[meteorite-list] Question Regarding Lunars

From: cdtucson at cox.net <*cdtucson_at_meteoritecentral.com*> Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 21:25:59 -0500 Message-ID: <20100109212559.GTH5I.520678.imail_at_fed1rmwml41> · cdtucson_at_meteoritecentral.com

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Carl or Debbie Esparza
Meteoritemax
---- Randy Korotev <korotev at wustl.edu> wrote: 
> At 16:59 08-01-10 Friday, you wrote:
> 
> >Randy, that's what I love about this hobby, it's an ongoing learning 
> >process. Thanks for the links to the lunar meteowrongs, there great.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Jim K
> 
> 
> 
> Dear Jim:
> 
> Don't pay any attention to anything I say.  I'm a narrow-minded, 
> egocentric fraud.
> 
> A few days ago a fellow sent me 32 rocks, all of which he thought 
> were meteorites.  I told him I'd only look at the 3 he thought most 
> likely to be meteorites.  He named three.  I looked at them.  None 
> had fusion crusts or regmaglypts.  I showed them to a a guy here who 
> knows more about terrestrial rocks than I do.  All three were 
> volcaniclastic rocks, in our opinion.  Maybe one was a terrestrial 
> breccia.  I told the guy what I thought.  Here's how he responded.
> 
> =========================================================
> I'm thinking, that asking a geologist to do the job of a lunar 
> geochemist, is like sending a carpenter to erect the next World Trade 
> Center.  It is obvious, that you are unable to wrap your mind around 
> the idea that a discovery such as this could be possible, or even 
> feasible.  It is also apparent, that the potential of this discovery 
> is not important to you, or to the science.  Your attempts to deny, 
> denounce and destroy this effort has reached, "the end of the trail!"
>     Having said as much, I will be dismissing you from this case.  I 
> will have the lab results sent to several other, more open-minded & 
> intelligent lunar geochemists, whom I am in contact with, and who 
> currently think that such a discovery is not only possible and 
> feasible, but probable & overdue.  This project is deserving of 
> young, alert, provocative, curious and inquisitive minds, who are 
> willing to think outside the box.  (There are meteorites that are 
> "Red"!!......check out the latest chat on your local Meteorite chat 
> room; courtesy of Mike Farmer).  I've never known a scientist 
> wanting, offering or settling for a compromise on a potential 
> discovery.  How egocentric & how terribly absurd!
>     I do thank you for your efforts, but you are not the "man of 
> science" I was expecting, or hoping, you would be.  It is obvious, 
> too, that you introduced the specimens to your "terrestrial" 
> geologist (if there was one you associate with!) with 
> prejudice.  This is not the type of scientific inquiry deserving of a 
> comment or compliment.   Your arguments against these specimens being 
> meteoritic, should be directed against your own publications and 
> those of Richard Norton, NASA, JPL, Johnson Space Center, and every 
> single collection around the globe.  I must suspect, that you are in 
> the game to protect your own precious fusion-crusted relics and the 
> value of your fraternity's collections.  Your professional & personal 
> integrity are certainly in question, here!   I have given you this 
> potential discovery on a silver platter, but you have chosen to spit 
> in my eye, as if I was some kind of lowly peon.  Never, have I been 
> treated with such arrogant malice!
>     I wish you well on your retirement & may it be soon!   A fella' 
> can look at just so many rocks, that he becomes one, himself!
> =========================================================
> 
> I sure hope this guy finds someone else on The List to insult!
> 
> I need to retire,
> Randy Korotev
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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