volume 60 number 7 - rock chippers chippings july 2… · reach unsustainable heights, asteroid...
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The Bulletin of the Woodland Hills Rock Chippers, Inc.
Regular club meetings are held at 7:00PM on the 3rd
Saturday of each month at: First United Methodist Church, 22700 Sherman Way, West Hills, CA 91303
Visit our website www.rockchippers.org WHRC Editor: P.O. Box 205 Woodland Hills, CA 91365
Membership Information
For any questions regarding membership in the Woodland Hills Rock Chippers please email Virginia Rotramel at
Future Rockhounds of America
For any questions regarding membership in the FRA please email Thalia Goldsworthy atin-
Bulletin Index
Page 1 … President’s Message, Contact Information Page 2…Tool Corner; Refreshments; Birthdays, Anniversaries Page 3 … Federation Report, Ways and Means, Business Meeting Minutes Page 4 … Society Meeting Minutes Page 5 … UCLA Meteorite Collection Page 6 … Space Mining Gold Rush Page 7 …Classes, FRA, August Picnic & Annual Show News Page 8 … Let’s Go to a Show! Page 9 … Elected Officers, Directors & Chairpersons Page 10 … Meeting Program Information and Date, Cover
July 2019
Volume 60 Number 7
Thank you everyone who participated in our silent auction at the June meeting. It turned out to be a fun and entertaining evening filled with laughter and wonderful company. I would like to invite our members to our July famous Ice Cream Social. There’s going to be lots of ice-cream, and Yes… I will bring the root beers too. Plus there will be a great program conducted by our beloved Thalia.
I remind everyone to please submit any ideas that may be related to the bettering of our beloved club.
The next business meeting will take place 7pm on July 6th at Thalia’s home.
Looking forward to seeing everyone at the July 20th meeting.
Sagi Salomon
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Juliet, Shirley,
and Anita
Larry & Barbara
If anyone is missed, please let us know!
The delicious refreshments at May’s meeting were provided by Debbie, thank you! Refreshments for the June meeting will be the ice cream social for our enjoyment! Members, please plan to volunteer to bring sweets and/or snacks for at least one of our meetings each year, sign up at the general meetings.
The Refreshment Chairman is Shanna O’Brien.
The Sand Dipper
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Where You Can Use The Sand Dipper- $15.00-40.00 You can use the Sand Dipper anywhere you would have use of a straining scoop, or seashell scoop. Below are a few examples of ideal places to use the Sand Dipper seas Beachcombing: Easily pick up seashells, agates, and fossils from the beach. Rock Collecting: Reach out and grab rocks lying in the creek or river. Hunting Arrowheads: Use the telescoping feature to scoop up arrow-heads lying in creeks. On The Golf Course: Use as a golf ball retriever and retrieve golf balls lost in water hazards. At Home: Never bend over again while cleaning out the kitty litter box.
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Gary Levitt [email protected] Column back in August
WHRC – Business Meeting on June 1, 2019 Call to order- 19:02 p.m. - Ended 09:48 p.m. President: Sagi Correction or approval of minutes: No corrections needed. Quorum: Yes Report of Treasurer: We are in the black. Old Business: John says the trailer tires pumped and ready to go. New Business: Picnic Sign-up sheets are now available. Committee Chairs: The following was reported. Auditor: Nothing to report Bulletin/Publisher: New website in progress. Classes/Workshops: Audio and Visual training with Antonia June 8, 2019, at 10am Courtesy/Hospitality: Lillian is caught up. Community Outreach: The traveling showcase will be at the Culver City June 29 & 30, 2019 at the Veterans Auditorium Corporate Administrator: Debbie in the process of working on some permits. Display and Education: Is open for members. Please sign up with Thalia. Federation Director – Nothing to report. FieldTrip: nothing to report. FRA- Thalia: Next meeting is June 2, 2019. Historian – Gene: Nothing to report. Insurance-Debbie: All are current. Librarian – Shanna: Library is open and ready for members to check out books. Membership - Virginia: Nothing to report. Publicity: Contacting publishers to advertise the October Gem Show. Refreshments: Paty will bring June refreshments. July is Ice Cream Social. Shop Committee: Nothing to report. Show Chairman – Working show meeting July 20th / Raffle tickets are ready. Web Master – Thalia: Changes to the website and training John. Ways and Means – Nothing to report. Program: June – Silent Auction and July – Presentation on School Program and Ice Cream Social Ways and Means – Preparing for Silent Auction Meeting Adjourned: 19:48
We have been receiving quite a number of donations for our raffles and silent auctions. A big THANK YOU to everyone. And please keep them coming in! It is a great way to share with
others and help keep the club running.
