Hi Lars and List, Nobody should harass you for expressing your feelings. Your heart was in the right place, and it is troublesome to consider that one might be unknowingly obstructing scientific work. In that case, like I said before, the scientific value of Gebel Kamil is not the meteorites themselves, but the impact crater. Owning a Gebel Kamil iron is not depriving science. But, whoever is harvesting the meteorites may be doing harm to the impact structure during the process of removing the specimens. We don't know this for sure, because we don't even know who exactly removed the specimens - we can only assume it was the Egyptians because of the location of the crater and dangerous nature of the area. (which is militarized and near the Sudanese border)
I think it is unfortunate that anyone should harass you over this. Your comment was made long ago, when the Gebel Kamil story was new and facts were still emerging. The whole story was not known then, and it is still not known now. As we discussed in the "blog" thread, there may be an ethical grey-area involved in the removal of the meteorites, but it was very premature (and unnecessary) for the NYT writer to unilaterally proclaim the entire meteorite world as a "black market" - that was wrong and libelous. Best regards, MikeG ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Gilmer - Galactic Stone & Ironworks Meteorites Website - http://www.galactic-stone.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone News Feed - http://www.galactic-stone.com/rss/126516 Twitter - http://twitter.com/galacticstone EOM - http://www.encyclopedia-of-meteorites.com/collection.aspx?id=1564 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- On 4/6/11, Lars Zielke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > > Yep I think it's me that is quoted in the NYT. > > I've deleted my latest post on CN due to harassment that turned up in my > mail. > > Lars > > > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] På vegne af Peter > Scherff > Sendt: 6. april 2011 02:33 > Til: [email protected] > Emne: Re: [meteorite-list] NYT story > > Hi, > > The “blog” in question is the Cloudy Nights Space Rocks forum. The > quote is from Lars Zielke. > > Thanks, > > Peter Scherff > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Meteorites > USA > Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 8:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NYT story > > Very good catch on the Bob! I can't believe I missed that. How in the > world did the editor let that quote slide without a source? I wonder if > it was said at all. > > Regards, > Eric > > > On 4/5/2011 5:20 PM, Bob King wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> Besides the terrible reporting and obvious bias, I was curious about >> the meteorite blogger in the article who said he/she was feeling >> guilty. What?? We have no idea who this is or if that person exists. I >> find it amazing the editor let that go through. >> Bob >> ______________________________________________ >> 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 > ________________________________________ > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1209 / Virus Database: 1500/3553 - Release Date: 04/05/11 > > ______________________________________________ > 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 > -- ______________________________________________ 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
