[meteorite-list] Gebel Kemil article in New Scientist

From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 15:05:37 +0200
Message-ID: <002501cb3568$1154eb80$6502a8c0_at_name86d88d87e2>

Hi all,

if you read the article carefully, you surprisingly will find also a
remarkably positive point:

An estimate about the Moroccan NWA-"market".

"At around $1 million a year, the trade in meteorites is small beer"


Folks, these are peanuts in the universitary and science world.

1 million a year gets a PostDoc at the Munich university for his project, to
make water fleas angry.
(Certainly an interesting task too,
but compared to being able to work and to research on samples from Moon,
Mars, Vesta and unaccessible other celestial bodies.....)

Don't know, to me it seems always astonishing, that some people think they
have to use a flattop to crack a nut.

Best,
Martin
Received on Fri 06 Aug 2010 09:05:37 AM PDT