[meteorite-list] IT'S OFFICIAL - TISSINT SHERGOTTITE!

From: Jim Wooddell <nf114ec_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:42:41 -0700
Message-ID: <53739AE399E0465D816EA1D6E2698868_at_Grande>

Tissint appropriate for someone to invent a drink called a "Shergottite"

Then a toast to a nice meteorite!

Jim

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Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] IT'S OFFICIAL - TISSINT SHERGOTTITE!


> Great news!
>
> Let's celebrate!
>
> It is probably nothing less than the 'Martian fall of our lifetime'.
>
> Rejoice !
>
> Best wishes
>
> Martin
>
>
>
> Von: "Galactic Stone & Ironworks" <meteoritemike at gmail.com>
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> Betreff: [meteorite-list] IT'S OFFICIAL - TISSINT SHERGOTTITE!
> Datum: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:36:55 +0100
>
> Hi List!
>
> http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=54823
>
> Forget Tata, Foumzgit, or Tanzour.
>
> The official name is Tissint!
>
> Start changing your websites and collection labels now. :)
>
> Best regards,
>
> MikeG
>
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> On 1/16/12, Erik Fisler wrote:
> > Thanks Mark, see you in Tucson as well! I'll be at the birthday bash for
> > the
> > first time as I am now 21 ;)
> >
> > Bob, universities actually do make trades and buy new material. I was
> > lucky
> > enough to be let into the vault and there was kilos and kilos of new
> > stuff
> > that had been traded and bought to add or to replace collection pieces.
> > Garvie is very adamant about improving ASU's collection.
> >
> > [Erik]
> >
> > Sent from my iPod
> >
> > On Jan 16, 2012, at 8:39 PM, Erik Fisler wrote:
> >
> >> Well Hello there fellow list members!
> >>
> >> I'd like to step out of the shadows and share some of my experiences
> >> now
> >> that I'm working my way through my junior year of my space exploration
> >> degree at ASU.
> >>
> >> Being that I completed my associates degree from a community college
> >> (which a very friendly and welcoming environment) and have now
> >> transferred
> >> to ASU, I have noticed some interesting things in the environment of a
> >> university.
> >> One very interesting thing I've noticed is that engineers look down
> >> their
> >> noses at scientists and vice versa.
> >> I think that is the funniest thing! It's really enjoyable to hear an
> >> engineer or a scientist make some jab at the other team. Apparently
> >> it's
> >> not just at ASU but at UofA and NAU as well so I've heard from friends
> >> attending those schools. That is a terrible rivalry or what ever you'd
> >> like to call it which can only lead to issues in collaboration between
> >> both groups.
> >> Another interesting 'preconceived notion' I've experienced is that as
> >> far
> >> a meteorite go, people at the university, professors and students, see
> >> meteorite hunters almost like pirates, sucking up material the
> >> university
> >> is entitled to. I let my astrophysics class including my professor hurl
> >> all sorts of silly notions at me before I clarified what meteorite
> >> hunting
> >> is like. I'm sure their view has been skewed from shows like Meteorite
> >> Men
> >> and from some of the Saharan Hunters. I explained that the Meteorite
> >> Men
> >> have special permission to hunt some of those fields and that they are
> >> hunting fields in which there is no shortage of material for
> >> universities.
> >> I explained that hunters like in the South Western United States spend
> >> months and months before finding new falls and that it is almost
> >> impossible to profit as a meteorite hunter, baring few exceptions. I
> >> also
> >> explained that hunting fields like Franconia or Gold Basin have so much
> >> material that there is more than enough for U
> > ni
> >> versities to acquire. I also explained that the extreme drop in
> >> Austrailian finds to almost none is actually inhibiting those
> >> Universities
> >> from acquiring new material for research and discovery of new meteorite
> >> types. On top of that I explained that a University doesn't need 30
> >> kilos
> >> of material to study lol.
> >>
> >> Meteorite hunters find a field, donate 20g's or 20% or sometimes kilos
> >> worth a material for classification. It's very important that this is
> >> how
> >> hunters process their finds along with meticulous collection habits
> >> like
> >> GPSing and recording each find so these unknowing educates have no
> >> ammunition when they come for our hunting rights. It was an eye opening
> >> experience for me to see that even though they can be highly
> >> experienced
> >> they aren't all as understanding as Laurence Garvie and the other
> >> select
> >> few educates we all work with. It's scary to think they project these
> >> notions on to the students who flow semester after semester through
> >> their
> >> classes.
> >>
> >> Raising awareness and educating people is how we can keep our hunting
> >> freedoms and how we can protect future meteorite discoveries from
> >> terrestrialization as a result of draconian legislations.
> >>
> >> [Erik]
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPod
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