[meteorite-list] NYT story
From: Brian Cox <searchingforfun_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 06:31:30 -0500 Message-ID: <D0CF4F003A66418A8C14DB6CFA5AF832_at_BrianPC> Professor Agee, Thank you very much for coming onto the list and explaining your side of the story regarding your interview with the author of the story in the NYT. I certainly enjoyed reading your side of what you went through in the interview and it gave myself and I'm sure hundreds of others that read your post a better understanding of what the writer was interested in and that it seems to me that the author wasn't as interested in the facts that you gave him, but more in a sensationalistic story for Section D in Tuesday's paper. Thank you again for clarifying the misunderstandings that so many of us collectors had that love meteorites who were dumbfounded by the razor sharp barbs the writer used to lash out at our hobby and livelihood. Have a great day! Brian Cox Message: 3 Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 09:28:10 -0600 From: Carl Agee <agee at unm.edu> Subject: [meteorite-list] NYT story To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com Message-ID: <BANLkTi=2i-KL58mcB5thzQiC1DSenEZ6yg at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Since I am quoted in this article, here?s my reaction to it. The reporter seems very confused, in that he lumps together a story about the Gebel Kamil crater in Egypt and the legal meteorite trade (NWA) based primarily in Morocco. During the interview with him I spent a fair amount of time trying to explain to him how beneficial the NWA?s have been for planetary science research. For example, I mentioned how the number of rare Angrite meteorites has more than doubled due to African finds ? a huge enhancement to our understanding of the early solar system, and of course I mentioned all the lunars and martians, and other rare classes. I told him that I was not terribly well informed about the Gebel Kamil crater situation, but in my opinion the highest priority would be to protect the impact structure from degradation as these are quite rare on Earth. I also told him, that the Gebel Kamil meteorites on the other hand, are probably not hard to come by, and I?m sure if I wanted to study one for research, I could get a sample at a reasonable price or even get one as a donation from a collector, which museums benefit from frequently. I did get the feeling that he was hoping to hear something negative from me. As such he ended the interview rather quickly, but said something like ?oh, the NWA meteorites sounds like an interesting story, I need to come back to that at a later time?. So of course I was disappointed to see what mess the final NYT version was. -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577 Email: agee at unm.edu http://epswww.unm.edu/iom/pers/agee.htmlReceived on Wed 06 Apr 2011 07:31:30 AM PDT |
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