[meteorite-list] Professor Colin Pillinger lecture - Stones from the sky

[Walter Branch]

Dr. Pillinger is mentioned a few times in Kathy Sawyer's book, The Rock From 
Mars:  A detective story on two planets.

(BTW, I highly recommend Sawyers book for anyone interestrd in ALH94001 
and/or mars meteorites).

A humerous example.  Dr. Everette Gibson wanted inependent confirmation of 
the isotopic analysis of ALH 84001 so he contacted Pillinger.

"Colin, have you analyzed eight-four-double-oh-one for it's carbonates?"
"No we have not, it's in our queue."
"Why?"
"I'd rather not tell you our numbers, but I'd like for you to, if you would, 
move it forward."

Ten days later,?Gibson got the phone call back from England.  Neither party 
wanted to divulge first.  Gibson thought the Alphonse-and-Gaston routine was 
kind of funny.  "What did you get?"  "Well, what did you get?"  Eventually 
they told each other their numbers.

The numbers were identical.

-Walter Branch