[meteorite-list] Video on Meteorite Identification in Field

[Linton Rohr]

Nice work, McCartney.
Thanks for sharing.
Linton

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "McCartney Taylor" <mccartney at blackbearddata.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 9:29 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Video on Meteorite Identification in Field


> I've created a stone meteorite identification video of good quality.
> With the success of Meteorite Men,  the universities, labs, and some
> dealers including me are suddenly receiving a big influx of meteorwrong
> submissions. I wanted to create a video of instruction that any of us
> could redirect the submitters to. Hopefully, the video will convince 3/4
> that they don't have a meteorite, and they don't get mad at us for
> dashing their $1,000,000 hope.
>
> Even if we can filter out 50% of the submitters, the community is way
> ahead in avoiding lost time.
>
> It is hosted on youtube, and they provide a very nice html snippet if
> you wish to embed this video in your webpage. Ideally the page the
> visitors read before they contact you about their worthless rocks.
>
> The link is here
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhlbntm3-tE
>
> -mt
>
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