[meteorite-list] Meteorite Digest Volume 131 Issue 19 (and apersonal note)

From: Martin Goff <msgmeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 19:01:26 +0000
Message-ID: <CAKEL=tC=WCCX0XBFVSt22bGxcBgBiRoBJ=OyaLKdqKAgq-oBeg_at_mail.gmail.com>

Kevin, Anne, Bernd, Alex, all,

You might be very surprised as to the quality of some of the meteorite
discussion on facebook. I am all for the metlist and long may it
continue but Facebook in my opinion is an excellent forum and I have
to say I would not want to miss out on all the opportunities that
Facebook offers. Different strokes for different folks............
:-)

>From a metlist and Facebook but overall a meteorite afficionado :-)

Cheers

Martin



On 14/03/2014, Anne Black <impactika at aol.com> wrote:
> ........ and I bet that that too is not on Facebook. ;-)
>
>
> Anne M. Black
> www.IMPACTIKA.com
> IMPACTIKA at aol.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rickmont <rickmont at earthlink.net>
> To: Kevin Kichinka <marsrox at gmail.com>; meteorite-list
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Fri, Mar 14, 2014 9:23 am
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Digest Volume 131 Issue 19 (and
> apersonal note)
>
>
> Awesome post Kevin!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Kichinka
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 9:41 PM
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Digest Volume 131 Issue 19 (and
> apersonal note)
>
> Team Meteorite:
>
>
> A little (no,a lot) off-topic, but I need some help celebrating an
> important personal moment.
>
>
> I will comment on that first, then about the last 'edition' of the
> meteorite-list.
>
>
> While I am proud to be an American and always will carry that
> passport, the small Central American nation of Costa Rica is where I
> prefer to live. I like to climb to the edge of gently erupting
> volcanoes, trek through deep green forest where the sky-scraping trees
> are the theater for a concert of rare bird song, while living among
> gentle people who live for adventure.
>
>
> The women are really hot, too.
>
>
> Back story - It's been twenty-nine years since I first stepped foot
> here, twice since 1990 that I've jumped the high hoops to become a
> 'Rentista' (a type of provisional resident) so I could stay here,
> although with stipulations. After some years of maintaining that
> status, one can apply to be a 'permanent resident', and its been ten
> months since I applied to live here forever. It's 'home' now. Were
> there no problems, I should have achieved this status last September.
> There were no problems, I just needed a bureaucrat's signature. In
> January I petitioned the Supreme Court to force a decision.
>
> Moments ago, this message arrived from my attorney, Lic. JJ Valerio....
>
>
> "Hello Kevin,
>
> Very good news, you are now a Permanent Resident in Costa Rica. I went
> to Immigration today and I got the resolution. I hope you be on time
> with the payments of the CCSS because we will need it to get the new
> Residency ID."
>
>
> ****************************************************
> I'm very happy about this.
>
>
> But while I'm a mile of smiles chuckling at the intensity of 'the
> moment', there's more, because just before this email arrived, I read
> the last 'digest' of the m-list. I got sentimental.
>
>
> Note to Team Meteorite - For privacy reasons (see 'NSA'), I don't
> participate in FaceBook.
>
>
> I was immediately spell-bound reading Alan Rubin's riveting discussion
> of the origins of CK's, and his conclusion of no separate parent body.
> Alan has helped me many times during days past when I contributed to
> 'Meteorite' and that help is not forgotten. I read his article twice
> to make sure I understood it. Fantastic!
>
>
> I doubt that such work is found on Facebook.
>
>
> I have not yet had the privilege of working or exchanging messages
> with Carl Agee, who's attitude (and love?) of mets I perceive to be
> like some collector-genius. His dissertation of 'UNG's' and Mercury
> meteorites was like everything else he contributes to this venue, it
> increased my knowledge in the field. Perfect.
>
>
> I doubt that such work is found on Facebook.
>
>
> Mike G has evolved to become a 'voice', an 'opinion leader' and
> tonight he asks relevant questions that merge the lines between
> collectors and researchers about pairings of a strange orphan met
> 'without a home' wondering why it is so darn expensive!
>
>
> Super Sonny shares another one of his incredible US finds, a
> scattering of OC's using dice in situ for size comparison -he rolled
> all Lucky Sevens , not a 'Snake Eyes' in sight- and Paul Gessler
> offers a witty comment calling it 'desert pavement'.
>
>
> Bob Verish, Tom Randall and even 'Steve Arnold (Chicago) make guest
> appearances 'this issue', not to forget relative 'newbie' Shawn Alan.
>
>
> But the list would be lifeless without the spirit of Herr Bernd
> Pauley, the guiding light of meteorite collectors worldwide. And here
> he is tonight, all 69 years of him, sitting in his rocker, a comforter
> in his lap, wife Pauline shuffling into the living room offering a cup
> of hot chocolate stirred with a cinamon stick, Bernd sits in front of
> the fireplace tapping out his message to us on a iPad ("Will you
> still need me, will you still feed me...")
>
>
> I would be remiss not to mention the almost twenty years (!?) that my
> best buddy and fellow Nakhla Noogie Ron Baalke has served our
> community with constant updates on the American space mission. Thanks
> to Ron, we have all journeyed to Mars, starting with the first lander,
> Pathfinder, on July 4, 1997. We crossed our fingers while another
> spacecraft neared Comet Temple, another craft succesfully inspecting
> 4Vesta.... we've gone just about everywhere together in the Solar
> System thanks to Ron. That's something special. And he loves (dead)
> dogs, too.
>
>
> I doubt that such work is found on Facebook.
>
>
> But I broke out in that LOL when Senor Garcia wondered who the heck
> was 'Proud Tom'?
>
>
> I know Ruben, but if I tell you I'll have to re-crystallize all your
> L3.05 chondrites...
>
> Lastly, Art offers this venue that we all come out and play in. Long
> may we play.
>
>
> Bueno. Una fiesta ahora comenzar?n en mi casa en la celebraci?n de mi
> residencia permanente en la hermosa Costa Rica.
>
>
> (Good. A party now starts in my house in celebration of my permanent
> residency in beautiful Costa Rica.)
>
>
> Saludos a todos.
>
>
> Jajajajajajajaja...............:>)
>
>
> Kevin Kichinka
>
> Rio del Oro, Santa Ana, Costa Rica
>
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>
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Martin Goff
www.msg-meteorites.co.uk
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Received on Fri 14 Mar 2014 03:01:26 PM PDT