Well Michael, I work at an astronomical research institute and I know that most astronomers here could not find and identify extended objects or stars in the night sky with their unaided eyes. Of course, they can differentiate their spectra and other data that they acquire through large telescopes quite adeptly.
In much the same way, most meteoriticists can identify mineralogy, chemistry and petrology of a sectioned meteorite, as well as interpret data acquired through ion/electron microprobes, SEM and other instrumentation quite well. But identifying a meteorite in the field is quite a different story, and requires skill and patience to accurately find and identify these rocky interlopers from space. Cut the scientists some slack and give due credit to those hunters who have honed their skills at finding and identifying meteorites from hard working experience in the field. gary On Oct 25, 2012, at 6:31 AM, Michael Mulgrew <[email protected]> wrote: > Am I to understand that one of NASA's best has problems identifying a > meteorite? Is anyone else concerned by that? > > Michael in So. Cal. > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Michael Farmer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Of course it is. Sadly the damage is done. I am in Germany and all I am >> seeing is news reports now calling it a meteor wrong. What a cluster#+~>. >> Michael Farmer >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Oct 25, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Brien Cook <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> http://cams.seti.org/ >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________________ >>> Unlimited Disk, Data Transfer, PHP/MySQL Domain Hosting >>> http://www.doteasy.com >>> ______________________________________________ >>> >>> 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 > ______________________________________________ > > 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 Gary Fujihara Big Kahuna Meteorites PO Box 4175, Hilo, HI 96720 (808) 640-9161 http://bigkahuna-meteorites.com/ http://www.ebay.com/sch/fujmon/m.html ______________________________________________ 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
