[meteorite-list] Sutter's Mill slices question, Impact Melt?

From: meteorhntr at aol.com <meteorhntr_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 19:45:06 +0000
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Jeff,

Of course there are no "Laws" only it seems like people almost act like there are such restrictions. I should have put the little quotes around the word the first time.

Of course there are financial reasons why hunters want to keep some info private at times, for financial reasonsm. And there are probably financial reasons why researchers don't want to invest time and money into researching something only to have some unethical researcher scoop credit or grant money from them if they let info out of the bag too early.

Still, it would be nice if that information would be free to everyone as it arrives. Probably ain't gonna happen, but it would still be great wouldn't it?

This is super news that a Metbull classification is coming real soon. Do you have any idea when that might happen?

By the way, this is FAR better than having to wait a year or longer like in years gone by. It is a wonderful time we live in.

Steve Arnold
Host of Meteorite Men
------Original Message------
From: Jeff Grossman
To: MeteorHntr at aol.com
Cc: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Sutter's Mill slices question, Impact Melt?
Sent: May 17, 2012 2:30 PM

I'm not sure what you're referring to with this statement... an entry in
MetBull will probably be published very soon. After that, there are no
Meteoritical Society bylaws or anything else concerning the release of
information. Of course, some authors may not release all of his/her
data until such time that they don't get "scooped" on their research,
and journals like Science and Nature have embargoes of articles prior to
publication. But MetSoc does not stand in the way of release of
information to the public in any way... in fact, it promotes the
dissemination of information, e.g., by sponsoring meetings and workshops.

Jeff

On 5/17/2012 2:19 PM, meteorhntr at aol.com wrote:
> I suppose in 2 years or so, when the papers are published, and this gets named and classified, we will all start to appreciate what we have here.
>
> It is a bit unfortunate that meteoritical laws require that information not be made public until after the papers are peer reviewed, presented and published.



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