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Re: (meteorobs) Holiday Thanks to....
Hi Felix!
Thanks for the support -- it truely means a lot. Perhaps sometimes when you are not so
busy, you could drop me a (private) e-mail -- I could not get my browser to use you e-mail
address. That way I could log you into my virtual address book. I hope that you and yours have
a truely wonderful holiday season!
Sincerely, Kim Youmans
MARTINEZ, FELIX wrote:
> Dear Kim,
> Often I too have admired your incredible zeal and thoroughness in reporting
> your meteors. You have truly caught my attention, as well as many others in this
> incredible forum that have been in meteor observing for a long time. My encouragement
> to you is to keep it up and may you have continued success in keeping up with all the
> meteor showers. I have added your name to my list of those meteor observers and meteor
> astronomy colleagues who are doing great things in this worthwhile endeavor! Hope you have
> a wonderful HOLiday season!! In Meteor Observing Affinity - Felix A. Martinez
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "Kim S. Youmans" <ksyo@pinelanddot net>
> Reply-To: meteorobs@jovian.com
> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 07:20:22 -0500
>
> > I have been planning a note of thanks to post for several
> >days now, and with Lew's words of praise, I am thus spurred to action!
> > Many folks have been quite generous with their time, and
> >exceedingly patient with me over the course of the last ten months! I
> >understand their interest is in meteorics, not me, but they realized
> >that by being good to me, I might be good to their hobby, and/or
> >profession. I hope I have at least in some small way fulfilled my end
> >of that tacit agreement.
> > First off, if Rainer Arlt had not been willing to use my
> >VERY terse Leonid observations last year for the preliminary profile, I
> >wouldn't be keying this in right now. Thanks, Rainer, for unwittingly
> >planting a seed that is now beginning to mature.
> > The next person to have to endure my seemingly endless
> >questions was Mark Davis. It was he who actually began my training,
> >and it was he who put up with some pretty "weak" reports for many, many
> >weeks.
> > Now, like many others, I naturally gravitated to those I
> >felt seemed to be the best, so I began pestering Bob Lunsford pretty
> >regularly on the Saturaday chat sessions. Wayne Halley was a huge help
> >when Bob wasn't around, with occasional advice from Norman McCloud III,
> >who also from time time pointed out ways I could improve my reports over
> >the mail list -- thanks, Norman, that's the MAIN reason I was posting!
> > George Gliba, Jim Richardson, Cathy Hall, and Mark
> >(especially Mark) have all made my head swell at some time or another
> >this year, be it in "Nebula," NamnNotes, the AMS Website, or in Meteor
> >Trails!
> > I have far less mental ambiguity about the Leonid meteor stream
> >because Joe Rao and Rob McNaught found the time to answer my silly
> >questions on the list!
> > Lew Gramer pumped up my enthusiasm on several occasions! And,
> >of course, we ALL need to thank him for his time and expense with this
> >list. Thanks, MAmeteors!
> > There were many others who simply showered me with accolades --
> >premier among them Paul Jones, who may or may not join me at my site for
> >the peak of the Quads this year...where are you now, Paul?
> >
> >Thank you all, Happy Holidays!
> >Kim Youmans
> >
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