[meteorite-list] Amateur Meteoriticists?

[Richard Kowalski]

--- On Sun, 10/3/10, Martin Altmann <altmann at meteorite-martin.de> wrote:

> Hi Richard,
> 
> I was thinking more to the aspect, in your originally
> posting, how amateurs
> would collaborate with scientists and what their
> contribution to meteorite
> science is.
> 
> Hence not so what they achieve in the academic apparatus,
> in sense of
> publications and working in mineralogy, petrology ect. - as
> meteoricists.


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Thanks you Martin for your excellent response. As I mentioned in my previous post, I do not want to denigrate the efforts of hunters and your post gives me much to consider.

As you mention in your first paragraph, my original intent was to understand a little more about how amateurs can and do contribute to the science and what collaborations with the professional community can be or are available to the amateur.

I apologize that I myself got a little sidetracked by the questions of what makes an amateur or a professional.

Cheers


--
Richard Kowalski
Full Moon Photography
IMCA #1081