I believe that all collectors, whatever they collect, share a broad psychological profile, they bring a wide and absolutely indistinguishable passion to the collecting of a wide variety of objects. It starts as a romance, with all of romance's sense of evanescence.

Collectors have an overdeveloped sense of finding something that is on the verge of being lost, something that is deserving of their careful custodianship.

You don't need to be a scientist or college professor to collect meteorites or hunt them. In fact 80% of all meteorites ever found were by average people, mostly by ( rock collectors ). For every collector who shares his excitement and pride in his or her collection, there are ten or twenty people who can't help themselves.

They inevitably go about forming societies and issuing newsletters. In fact, I'd submit that a collector hasn't moved beyond the stage of being a mere hoarder, until he or she seeks out others with the same interest. The truest collectors also collects fellow travellers.

At about the same stage in a collector's evolution, he starts trying to go beyond the object itself, to try to understand the time and circumstances that produced it. I firmly believe that the seed has to be on fertile soil and believe collecting can be nutured.

Its a amazing how many of us know the price of everything but the value of nothing.

In a sense its the object that collects us, and not the other way around.

The same meteorites that we collect today, in the future, they will be rediscovered with the same enthusiam. We are just short term keepers, its the meteorites that will pass through time, as they already have for millions, even billions of years. Why are people drawn into collecting meteorites? I'm sure everyone has a story to tell. We would sure like to hear someone elses story, perhaps someone would like to share one with us.

Thank you for your support,
Tim & Shannon Heitz