[meteorite-list] Re: The other Brenham hunter

[MexicoDoug at aol.com]

Only Steve (AR), Phil, Geoff, Don and Sheila Stimpson, USA today and maybe 
the mayor of Haviland know best what is going on here.  Our Steve Arnold has 
stolen the show from Nininger and Haag, and apparently walked into a dream of 
Stimpson's.  Just one pesky native wants to sow his own field I guess, dang, 
there is always seems to be one and what do you do if they live there...take 
Franconia, for example:)

The Stimpsons (Chicago!, of course not IMB) don't appear to be bungling 
fools, though.  They are cerrtainly not farmers as their PR would indicate and it 
is doubtful they are in financial straights as implied.  It looks like they may 
have planned their retirement for over 10 years to harvest meteorites on 
their 1000 acres bought with this in mind the investment is certainly there.  But 
they've been a bit busy publishing high powered scientific publications on the 
National Institutes of Health budget if google is interpreted right (It is 
good work and coincidentally in my field).  So, not that Stimpson is much of a 
native or neophyte himself.  Look up the holder of the main mass of the 
Valentine meteorite (MB 1993).  Is it he?  Or look at Dr. Stimpsons' publications in 
the top echelon Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA).  Or 
check some of his publications, some published with the address: Haviland 
Meteorite Crater for correspondence:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=Search&itool=PubMe
d_Abstract&term=%22Stimpson+DI%22%5BAuthor%5D

Is that the same hapless "Mr." Stimpson who got his clock cleaned by gutsy 
IMB?

I guess Steve may have forced Stimpson to review his retirement plans as he 
probably is scratching his head on how he was scooped.  As for USA Today, 
Geoff, it's a stinking fishwrapper, man, I agree ... what a lame journalistic 
response, the author really should be required to respond to their pea-brained 
plagiarism - that is what it is in my book.  Though the irony is there:  Your 
article mentions "Field of Dreams".  Could this be someone's dig: that there are 
more than one, as USA Today puts it in "their" title, "Fields of Dreams"?  
Reading between the lines can be bad for one's health I guess it isn't a hidden 
message for the REAL Dream Team, though the "other meteorite hunter" (That would 
be, the one who got his booty pounded but is coming back more peeved than 
ever as he laments being the "other" instead of just Haviland Man...) is owner of 
and heavily invested in the Haviland meteorite crater...
Saludos
PS I wouldn't expect a clone meteorite sales company soon.  More like 
havilandmeteoritefarm.com - now that's an original idea...as long as there are newts!
PPS  USA goofed big time by this article next to Stimpson's: 
("fall mainly in the SW USA!!!)

METEORITES FALL MAINLY IN SOUTHWESTERN USA 
A total of 1,529 meteorites have been found in the USA. 
States with the most:

Texas: 296
New Mexico: 215
California: 164
Kansas: 138
Colorado: 89
Arizona: 78
Nebraska: 48
Nevada: 47
Oklahoma: 39
North Carolina: 30

Sources: Natural History Museums - London and the Meteoritical Society
 




En un mensaje con fecha 05/12/2006 11:47:08 AM Mexico Daylight Time, 
rsvp321 at hotmail.com escribe:

<< Sender:  meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
 To:    h3chondrite at cox.net, geoking at notkin.net, 
meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
 
 Wouldn't the analogy be more related to a gold rush, rather than the 
 insinuated plagiarism?
 
 Cheers,
 Pete
 
 
 From: JKGwilliam <h3chondrite at cox.net>
 To: "Notkin" <geoking at notkin.net>,"Meteorite List" 
 <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
 Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Re: The other Brenham hunter
 Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 09:13:59 -0700
 
 Geoff,
 Your link to www.BrenhamMeteoriteCompanyClone.com is broken - I can't get it 
 to load.
 
 Seriously, don't you think that someone was going to do just what Mr. 
 Stimpson has done?  This world is full of people who lack creativity, vision 
 and character. When they see someone else producing a successful enterprise 
 they hustle to find a way to swipe a slice of the pie.
 Imitation surely is the sincerest form of flattery...but most folks of 
 character recognize it for what it really is.  Don't you remember all the 
 copies of the Hula Hoop?
 
 Best,
 
 JKGwilliam
 
 
 At 09:21 PM 5/11/2006, Notkin wrote:
 >Darren posted:
 >
 >>Meteorites mark fields of dreams
 >>By Judy Keen, USA TODAY
 >
 >
 >Sorry, I cannot help making fun of this  : )
 >
 >So . . . I propose that we change the name of Kiowa County, KS to Copycat 
 >County, KS.
 >
 >My article on Steve's Brenham finds in the (current) February issue of 
 >"Meteorite" is entitled: "Field of Dreams: Rediscovering the Brenham 
 >Pallasite." Notice any similarity to "Meteorites Mark Fields of Dreams"?
 >
 >Steve, you showed Keen the current issue of "M" during your interview 
 >right? What a shameless swipe! The real headline here should be: "USA Today 
 >Journalist Unable to Come Up with Original Story Idea."
 >
 >
 >>Don Stimpson peers into a 3-foot-deep hole on his farm as
 >>friends help dig up a 150-pound meteorite. "Interesting shape," he says. 
 >>The new
 >>find will join the collection of meteorites sitting on foil-covered chairs 
 >>in his garage.
 >
 >Well, at least he knows how to to display them properly.
 >
 >Stimpson (owner of the land which contains the Brenham "crater") has been 
 >doing little or nothing to locate new Brenham pallasites during the past 
 >ten years. Once Steve and Phil figured out how to find the deeply-buried 
 >Brenhams with new techniques and technology, Stimpson copied them, and has 
 >been trying to jump on their bandwagon ever since. It's unfortunate that 
 >Steve did all the groundbreaking work at Brenham, yet this journalist 
 >decided to focus on the hapless Stimpson.
 >
 >
 >>He'd like to give tours of his excavation sites, where small plastic 
 >>swimming pools cover the impressions made when the meteorites
 >
 >Gee, I can't wait to see that. A plastic swimming pool cover will surely 
 >allow visitors to experience the full excitement of unearthing a meteorite. 
 >Maybe he could have little newts swimming around in the pools as well. And 
 >everyone could wear those caps with the funny propellors.
 >
 >I expect Stimpson will now get to work on his new website: 
 >www.BrenhamMeteoriteCompanyClone.com
 >
 >My Mom always used to tell me that imitation was the sincerest form of 
 >flattery. I just call it laziness.
 >
 >
 >Geoff N.
 >www.aerolite.org >>