Team Meteorite: We've been enriched for three decades now by the inspiration and hard work of two great men, Joel Schiff with Meteorite! and Paul Harris with the Meteorite Times.
They have provided a platform for writers like Martin Horejsi, James Tobin, Bob Verish and John Kashuba to inform and enlighten us with the stories, science and history of the meteorites that keep us engaged in our hobby or life's work. That these guys can turn out such high quality research and prose every month amazes me. You don't have to run to be a marathon man. I have made my earnest contributions to both publications and can report that it was and remains a great pleasure to feel the love both Joel and Paul shared as we worked together to make my features better. I am honored to have both remain as great friends. The Met Times allowed me to complete my 'Martian meteorite triumvirate' by publishing "*The Rise of the Raj and the Fall of Shergotty*" twenty-one years after a not-so-dead dog lost his pedigree in my 1998 feature on Nakhla, and after Chassigny had appeared in Meteorite! four years later. For me, these iconic Mars' rocks multi-year research/writing endeavors were more than just magazine contributions. I chose to climb a mountain too high, and it appeared that I wouldn't summit. Seeing *Shergotty* finally appear in the *Met Times* in 2019 was an emotional closure, to have solved unsolvable mysteries and to have reached places I feared unreachable. ¡Mil gracias, don Paul! *The Meteorite Times - **Twenty years of excellence*. - Keep on, keeping on. Kevin Kichinka >From the land where Pachimama waters her Aguas Zarcas....
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