[meteorite-list] NPA 03-21-1979 Urey in Hospital, Jilin Meteorite gift

[martinh at isu.edu]

Hi Mark and All,

Speaking of Urey, did you happen to read my Meteorite Times Accretion Desk article about him and a special meteorite in my collection that was once his?

http://www.meteoritetimes.com/Back_Links/2004/October/Accretion_Desk.htm

Cheers,

Martin H


----- Original Message -----
From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector at msn.com>
Date: Thursday, February 24, 2005 6:53 pm
Subject: [meteorite-list] NPA 03-21-1979 Urey in Hospital,	Jilin Meteorite gift

> Paper: Syracuse Herald-American
> City: Syracuse, New York
> Date: Wednesday, March 21, 1979
> Page: 5
> 
>     Dr. Harold C. Urey, who in 1934 won the Nobel Prize for 
> chemistry and 
> later helped develop the atomic bomb, is reported in stable 
> condition in the 
> coronary care unit at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, Calif.
>     A hospital spokeswoman said the 85-year-old scientist was 
> admitted 
> after suffering a possible heart attack Sunday.  Has was resting 
> comfortably.
>     Urey, known for his 
investigations on the origin of the 
> universe, 
> recently was invited to lecture in China after scientists there 
> sent him a 
> fragment of the famous Kirin meteorite.  Because of his age and 
> health, Urey 
> declined the offer.
> 
> (end)
> 
> >From my article on Jilin postal items in Meteorites Times,
> 
> "Jilin City, is also known as Chi-lin City or Kirin City. This 
> industrial 
> port city is located in northeastern China, in Jilin Province. 
> Which also 
> shares the names Chi-lin Province and Kirin Province. Jilin 
> Province borders 
> Russia in the north and North Korea in the east. Jilin means "along 
> the 
> river". The river is the Songhua River which flows along its side. 
> Emperor 
> Kang Xi of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911 AD) made a famed inspection 
> tour down 
> this river in the mid-eighteenth-century. A verse composed by the 
> Emperor, 
> "Boat Sailing on the Songhua River" referred to Jilin as a river 
> city and it 
> struck."
> 
> Clear Skie
s,
> Mark Bostick
> Wichita, Kansas
> http://www.meteoritearticles.com
> http://www.kansasmeteoritesociety.com
> http://www.imca.cc
> 
> http://stores.ebay.com/meteoritearticles
> 
> PDF copy of this article, and most I post (and about 1/2 of those 
> on my 
> website), is available upon e-mail request.
> 
> The NPA in the subject line, stands for Newspaper Article. The old 
> list 
> server allowed us a search feature the current does not, so I guess 
> this is 
> more for quick reference and shortening the subject line now.
> 
> 
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