[meteorite-list] WG: meteorites not being able to

From: valparint at aol.com <valparint_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:10:41 -0700
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We need only look to Peru to understand the expertise and efficiency that
governments can bring to bear in order to secure critical scientific data.
The carpetbaggers that plundered the site of the recent fall merely
recorded locations, masses, eyewitness accounts, and such like. They did
absolutely nothing to secure the all-important mud hole! Maybe they are
not all bad, though. They did donate specimens to scientists that had real
microscopes and ion probes and what not.

Concerning the "unknown they are losing", is that the known-unknown or the
unknown-unknown?

Paul Swartz

> Any scientific data that is lost to the country. Right now it might seem
> trivial, but just like antiquities, they are a non-renewable resource.
> That
> meteorite will never fall again.
> And in the future, knowing where strewnfields are, how they oriented,
> what
> class and quantity, could have some significant meaning.
> It's the unknown they are loosing.
>
> Mark Ferguson
Received on Mon 14 Apr 2008 12:10:41 PM PDT