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WHRC Society Meet-Time: 7:00pm
Location: First United Methodist Church
Date: June 15, 2019 Submitted by Debbie Hirlinger Secretary Pro-Tem
General Meeting Agenda
Call to order – 7:05 PM President Sagi
Flag Salute Sagi
Introduce Guests No guests
Program Silent Auction Thalia to give program in July
Correction or approval of minutes - Sagi No corrections/approved
Report of Treasurer - Barbara Everything in Good Standing
9. Committee Chairs
10. Auditor - Virginia Will get books in July to audit
11. Bulletin/Publisher - Melanie/Paty none
Classes/workshops none
Courtesy/Hospitality - Lillian none Virginia recovering at home
Community Outreach - Thalia none
Corporate Administrator-Debbie Everything current
Display/Education Our display to Culver City June 29-
Federation Director - Gary none
Field Trips none
FRA -Thalia none
Historian - Gene none
Insurance - Debbie Insurance paid in late May/current
Librarian - Shanna No new books to report
Membership - Virginia none
Publicity Show 2 new ads emailed. Jean sug-gested Nextdoor app
Refreshments This meeting Debbie July-Ice Cream/Bring toppings
Shop Committee none
Show Chairman - Virginia none Display Sign up sheet for our show see Steve Dover. Gem Jar dona-tions needed see Debbie . Jean pur-chased budgeted items for silent auction
Web Master-Thalia none
Old/New Business Aug 17TH picinic Lake Balboa Pavillion 3 time 12:00 PM-4:00 PM Sign up sheet for food
Adjourned 8:17PM
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JUL
21
2019
UCLA
METEORITE COLLECTION
DR. MING-CHANG LIU
THE HAYABUSA SPACECRAFT MISSIONS; RETURNING SAMPLES OF ASTEROIDS TO EARTH
Location: Geology Building - Slichter Room 3656 ; Time 2:30AM
Despite many problems, Hayabusa 1 was the first spacecraft to sample an asteroid and bring samples back to Earth. Now the Hayabusa2 space mission will attempt to
recover surface materials from asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It was launched December 2014, and is currently in the process of surveying the asteroid. The first touchdown to collect surface samples was conducted on February 22, 2019. In this talk, he will
discuss the goals of this mission, show some images taken by on-board cameras and discuss what we hope to learn when the samples are brought back to our terres-trial laboratories. Ming-Chang obtained his Ph.D. at UCLA about 10 years ago; he is the manager of the NSF National Ion Probe Facility located here
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$700 Quintillion Asteroid Ignites Space Mining Gold Rush Between Mars and Jupiter
Chris Mahon- Monday, 12 February 2018 - 11:19AM
<>Image credit: YouTube The asteroid Psyche 16 is a very special space rock: it's almost entirely made of metal, including iron, nickel, and gold, which has led astronomers to believe that it was originally the core of a planet. It's also estimated to be worth around $700 quintillion—enough to give each of the 7.6 billion people on Earth about $92 billion each. You read that correctly—$92 billion each. This asteroid has the potential to make us all richer than the Pharaohs—or, you know, crash the world economy. Psyche 16 lies between Mars and Jupiter, and is already the target of a NASA mission, scheduled to launch in 2022. That mission will explore the history and composition of the asteroid, but the question on everyone's mind is when we can start collecting ore from it. It turns out that will take a bit longer—according to Professor John Zarnecki, the President of the Royal Astronomical Society:" The timeline for space mining is the $64,000 question. My opinion is probably 25 years for a 'proof of concept' set-up, and 50 years for a commercial start. But there are so many uncertainties—mostly based around economics and the progress of space technology."Zarnecki speculates that asteroid mining will gain momentum once rare metals start to run out, especially those used in microelectronics and mobile phones.As soon as the prices of those metals reach unsustainable heights, asteroid mining will start to make sense economically. We've already noted that Luxembourg is preparing to make itself a haven for European asteroid mining compa-nies, while private space companies across the world garnered about $4 billion in new investments last year. One of these space exploration companies, Deep Space Industries, is working on new technology to make asteroid min-ing feasible, but the first step will probably look like the Asteroid Touring Nanosatellite Fleet proposed earlier this year: a group of small satellites that scout out different areas for mining and pave the way for another wave of ro-bots to carry out the actual mining and collection. Between Psyche 16's untold wealth, Elon Musk's growing space empire, and China's plans to dominate space in the coming decades, it looks like we're poised to enter a new space age—or Blade Runner's dystopian future.
