[meteorite-list] New, 124 miles in Diameter, Lunar Crater Discovered

From: Anne Black <impactika_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 22:29:41 -0400
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Thank you Sterling.
And Yes, I did notice all those "First person to ....... "
Not bad for a "mediocre" aviator. ;-)


Anne M. Black
www.IMPACTIKA.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sterling K. Webb via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
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Sent: Mon, Mar 23, 2015 7:22 pm
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Mark, List,

Other aviators have lunar craters
named after them, noteably
Charles
Lindberg, John Henry Tower, and
V. V. Bondarenko, the last because
he
also lost his life in the business,
as did Earhart.

You said:
> Earhart
was, at best, a mediocre
> aviator whose notariety resulted...
> from an
energetic (often shameless)
> promotional effort...

Every aviator of that
day was heavily,
often shamelessly, promoted. Air
records were the Space
Program of
that day and ballyhoo was deemed
essential for the real goal, which
was
to promote aviation. Her publisher
husband was good at it. So?

But I
doubt any "mediocre" flyer could
have posted this list of records:

Woman's
world altitude record:
14,000 ft (1922)

First woman to fly the
Atlantic
Ocean (1928)

Speed records for 100 km (and
with 500 lb (230 kg)
cargo) (1931)

First woman to fly an autogyro (1931)

Altitude record for
autogyros:
18,415 ft (1931 --- The current
autogyro record is only 26,407
feet.)

First person to cross the U.S.A.
in an autogyro (1932)

First
woman to fly the Atlantic
solo (1932)

First person to fly the
Atlantic
twice (1932)

First woman to receive the
Distinguished Flying Cross
(1932)

First woman to fly nonstop,
coast-to-coast across the U.S.
(1933)

Woman's speed transcontinental
record (1933)

First person to fly
solo between
Honolulu, Hawaii and Oakland,
California (1935)

First person
to fly solo from Los
Angeles, California to Mexico City,
Mexico
(1935)

First person to fly solo nonstop from
Mexico City, Mexico to Newark,
New
Jersey (1935)

Speed record for east-to-west flight
from Oakland,
California to Honolulu,
Hawaii (1937)

First person to fly solo from the
Red
Sea to Karachi (1937)

The records that impress me most are
actually the
autogyro records. Yeah, I
really want to take one of those gooney
things to
over 18,000 feet...

Note how many of these records are
for the "first
person," male or female,
to accomplish that goal?

Of course, it's a
self-serving move by
Purdue. All universities promote
themselves through the
achievements
of their graduates, whether the school
had anything to do with it
or not.

Sorry, but I just think you're dead
wrong about the "mediocre"
part.

Sterling
Webb
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From: Meteorite-list
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Behalf Of Mark
Langenfeld via Meteorite-list
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 12:58 PM
To: Paul
H.
Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New,
124 miles in Diameter, Lunar Crater
Discovered

Kind of a self-serving move
by Purdue. Earhart was, at best, a mediocre
aviator whose notariety resulted
more than anything else from an energetic
(often shameless) promotional effort
captained by her husband -- George
Putnam. Whether she merits this honor on
the basis of such manipulated fame
is certainly a matter of
debate.

Mark

----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 11:33:52
AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] New, 124 miles in Diameter, Lunar
Crater
Discovered

New lunar crater named after aviation pioneer Earhart by
Paul Rincon, BBC
News, March 17.
2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31917302

Hidden Moon Crater
Named After Amelia Earhart by Ian O,Neill, Discovery,
March 17,
2015
http://news.discovery.com/space/hidden-moon-crater-named-after-amelia-earhar
t-150317.htm

Why
did researchers decide to name enormous moon crater after Amelia
Earhart? by
Andrew McDonald, The Space Reporter, March 17,
2015
http://thespacereporter.com/2015/03/why-did-researchers-decide-to-name-enorm
ous-moon-crater-after-amelia-earhart/

Yours,

Paul
H.
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