[meteorite-list] Richard Norton

From: Dave Gheesling <dave_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 20:41:01 -0400
Message-ID: <606FC58CDBC34A73981115CBB3B4D3BC_at_meteorroom>

"To hold in your hand something alien, created before Earth existed,
irresistible. Once, while giving a lecture to a group of vacationers on a
cruise ship, I casually handed a meteorite to someone in the first row and
asked that it be passed around so everyone would have a chance to hold a
rock from space older than Earth. The reaction was electric. People
clambered to touch it, and a riot nearly ensued. The allure of these
ancient rocks is universal. They speak in all languages. To hold something
older than Earth is to return to creation itself..."

O. Richard Norton
Rocks from Space (from the Introduction)

All has already been said, and this tribute to Richard Norton has been
appropriately incredible. Returning to these words (the best I've ever seen
to describe the sensation we all know so well) from time to time has become
habit for me, and I'll always appreciate more than words can say the
wonderful doors of inspirational opportunity this book has opened for me and
countless others...

With deepest sympathies and highest regards,

Dave Gheesling
IMCA #5967
www.fallingrocks.com

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Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 2:57 PM
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Richard Norton

Hello List-Members,

Late last night I received a very sad email from Dorothy Norton.

Richard Norton passed away last week, after a long illness.

I had known fot quite some time that Richard was in poor health, still the
news of his death came as a shock. Last time I called Dorothy, I heard piano
playing in the background, Chopin and very good, I thought it was a CD
playing or the radio, but Dorothy told me it was Richard, and we stopped a
moment to listen, it was beautiful, I had no idea Richard was such a
virtuoso.
I had met Richard and Dorothy several years ago in Tucson, Thanks to Twink.
I was very much a new comer then , and I found Richard to be bright,
friendly, funny and so approchable. I still remember showing him a slice of
Tafassasset, he looked at it with his loupe for quite a while, then told me
that this meteorite left him speechless. Dorothy laughed, apparently Richard
was rarely speechless.

And now there is that great big hole in the middle of the Meteorite
Community.

Please read the obituary written by Dorothy and Joel Schiff:
http://www.impactika.com/rnorton.doc

I do know that Dorothy reads the List, so feel free to send her a message
this way. Or, if you prefer, I'll be glad to relay your private message to
her.
Thank you.

Anne M. Black
http://www.impactika.com/
IMPACTIKA at aol.com
Vice-President, I.M.C.A. Inc.
http://www.imca.cc/
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