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Cutting meteorites is a difficult business. If they get too hot, it will remelt the iron and you will lose the nice grain pattern. The Bathurst observatory (Ray Piccard) is the only person I know who cuts them. It is an expensive exercise.He also can get a superior polish for you - some of my sliced specimens from Ebay could have been polished a bit better. The Campo slice in his collection is part payment for slicing one of my specimens. Lapidiary cutters will have trouble too - diamond blades will be destroyed. Collecting meteorites in WA and NT I think is a problem, from what I gather, the meteorites belong to the state. I have a bit of a collection, ranging from a small Martian basalt, through to a few stony specimens, pallasite, Sikhote-Alin, Nantan and "The Beast" - a 19 1/2 pound Campo del Cielo. Some say I have rocks in my head.
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