[meteorite-list] Rebuttal to NY Times article

[Richard Montgomery]

Anne, great job!  Not only did you challenge the rogue and hyperbole writing 
of the NYT 'author' you approached it with grace and the respect to 
meteoritics exemplary of the IMCA.

It would have been easy to write a scathing response with guns blazing black 
(pun intended) but that would merely have achieved the goal the NYT seems 
determined to illicit.  It remains to be seen if they'll publish it.

Needless to say, the hyperbole is already out there (I've been approached by 
some non-enlightened friends about my interest in meteorites, having read 
the article, and questioning my intentions...yet I do have my facts straight 
and point them to be on the aware for pending respectful responses from both 
the scientific and collector community...i.e. your response now available 
for me to reference.)

It still remains to be seen why their tact of slandering meteorite 
collecting was pushed in the inciteful direction the author chose.

Richard Montgomery


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> Hello Everybody,
>
> I hope you are enjoying your weekend.
> I finally got a response from Dr Harvey, and I was able to finish my
> response to the NewYork Times article. It has just been posted on the IMCA
> website, here is the link: 
> _http://imca.cc/insights/2011/IMCA-Insights04.htm_
> (http://imca.cc/insights/2011/IMCA-Insights04.htm)
> It will show up on Meteorites-Times as soon as Paul finds a moment to post
> it. And the Editor of Astronomy Magazine has accepted to post it on their
> website, and later print it in the magazine, and I am very thankful for 
> that.
> Feel free to link your websites/forums/blogs to it. Now that it is done I
> would hope that a lot of people will read it (all the people who read the 
> NY
> Times!!)
>
>
> Anne M. Black
> http://www.impactika.com/
> IMPACTIKA at aol.com
> President, I.M.C.A. Inc.
> http://www.imca.cc/
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