(meteorobs) Re: [macstronomy] Origins

-----c-HArlie charlies at junct.com
Thu Sep 30 17:37:11 EDT 2004


Imagine a juggler(Lew), dressed in a clown's outfit, leaning up against 
a wall while juggling many balls, maintaining eye and hand coordination 
while a few balls fall flat.
----c-HArlie

Ed Majden wrote:

>on 9/30/04 10:17, Duane Deal at deal at mac.com wrote:
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>>Did anybody catch the Nova special called Origins on PBS?
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>>It will be airing again. Here the next airing will be Sunday at 6:00PM. It was
>>pretty good. 
>>There were a few Macs in there too.
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>>Duane
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>Duane:
>    Yes, I did watch it over two evenings.  Well worth tuning into, if it is
>repeated.  One thing I found annoying was the mention of the Tagish Lake
>meteorite/fireball recovered in B.C. just across the Yukon Border.  It
>mentioned the finder of the fallen meteorites, then said it was shipped to
>the Lunar Sample laboratory of NASA for study.  It mentioned that scientists
>were sent to the frozen lake to recover more samples.  No mention that these
>were Canadian scientists from the University of Calgary and the University
>of Western Ontario, Dr. Alan Hildebrand and Dr. Peter Brown.  Both highly
>respected planetary  scientists from Canada.  Alan is a planetary geologist
>and Peter is a meteor physics expert.  I find it odd that they were not
>mentioned as they directed and did most of the recovery work on this.  I did
>recognize Alan in a short video clip cutting samples out of the frozen lake
>ice but he was not identified.  From the program you would assume that this
>was an all American effort!
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>Ed 
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