[meteorite-list] Crowdfunding meteorite searching in the Nullarbor Plain

From: Graham Ensor <graham.ensor_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 11:55:38 +0000
Message-ID: <CAJkn+kYvMw9YrWajKwG4T6Hq4y689To6Mn96DSxsd8BZt4KYZw_at_mail.gmail.com>

Thanks for sharing those links Robin...really enjoyed your photos and
write up...brought back many memories of Australia.

Graham

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Robin Whittle via Meteorite-list
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
> Here is an article about Australian researchers who no longer can get
> government funding, and so are turning to crowdfunding to support their
> expeditions. They claim to have found more than 20% of Australia's
> recorded meteorites.
>
>
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-03/meteorite-hunting-scientists-inundated-with-public-support/6269762
>
> My wife Tina and I visited the coastal part of the Nullarbor Plain in
> the winter of 2010. It is a limestone surface which was a sea bed
> roughly 12 million years old, according to the "middle Miocene"
> description at:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullarbor_Plain
>
> At the southern edge, the plain is eroded by the ocean and there is
> about a 174km stretch of completely unbroken cliffs. Our photos are here:
>
> http://www.firstpr.com.au/show-and-tell/nullarbor/
>
> - Robin
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