[meteorite-list] Gebel Kemil article in New Scientist

Martin Altmann altmann at meteorite-martin.de
Fri Aug 6 09:05:37 EDT 2010


Hi all,

if you read the article carefully, you surprisingly will find also a
remarkably positive point:

An estimate about the Moroccan NWA-"market".

"At around $1 million a year, the trade in meteorites is small beer"


Folks, these are peanuts in the universitary and science world.

1 million a year gets a PostDoc at the Munich university for his project, to
make water fleas angry. 
(Certainly an interesting task too,
but compared to being able to work and to research on samples from Moon,
Mars, Vesta and unaccessible other celestial bodies.....)

Don't know, to me it seems always astonishing, that some people think they
have to use a flattop to crack a nut.

Best,
Martin







More information about the Meteorite-list mailing list