Great weather Larry, thanks Jim,
While everyone is holding their breath for the mountains of black stone
to rise, from wiktionary.com:
"The name Tucson comes from the O'odham name for the city, Chuk Shon,
meaning "Spring at the base of the black mountain"."
Hope everyone gets a little piece of the black mountain who goes.
Part of the evolution of the name was due to Spanish military
settlement which Hispanicized Chuk Shon into Tucson; however unlike
common "TWO-san" pronunciations of today, the Spanish pronounced it
Tuc-SON with the accent on the second syllable. In my conversation
with several Mexican academic types, they have pronounced it as
"Tuck-SON", but I really couldn't say if it is really how the original
presidio was pronounced, or if it is just an artifact of modern
difficulty of a native Mexican dealing with the CS combination which
doesn't fit Castilian or Andalucian and their derivatives very well.
From the stuff you never wanted to know department, but I hope better
than posting a “test” message with a “no-reply”
Kindest wishes
Doug
-----Original Message-----
From: lebofsky <[email protected]>
To: Jim Wooddell <[email protected]>
Cc: meteorite-list <[email protected]>
Sent: Sat, Jan 25, 2014 8:33 am
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] How is Tucson Going?? Astronomy Event
Hi Jim:
From a local, I am looking forward to seeing old friends and other
locals
who I do not see very often. By Saturday February 1, it will have cooled
down to a high of 71 (it may hit 80 at the end of the month) and there
is
a small chance of rain (should we blame those Colorado folks who will be
arriving around then?).
Also, if you have a car and "free" time, on Saturday February 8, at Pima
Community College East Campus (near Davis Monthan Air Force Base) there
will be an all-day astronomy expo and evening observing (if it is clear)
hosted by Astronomy Magazine. I will be there (for Girl Scouts,
Planetary
Science Institute, and James Webb Telescope) and the Tucson Amateur
Astronomy Association and people from OSIRIS-REx will be there, too.
http://cs.astronomy.com/asy/b/daves-universe/archive/2014/01/16/gearing-up-for-our-big-tucson-star-party.aspx
Larry
Hi List!
I have not heard much about Tucson this year. Not much in the way of
people sharing anything.
So what's going on there for the show? Any killer buys? What are the
prices looking like?
Everyone loose their butts or what?
Jim
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Jim Wooddell
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http://pages.suddenlink.net/chondrule/
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