[meteorite-list] Meteorite main mass hunting with a blimp

From: Michael Farmer <mike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 22:33:01 -0700
Message-ID: <86A7E684-F922-4D17-BFE7-0A8CDCE29078_at_meteoriteguy.com>

indeed, had a great dinner with some of the NASA people, it all makes sense and is on the up and up. blimp company offered their services free of charge and are now on the cover of many newspapers, not bad marketing, and NASA gets long slow flyover of the strewn field searching for clear areas and photographing terrain to hunt in as google earth is very out of date in this area. win win for all.



Michael Farmer

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On May 3, 2012, at 6:17 PM, MexicoDoug <mexicodoug at aim.com> wrote:

> Sounds to me more like a publicity stunt from the blimp company, offered to scientists "free" for publicity they can get for their blimp rides. Pretty good marketing on the company's part, IMO. As for scientists, pretty sure they are going for free, just their fixed overhead expense will be lost to the government, their grant, private company or whatever combination they work under. Surely they told their bosses they would do it on a weekend, or work the weekend to make it up, it's all funny money anyway and anyways, in their business and all of government in general "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.", so nothing really lost and they will love their jobs more. Who among us wouldn't go in a heartbeat, come'on.
>
> Anyway if they follow the estimate trajectory line they conceivably might see something from a different perspective, like Tunguska :-P, but it really sounds more like they are goofing off. Well, they have the chance to get the last laugh.
>
> Scientists routinely use expensive fitted jets to stay aloft many hours during meteor showers just to get better sampling of the action from the higher altitude. I can see where one idea led to another. At least Sky Adventures or whatever it's called will see a spike of business.
>
> Best wishes
> Doug
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Farmer <mike at meteoriteguy.com>
> To: karmaka <karmaka-meteorites at t-online.de>
> Cc: met-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Thu, May 3, 2012 8:09 pm
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite main mass hunting with a blimp
>
>
> My god, these are the people who can't pay a dime or samples but can piss away
> our taxpayer money on this? My wife is a pilot, I fly with her often, you can
> not see a 50 gallon barrel from 500 ft up. Good luck with that plan.
> Must be nice to work on the expense account!
> Michael Farmer
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 3, 2012, at 12:33 PM, "karmaka" <karmaka-meteorites at t-online.de> wrote:
>
>> Watch out for the blimp !
>>
>> A new way of hunting the Sutter's Mill 'main mass':
>>
>> " Scientists today are mounting a massive search in the Sierra Nevada
> foothills for meteorite fragments [...]
>> Experts from NASA and the SETI institute are en route to Sacramento
> this
> morning aboard a zeppelin provided by Airship Ventures, based at Moffett Field
> in the Bay Area. They were expected to stop briefly at McClellan Park airfield
> around 11 a.m., then lift off again to spend the afternoon surveying foothill
> regions of Placer and El Dorado counties. "
>>
> http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/03/4463578/scientists-on-the-hunt-for-meteorite.html
>>
>> Track the ship here:
>>
>> http://www.airshipventures.com/about/track-the-ship
>>
>> GOOD LUCK !!
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
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