Bevan rules!
On 1/18/10 10:25 AM, "Martin Altmann" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello list, > > just recovered by a member of the German meteorite forum: > > http://kuerzer.de/diletto > > > Don't we get finally sick and tired with that Australian idiocy, do we? > > Aren't there any persons, researchers, meteorite people with reason to be > found on that continent, who feel the same pain how meteoritics is getting > fully destroyed there? > > In the German meteorite forum we painted a graph for the find rates in > Australia, USA ect. > > In Australia from 1900 until ca 1960 the find rates were relatively constant > and higher than in the 19th century. Then a promising ascent followed until > the end of the 1980ies (while in USA the find rate dropped a little bit), > and then a real boost happened, wherefore not only Bevan's expedition in > 1991, Euromet 1992 and 1994 were responsible. > > 1995 then - and it is really concussive - we observe the COMPLETE breakdown > of the Australian find rates, not only to the level of the 1960ies, not down > to the level of the 1900-1950, but down to the level of the 1800ier years! > And that lasts until today. > > WHILE PARALLELY the find rates in the U.S. - which have less suitable > hunting grounds but which aren't punished by such paranoid meteorite laws > like Australia - exploded to a level like Australia had in his very best few > years, shortly before the Australian meteorite laws came finally into force. > > I can't help myself - why nobody in Australia of the meteorite world is > taking action to abolish these laws, which led to that disaster? > > It must be in the very best interest of every Australian meteoricist, > that Australia has to turn back from ZERO to find rates, like they are > common in each desert country. > > Is there any initiative taken by you, the Australian scientists, to modify > the unhandy laws? > > I mean, if there are almost no meteorites found there, less than 1 per year, > neither official expeditions are undertaken, wouldn't there be a danger, > that some meteorite departments could be simply closed down? > > Martin > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > 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
