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Article #87Re: Meteorite Collecting and Study
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:21
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:21
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In article <11JAN199308420980@vx.cis.umn.edu> soc1070 writes:
>My high school astronomy professor would go out the next day after
>a meteor shower to frozen lakes in the area and look for meteorites
>and he actually had a couple. Of course, this only works in the winter
>in cold climates...
This is the cheap version of going to Antarctica. :-) The advantage of
checking frozen lakes is that a rock sitting out on the ice is pretty
much guaranteed not to have gotten there by other natural means.
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"God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
-Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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Newsgroups: alt.sci.planetary Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utcsri!utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Meteorite Collecting and Study Message-ID: <C0pnFI.FH6@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:21:15 GMT References: <93011174@sloth.bc.ca> <11JAN199308420980@vx.cis.umn.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 12