[meteorite-list] Great Example of Private + Science‏

[Moni Waiblinger]

HI List,

I must agree with Greg (and many other meteorite hunters that I know) of how fulfilling it is to give to science! 

I've been asked many times why I gave the Sutter's Mill meteorite that I found to science.
The answer, of course, is that I knew the De Haas family are actually the owners and that they wanted to donate anything found to science. 
I knew well in advance that I was not going to get to keep it. 
I still went along with the group and searched for the meteorite for science. 
(Of course, that's when I make my only Sutter's Mill find;-)

My find of Sutter's Mill (SM12 - 17grams) went to many places, see the consortium chapter below.

My point is, this donation to science was only possible because of land owners and private meteorite hunters working together!

Happy hunting, Moni


The following research teams (team lead given) are participating in a   consortium
 established to coordinate the analysis of Sutter's Mill meteorite 
samples. Please contact if you like to join this effort with unique 
ability (POC) :

P. Jenniskens	SETI/NASA ARC	Meteorite recovery	#2,12

T. Hiroi	Brown U.	Reflection spectroscopy	#30,12

G. Cooper	NASA ARC	Organic volatiles	#2,12

S. Pizzarello	ASU	    	Isotope organics	#2,12,41

D. Glavin	NASA/Goddard	Amino acids		#2,12,51

P. Schmitt-K.	H.-Z., Germany	mass spectroscopy	#2,12

D. Sears	NASA ARC	Thermoluminescence     	#2,12
 
M. Grady	NHM		Petrography/UVVIS	 spectroscopy	#2,12,30

A. Rubin	UCLA      	Petrography   		#2,12

K. Ziegler	U of NewMexico	O isotopes        	#2,12


S.V.S. Murty	PRL, India	N/Ar isotopes   	#2,12

P. Rochette	Aix-M.,France	Paleomagnetism   	#12

G. Flynn	SUNY Plattsburgh	XANES      	#12

H. Yabuta	Osaka U., Japan	IOM isotopes	        #12