[meteorite-list] The Meteoritical Society is neglecting all its duties!
From: SaharaTeam_at_aol.com <SaharaTeam_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:46:23 2004 Message-ID: <43.14f8009d.282d7195_at_aol.com> --part1_43.14f8009d.282d7195_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit - The CNES (National French Spatial Studies Center), associated on Mars rock sample return program, gives $55,000 of public funds to a meteorite merchant, the same one who had created the false Tagounite strewnfield with no respect for meteoritic science, helping him to continue the plundering of Saharan meteorites with unknown location. - UCLA by fair of losing some interesting specimens helps American dealers to classify their Moroccan shopping and gives them opportunity of developing the erasing of 50,000 years of meteorite falls and data. Which one of the French or US laboratory will win the NWA race and will erase most strewnfield data ? - Businessmen sell quarter tons of ordinary chondrite with no respect for meteoritic science, too busy for spending time cutting and gathering information about each fragment of our early solar system history. - Meteoritical Society members give free unclassified Saharan meteorites just as a gift for publicity purpose. It seems that people are confusing solar system rocks with gadgets or unpleasant rocks which need to be cleaned out of the Sahara desert. Why continuing prospecting, with respect of meteoritic knowledge and a serious fieldwork today, rather than falling in violent hurry of collecting? 1 - to find more samples from a fall. More than 90 percent of the meteorites have an atmospheric fragmentation and show a distribution ellipse, paired finds will be found each time a meticulous fieldwork will be done, giving more samples available for science research and collectors, at lower price than North West Africa achondrites. 2 - to learn about the strewnfield features and understand the different stages of their formation. It will help us to discover new potential areas, remember that less than 5 percent of the Sahara are good prospecting places where meteorites can be preserved up to 50,000 years. If you want to know how to recognize a good strewnfield, you must keep note of maximum details and share your knowledge. If not, tomorrow you will drive randomly in the central part of the Sahara (no nomads here) searching several days for a single meteorite because you don't know where to concentrate your searches. 3 - to study pairings and location data. Those information will be used for many statistics, among which are earth meteorite fall rate and family populations. Dar al Gani (Libya), Gold Basin (USA), Oman are today the only remaining places where complete data are available... ... For how long ? Richard & Roland Pelisson http://www.saharamet.com/ --part1_43.14f8009d.282d7195_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2> <BR> - The CNES (National French Spatial Studies Center), associated on Mars rock <BR>sample return program, gives $55,000 of public funds to a meteorite merchant, <BR>the same one who had created the false Tagounite strewnfield with no respect <BR>for meteoritic science, helping him to continue the plundering of Saharan <BR>meteorites with unknown location. <BR> <BR> - UCLA by fair of losing some interesting specimens helps American dealers <BR>to classify their Moroccan shopping and gives them opportunity of developing <BR>the erasing of 50,000 years of meteorite falls and data. Which one of the <BR>French or US laboratory will win the NWA race and will erase most strewnfield <BR>data ? <BR> <BR> - Businessmen sell quarter tons of ordinary chondrite with no respect for <BR>meteoritic science, too busy for spending time cutting and gathering <BR>information about each fragment of our early solar system history. <BR> <BR> - Meteoritical Society members give free unclassified Saharan meteorites <BR>just as a gift for publicity purpose. It seems that people are confusing <BR>solar system rocks with gadgets or unpleasant rocks which need to be cleaned <BR>out of the Sahara desert. <BR> <BR> <BR> Why continuing prospecting, with respect of meteoritic knowledge and a <BR>serious fieldwork today, rather than falling in violent hurry of collecting? <BR> <BR> 1 - to find more samples from a fall. More than 90 percent of the meteorites <BR>have an atmospheric fragmentation and show a distribution ellipse, paired <BR>finds will be found each time a meticulous fieldwork will be done, giving <BR>more samples available for science research and collectors, at lower price <BR>than North West Africa achondrites. <BR> <BR> 2 - to learn about the strewnfield features and understand the different <BR>stages of their formation. It will help us to discover new potential areas, <BR>remember that less than 5 percent of the Sahara are good prospecting places <BR>where meteorites can be preserved up to 50,000 years. If you want to know how <BR>to recognize a good strewnfield, you must keep note of maximum details and <BR>share your knowledge. If not, tomorrow you will drive randomly in the central <BR>part of the Sahara (no nomads here) searching several days for a single <BR>meteorite because you don't know where to concentrate your searches. <BR> <BR> 3 - to study pairings and location data. Those information will be used for <BR>many statistics, among which are earth meteorite fall rate and family <BR>populations. Dar al Gani (Libya), Gold Basin (USA), Oman are today the only <BR>remaining places where complete data are available... <BR>... For how long ? <BR> <BR> <BR> Richard & Roland Pelisson <BR>http://www.saharamet.com/</FONT></HTML> --part1_43.14f8009d.282d7195_boundary-- Received on Fri 11 May 2001 12:47:17 PM PDT |
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