What if the Brenham meteorite never was documented. Perhaps Steve Arnold would have never found his huge meteorite a few years back. Never developed his searching technique and thus perhaps no "Meteorite Men."
Just imagine if a friend came home and showed you a beautiful blood red ruby (gem quality) the size of a baseball, and you asked "where did you find that?" and he replied "I don't know." The more all work together, the more we all benefit and our children benefit. Greg S. ---------------------------------------- > Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:33:32 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Request> Glorieta Mountain strewnfield map > > Robert, > I couldn't agree with you more here about Jeff. > He is in my opinion THE most important person on this list. period. Not > because I agree with him all of the time but because he always has THE RIGHT > THING TO SAY. Which puts him head and shoulders above most of us and > especially above me. > Having said that. I don't yet understand why people put so much importance on > find co-ords and strewnfields. It has not only been pointed out by another > important list member that "A meteorite does not care where it lands". (Ted > Bunch). But to add to that I personally don't see where it will ever matter > all that much. I mean it has been pointed out that; > 1). These rocks move around and therefore do not tell us anything about where > they landed. The wind , water, flood, erosion. What ever the reason these > things move around. > 2). They are not a geological formation. They land totally randomly. This is > therefore trivial information ( of very little value). > 3). Larger material falls farthest? Yes, and littler one ride piggy back with > the big ones which skews the pattern and we may never know it because The > bigger ones may bury themselves never to be found. So, what have we learned > from something never found? > 4). How much more can we expect to learn from strewnfields? Ask any third > grader to show you what rocks do when they fall from any angle. > 5). This is really very simple stuff. The science is in the rest of the > knowledge we can gain. Let this co-ords and strewnfield crap go and things > will get a lot simpler. > 6). This will eliminate the need for certain laws. Nobody will care where it > landed and therefore less court battles over something that wouldn't exist if > not for an informed finder anyway. > 7). Did I mention beating a dead horse? > 8). I am sure I did not think of all the bad reasons for mapping here . Give > me time. > 9). I understand in the past we needed data on this but we are past the > invention of the wheel. Time to move forward. > But Jeff, other than that we all love you. Well at least like you a bunch. > Carl > -- > Carl or Debbie Esparza > Meteoritemax > > > ---- Robert Woolard wrote: >> Jeff, >> >> You wrote in part: >> "A good policy would continue to reward those >>> who find these objects on behalf of the people, but also >>> prevent the loss of scientific information and significant >>> specimens. >>> >>> The question becomes, how can a reasonable regulation and >>> permitting process be created? I'll discuss this with >>> my colleagues in DOI and the SI, and perhaps groups like the >>> IMCA can help lobby for this as well. I think it is >>> quite achievable." >> >> >> THANK you so much for your very intelligent and logical input. You are >> exactly the kind of "scientist/human being" ;-) we need! We are lucky to >> have someone like you as a member of The List. I'm sure we all greatly >> appreciate your willingness to help in this matter. >> >> Sincerely, >> Robert Woolard >> >> >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469228/direct/01/ ______________________________________________ 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
