Marc, As a business owner it seems to me you are "mainly" obligated to satisfy your customers needs. These are the folks paying you for your services. No one else. And as such you might consider everything else secondary. In order to be faithful to your customers the co-ords should be kept between you and your customers. A classic example was the Whetstone fall. U of A agreed to keep co-ords quiet until the members of that "exclusive" group were done searching on their own. To this very day I think the only reason "outsiders" know the location is because Jack told people that he found 'Galleta Flats' in the same strewn field as whetstone. And on that note. I was very active in following data that was reported to the list. From the data given of it's trajectory, on a map I tracked the material far more to the east of where it actually ended up being found. I thought it should have landed east of the airport. Not west of it. I suppose that was due to high wings but that data did get us all to the same general area. Thank you to whomever it was that supplied that data to the entire list free of charge. Carl meteoritemax
-- Cheers ---- Marc Fries <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings all > > I've been talking with a few people about logging the Battle Mountain > meteorites, and I'd like to start some discussion on the topic of find > coordinates. This is NOT directed at any one person, but I would like to > editorialize a bit. I'm getting a lot of push-back about printing find > coordinates and I'd like to open the topic to general discussion. > > Historically, the locations of found meteorites have been a closely > guarded secret. That made a lot of sense when meteorite hunting relied most > heavily on eyewitness reports. A hunter could easily put in many, many miles > of walking before coming across a meteorite. For finds that are made with > weather radar, however, I don't think its the same situation. When I post > radar analyses, it is like posting a treasure map that says, "Go Here". At > that point everyone knows where the meteorites are, and it seems to me that > the locations of individual stones aren't nearly as important as they were in > the past. (Strewn fields without detailed radar data are another matter, of > course.) Where those locations do matter are to A) the science behind > describing the meteorite fall, and B) the value of the individual meteorite > since a well-documented meteorite should be worth more than a random stone > from a given fall. > > I am a scientist, and my first instinct is to collect, analyze, and > -share- data. I understand where that is at odds with the level of secrecy > needed in the past, but I think that that level of secrecy is no longer > needed and actually works contrary to the value of meteorites, both monetary > and scientific. On the Galactic Analytics website, I'm willing to go against > my better instincts and hide find locations, at least until a scientific > paper is released describing the fall. But to be honest, I think that's a > little silly - I'll basically have a table showing meteorites with the find > locations redacted, and then you can scroll down the page a bit and see a map > showing where the meteorites are. > > So let me throw this out there as a general question - is it really > important to hide the find locations? > > Cheers, > Marc Fries > ______________________________________________ > > 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 ______________________________________________ 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
