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Hello List,
I decided that this is the most appropriate time to
tell a wonderful story from my African expedition in December with Grep Hupe and
Dr. Tony Irving.
One afternoon we were visiting with a very
nice family looking at some of the meteorites that they had for
sale. One of the meteorite specimens they had displayed some great
eye appeal, ok it was really more WOW appeal. Well the three of us
were outside using the sun as a more natural light source to try and see if we
could determine what this specimen was. We stood out among the local
people and all the children wanted to come around and see what we were
doing. Some of the young boys recognized that were looking at ROCKS, and I
am sure they thought we were rather crazy. Well this group of boys decided
to pick up rocks off of the ground and they were using the top off of a broken
glass soda bottle to examine their rocks a little more closely just as we were
using a magnifying loop to examine our ROCKS.
I guess what this story says is that sometimes
when you stand out from the crowd it is important to be careful what you are
doing because others may try and be like you. Or it may just be a great
example of a future planetary geologist learning that not all rocks are from
earth.
Take Care,
Jason Phillips
Rocks From Heaven
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