[meteorite-list] UNM Meteorite Museum re-opening

From: Ruben Garcia <rubengarcia85382_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 14:47:10 -0700
Message-ID: <CAJet4mOVoOXZkL49s4548Wme-5GdTB9s_44efg9xx1R2nqKAQg_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi Carl,

I think I'll keep this Lincoln LaPaz quote near next time I take part
in a meteorite documentary, or TV show.

"Meteorite hunting, unlike pure mathematics, cannot be conducted with
success solely by publicity-shy individuals comfortably seated in
armchairs."

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Carl Agee <agee at unm.edu> wrote:
> Thanks for the kind words Ruben!
>
> I just came across this excerpt from Lincoln LaPaz's (founder of IOM)
> "Space Nomads: Meteorites in Sky, Field, and Laboratory". It is as
> true today as it was when the IOM was founded in 1944!
>
> "Meteorite hunting, unlike pure mathematics, cannot be conducted with
> success solely by publicity-shy individuals comfortably seated in
> armchairs. Unlike the chemist, who buys his research materials from
> catalogs; the bacteriologist, who brews up his cultures at will in a
> laboratory; and the botanist, who finds the objects of his
> experimentation in conveniently located greenhouse and herbarium, the
> meteoriticist is in large measure dependent on the general public for
> the specimens with which he works. In meteoritics, as in perhaps no
> other science, rapid progress depends on the intelligent cooperation
> of the layman, that fortunate individual destined, because of his
> ubiquitousness, not only to witness all meteorites yet to fall, but
> also, sooner or later, to stumble upon many of those that have already
> fallen..."
> *************************************
> 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://meteorite.unm.edu/people/carl_agee/
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Ruben Garcia
> <rubengarcia85382 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Wow, Congratulations Carl, I couldn't be happier for you!
>>
>> It looks fantastic from the video and I can't wait to see it for
>> myself in person, it's just another step forward for UNM. Meteorite
>> museum renovations seem to be popluar now days, first ASU, then TCU
>> and now UNM.
>>
>> You have done an amazing job at UNM. You inspire so many of us with
>> your knowledge and enthusiasm for meteoritics.
>>
>> Keep it up!
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Carl Agee via Meteorite-list
>> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>>> http://news.unm.edu/news/unm-s-meteorite-museum-reopens-with-futuristic-design
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBiM4f9Eajs
>>>
>>> *************************************
>>> 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://meteorite.unm.edu/people/carl_agee/
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Rock On!
>>
>> Ruben Garcia
>> http://www.MrMeteorite.com

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Rock On!
Ruben Garcia
http://www.MrMeteorite.com

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