Re: [meteorite-list] Amateur Meteoriticists?

2010-10-04 Thread cdtucson
Richard, Martin, Very good question. It seems to me that unless you are getting paid for something. You are an amateur? I'm not sure if Marvin Kilgore gets paid but his name appears on a number of publications. Dean bessy gets paid. Also I seem to see others listed on papers such as Hupe and

Re: [meteorite-list] Amateur Meteoriticists?

2010-10-04 Thread Greg Hupe
, 3. Oktober 2010 05:05 An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com; Martin Altmann Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Amateur Meteoriticists? HI Martin. I wanted to add that on the whole I do not consider meteorite hunters meteoriticists. Now I want to be PERFECTLY CLEAR by what I mean here. I know

Re: [meteorite-list] Amateur Meteoriticists?

2010-10-03 Thread Martin Altmann
. Oktober 2010 05:05 An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com; Martin Altmann Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Amateur Meteoriticists? HI Martin. I wanted to add that on the whole I do not consider meteorite hunters meteoriticists. Now I want to be PERFECTLY CLEAR by what I mean here. I know

Re: [meteorite-list] Amateur Meteoriticists?

2010-10-03 Thread Richard Kowalski
--- On Sun, 10/3/10, Martin Altmann altm...@meteorite-martin.de wrote: Hi Richard, I was thinking more to the aspect, in your originally posting, how amateurs would collaborate with scientists and what their contribution to meteorite science is. Hence not so what they achieve in the

Re: [meteorite-list] Amateur Meteoriticists?

2010-10-02 Thread Richard Kowalski
Carl, I'll try to answer a few of your questions embedded within your post. --- On Fri, 10/1/10, cdtuc...@cox.net cdtuc...@cox.net wrote: Richard, Martin, Very good question. It seems to me that unless you are getting paid for something. You are an amateur? Well yes and no. I've been

Re: [meteorite-list] Amateur Meteoriticists?

2010-10-02 Thread Martin Altmann
Nachricht- Von: Richard Kowalski [mailto:damoc...@yahoo.com] Gesendet: Sonntag, 3. Oktober 2010 03:09 An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com; Martin Altmann; cdtuc...@cox.net Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Amateur Meteoriticists? Carl, I'll try to answer a few of your questions embedded within

Re: [meteorite-list] Amateur Meteoriticists?

2010-10-02 Thread Richard Kowalski
to that of a meteoriticist. Cheers -- Richard --- On Sat, 10/2/10, Martin Altmann altm...@meteorite-martin.de wrote: From: Martin Altmann altm...@meteorite-martin.de Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Amateur Meteoriticists? To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Saturday, October 2, 2010

[meteorite-list] Amateur Meteoriticists?

2010-09-30 Thread Richard Kowalski
David's original question got me thinking a little bit about a conversation Guy I had over dinner a few weeks ago, during his last visit to Tucson. Ill get to that in a moment. My own question is this. Are there (m)any amateur meteoriticists out there? IOW, amateurs who contribute to the

Re: [meteorite-list] Amateur Meteoriticists?

2010-09-30 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Richard, IOW, amateurs who contribute to the Science of Meteorites Yes there are. Only a very few of these, who are doing the field work and who brought and are bringing the largest part of the world meteorite inventory to the labs, institutes and museums do have an academic degree in