Let me make one thing perfectly clear: The IMCA is NOT using Funds but Time, a whole lot of time, on this. It used to be that one or at most two Directors were able to answer all the questions that we receive on our [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) address. This is not true anymore, now the whole Board participates, and Yes, 99% of the questions fall in the "I found a meteorite" category. And so far this year, only one turned out to be a real meteorite. I am sorry none of us took the time to count out many questions we received, but I can assure you they were many, and in quite a few cases it took more than one email to explain that the found rock was nowhere near being a meteorite, not even a good meteowrong. I hope this clears up that issue. Anne M. Black _http://www.impactika.com/_ (http://www.impactika.com/) [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) Vice-President, I.M.C.A. Inc. _http://www.imca.cc/_ (http://www.imca.cc/) In a message dated 9/12/2010 1:20:29 PM Mountain Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > I was told that the IMCA is tying up a huge amount of resources on meteorite wrongs these days
Why? This is more of an IMCA issue and I dont want to get into it too much, but why is the IMCA using funds to test wrongs and who is approving the use of this? The is the first I have ever heard of the IMCA helping to identify meteorites and using funds to do so! As a member of the IMCA, I would like to have some say in what the money is being spent on, and testing wrongs is NOT one of the things I would use money on. I can get preliminary testing done for free, why cant anyone else? ______________________________________________ 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
