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Re: New images of meteorites just set up
Kudos to Jim! You have really done a great job in protecting, displaying,
and showing us your collection! I often view the meteorites there with
desire to have a few of them!
It would be great if more people could set up similar pages to display
their collections. Jim Strope has also done a similar website.
I have almost sold out of the highly brecciated Kaigorod to the members of
my mailing list! If you are not a member, please join up not to get advance
notice of incoming material and special offers to the list only.
Thanks and great job Jim!
Mike Farmer
http://www.concentric.net/~farmerm
Jim Hurley wrote:
> I finally finished putting just about all the images of my meteorite
> collection on-line.
>
> These images are rather large in size - usually around
> 600x600 or bigger. You will need a lot of screen real estate
> to see them at one go. I just didn't feel that people with decent
> monitors should have to suffer the small sizes we usually put on the
> web for the least common denominator - 640x480. Aren't those good
> old days of VGA behind us by now?
>
> I've taken a number of suggestions from people on the list, revised
> much of the text, added notes on the collection and the image
> processing, added a section on Mike Farmer's space stamps, and compiled
> all the resources I could find on asteroid 4 Vesta and its
> relationship to the HEDs.
>
> I've added photomicrographs of the vesicles of Ibitira,
> and the olivine portions of Esquel and Imilac.
>
> There's a picture of the desiccating chamber that I use for the
> specimens and things I've learned about preservation and cleaning.
>
> I've also cross-linked some of my text and graphics with Dave Weir's
> fabulous image collection and technical notes, Eric Twelker's
> background material, and a few other related links where I could find
> them.
>
> The search tools has been re-indexed with all this new stuff, so
> typing in something like 'regolith' will return something
> meaningful (the search tool is the big oval button on the
> top level pages, and the eyeball on the link pages).
>
> I would appreciate other link references to cross-link
> this material with - other things out there on the web, we should
> have more stuff linked together more tightly.
>
> If anyone finds any errors or thinks of something useful to add,
> please drop me a line. I don't have much free time, but I enjoy
> doing this sort of thing.
>
> The thumbnails are loosely arranged in some sort of order,
> I'll have to work on some classifying pages like Dave did.
>
> BTW, if anyone wants a copy of these images, send me a note
> and I'll send you better quality (less compressed) images
> or the original Photoshop files.
>
> The starting point URL is in the signature - follow the links to the
> Meteorite Gallery. And... don't get lost!
>
> --
> Jim Hurley
> Arachnaut's Lair
> http://www.arachnaut.org/ >
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