[meteorite-list] Meteorites and Asteroids - History Channel Tonight!

[Notkin]

Dear Listees:

I'd like to invite those of you in North American to tune in to the  
History Channel tonight for the "Asteroids" episode of "How The Earth  
Was Made." Really, we only just now found out it's going to be on   : )

My friends and associates Lisa Morrison and Leigh Anne DelRay filmed a  
segment with me, for this show, back in July of last year. It was  
quite an entertaining couple of days. Our crew were over from London  
working on the series and they sent me a shooting schedule which had  
us doing interiors in the morning, and then driving into the desert  
north of Tucson, in the early afternoon, for a meteorite hunting demo.

I gave the director a call and said: "You guys have never been here in  
July before, right?" They had not, so I explained that "Exterior  
shots, early afternoon" would involve carrying a lot of gear around in  
temperatures that would likely be between 105 and 110F. It's kinda  
rough on the locals, even, and I was afraid a London-based team might  
expire out there in the boonies, and that would leave me with an awful  
lot of paperwork  : )  So with just a little encouragement, they  
kindly changed the shoot around, did the exteriors in the early  
morhing, then came back to the Aerolite offices for interviews.

They were a really fun crew to work with, and after filming with us  
were headed up to Meteor Crater to do a bit with Dr. Kring, and then  
on to Sudbury. We haven't seen the show yet, so have no idea how much  
meteorite stuff made it in to the final cut, but we'll for sure be  
watching tonight. I hope you enjoy it.


Details:

http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&episodeId=428120

"These giant mountain-sized boulders from space have wrought death and  
destruction throughout the millennia but until recently geologists  
could find no evidence that they had actually struck the earth. Follow  
the remarkable detective story that begins at Meteor Crater in Arizona  
as mining engineers desperately try to unearth the billion dollar iron  
boulder they thought was lying there. It's a detective story that also  
uncovers immense riches; the world's biggest nickel deposit in  
Sudbury, Canada, vast oil reserves in the Gulf of Mexico and a gold  
mine in South Africa--all the result of asteroid impacts. Evidence is  
also unearthed of violent impacts that decimated some of the first  
people to live in America. What clues do asteroids, and their smaller  
cousins, meteorites, hold in the formation of the early Earth and  
perhaps life itself?"

Rating: TVPG

Running Time: 60 minutes


Regards,

Geoff N.

www.aerolite.org
www.meteoriteblog.org