[BR-Crater] crater page update, listing on SciScoop

Ian Kluft ikluft at thunder.sbay.org
Wed Feb 21 10:34:10 PST 2007


I see that we now have subscribers on the mail list.  So far I know all
of you by your e-mail addresses.  Though we're already coast to coast...

For those who didn't catch it, last Friday there was an update to point
at a new page with a preview image of a geological map of the Black Rock
area by Stratofox team member Brad Douglas KB8UYR.  The final one will
have a key to indicate what all the colors actually mean. :-)

   Preview: Geological Map of Black Rock based on Satellite Imagery
   http://ian.kluft.com/blackrock/impact-crater/geomap-20070216.html

Yesterday the crater page was listed on SciScoop.com.  I submitted this
one last Friday.  It took them 5 days to come up with the minimum 4 votes
from registered users.  So it isn't a high traffic site.

   "Possible impact crater at Black Rock Desert, Nevada"
   http://www.sciscoop.com/story/2007/2/16/13387/1447

I see 40 referrals from SciScoop in the web site logs - so far about 1/4
of what we got from Rocketry Forum last week. So over the week it'll
probably work out to a similar amount of traffic.  (Not every browser
reports a referrer site.  And some probably are duplicates.)

The Slashdot.org editors rejected a submission last Friday by the same
friend from Florida who posted on Rocketry Forum.  It isn't a big surprise.
On the #br-crater IRC chat room on freenode.net, one of the comments was,
"slashdotters just don't know good science even when it pokes them in
the eye."  But I'm actually glad this story's first time in the news
won't come from them.



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