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Dick Lipke
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I just checked Amazon.com and there are some new copies listed by vendors, plus, Amazon has enabled the ability to put one in your shopping cart (I don't recall seeing that the other day.)
That where I started all this.Amazon has been promiseimg me to complete to my order,I also wanted Nortons "rocks from space" and received that a couple of weeks later,since back in March.They kept e-mailing me to see if I wanted them to continue the search for it,and of course I said "YES".
Mike led me to AbeBooks,that looked very promiseing BUT all the books listed had been sold,all my orders came back cancled with the explanation"it may have been previuosly sold and not yet removed from our database".Actualy they gave several excueses that is just one example.
Thanks anyway.
By the way Mike I still haven't tried the magnet on those suspicious rocks I found in my back yard yet,the suspense is mind bending.
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LX90 8",Cornado Max 40,Miyauchi 20x100 Bino's,and way to many eyepieces and filters,
Thousand Oaks 8" Ha filter
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molniyabeer
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Alibris.com may also be a source.
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Steve
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Lost in Space
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OK, not cheap, but the bay of e website has this at $89.95 Buy it Now + $5.00 Shipping
Cambridge Norton Encyclopedia
BETTER STILL - Halfway com
Halfway books dot com
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Ed
Televue TV76
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Meteorite Collection
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Edited by Lost in Space (06/28/08 10:47 PM)
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John Flannery
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Oh, oh ... this is embarrassing. I thought I had ordered the new Springer book on Meteors and Meteorites by O. Richard Norton but discovered today I hadn't!!! Sorry about that guys as I know I was to do a review of it once it arrived.
I see that the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites is on used.addall.com for $43.50 with Biblio.
All the best,
john
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Dick Lipke
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I may have found one,And I emphasize"may" have.I went back to Amazon as Ed suggested and tried again.Its been 4 days and I haven't received any e-mails telling me my order has been canceled because???????.Amazon probably found some seconds after I canceled my search.
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LX90 8",Cornado Max 40,Miyauchi 20x100 Bino's,and way to many eyepieces and filters,
Thousand Oaks 8" Ha filter
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Dick Lipke
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Loc: Marine City,Mich.
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Last month I went back to give Amazon one more chance,Ed telling me he seen amazon listing some "NEW" copies available,they told me I could expect delivery between 07/17 and 07/24.This morn I got e-mail say once again saying they were unable to find the book and if wanted them to keep searching.If you go back to their web site they will still claim to have new and used available.I don't think I will ever try Amazon again.
Mike, I e-mailed Jensen meteorites like you suggested and he said that new books just are not out there and try finding a used one.
Thanks for every ones attempt to help me anyway.It was back in March of this year when I suggested that "a couple of you pros start a forum on meteorites and collecting them"Thanks for takeing me up on it..I can't believe how much interest it has developed.
Thank you,
Dick
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LX90 8",Cornado Max 40,Miyauchi 20x100 Bino's,and way to many eyepieces and filters,
Thousand Oaks 8" Ha filter
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Dick Lipke
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Thanks Ed.The old saying paid off,"if at first you don't succeed,try,try again".
I went to Half.com,Eds suggestion, last week,07/25 and got the encylopedia today,new.Thanks again Ed.
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LX90 8",Cornado Max 40,Miyauchi 20x100 Bino's,and way to many eyepieces and filters,
Thousand Oaks 8" Ha filter
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Lost in Space
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Glad to help! 
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Ed
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Meteorite Collection
Member of IMCA - http://www.imca.cc
“A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success." - Robert Orben
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Mike Lewis
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Loc: Near Mulliken, Michigan USA
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Mike, and all....
As some of you have done, I ordered this from Amazon way last winter and only got delays. But, I decided to hold their feet to the fire and kept up on the new and/or used copy.
A used copy arrived today from Labyrinth Books in Millwood, NY. This one was $32.49 total.
It's in great shape!!!
Maybe they have more than one, just a heads up!
Best skies
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Mike
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Home built 8" Dob
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zagami
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According to the Cambridge.org website, the Encyclopedia is out of print as of April 2008.
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521621437
This is a true loss to the meteorite community. While Norton's first meteorite book, Rocks from Space, went into a second edition--something almost unheard of for a meteorite book--it looks like the Encyclopedia's run is over for good.
I reviewed the book for a British space science journal when the Encyclopedia first came out. I loved the book. In fact, part of my review is still posted on the Cambridge website noted above. My review is the fourth one down.
A few years ago I asked Richard how he got away with publishing a single-author encyclopedia. He replied that he did not think it would be called an encyclopedia when he wrote it, but more rather a general upper level text for the more advanced meteorite enthusiast. The name came later and at somewhat of a surprise to him.
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Dick Lipke
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Amazon kept me waiting for 8-9 months searching for a copy.Yet they kept a listing up saying they had a brand new copy on hand and every time I ordered it I wound up getting a e-mail saying it was unavailable and do I want them to keep searching for one.After many months of frustrating waiting Ed led me to Half .com.I was so pleased with them I wound up getting a used copy of Harvey H. Nininger"Find a Falling Star",looked brand new to me, and a New autographed copy of Robert Haag "Collection of Meteorites" through them.Half.com had large selection book vendors from all over the world new and used of Nortons Ency,the price of a new one that a few of them were asking was also "out of this world".
And "YES" the Encyclopedia is a bit more technical for someone like myself being a novice collector,but it's still a fascinating book.The book in my hands is sort of like seeing a janitor or street sweeper carrying his lunch to work in a $1200 brief case trying to impress the world.
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LX90 8",Cornado Max 40,Miyauchi 20x100 Bino's,and way to many eyepieces and filters,
Thousand Oaks 8" Ha filter
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PhilCo126
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Great to hear this Dick and please there's nothing wrong with Your last sentence as people all professions are fascinated by the hobby 
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edwincjones
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perhaps one carries a $1200 brief case for personal pride or enjoyment of the workmanship-it is too bad that the Norton encyclopedia is not still available for all in the hobby.
edj
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