[meteorite-list] Announcing a Major New Meteorite Website at UNM

[JKGwilliam]

Congratulations Geoff, you're photographic skills are out of this world.

Best,

John

At 07:03 PM 5/23/2007, Notkin wrote:
>Dear Listees:
>
>Greetings all. I've been somewhat quiet on the List these past few 
>months, but I have a good excuse:
>
>It is with great pleasure that I can today announce the completion 
>of a major new website for the Meteorite Museum at the University of 
>New Mexico's Institute of Meteoritics.
>
>The University maintains an excellent small museum on campus, and I 
>know some of you have visited it. Plans for a new physical museum 
>have been drawn up, and the first step towards achieving that goal 
>was the creation of a modern, interactive website. The site includes 
>the following:
>
>- A comprehensive animated Virtual Tour of the educational material 
>which the new museum will feature. This is a wonderful resource and 
>includes detailed information on the Solar System, comets, 
>asteroids, chondrites, differentiated meteorites, impact craters, 
>the Moon, Mars and a great deal more
>
>- Architect's plans for the new museum
>
>- An extensive gallery of new, original meteorite photographs from 
>the IOM collection
>
>- A gallery of thin section photographs
>
>- A guide to New Mexico meteorites
>
>- Features on meteorite identification, teacher activities, and microscopes
>
>I had the privilege of working closely with Dr. Rhian Jones and Dr. 
>Barbara Cohen at UNM during the concept, design, and construction of 
>this site. Many of the best ideas came from them, and they 
>contributed to the genesis of the site in all areas. In particular, 
>Rhian devised the text and content for the Virtual Tour and Barbara 
>designed many of the banners and provided photos, graphics, as well 
>as concepts for the site structure. My senior design assistant Karl 
>Covington executed the animation, as well as image rendering, 
>design, and typesetting, and the final product benefited greatly 
>from all their efforts.
>
>I'd like thank Dr. Jones, Dr. Cohen and their colleagues for the 
>opportunity to serve as art director for this fascinating project 
>and I hope you will all enjoy the new site.
>
>Here it is:   http://epswww.unm.edu/meteoritemuseum/
>
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Geoffrey Notkin
>
>Stanegate Studios
>Aerolite Meteorites
>
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