Fwd: {MPML} 2008 TC3 and Richard Kowalski

[Amar S]

Very interesting. Please read through the entire thread, from the Minor Planet Mailing List.

My sincere congrats to Richard! And all those hard-working minor-planet sleuths.

--- In mp...@yahoogroups.com, "Roy Tucker" <gpobs@...> wrote:

Yahoo! It's official! Richard Kowalski is the first person in history to possess a piece of an object that he discovered in space.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Kowalski" <kowalski@...>
To: "MPML" <mp...@yahoogroups.com>; "Meteorite List"
<meteorite-list@...>
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 7:42 PM
Subject: {MPML} 2008 TC3 to Almahatta Sitta and back to Tucson

> Hello all,
>
> just a brief note to let you know that I have received my own piece of
> 2008 TC3
> thanks to a number of people from all around the world.
> I'd like to publicly thank all of you who donated money on my behalf and
> especially Herbert Raab for making this come true. I am honored and
> humbled by
> your generosity!
>
> I have uploaded a photo to two locations, of me holding the fully crusted,
> 2.1
> gram individual in front of the Catalina Sky Survey's 1.5-m (60")
> telescope,
> where 2008 TC3 was discovered last October.
>
> Subscribers to MPML can view the image in the photo section for the list
> under
> the Catalina Sky Survey album and it can also be viewed via this direct
> link.
>
> http://fullmoonphotography.net/images/Meteorites/RAKowalski_G96_2008TC3-a.jpg
>
> Thank you all.
>
> --
> Richard Kowalski
> Catalina Sky Survey
> Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
> University of Arizona
> Tucson, AZ 85721
>

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