[meteorite-list] Warning to armchair fireball chasers

[Michael Farmer]

Steve if you want to bring me
Into your every email the I can play.  Now we can both drop it tha  
would be ok
Michael

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Michael


On Jul 12, 2009, at 1:59 PM, MeteorHntr at aol.com wrote:


> Hello List,

>

> I have just had some great  off list correspondence with Dave  

> Ghessling

> over at FallingRocks.com.

>

> He,  like a gentleman, expressed off list with me a concern that I had

> mistakenly  lumped the Georgia Fireball of this year in with the  

> group of events

> that has  revealed some of the so called "armchair fireball chasers."

>

> I want to  state on the record that I was mistaken.  That it seems I  

> was

> wrong, and  that the only offers made in Georgia were by people on  

> the ground

> in Georgia and  not via others long distance.  And in no way did I  

> intend to

> implicate him  personally in any wrong doing.

>

> In fact, I want to go so far as to say  that I personally don't  

> think there

> is anything wrong with people going public  with making purchase  

> offers.

> Of course I don't think one should claim to  offer, for example,  

> $10,000 for

> the first one pound rock, unless they are indeed  willing and able  

> to follow

> through with such an offer.

>

> I know different  people have different opinions on this topic.  I  

> agree

> that those types of  public offers can create problems in the field,  

> but not

> making those public  offers can also create problems (namely, fewer  

> local

> people out  looking).

>

> I personally don't currently make those kind of offers, but I  don't  

> stand

> in judgement against people who do.

>

> My whole intent of that  post was to just let people know, when they  

> do

> talk to people, such as the  person who talked to Mike Hankey, long  

> distance

> and over the phone, and asked  him not to share his information with  

> anyone

> else... those kinds of things can  get repeated, and in the case of  

> the

> Baltimore Sun, they can make the front page  news.

>

> That's all.  My post wasn't in opposition to or in support of  chasing

> meteorites from home.

>

> I hope this clears this up.  My  apologies to Dave and to anyone  

> else that

> might have taken my comment of the  Georgia event incorrectly.

>

> I also want to thank Dave for being a stand up  guy and talking to me

> directly about this and not going behind my back and bad  mouthing  

> me to others.

> And I want to thank Dave for taking this to me  personally first  

> instead of

> taking the opportunity to post publicly something  that was so  

> easily taken

> care of privately.

>

> I appreciate gentlemen  like him in this business who act as such.

>

> Steve Arnold

> of "Meteorite  Men"

> (ha, what are you looking for this time Mike?)

>

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