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 least), 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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