moritz Karl's Display Case
Wow, wow, wow - a heart stopping case of pure meteorite beauty - a big number of hyper-rare sized pieces prepared at a world class level - better than you can find in most museums - I need to win a lottery to afford anything
Date: 01/01/2000
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Fukang, Glorieta Mountain, and Ogi
I did walk out of the room with a few items - a bigger piece of Fukang for my collection - another item from Santa Fe, New Mexico: a really nice slice of Glorieta - and a HYPER-RARE fragment of Ogi from Kyushu Island in Japan!
Date: 02/10/2010
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Meteorite Fire Dancer
She kicked off "THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL METEOR MAYHEM BIRTHDAY BASH and HARVEY AWARDS" by dancing around with burning sticks - it made perfect sense to me...
Date: 01/01/2000
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Jack Schrader, Robert Matson, and Dave Gheesling
Tres Amigos looking like Meteorite Men and tipping back some pints at the Birthday Bash - their pockets were probably stuffed full of stones
Date: 02/08/2010
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SKY BAR
A look up towards the front door as folks were piling in for the event - it's a who's who crowd of meteorite people - can you find yourself?
Date: 01/01/2000
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Steve Arnold, Mike Bandli, and Rob Wesel
Obviously Steve is explaining the basics of preparing the perfect Margaretta - critical hunter information which will be featured in the fifth season of "Meteorite Men" - Mike and Rob listen hard to memorize the drink recipe's location
Date: 02/08/2010
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The Reed Brothers
They posed for this picture with their bottles of Ale - these guys could easily be on TV making beer commercials instead of selling meteorites
Date: 02/08/2010
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Robert Haag, Gary Fujihara, and Ruben Garcia
It looks like Ruben is explaining to Robert the basics of meteorite identification while Gary hums a little hula music - behind them you can see Chicago Steve Arnold is too tall for the door frame - it could be an interesting night!
Date: 02/08/2010
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Geoffrey Notkin and Christopher Cokinos
The "Meteorite Men" production crew filmed interviews with Geoffrey and Steve throughout the night - it was just like you see on the E! channel party specials - could a spin-off be in the works?
Date: 02/08/2010
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SKY BAR - Take Two
Another chance to find youself! - this time looking towards the back of the room - I wonder who waters the plants?
Date: 02/08/2010
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Mike Miller
Mike came in for the event as well as most of the other major meteorite dealers and hunters who live in Arizona - I have quite a few well prepared pallasite and iron slices from Mike - it was great to finally meet him in person
Date: 02/08/2010
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Robert Ward
Robert is on the left and he is a certified fireball chaser - if a meteorite fall occurs just about anywhere in the world - Robert will probably try to get to the site - this was my first chance to meet him as well
Date: 02/09/2010
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Robert Haag and Russ Finney
Robert is probably the most famous of the contemporary meteorite hunter collectors - he has pretty much achieved "living legend" status in the meteorite community - I finally met him in person - a great, down-to-earth guy
Date: 02/09/2010
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"Meteorite Men" Birthday Cake
OK - after smoozing with all the famous meteorite people it was time to get down to some serious business - cake eating - but we first had to wait while Geoff interviewed the baker, the delivery person, the candle lighter, etc.
Date: 02/09/2010
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Ready to Blow?
After five minutes of deep breathing exercises Steve and Geoff are really to blow out the candles - for safety reasons medical pesonnel are standing by right behind the cameras - no stunt doubles were allowed for this part!
Date: 01/01/2000
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