[meteorite-list] Meterotie Contest
From: Tettenborn <tett_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:55 2004 Message-ID: <004501c1a9e4$d17751a0$7b8db7d8_at_tett> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0042_01C1A9BA.E507F640 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List, Below is a message I sent to a friend about 5 months ago detailing an = idea for a contest. Would like to know if the list is interested and if = people would participate. If there is some interest is there anyone out = there that would like to design and host the web page? Cheers, Mike Tettenborn Juris, I had a thought last night and want to pass it by you. How about organizing a contest for guessing the place of the next = official meteorite fall. People could e-mail in a vote of the nearest town or land mark and these = could be posted on a web site which includes the person's name. All = entrants must pledge a meteorite slice or fragment (say worth ~$10 or = so) and those meteorites will go into a pool. Dealers may want to = pledge a little more. When a fall happens then the person with the = closest town or land mark (could be thousands of mile away) gets all the = meteorites. We could have an impartial judge or panel decide who won. = We would also need some guide line as to what constitutes a fall. Say = at least 1 kg. and many witnesses. Other rules would have to be = carefully thought out. Tagish Lake and Bilanga and Ourique would all = qualify. As well, the people who pledged the meteorites would be asked to mail = their specimens to the winner. The web site could even post pictures of the pledge meteorites. This contest could go on for a year or two and be lots of fun if many = people signed up. What do you think? tett ------=_NextPart_000_0042_01C1A9BA.E507F640 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>List,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Below is a message I sent to a friend = about 5=20 months ago detailing an idea for a contest. Would like to know if = the list=20 is interested and if people would participate. If there is some = interest=20 is there anyone out there that would like to design and host the web=20 page?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Cheers,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Mike Tettenborn</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>Juris,<BR><BR>I had a thought last night and want to pass it by=20 you.<BR><BR>How about organizing a contest for guessing the place of the = next=20 official meteorite fall.<BR><BR>People could e-mail in a vote of the = nearest=20 town or land mark and these could be posted on a web site which includes = the=20 person's name. All entrants must pledge a meteorite slice or = fragment (say=20 worth ~$10 or so) and those meteorites will go into a pool. = Dealers may=20 want to pledge a little more. When a fall happens then the person = with the=20 closest town or land mark (could be thousands of mile away) gets = all the=20 meteorites. We could have an impartial judge or panel decide who=20 won. We would also need some guide line as to what constitutes a=20 fall. Say at least 1 kg. and many witnesses. Other rules = would have=20 to be carefully thought out. Tagish Lake and Bilanga and Ourique = would all=20 qualify.</DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT><BR>As well, the people who = pledged the=20 meteorites would be asked to mail their specimens to the = winner.<BR><BR>The web=20 site could even post pictures of the pledge meteorites.<BR><BR>This = contest=20 could go on for a year or two and be lots of fun if many people signed=20 up.<BR><BR>What do you think?<BR><BR>tett</DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0042_01C1A9BA.E507F640-- Received on Wed 30 Jan 2002 06:21:11 PM PST |
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