[meteorite-list] Jim Kriegh

[bernd.pauli at paulinet.de]

Hello Meteorite Community,

One year ago, Jim Kriegh, Oro Valley's heart and soul, died at the age of 78.
Saturday, December 02, 2006, Jim wrote me this: " I expect to be able to go
occasionally searching for more meteorites and/or gold but not near as often
as I would like."

I am very confident that Jim is now much closer to these messengers from the
heavens that we all love and cherish so much. Maybe he's watching us from
his little asteroid that bears his name: 149244 Kriegh.

This little asteroid is a member of the so-called Flora family of inner main 
belt asteroids (S-type asteroids) and it is an excellent decision to dedicate
this one to Jim because the Floras are thought to be members of the parent
bodies of the L chondrites, ... Gold Basin is, as we all know. an L-chondrite!

Jim, you may be gone,
but you are not forgotten!

Bernd