Good luck with the venture Marc....an excellent service to help the
meteorite community.
Graham
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Marc Fries <mfri...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings ladies and gents
>
> My brother and I have now been working on using weather radar to
> detect meteorite falls for about eight years. Time flies, as they say - I'm
> rather surprised to find that it has been that long. This entire time I've
> been working on it as a "side project", tucking in time to work on possible
> falls wherever I could, and often in the late evening after putting my son to
> bed. To date, we've found five meteorite falls in weather radar data as they
> occurred - West TX ("Ash Creek"), Grimsby ONT, Mifflin WI, Lorton VA, and now
> the "Sutter's Mill" fall in Coloma, CA. Things have reached a decision point
> now that I've essentially devoted five figures' worth of time over the years
> - either I spend some "real" time on this, or turn it over to someone else
> who has more time to devote to it. That's an easy one, actually - I enjoy
> this work immensely and want more time to work on it, so its time to get
> "real" about it. That means planning on spending time on it every week (at le
ast), whi
> ch in turn means lining up a revenue source so I can afford to do away with
> some research work.
> And so, I am pleased to announce the formation of Galactic Analytics
> LLC - a new company devoted to meteorite research and collection services!
> We have a suite of exciting things in the plans. Starting off, the weather
> radar analysis has been moved to a new, subscription-based website:
>
> www.galacticanalytics.com
>
> We also offer scientific consulting for meteorite collections, and
> will offer a new means of meteorite classification that will cut both the
> cost and wait times dramatically (coming soon - "stay tuned" for more
> details). Galactic Analytics LLC plans to enter into an industry partnership
> with a well-known research institute to perform collaborative research on
> meteorite fall dynamics and other meteorite-related topics. The goal is to
> grow into a self-supporting services company with an active research
> sponsorship program. I'm very excited about the future and what we have to
> offer.
>
> To celebrate the formation of this new enterprise, Galactic Analytics
> LLC is offering a FREE one month membership to the website, complete with
> full access to new and archived meteor analysis data. We will analyze major
> fireballs with faster turnaround than before. We will start to regularly
> analyze prominent meteors from the past several years, drawing on meteor
> eyewitness databases to try to locate unrecovered recent meteorite falls (I
> know they're out there - we need to start looking!). To get your FREE one
> months' subscription, please go to our website, register as a site user, and
> claim the free subscription:
>
> http://www.galacticanalytics.com/about/
>
> Cheers!
> Marc Fries, Ph.D.
> Chief Scientist, Galactic Analytics LLC
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