[meteorite-list] Last message

Dear List members I am just dropping a line to everyone on the list to announce with regret that this message will be my last contribution to the list. I would sincerely like to thank everyone who has contacted me through the list, or has replied to a message I have sent; whether good or bad. T

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite reveals rare unstable element

Dear List An interesting article, I will access the original on the Science Advances website to get the whole story. However, I found the EarthSky piece full of some very fundamental errors! Cheers Peter Davidson Senior Curator of Mineralogy Natural Sciences Department National Museums Collec

Re: [meteorite-list] Large Fireball Over Scotland

Dear Ron and Everyone on the List Some quite spectacular images were shown on the news here. As usual the broadcasters never seem to get the facts quite right. From what I saw on TV, it seemed to be a meteor or possibly a piece of space junk but what I am not sure about from all that has been s

Re: [meteorite-list] President Obama Places Over 265 Million Acres Of Land Off-limits

Dear MikeG and Listoids Just returned from Tucson and I would like to thank everyone I met or bumped into while there. The weather, however, was just a wee bit too hot for me (and I caught the Tucson lurgy which really p***ed me off). I have to say I agree with a lot of what you say regarding

Re: [meteorite-list] China Now Hosts The World's Largest Gem and Mineral Show

Dear List members I would be very wary of the figures quoted here. As someone on the list has already mentioned, the shows at Changsha (now gone forever), Chenzhou and elsewhere are largely attended by locals and students bussed in by the Chinese government to artificially boost numbers. A numb

Re: [meteorite-list] Guns made of meteorite: Price tag $1 million

Dear Tommy and All I will be interested to see the reaction of listees to this article. A few years ago I posted a small "flyer" for the work of an artist who had taken a piece of Campo, made a mould of it, melted the meteorite then cast it in the mould she had made earlier and put it on displa

Re: [meteorite-list] Happy New Year to the World

Anne and all the Meteorite Community Wishing all my friends and acquaintances around the globe a very happy and successful New Year from bonnie Scotland. I hope to see a few of you in Tucson again. A guid New Year tae yin an' a'. Good hunting Peter Davidson Senior Curator of Mineralogy Natur

Re: [meteorite-list] Ad - Must See!

Adam I agree with Mike on this. My day job is curator of minerals and this doesn't look like a natural nugget to me. Cheers Peter Davidson Senior Curator of Mineralogy Natural Sciences Department National Museums Collection Centre 242 West Granton Road Edinburgh EH5 1JA TEL: 0131 247 4283 E-ma

Re: [meteorite-list] Geologists Unearth Fully Intact Rock

Morning Sky Watchers Check the date of this - a bit close to 1st April for my liking Peter Davidson Senior Curator of Mineralogy Natural Sciences Department National Museums Collection Centre 242 West Granton Road Edinburgh EH5 1JA TEL: 0131 247 4283 E-mail: p.david...@nms.ac.uk -Original M

Re: [meteorite-list] Social media might destroy meteorite collecting and selling!

Shawn I agree with you to a very large extent. The number of "fakes" and "meteorwrongs" appearing online, and through public enquiries to the museum, does seem to be increasing. In the last couple of weeks I have seen, or dealt with about half a dozen of them. Whether or not this can be blamed

Re: [meteorite-list] on ebay Gold and Copper Meteorite CAMPO del CIELO 38.8 grams

Hello Friends and Colleagues Well, what can I say? I'll take a dozen please! Laughed so much I fell off my chair. Have a great weekend Peter Davidson Senior Curator of Mineralogy Natural Sciences Department National Museums Collection Centre 242 West Granton Road Edinburgh EH5 1JA TEL: 0131 2

Re: [meteorite-list] Ensisheim news

Dear Anne Thank you for the information. I will not be able to come this year due to other commitments, but I am intending to come in 2016, where I hope to speak, if it can be arranged, about a forthcoming exhibition I am developing to celebrate the Centenary of the Strathmore Meteorite fall.

Re: [meteorite-list] John Kashuba

Pete Pete (so good they named him twice) Who should contact you? I do know who John Kashuba is but what is the problem? Hope he is OK? Cheers Peter Davidson Senior Curator of Mineralogy Natural Sciences Department National Museums Collection Centre 242 West Granton Road Edinburgh EH5 1JA TEL:

[meteorite-list] Katie Paterson - the last word?

Dear All Thank you again for all the replies and for the generally well written and argued cases you put to back up your point-of-view. I was a pleasure to be part of this debate and encouraging to see how many people have been touched by this topic - enough to put finger to keyboard and say wh

Re: [meteorite-list] "Meteorite" Sculpture by Katie Paterson

nly those who are wise about meteorites actually understand what aspects of the object she has destroyed....most of the general public/other artists etc. will see the object as unchanged! Graham On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Peter Davidson via Meteorite-list wrote: > Dear Lads and Lass

Re: [meteorite-list] "Meteorite" Sculpture by Katie Paterson

aying.only those who are wise about meteorites actually understand what aspects of the object she has destroyed....most of the general public/other artists etc. will see the object as unchanged! Graham On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Peter Davidson via Meteorite-list wrote: > Dear Lads an

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Sculpture by Katie Paterson

Paul Thanks for this. I have seen this particular cartoon, and some similar ones, before. It doesn't quite respond to what I said below, dealing as it does with the notion of "art" as commodity. It is a kind of short, cartoon version of the story of "The Emperor's New Clothes". It does however

[meteorite-list] "Meteorite" Sculpture by Katie Paterson

Dear Lads and Lassies Thank you to those who replied to the e-mail I sent about the "meteorite" sculpture by Katie Paterson which has been sent into space. To be honest I didn't expect a positive response and that is exactly what I got. I attended a talk by Katie last Saturday (2nd August) and

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Sculpture by Katie Paterson

Dear Listoids I make no claim to be an expert on contemporary art/artists, nevertheless I have worked with a number of artists over the last few years in my role as a mineral curator for the National Museums and this has allowed me to get a glimpse of the way different artists devise, plan and

Re: [meteorite-list] AD - Happy Birthday to me.

Anne Bon anniversaire ! Although we haven't known each other for that long, I feel you are one of my oldest and most trusted friends. We haven't had the chance to speak for a while, but I will be sure to look you up in Tucson in 2015. Many happy returns Peter Davidson Senior Curator of Minera

Re: [meteorite-list] travel to Ensisheim

Hello Karen Hope I am not too late. I was away on fieldwork in Devon and Cornwall. There are a number of options for getting to Ensisheim from Mulhouse. Firstly there is a local bus service from the station in Mulhouse to Ensishem. But it is very infrequent and only runs during the day, nothing

[meteorite-list] Strathmore Meteorite Centenary

Hello Listees (Repost) 2017 marks the Centenary of the Strathmore meteorite fall; Scotland's biggest. To commemorate this occasion, I am at the planning stage of an exhibition which will take place in the National Museums Scotland during that year. Outline permission had already been given and

Re: [meteorite-list] book about french meteorites / bad news

Good Morning Pierre-Marie This is sad news indeed, and very frustrating since it is due to a legal impediment and not a comment on the strength and quality of the research. Some of my colleagues have suggested self-publishing which is a good idea, but if you are prevented by your contract then