List, Chris,
I suspect the "Planetary Science Institute"
is meant, rather than the "Planetary Research
Institute." My suspicions were aroused by
going to the website of the Planetary Science
Institute and seeing a picture of Marc Fries
there.
http://www.psi.edu/
Sterling K. Webb.
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From: "Chris Peterson" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Galactic Analytics Announcement
Planetary Research Institute?
Chris
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
On 3/26/2013 2:21 PM, Marc Fries wrote:
Howdy ladies and gents
The scientists at Galactic Analytics have been working on a project
behind the scenes and the time has come to announce it publicly. GA
will stop performing radar analyses of meteorite falls. The same
people will continue working on this project (don't worry!!), but we
are transferring operations from Galactic Analytics to the Planetary
Research Institute, a nonprofit research institution. We will
continue to perform analyses, but they will appear on a PSI web page,
and the "old" events will be transferred to the PSI website as well.
PSI will also offer rapid, affordable meteorite classification
services as well, picking up GA's efforts in that direction.
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WHAT THIS MEANS TO SUBSCRIPTION HOLDERS:
GA has suspended the sale of annual subscriptions ahead of
transferring to PSI. The goal is to do away with subscriptions
entirely and make the radar data openly available to the public.
This will take some time, however, as alternative funding efforts are
underway. Since PSI is a nonprofit research institution, they can
accept private donations, NASA and other government funding, and
other sources of funding that were not available to GA. This will be
used to continue operations.
Your subscription will still be honored! Existing one-year
subscriptions will be allowed to expire over the course of the
~one-year transition period. In the meanwhile, all data will be
available on the single-event basis to those without annual
subscriptions. The three-day wait for the single-event subscriptions
will no longer be used. At the end of the coming one-year period,
other funding should be in place and radar data will be openly
available.
GA's website will be transferred to PSI's servers soon, but there
should be no interruption in service. You'll have to update your
browser links, but that is all.
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ABOUT PSI:
The Planetary Research Institute (http://www.psi.edu) is a widely
respected research institute based in Tucson, AZ that has been
actively engaged in planetary science and public outreach since 1972.
Roughly half of PSI's scientists live and work in Tucson, and the
rest are scattered across the US and around the world. PSI is a
flexible, responsive organization composed of dedicated and motivated
science professionals. At a time when most research institutes are
cutting back under budgetary pressures, PSI has continued to grow:
http://tucsoncitizen.com/press-releases/2013/03/01/planetary-science-institute-opens-new-tucson-conference-center/
PSI scientists perform research in a broad range of planetary science
and astronomy, and near-term plans include manned suborbital
spaceflight for astronomical observations:
http://www.psi.edu/atsa
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METEORITE CLASSIFICATION:
PSI will pick up GA's efforts to offer a rapid, affordable meteorite
classification service. A great deal of progress has been made in
this effort, and we anticipate that the service will commence in the
coming months although we do not have a solid date yet. Please stay
tuned.
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OTHER STUFF
Dr. Marc Fries has accepted a job offer with NASA, working at the
meteorite curation office in Houston, TX. Dr. Fries will still work
on radar analyses on a part-time basis and has begun training PSI
personnel to join in the effort. In the end, there will be more
analysts working on locating meteorite falls, which means more
meteorites! PSI's personnel and expertise resources will be brought
to bear, allowing the project to grow more than it could under
Galactic Analytics. Dr. Vishnu Reddy and Dr. Lucille LeCorre of PSI
will take leading roles in the new effort.
This is going to be a good thing. We get to carry on with a new
period of growth, training more analysts and getting more people
involved. The meteorite analysis effort will grow into an expansive,
self-supporting entity that truly does bring planetary science "down
to Earth" into schools, museums and collections. We hope to expand
meteorite recovery into a multifaceted science experience, with
outreach efforts in the communities where meteorite falls occur,
in-house analytical services at PSI, and inclusive research and
recovery efforts that include scientists, meteorite hunters,
hobbyists, and the general public.
This is going to be fun!
Cheers!
Galactic Analytics LLC
Please direct any questions at [email protected]
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