Hi Linton, List,
How sad! - this smacks of Nininger's closing of his museum at Meteor
Crater (Though I am sure the Barringers can identify with it as well).
Lowell is the most deserving of institutions, but it looks like the
meteorite is now in the part of the visitor center that requires more
than a token payment to get in to the complex, whether visitors are
interested in seeing the rest the observatory has to offer or not. Now
departed is the Verkamps/early Nininger era in Zane Grey's bygone West
(whose fiction included references to Meteor Crater).
For anyone else like me who gets nostalgic seeing the dying breaths of
home brewed cowboy and Indian administration go by the wayside, or the
erasure of collective memories tooling down route 66 teaching screaming
wide-eyed kids in the back seat learning that travel is so broadening,
here's another article related to Linton's post.
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/National%20News/Historic-Grand-Canyon-shop-to-close-after-102-years-at-the-rim
Trouble with the link? then use this one:
http://tinyurl.com/kw8l3e
Also, you can't help noticing this part of Linton's linked article:
"As to how the Verkamp family ended up with the fragment, Verkamp said,
"We don't quite know." "
Best wishes,
Doug
-----Original Message-----
From: Linton Rohr <linton...@earthlink.net>
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 2:10 am
Subject: [meteorite-list] - 535 Canyon
Diablo relocated
Nice little specimen moves from Grand Canyon to Lowell Observatory, in
Flastaff.
http://www.azdailysun.com/articles/2009/06/08/news/20090608_local_197778.txt
I wish I had known it was at the Canyon. I've been there numerous times
and didn't have a clue it was there
Linton.
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