[meteorite-list] IT'S OFFICIAL - TISSINT SHERGOTTITE!

From: Graham Ensor <graham.ensor_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:31:33 +0000
Message-ID: <CAJkn+kZv1zgmUDfmzv+bJCw71HL80bxaJNsf03VQc_A7yKJFAg_at_mail.gmail.com>

Well 'tissn't the name we were expecting then!

Could get get confusing..."Tissint a shergottite"..."Yes it is"...."No
Tissint!" :-)

Great news though...

Graham

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Galactic Stone & Ironworks
<meteoritemike at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi List!
>
> http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=54823
>
> Forget Tata, Foumzgit, or Tanzour.
>
> The official name is Tissint!
>
> Start changing your websites and collection labels now. ?:)
>
> Best regards,
>
> MikeG
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> On 1/16/12, Erik Fisler <phxerik at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Mark, see you in Tucson as well! I'll be at the birthday bash for the
>> first time as I am now 21 ;)
>>
>> Bob, universities actually do make trades and buy new material. I was lucky
>> enough to be let into the vault and there was kilos and kilos of new stuff
>> that had been traded and bought to add or to replace collection pieces.
>> Garvie is very adamant about improving ASU's collection.
>>
>> [Erik]
>>
>> Sent from my iPod
>>
>> On Jan 16, 2012, at 8:39 PM, Erik Fisler <phxerik at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Well Hello there fellow list members!
>>>
>>> I'd like to step out of the shadows and share some of my experiences now
>>> that I'm working my way through my junior year of my space exploration
>>> degree at ASU.
>>>
>>> Being that I completed my associates degree from a community college
>>> (which a very friendly and welcoming environment) and have now transferred
>>> to ASU, I have noticed some interesting things in the environment of a
>>> university.
>>> One very interesting thing I've noticed is that engineers look down their
>>> noses at scientists and vice versa.
>>> I think that is the funniest thing! It's really enjoyable to hear an
>>> engineer or a scientist make some jab at the other team. Apparently it's
>>> not just at ASU but at UofA and NAU as well so I've heard from friends
>>> attending those schools. That is a terrible rivalry or what ever you'd
>>> like to call it which can only lead to issues in collaboration between
>>> both groups.
>>> Another interesting 'preconceived notion' I've experienced is that as far
>>> a meteorite go, people at the university, professors and students, see
>>> meteorite hunters almost like pirates, sucking up material the university
>>> is entitled to. I let my astrophysics class including my professor hurl
>>> all sorts of silly notions at me before I clarified what meteorite hunting
>>> is like. I'm sure their view has been skewed from shows like Meteorite Men
>>> and from some of the Saharan Hunters. ?I explained that the Meteorite Men
>>> have special permission to hunt some of those fields and that they are
>>> hunting fields in which there is no shortage of material for universities.
>>> I explained that hunters like in the South Western United States spend
>>> months and months before finding new falls and that it is almost
>>> impossible to profit as a meteorite hunter, baring few exceptions. I also
>>> explained that hunting fields like Franconia or Gold Basin have so much
>>> material that there is more than enough for U
>> ?ni
>>> versities to acquire. I also explained that the extreme drop in
>>> Austrailian finds to almost none is actually inhibiting those Universities
>>> from acquiring new material for research and discovery of new meteorite
>>> types. ?On top of that I explained that a University doesn't need 30 kilos
>>> of material to study lol.
>>>
>>> Meteorite hunters find a field, donate 20g's or 20% or sometimes kilos
>>> worth a material for classification. It's very important that this is how
>>> hunters process their finds along with meticulous collection habits like
>>> GPSing and recording each find so these unknowing educates have no
>>> ammunition when they come for our hunting rights. It was an eye opening
>>> experience for me to see that even though they can be highly experienced
>>> they aren't all as understanding as Laurence Garvie and the other select
>>> few educates we all work with. ?It's scary to think they project these
>>> notions on to the students who flow semester after semester through their
>>> classes.
>>>
>>> Raising awareness and educating people is how we can keep our hunting
>>> freedoms and how we can protect future meteorite discoveries from
>>> terrestrialization as a result of draconian legislations.
>>>
>>> [Erik]
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPod
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