Hello Gregory, When you sent this Original Message to me, I was already out in the Mojave Desert - you guessed it, getting ready for observing the Perseid shower. Actually, I observed on Sunday evening - Monday morning (Aug 11/12) with the intent of catching some early Perseid earthgrazers. And I think that turned out to be the best meteor display, because on Monday night and Tuesday night, there was way too much smoke in the air from all the wild fires in Southern California, being carried all the way out to Nevada.
You just missed meeting me at the Barstow Desert Discovery Center on Tuesday. But you did get to meet Bob Hilburn's mother. Bob and his mother are typical of the volunteer spirit that drives most of the research efforts being conducted in the Mojave Desert. The BLM web page neglected to mention that the Old Woman had a prior sample cut and sent to UCLA before the Smithsonian cut their 15% sample. Here's an image I took at the Discovery Center of that etched surface: http://www.geocities.com/bolidechaser/oldwomancut.jpg Bob V. ---------------------------------------------- [meteorite-list] Old Woman meteorite, part III (or IV?) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 12 Aug 2002 03:06:14 EDT I've just driven through the Mojave Desert to Las Vegas (so as to have a good Perseid-viewing-headquarters ONLY, of course ;-) and will be stopping by the "Desert Discovery Center" in Barstow on my way back to LA Tuesday. We've briefly touched on the "Old Woman" meteorite a few times on the list, and the rumors about its possibly being moved or going into storage, and about the tenuousness of the "Desert Discovery Center" which has been the ol' girl's home for many years, up to this point anyway. Anyone know the current status? Bob V.? Gregory http://www.ca.blm.gov/barstow/meteorite.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list