[meteorite-list] - 535 Canyon Diablo relocated

[Mexicodoug]

Hi Linton, List,

How sad! - this smacks of Nininger's closing of his museum at Meteor 
Crater (Though I am sure the Barringers can identify with it as well). 
Lowell is the most deserving of institutions, but it looks like the 
meteorite is now in the part of the visitor center that requires more 
than a token payment to get in to the complex, whether visitors are 
interested in seeing the rest the observatory has to offer or not. Now 
departed is the Verkamps/early Nininger era in Zane Grey's bygone West 
(whose fiction included references to Meteor Crater).

For anyone else like me who gets nostalgic seeing the dying breaths of 
home brewed cowboy and Indian administration go by the wayside, or the 
erasure of collective memories tooling down route 66 teaching screaming 
wide-eyed kids in the back seat learning that travel is so broadening, 
here's another article related to Linton's post.

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/National%20News/Historic-Grand-Canyon-shop-to-close-after-102-years-at-the-rim

Trouble with the link? then use this one:
http://tinyurl.com/kw8l3e

Also, you can't help noticing this part of Linton's linked article:
"As to how the Verkamp family ended up with the fragment, Verkamp said, 
"We don't quite know." "

Best wishes,
Doug





-----Original Message-----
From: Linton Rohr <lintonius at earthlink.net>
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 2:10 am
Subject: [meteorite-list] - 535 Canyon 
Diablo relocated


Nice little specimen moves from Grand Canyon to Lowell Observatory, in 
Flastaff. 
 
http://www.azdailysun.com/articles/2009/06/08/news/20090608_local_197778.txt 
 
I wish I had known it was at the Canyon. I've been there numerous times 
and didn't have a clue it was there 
 
Linton.  
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