Meteorite Hunting in China

Meteorite Hunting in China

China's meteorite hunters: Adventurers hoping to get rich from rocks Man travels world to search for fragments, Nanlin Fang, CNN Sep 07, 2019
https://www.koamnewsnow.com/lifestyle/chinas-meteorite-hunters-adventurers-hoping-to-get-rich-from-rocks/1118315685

China's meteorite hunters: The adventurers hoping to get rich from rocks Meet Zhang Bo, who travels to far-flung locations armed with a metal detector, hoping he'll stumble on a fallen meteorite. CNN, Sept. 7, 2019
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/china-meteorite-hunters-intl-hnk-scn/index.html

Yours,

Paul H.

Toxic Giant Hogweed Spreading - Warning to Meteorite Collectors 03JUL2018

 Toxic Giant Hogweed Spreading - Warning to Meteorite Collectors

Although the below article do not specifically mention

meteorite collecting, it discusses a nasty, hazardous

plant, that meteorite collectors and anyone either collecting,

working or playing in the outdoors need to be aware of

and avoid.

'Horror Plant' causes 3rd-degree burns, blindness,

is spreading in Upstate NY (photos)

By Ben Axelson | baxelson@nyup.com June 26, 2018

https://www.sciencealert.com/invasive-toxic-giant-hogweed-burns-skin-blindness-virginia-clarke-county

https://www.newyorkupstate.com/expo/news/erry-2018/06/f2e509cfd11171/horror_plant_causes_3rddegree.html

https://nypost.com/2018/06/17/this-plant-causes-3rd-degree-burns-permanent-blindness/

Yours,

Paul H.

Russian Sikhote Aline Meteorite Film

Paul bristolia at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 17 23:14:32 EDT 2008

Dear Friends,

While looking for something else, I came across the below Russian
meteorite film in the Library of Congress Cataloge.

"THE SIKHOTE ALINE METEORITE (1956) FEA 1315-16
Central Documentary Film Studio 35mm
Dir: I. Gradov, Consultant: V. Fesenkov

A well-photographed documentary film on the scientific
investigation of the Sikhote Aline Meteorite that fell in Siberia in
1947. Print is in good shape, with one splice. Probably of most
interest to specialists, either in meteorology or those interested in
Soviet scientific methods in the late 1940s.

English track."

http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/findaid/russian.html

Yours,

Paul H.

Using GIS for Meteorite Hunting and Study

Paul bristolia at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 26 23:52:17 EDT 2008

McCartney Taylor wrote

"I, too, am a GIS person. Since Land ownership &
GIS has just been brought up, I have to take this
one step farther and mention good & free
GIS packages."

I do not bother with ESRI as a GIS program even though
where I work has a group license for it. It takes a long,
long
time to learn how to work. Instead, I use Global Mapper,
which only costs about 300.00 dollars and is very easy to
use and does what I need it to do. Also, their support
people, not only return email and other inquiries about
problems, they typically do it the same day that you
contact them. More information can be found at:

Global Mapper - http://www.globalmapper.com/

It does a spectacular job with Digital Elevation Models
(DEMs)
especially those made from LIDAR data. Some examples of
DEMs made from the LIDAR data can be seen in "The
Scotlandville, Denham Springs, and Baton Rouge Faults - A
Map Guide for Real Estate Buyers, Sellers, and Developers
in
the Greater Baton Rouge Area" at

http://www.lgs.lsu.edu/deploy/uploads/BRFaultsGuide.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.