[meteorite-list] Richard Norton
I started my day as I almost always do, just me and an old worn out copy of ROCKS FROM SPACE. I just open it up to any old page, and read a few I don't read it so much to learn anymore (although I always do pick up something new) I just like to go to the place it takes me. Its a safe, fun, happy place to go. Its like spending time with an old friend. I decided to drive to Mt. Bachelor this morning, and found myself standing hi above Central Oregon looking down on all the glory, wondering what to do next. A bright sunny spring day, on top of the world. I felt a compelling urge to drive to the Sunriver Nature Center to look at the Norton collection on display...so I did. I stood and stared at all the incredible meteorites on display, (and drooled a bit) I day dreamed about starting a meteorite museum of my own. maybe a collaboration effort. The Norton/Hall museum I dream.. Then I come home and read the Met List. I see all the posts. I cry... I'm sorry, I don't know what to say My deepest sympathies go to Dorothy and the Norton family members, Bill Hall __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Request from Kenya on suspect rock
I agree with Mark Clearly siliceous - looks like flint or chert. Definitely not a meteorite. Aubrey __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] To My Dear Friend Richard
List Members: I just returned from a week camped in the rain forest here in Costa Rica with nine other people and a pack of soggy matches. This outing was in support of the preparation of a TV show to begin airing Monday on NBC in the USA called I´m a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here. Great adventure for me, I helicoptered around CR and dodged lethal Eyelash Vipers while sleeping in the rain and observing how three-hundred people can build sound studios and create a reality program like the Survivor series in the deepest of remote jungles. Just this moment, I was able for the first time in a week-and-a-half to get an Internet connection (and more than river water to drink and 4 ounces of rice and beans per day to eat). I wanted to catch up on my email, stock market accounts, the Cleveland Cavaliers NBA playoff news and of course, the meteorite buzz. I´m a lucky man. I live in two places at once, one is a dream world, a parallel universe of adventure colored by intense, arbitrary circumstance, the other, a grounded place that passes for what most would call normal. There´s electricity and cars and convenience there. And while this is not an existance everyone would want, this type of life suits me well. And life is good. Then I saw the notice of Richard´s passing. I was aware of his illness. I know a few days have gone by, but I must take a second to share my thoughts in respect to this monument of a man. There´s a little book floating around called The Art of Collecting Meteorites that begins with comments of a deep personal nature from Richard. I wrote that book and Richard was one of the editors along with Joel Schiff. Richard told me it was THE book he had really wanted to write, a more contemporary look at the persons, influences and nuts-and-bolts of collecting meteorites. He had tried to move in that direction with Rocks from Space 1 but Mountain Press didn´t like those types of chapters and they were eliminated. Publishers can do that. I was self-published and wrote want I wanted. Over the last couple of years in our phone calls and correspondence, Richard never failed to tell me how proud he was that I had fulfilled a wish he had always had. I won´t review the interesting life he led, the achievements, the deep love he gave Dorothy who I hope can find a way to bear the loss of his companionship. I will only add a personal note. For a few years, I have had an open invitation from Richard and Dorothy that should I ever leave this place, I should move into the guest house on their property. They like me, I guess they feel we are kindred spirits. I´ve won awards playing classical piano, and Richard looked forward to he and I playing four-handed Chopin together, to giving concerts to their friends at their equinox celebrations. God, this moment I am so very sad this will not come to pass and little tears are in my eyes as I write this. My heart feels your loss Dorothy. Some day I will come and play sweet music for you and we will drink wine and remember Richard together. From Nine Degrees North. Kevin mars...@gmail.com __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Lloydminster family reaps falling star windfall - Buzzard Coulee Meteorite
-- Lloydminster family reaps falling star windfall -- They caught a falling star and put it in their pocket to enjoy an out-of-this-world cash windfall. Tara Patmore, who lives in Lloydminster on the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, was among dozens of people who along with her husband found 21 pieces of the massive Buzzard Coulee meteor that lit up western Canadian skies in November. And now she’s cashing in the little rocks, some as small as her palm, that landed in her father’s former farm by selling them to friends as well as to strangers via the Internet on Kijiji and Craigslist. “It’s amazing what people will pay — it’s just a rock, but they did come from outer space,” she said. “They are dark and black on the outside, like charcoal almost — the inside looks like cement, with silver flakes.” Her friend bought one for $1,800 and the ones listed on Kiij and Craiglist are selling for anywhere from $7 a gram to $25 a gram, the smallest being 19 g and largest weighing in at 159 g. Profits from the meteorite fragments even bought her 17-year-old son Kyle his truck insurance. While they are a unique find, Patmore admits she decided to sell the meteorites just to make a bit of money, and to share the discoveries with others. “If someone is going to spend thousands of dollars ... they evidently really want it and are going to treasure them,” she said. She has kept a couple of the meteor mementoes for herself and her aunt is making pendants out of hers. Her father also donated some to the University of Calgary. SOURCE: http://www.calgarysun.com/news/alberta/2009/05/30/9626006.html katie.schnei...@sunmedia.ca -- Regards, Eric Wichman Meteorites USA http://www.meteoritesusa.com 904-236-5394 __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Franconia Bulging Iron
Hey check out this fat sacramento wash 005 trying to peel out of my 587.8g Franconia! http://s38.photobucket.com/albums/e145/phxerik/?action=viewcurrent=IMG_03051.jpg here is a close up http://s38.photobucket.com/albums/e145/phxerik/?action=viewcurrent=IMG_0305close.jpg enjoi [erik] __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] ADMIRE -Fact or Rumors ? Who is going ?
Hello, I am hearing stories that over 1000 kilos of NEW Admire Pallasite individuals have been found recently? Some as shallow as 6 to 8 inches ? Anyone know about these discoveries happening right now? Best Wishes Michael Cottingham __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] 32nd Symposium on Antarctic Meteorites
The 32nd Symposium on Antarctic Meteorites will be held at National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa City, Tokyo, Japan, on June 3 and 4, 2009. http://www.metsoc2008.jp:80/nipr/symposium/2009/symposium3rd.html The program and abstracts are downloadable from http://www.metsoc2008.jp/nipr/symposium/2009/Program2009.pdf Katsu __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
