[meteorite-list] Re: Re: (meteorobs) what does a meteorite look like?

From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:41:09 2004
Message-ID: <20010211184510.88689.qmail_at_web10406.mail.yahoo.com>

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Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 08:44:41 -0800
From: "Ed Majden" <epmajden_at_home.com>
To: "Robert Verish" <bolidechaser_at_yahoo.com>

Subject: Re: Re: (meteorobs) what does a meteorite
look like?

You wrote:

> Ed Majden is the AMS Meteor Spectroscopy Project
> Coordinator of the Sandia Labs AllSky Camera
Network,
> a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of
Canada,
> and the Meteorites and Impacts Advisory Committee
> (MIAC) of the Canadian Space Agency
>

Hi Bob:
    Before we mislead anyone as to my credentials, as
noted above, here are the facts.
I am an amateur astronomer with a long time interest
in meteor science.
I am indeed the coordinator of the AMS Meteor
Spectroscopy Project. See:
http://www.amsmeteors.org/spectro.html
    This project has nothing to do with Sandia. I am
however, a station operator of a Sandia All-sky camera
at my observatory in Courtenay, B.C..
This is one part of a small bolide/fireball tracking
network on Vancouver Island and Washington State.
This network has since spread to the Prairie Provinces
in Canada.
    I am also an associate member of MIAC. The
comments I made are my own, and are not of the groups
mentioned above.
    I am not against meteorite collecting, provided it
is done in a responsible way. By this I mean, that
all new meteorites should be made available to the
professionals for study. I also agree with Rob
McNaught
that the laws of countries where meteorites are found
should be respected.
I have a small collection of my own that I use for
identification purposes.
This collection will be turned over to a university
when I no longer have the interest to look after it.
    You can post this message to the meteorite list if
you like.

Best regards: Ed Majden -





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