Re: [APML]: SBIG

[Christopher Go <rigel@mozcom.com>]

Here in the Philippines, a BIG highlighted article featured news on Gene's
ashes in the Lunar Prospector on one of our major national dailies....

Chris

At 12:47 PM 1/8/98 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Chuck Vaughn wrote:
>
>> Wil Milan wrote:
>> >
>> > Separate but sort of related matter: It wasn't much reported in the
news, but
>> > the Lunar Prospector spacecraft which was just launched carries aboard
some
>> > of the ashes of Gene Shoemaker along with a small commemorative
plaque. The
>> > arrangements were made in record time after his death in August, and I
think
>> > sending Gene's ashes to the moon -- where he had always longed to go
-- is a
>> > very fitting tribute.
>>
>> If it wasn't for the interent I might have missed his death altogether. It
>> was barely mentioned in the mainstream news. I think the media does the
>> public a disservice by not highlighting the death of such a person like
>> they do celebrities. I saw the National Geographic special on him and I had
>> no idea the magnitude of his contributions. It seems astounding to me
>> that before Gene it was not recognized that the craters on the moon were
>> from impacts and not volcanic processes. It now seems so obvious.
>>
>> Chuck  <aa6g@aa6g.org>
>
>Even here in Arizona, where Gene Shoemaker lived and worked, the news of
his death
>was unreported in the popular news as far as I know. I got notices from
several
>sources but they were all from the astronomical community -- the Lowell
>Observatory, our local astronomy club, etc. I did hear a report yesterday
that the
>Lunar Prospector was carrying the remains of "a local scientist," but I
think the
>hook for the story was the space launch. I got the feeling that the
newspeople not
>only had never heard of him but couldn't really grasp why he rated the honor.
>
>
>Wil Milan
>--
>"When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the
stars
>which You have set in place, what is Man that you are
>mindful of him, or the son of Man that you care for him?"  -- Psalm 8
>
>
>
Christopher Go
Christone Industries
Manufacturer and Exporter of Quality Fossil Stone and Wrought Iron Furniture
Cebu, Philippines