Is the list working? on 1/11/03 5:30 PM, Ron Baalke at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Jan/01102003/utah/18930.asp > > Plan to Mimic Meteorites With Bowling Balls Lands With Thud at BLM > BY GLEN WARCHOL > THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE > January 10, 2003 > > A group of amateur scientists planning to bombard Utah's salt flats with > bowling balls to simulate meteorite impacts has caught the attention of > the Bureau of Land Management. > > Bill White, a BLM research scientist, called The Salt Lake Tribune, > saying officials were startled to see a story Wednesday about amateur > astronomers contemplating dropping objects, possibly bowling balls, from > an airplane to help identify meteorite strikes in the salt beds. > > "We are not sure we want impact craters in the salt surface," White said. > "There is a concern this will impact the resource itself. We have enough > junk out there already." > > Besides necessitating potential headaches such as environmental impact > studies, the bowling ball experiment would be an administrative nightmare, > BLM officials say. > > "This is a public safety issue," White said. "We would have to provide > law enforcement. This would be a really big deal to the BLM." > > The salt flats are already used for experimental activities, most > famously setting land speed records at the Bonneville Salt Flats, White > said. "I can hear the screaming already from the racing community." > > But Patrick Wiggins, NASA Solar System ambassador to Utah and would-be > sky bowler, admitted the Salt Lake Astronomical Society had not > considered the BLM in its planning, though it expected to deal with the > Federal Aviation Administration and the Air Force, for which the area is > part of a bombing range. > > Wiggins said the project is just in its planning stages. "We have no > intention of doing this before literally crossing all the t's and dotting > all the i's." > > "They need to come in with a detailed plan," White said. > > "We've got two weather stations out there. Murphy's Law says that a > bowling ball is going to land right where you don't want it. With our > luck, it would hit one station, bounce and hit the other." > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. - Friedrich Nietzsche -- Worth Seeing: - Earth at night from satelite: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg - Interactive Lady Liberty: http://doody36.home.attbi.com/liberty.htm - Earth - variety of choices: http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html -- Cool Calendar & Clock: http://www.yugop.com/ver3/stuff/03/fla.html -- Michael Blood Meteorites & Didgeridoos for sale at: http://www.michaelbloodmeteorites.com/ ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
