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--- Dom 11/9/11, Impactika at aol.com <Impactika at aol.com> ha scritto:

> Da: Impactika at aol.com <Impactika at aol.com>
> Oggetto: [meteorite-list] Ron Hartman
> A: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Data: Domenica 11 settembre 2011, 07:51
> Hello Everybody
> 
> Tonight I have the very sad mission to inform you all that
> Ron Hartman, one 
> of the "inventors" of the IMCA has passed away.
> 
> Please read the note that I received from his son Jim:
> 
> Ronald N. Hartman passed away on August 30, 2011, after a
> brief illness. He 
> was a Professor of Astronomy and Director of the
> Planetarium at Mt. San 
> Antonio College in Walnut, California for 38 years and was
> well-known in the 
> community of meteorite collectors and hunters. His passion
> for meteorites was 
> kindled when he studied astronomy at the University of
> California, Los 
> Angeles under the renowned meteoriticist Frederick C.
> Leonard, a founder of the 
> Meteoritical Society. He worked at Griffith Observatory
> giving public 
> lectures in the 1960s and began investigating California
> dry lakes for the presence 
> of meteorites. He discovered the Lucerne Dry Lake strewn
> field in 1963 and 
> returned to that site in 1999 to find more of the illusive
> little black 
> rocks from space. Throughout his career he continued to
> hunt for meteorites, 
> first at Meteor Crater, Arizona (when it was legal) and
> Odessa, Texas. He 
> found, traded, bought, cut and sold meteorites as well as
> tektites and shatter 
> cones and built up a large collection, part of which is
> displayed at the Mt. 
> San Antonio College Planetarium and library. In 2005 he
> founded R. N. 
> Hartman, Inc., a company that manufactures, assembles and
> distributes membrane 
> suspension boxes worldwide.
> 
> He held a B.A. in Astronomy and a B.A. in Cinematography
> from the 
> University of California, Los Angeles and an M.A. in
> Education from California State 
> University at Los Angeles. Ron loved astronomy, he loved
> teaching and he 
> loved sharing the wonders of the night sky with his
> students at star parties. 
> He continued teaching even after he retired in 2005. He was
> fascinated by 
> archeoastronomy and traveled to Egypt to study astronomical
> alignments in 
> ancient monuments. He was active in the Pacific Planetarium
> Association and the 
> International Planetarium Society. He served as an editor
> of the Planetarian 
> Magazine from 1978 – 1981. In 1984 he received the ISP
> Service Award, the ISP
> ’s most prestigious honor. 
> 
> Ron was the oldest son of Albert and Evelyn Hartman. He was
> born in 
> Milwaukee, Wisconsin on July 23, 1935, and moved to
> California at the age of 10. In 
> 1965 he married Petrea Nelson of Reno, Nevada. He is
> survived by his wife 
> and two sons, James and Rick Hartman, his brother Chris
> Hartman, a nephew 
> Christopher Hartman and niece Laurel Meable. 
> 
> If you would like to know more about Ron, please go read
> the Field Report 
> he wrote for us several years ago:  
> _http://imca.cc/old_site/metinfo/metadventures/LDL.html_
> (http://imca.cc/old_site/metinfo/metadventures/LDL.html)
> 
> 
> And I am sure we will talk a lot more about Ron in the
> coming weeks.
> Goodnight.
> 
> 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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