[meteorite-list] How is Tucson Going??

[MexicoDoug]

Great weather Larry, thanks Jim,

While everyone is holding their breath for the mountains of black stone 
to rise, from wiktionary.com:

"The name Tucson comes from the O'odham name for the city, Chuk Shon, 
meaning "Spring at the base of the black mountain"."

Hope everyone gets a little piece of the black mountain who goes.

Part of the evolution of the name was due to Spanish military 
settlement which Hispanicized Chuk Shon into Tucson; however unlike 
common "TWO-san" pronunciations of today, the Spanish pronounced it 
Tuc-SON with the accent on the second syllable.  In my conversation 
with several Mexican academic types, they have pronounced it as 
"Tuck-SON", but I really couldn't say if it is really how the original 
presidio was pronounced, or if it is just an artifact of modern 
difficulty of a native Mexican dealing with the CS combination which 
doesn't fit Castilian or Andalucian and their derivatives very well.

 From the stuff you never wanted to know department, but I hope better 
than posting a “test” message with a “no-reply”

Kindest wishes
Doug






-----Original Message-----
From: lebofsky <lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu>
To: Jim Wooddell <jim.wooddell at suddenlink.net>
Cc: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sat, Jan 25, 2014 8:33 am
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] How is Tucson Going?? Astronomy Event

Hi Jim:

>From a local, I am looking forward to seeing old friends and other 
locals
who I do not see very often. By Saturday February 1, it will have cooled
down to a high of 71 (it may hit 80 at the end of the month) and there 
is
a small chance of rain (should we blame those Colorado folks who will be
arriving around then?).

Also, if you have a car and "free" time, on Saturday February 8, at Pima
Community College East Campus (near Davis Monthan Air Force Base) there
will be an all-day astronomy expo and evening observing (if it is clear)
hosted by Astronomy Magazine. I will be there (for Girl Scouts, 
Planetary
Science Institute, and James Webb Telescope) and the Tucson Amateur
Astronomy Association and people from OSIRIS-REx will be there, too.

http://cs.astronomy.com/asy/b/daves-universe/archive/2014/01/16/gearing-up-for-our-big-tucson-star-party.aspx

Larry

> Hi List!
>
> I have not heard much about Tucson this year.  Not much in the way of
> people sharing anything.
> So what's going on there for the show?  Any killer buys?  What are the
> prices looking like?
> Everyone loose their butts or what?
>
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> --
> Jim Wooddell
> jim.wooddell at suddenlink.net
> http://pages.suddenlink.net/chondrule/
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