[meteorite-list] 10 Reasons Why Everyone Should Own A Meteorite!

From: Mark <mafer_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 21:18:09 -0500
Message-ID: <014f01c8519c$b6d660f0$01fea8c0_at_maf>

One of the new assoc prof my last term at school (2003) was an astronomy
prof
----- Original Message -----
From: "AL Mitterling" <almitt at kconline.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] 10 Reasons Why Everyone Should Own A
Meteorite!


> Hi Ruben and all,
>
> I'd say that Anne has hit it on the head pretty good, list arguments and
> some of the other negativity that sometimes rears it's ugly head here. It
> is also the reason we have lost a lot of good people who were once
> interested in meteorites. It is why we don't have school kids coming here
> to ask questions and so forth. Some of the the people creating this
> non-sense, dealers and so forth are their own worst enemies by chasing
> people away by their actions and from this wonderful hobby.
>
> There use to be less women interested in astronomy when I was first
> interested but it seem time are changing (for the better) and you see more
> and more women at astronomy club meetings and participating in observing
> these days. I suspect as time goes on
> we'll see more women participating in the hobby.
>
> --AL Mitterling
>
>
> Impactika at aol.com wrote:
>
> Because we don't participate in the arguments on the List, or go meteorite
> hunting, does not mean we are not interested.
>
>
>
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