[meteorite-list] "Meteorwritings, " Richard Norton, and "The Art of Collecting Meteorites"

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Dear Listees:

The June edition of "Meteorwritings" has been online for a few days.  
In keeping with Geology.com's interest in entry level content, this is  
a basic introduction to meteorite collecting for beginners. As always,  
we took a series of new photos for the column, and I think you will  
find a couple of them quite amusing.

This month's episode is dedicated to our late friend Richard Norton,  
as he did so very much to popularize our favorite subject:

http://geology.com/meteorites/meteorite-collecting.shtml

In the article I recommend List member Kevin Kichinka's "The Art of  
Collecting Meteorites." I had the pleasure of working with Kevin on  
his lovely book, a while back, as design director. Kevin published the  
book himself, and I gather it is fairly close to selling out. Anyone  
who collects meteorite books and does not have a copy, may want to add  
this fine edition to his/her library before they are all gone. You can  
order a copy from directly from Kevin here:

http://www.theartofcollectingmeteorites.com


In addition, I wrote a brief piece about Richard for my science column  
on TucsonCitizen.com.

Anyone who is interested can find it here:

http://tucsoncitizen.com/lizard/2009/06/04/richard-norton-space-rock-writer


Thanks for reading and all the best from Tucson,

Geoff N.

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