Ode to Ellen Milley’s meteor
p2pnet news view | Cool:- Arizona meteor merchant Robert Haag says he’s prepared to pay $10,000 for the first one-kilogram of chunk of a shooting star which fragmented over Canada, recently.
University of Calgary graduate student Ellen Milley found the first pieces on land in western Saskatchewan.
It was a, “a very big moment in a very short career,” the Edmonton Journal / Saskatoon StarPhoenix had her saying.
She also said she won’t be claiming any cash rewards for ger find.
“We’re in it for the science,” she says.
p2pnet reader Anthony Tymstra calls his post below A Poem for Milley »»»
On frozen pond,
it sits so nice.
A little star,
stuck in the ice.It’s not a leaf,
I heard you say.
Pieces of heaven.
came this away.Older than earth,
it traveled far.
Now in my hand,
We have a star.
[We clipped the pic of Ellen fromfrom Bruce Edwards' Edmonton Journal photo.]
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December 2nd, 2008 at 11:53 am
I like the poem : ) Also, you have heard of freshly fallen snow, and now you have “Freshly fallen meteor fragments”
http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200849/2542/Freshly-fallen-meteor-fragments-found-in-Saskatchewan