[meteorite-list] Twenty Years on and the Meteorite Times remain a-changing

[Kevin Kichinka]

Team Meteorite:

We've been enriched for three decades now by the inspiration and hard work
of two great men, Joel Schiff with Meteorite! and Paul Harris with the
Meteorite Times.

They have provided a platform for writers like  Martin Horejsi,  James
Tobin, Bob Verish and John Kashuba to inform and enlighten us with the
stories, science and history of the meteorites that keep us engaged in our
hobby or life's work. That these guys can turn out such high quality
research and prose every month amazes me. You don't have to run to be a
marathon man.

I have made my earnest contributions to both publications and can report
that it was and remains a great pleasure to feel the love both Joel and
Paul shared as we worked together to make my features better.  I am honored
to have both remain as great friends.

The Met Times allowed me to complete my 'Martian meteorite triumvirate' by
publishing "*The Rise of the Raj and the Fall of Shergotty*" twenty-one
years after a not-so-dead dog lost his pedigree in my 1998 feature on
Nakhla, and after Chassigny had appeared in Meteorite! four years later.
For me, these iconic Mars' rocks multi-year research/writing endeavors were
more than just magazine contributions.  I chose to climb a mountain too
high, and it appeared that I wouldn't summit. Seeing *Shergotty* finally
appear in the *Met Times* in 2019 was an emotional closure, to have solved
unsolvable mysteries and to have reached places I feared unreachable.

¡Mil gracias, don Paul!

*The Meteorite Times - **Twenty years of excellence*. - Keep on, keeping on.

Kevin Kichinka
>From the land where Pachimama waters her Aguas Zarcas....
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