[meteorite-list] IT'S OFFICIAL - TISSINT SHERGOTTITE!

[karmaka]

Great news!
 
Let's celebrate!
 
It is probably nothing less than the 'Martian fall of our lifetime'.
 
Rejoice !
 
Best wishes
 
Martin
 
 
 
Von: "Galactic Stone & Ironworks" <meteoritemike at gmail.com>
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 Datum: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:36:55 +0100
 
Hi List!
 
 http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=54823
 
 Forget Tata, Foumzgit, or Tanzour.
 
 The official name is Tissint!
 
 Start changing your websites and collection labels now.  :)
 
 Best regards,
 
 MikeG
 
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 On 1/16/12, Erik Fisler  wrote:
 > Thanks Mark, see you in Tucson as well! I'll be at the birthday bash for the
 > first time as I am now 21 ;)
 >
 > Bob, universities actually do make trades and buy new material. I was lucky
 > enough to be let into the vault and there was kilos and kilos of new stuff
 > that had been traded and bought to add or to replace collection pieces.
 > Garvie is very adamant about improving ASU's collection.
 >
 > [Erik]
 >
 > Sent from my iPod
 >
 > On Jan 16, 2012, at 8:39 PM, Erik Fisler  wrote:
 >
 >> Well Hello there fellow list members!
 >>
 >> I'd like to step out of the shadows and share some of my experiences now
 >> that I'm working my way through my junior year of my space exploration
 >> degree at ASU.
 >>
 >> Being that I completed my associates degree from a community college
 >> (which a very friendly and welcoming environment) and have now transferred
 >> to ASU, I have noticed some interesting things in the environment of a
 >> university.
 >> One very interesting thing I've noticed is that engineers look down their
 >> noses at scientists and vice versa.
 >> I think that is the funniest thing! It's really enjoyable to hear an
 >> engineer or a scientist make some jab at the other team. Apparently it's
 >> not just at ASU but at UofA and NAU as well so I've heard from friends
 >> attending those schools. That is a terrible rivalry or what ever you'd
 >> like to call it which can only lead to issues in collaboration between
 >> both groups.
 >> Another interesting 'preconceived notion' I've experienced is that as far
 >> a meteorite go, people at the university, professors and students, see
 >> meteorite hunters almost like pirates, sucking up material the university
 >> is entitled to. I let my astrophysics class including my professor hurl
 >> all sorts of silly notions at me before I clarified what meteorite hunting
 >> is like. I'm sure their view has been skewed from shows like Meteorite Men
 >> and from some of the Saharan Hunters.  I explained that the Meteorite Men
 >> have special permission to hunt some of those fields and that they are
 >> hunting fields in which there is no shortage of material for universities.
 >> I explained that hunters like in the South Western United States spend
 >> months and months before finding new falls and that it is almost
 >> impossible to profit as a meteorite hunter, baring few exceptions. I also
 >> explained that hunting fields like Franconia or Gold Basin have so much
 >> material that there is more than enough for U
 >  ni
 >> versities to acquire. I also explained that the extreme drop in
 >> Austrailian finds to almost none is actually inhibiting those Universities
 >> from acquiring new material for research and discovery of new meteorite
 >> types.  On top of that I explained that a University doesn't need 30 kilos
 >> of material to study lol.
 >>
 >> Meteorite hunters find a field, donate 20g's or 20% or sometimes kilos
 >> worth a material for classification. It's very important that this is how
 >> hunters process their finds along with meticulous collection habits like
 >> GPSing and recording each find so these unknowing educates have no
 >> ammunition when they come for our hunting rights. It was an eye opening
 >> experience for me to see that even though they can be highly experienced
 >> they aren't all as understanding as Laurence Garvie and the other select
 >> few educates we all work with.  It's scary to think they project these
 >> notions on to the students who flow semester after semester through their
 >> classes.
 >>
 >> Raising awareness and educating people is how we can keep our hunting
 >> freedoms and how we can protect future meteorite discoveries from
 >> terrestrialization as a result of draconian legislations.
 >>
 >> [Erik]
 >>
 >> Sent from my iPod
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