[meteorite-list] A question for the scientists - Bunch, Rubin, others.

[Robert Woolard]

Hi Marc,

  Can't think of a better meteorite to "lure" you in!

  Happy 12th birthday to PV  ( 1 day belated, as it was 12 years ago yesterday ).  

  Best wishes, and thanks for letting us know how you decided to pursue your current profession.

  Robert Woolard

--- On Sat, 6/12/10, Marc Fries <fries at psi.edu> wrote:

> From: Marc Fries <fries at psi.edu>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] A question for the scientists - Bunch, Rubin, others.
> To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Date: Saturday, June 12, 2010, 6:53 PM
> About ten years ago I was minding my
> own business in the lab when a geologist friend of mine
> brought in a piece of Portales Valley. He asked me to
> collect some Raman spectra of some possible diamond in
> it.  Until then I thought meteorites were some distant
> thing that you only saw behind glass at a museum.  I
> was utterly hooked.  (After I quit trying to throw him
> out of the lab because I thought he was pulling my
> leg!)  I was still in grad school, finishing out my
> project on gas-phase deposition of diamond to improve
> medical implants.  I already knew that there were a
> dozen others who would gladly take my place in industry and
> I had more or less decided that I wanted to tackle unsolved
> problems in natural systems instead.
> 
> So there ya have it.   Now I dedicate most
> of my time to writing proposals and watching them get
> rejected.  It's almost entertaining.  ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Marc Fries
> 
> 
> On Jun 12, 2010, at 9:00 AM, Galactic Stone & Ironworks
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Listees,
> > 
> > I have a question for the scientists and
> meteoriticists on this List :
> > 
> > At what point in your academic career did you decide
> to pursue
> > meteoritics?  Did you set out from the beginning
> to study meteorites,
> > or did you move to meteoritics by some twist of fate
> or serendipity?
> > 
> > I wish I had been "turned on" to meteorites earlier in
> my life, so I
> > could have decided to pursue it as a career, and not
> as a hobby.  But
> > alas, this old dog is too old and poor to enter
> college again and
> > pursue the science.  So I am curious what led our
> experts to the field
> > of meteorites.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> > MikeG
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> >
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