[meteorite-list] Donating Almahata Sitta to Richard Kowalski

From: Herbert Raab <hraab_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:06:21 +0200
Message-ID: <4A784E6D.15322.1BA881_at_hraab.aon.at>

Dear fellow meteorite collectors,

about one week ago, I posted a message to this list suggesting
to collect some money to buy a sample of the Almahata Sitta
meteorite (the remnants of asteroid 2008 TC3) for Richard
Kowalski (the discoverer of 2008 TC3 and meteorite collector).

By now, US$ 375,-- were donated trough ChipIn, and further
US$ 260,-- were collected by other means, giving a total of
US$ 635,--. So, I want to say "Thank you!" to all those who
have sent donations. Those who still want to donate (any amount,
no matter how small or large is welcome) may do so until Friday,
August 7 trough this page:

http://www.astrometrica.at/kowalski.html

By the way, Franck Marchis (who is researcher at the SETI institute)
is exploring the possibities to get a sample from the original
expeditions by Jenniskens and Shaddad, and sending the donations
to the University of Khartoumm (instead of buying a sample from a
meteorite dealer), but the outcome is not yet clear.

 Cheers,
  Herbert
Received on Tue 04 Aug 2009 09:06:21 AM PDT