Not just more impressive, but more comprehensible too! This is America, after all!!!! : P ________________________________ From: "jcarman6@q.com" <jcarman6@q.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, March 1, 2013 12:24 PM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] What a chunk (meteorite) rock! How would it be - tooling around Anarctica on a snowmobile.  Zipping along at 25 mph (English units) and seeing something dark, black on the surface of the snow.  Stop - YEP! another one.  The team found 425 meteorites in 40 days!  And they may have found a Martian meteorite and one from Vesta to boot.  What a haul!!!  And they probably got paid for doing this.  Where do I sign up? Sorry all your meter-ites out there 40 pounds sounds a lot more impressive than 18 kilograms.  :) _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".

I remember reading about finding meteorites just lying around in Antarctica decades ago. There are strewnfields in more temperate climates, with hundreds of kilos of specimens just laying around, but they are harder to spot by the casual observer. And the meteorite men aren't talking. Good luck landing the new job, Joan. Dress warm. ;-) On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:24 PM, <jcarman6@q.com> wrote:

How would it be - tooling around Anarctica on a snowmobile. Zipping along at 25 mph (English units) and seeing something dark, black on the surface of the snow. Stop - YEP! another one. The team found 425 meteorites in 40 days! And they may have found a Martian meteorite and one from Vesta to boot. What a haul!!! And they probably got paid for doing this. Where do I sign up?