Date: 3/03/2015 11:18:31
From: CrazyNeutrino
ID: 687570
Subject: Meteorite-hunting scientists get crowd-funding

Meteorite-hunting scientists stunned by crowd-funding support after government grants dry up

A group of scientists who travel to the Nullarbor to collect meteorites have received thousands of dollars from the public after they were unable to secure a government grant for their research.

Since 2007, when PhD student Alastair Tait and his team from Melbourne first began their 3,400-kilometre road trips to the desert, they claimed to have found more than 20 per cent of Australia’s recorded meteorites.

Their research findings have been published in international journals, including Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta and Meteoritics and Planetary Science.

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Date: 3/03/2015 11:21:25
From: Divine Angel
ID: 687573
Subject: re: Meteorite-hunting scientists get crowd-funding

I think it’s nice when people donate to sciency causes rather than some guy who wants to make potato salad.

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Date: 3/03/2015 11:24:09
From: CrazyNeutrino
ID: 687574
Subject: re: Meteorite-hunting scientists get crowd-funding

Divine Angel said:


I think it’s nice when people donate to sciency causes rather than some guy who wants to make potato salad.

Yes

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Date: 4/03/2015 05:48:55
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 687989
Subject: re: Meteorite-hunting scientists get crowd-funding

I like the photograph entitled “Finding meteorites ‘is a case of spot the difference’”

The number of meteorites found in Australian deserts is more than that found in any other place other than Antarctica.

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