An Article In Meteorite-Times Magazine

Well, it has been an interesting month. The magazine has a back issue now and the button for that purpose is active. All the issues will be archived and we hope that the search feature will become a valuable resource as time goes on.

I can’t remember how many times I have hunted for something I read a year or more ago in some magazine. I have spent hours going through all the old copies to end up never finding the article most of the time. We hope to have the answer for that problem with the search tool. As the archive develops over the months and years drop us a note to tell us how it has worked for you.

There are two articles this month that discuss the Gold Basin strewn field. This May give us all a wider perspective of the ongoing research about the nature of the body or bodies that have fallen in that meteorite rich area. This is an important strewn field and as is indicated by the number of different falls recovered shows what can happen when many well equipped hunters work for a long time in a single region. Many of the meteorites that have fallen ultimately get recovered. Dr. Nininger commented that strewn fields are never cleaned out completely. That May not remain the condition in the future. The detectors we have today leave very little behind. Who knows what detectors in the coming years will be able to do, with dedicated hunters at their switches.

Next month we hope to have a research assistant doing the gathering of the pronunciations for us. Then we will find a more appropriate place for them as well. I thought any dictionary symbol type printed pronunciation guide would be still rather ambiguous and this is the electronic age. The pronunciations will be in the form of sound bites obtained from native speakers of the countries where the meteorites fell.

A dear family friend Maris Ubans was gracious enough to do this over the phone for the country of Latvia. There are only four meteorites so they are all in one sound bite. The four meteorites are Buschhof, Lixna, Misshof, and Nerft. 

We will be adding a glossary of terms and other helpful resources in the future. This is still a work in progress. We hope more writers will join the wonderful group we already have. All their insights and knowledge are sure to help us enjoy these exciting meteorite times. JPT