[meteorite-list] A Few Musings

From: gle_at_bellatlantic.net <gle_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:10:04 2004
Message-ID: <3E905E4C.32960DBB_at_bellatlantic.net>

GREG, Very well said- I could not express your musings any better.
Countless times in the past, I have stood on my backyard patio in the
dark starry evening looking up and thinking: I hope this is the night a
not too big one slams into my yard. With my luck, though, it would land
on me and the enjoyment would be short lived- GRANT ELLIOTT

Greg Redfern wrote:
>
> Good Evening Everyone,
>
> Just a few thoughts to share this evening if you don't mind.
>
> The true power of this List has been shown over the past two weeks or so
> and I would like to share what it means to me (and hopefully all of us).
>
> Steve Arnold (of Chicago, not IMB) brought the PF fall to the attention of
> most of us. Then the intrepid hunts of many of our colleagues brought us on
> site information and ultimately, specimens to admire and/or buy. Then we
> learned first hand the total aftermath of a significant fall on a major
> urban area - all of the good, the bad and the downright ugly.
>
> But it was the LIST that gave us all of these experiences!
>
> For Tom (please do not quit the list because of meteorite envy...we ALL
> suffer from it Tom, believe me!!!!) it was hard to bear reading about all of
> the meteorite trading going on as it was for most of us. But there are
> pieces of PF to be had at reasonable cost, if not size. Just to have a
> fragment of this is beyond comprehension!
>
> All of us, when you get right down to it, LOVE meteorites. Each that I
> own is part of me....I do not think I could bear to part with them which is
> why I decided I could not ever sell any I acquired. Meteorites are the
> closest to space any of us will ever get. My God, we can go to our
> collections and based on what we have collected touch a comet, the asteroid
> Vesta, THE MOON AND MARS (!!!), PRE-SOLAR GRAINS....4.5+ billion years of
> history concerning the Universe.
>
> That is what the List is all about dear colleagues...the rush we get when
> we are on the hunt and/or the quest for up close and personal knowledge of
> our place in the Universe. NONE of us will ever own all the meteorites in
> the world which means there is plenty of room for all of us.
>
> And you know what the neatest thing is in this passion of ours? We NEVER
> know what is going to happen in the next second as our planet sweeps through
> space.
>
> Thank you Art, and all of you on this List, for giving ourselves a means
> availlable no where else to pursue and pontificate about our passsion.
>
> My best to you all,
>
> Greg
>
> Greg Redfern
> 2003 NASA Solar System Ambassador
> http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ambassador/
> IMCA #5781
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>
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Received on Sun 06 Apr 2003 01:05:16 PM PDT