Update

Hello everyone,

Because Chaya asked, I am posting some image from my sabbatical. I have spent time at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona and UCLA. In two weeks I will be at the University of Maryland. At all these fine institutions I have and will be performing analyses on meteorites, which as you all know is something I love A life passion you could say. I hope you are all working hard at your studies. Soon it will be Thanksgiving, one of my favorite holidays! In January I will go to India. I have been invited to give a lecture at a conference held by the Physics Research Laboratories. This is going to be some adventure! The one image of all the tv sets is a composite image of live feed from Mars--you can see the crater clearly. Finally, in two weeks I will go to the Kennedy Space Center. My good friend, Dr. Stan Love, is an astronaut and will be launching into space for the first time on the space shuttle Atlantis. How cool is that! More soon!