I wonder if it's a good idea to buy parent body real estate hehe Sent from my iPod
On Jan 18, 2012, at 2:20 PM, MexicoDoug <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Sterling and Adam > > "Why? Because in 500 years, untouched > asteroids will become contact-prohibited > quarantined nature preserves." > > If we buy a Golden Age Passport now, can we get a Grandfather clause both to > visit and to collect a daily BLM-sized 25 pounds plus one large piece up to > 250 pounds per year? BTW, it seems coins found on US managed public lands > over 100 years old are now in the illegal to remove column. > > Golden Age Passport: > http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_Passport > > Kindest wishes > Doug > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sterling K. Webb <[email protected]> > To: Meteorite List <[email protected]> > Sent: Wed, Jan 18, 2012 2:59 pm > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Provenance of Universities' Material > > > Adam, List, > > 100 years from now, we'll be de-orbiting > asteroids and moving them into HEO (high > Earth Orbit) to chew them up as a resource. > > 300 years from now, we be in the Zone, > dismantling them there, surveying, sampling, > coring, lasering... Contaminating. Every > REALLY fresh meteorite currently found > on Earth now should be curated en vacuo > and handled in a reasonably sterile lab > manner for the next half-millennium. > > Why? Because in 500 years, untouched > asteroids will become contact-prohibited > quarantined nature preserves. > > Of course, not going to happen... unless > a university does it with select specimens. > > > Sterling K. Webb > ----------------------------------------------------------- > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adam Hupe" <[email protected]> > To: "Adam" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 9:28 AM > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Provenance of Universities' Material > > > Hopefully the scientists and curators of the future will be more sample > oriented. A meteorite from the asteroid belt, Mars,the Moon or any other > yet to be proven locations doesn't care where it lands. A hundred years > from now, future stewards of the stones may ask" what the hell were they > thinking back then?" > > Best Regards, > > Adam > ______________________________________________ > HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > ______________________________________________ > HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > ______________________________________________ > HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