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Annual WHRC Show! Show News There will be a show meeting for all chairmen and interested members on July 13th 1 PM at Thalia's home. We will update our signage and take care of any other repairs needed to bring our show signs up to date. Also, we will update the different areas so we can move forward with the show preparation. If you are interested in helping, please come. Show Raffle Prizes We have received the first item for the raffle prizes for our show in October. This is a sterling silver wire-wrapped green stone heart on a chain. Minimum value for the items is $20.00. Photos of the prizes will be posted on web site.Bring your donations to the meetings, or contact Thalia for drop-off or pick-up assistance Show Publicity A pdf file of the flyer for our show was sent to each society member. Members will be able to print as many copies as they wish to distribute to friends and others about our show in October. White paper stock can be used for this purpose. There is a supply of flyers set aside for our show dealers. If you plan to attend shows between now and Oc-tober and can help us get these to the our show dealers please see Thalia Also, we need help contacting publications and other public information sources to get our show information out there. Some of the con-tacts have already been made. Can you help with local sources or social networks?
Virginia
August picnic Our annual picnic will be held at a different location this year, we have reserved Pavilion # 3 Lake Balboa Park August 17, 2019 12:00pm -4:00pm. We have the space from dawn till dusk. The address is 6300 Balboa Blvd. Encino, CA 91316. The entrance is located between Burbank and Victory Blvd. Pavilion #3 is near the paddle boats, and the parking lot is there also. A sign- up sheet for food was at the last meeting, and will be available again at our July meeting. Food will start around 1:00. We will play Rocky Bingo, so please bring a rock, slab, mineral for the prizes. Hope to see you all there!
Debbie Hirlinger
We are on summer schedule. Next meeting will be in September, af-ter school starts. Happy Vacation time.
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July 13th at 1 PM is the Show Committee meeting at my house. We will be repairing signs and taking care of any other business from the committees.
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JULY - None
AUGUST 2019 August 2, 3 & 4: NIPOMO, CA Orcutt Mineral Society Nipomo High School 525 Thompson Avenue Hours: Fri-Sat 10 - 5, Sun 10 -4 Contact: Wayne Mills, (805) 481-3495 Email: [email protected] Website: omsinc.org August 3 - 4: SAN FRANCISCO, CA San Francisco Gem & Mineral Society San Francisco County Fair Building 9th Avenue & Lincoln Way, Golden Gate Park, S.F. County Fair Bldg. Hours: Sat. 10 - 6; Sun. 10 - 5 Contact: Ellen Nott Email: [email protected] Website: sfgms.org SEPTEMBER 2019 September 21: LONG BEACH, CA Long Beach Mineral & Gem Society Expo Arts Center 4321 Atlantic Avenue, Hrs: 10:00 - 5:00 Contact: Carol Kron and Karin Alvarez, (562) 577-9044 Email: [email protected] September 21 - 22: CHICO, CA Feather River Lapidary & Mineral Soc. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds 2357 Fair Street Hours: Sat 9:30 - 5; Sun 9:30 - 4 Lori Millard, (530) 533-2968 Email: [email protected] Website: www.featherriverrocks.org September 21 - 22: MONTEREY, CA Carmel Valley Gem & Mineral Society Monterey Fairgrounds 2004 Fairgrounds Road Hours: 10 - 5 daily Contact: Janis Rovetti, (831) 372-1311 Email: [email protected] Website: cvgms.rocks September 28 - 29: LODI, CA Stockton Lapidary & Mineral Club Lodi Grape Festival Grounds 413 East Lockford Street Hours: 10 - 5 daily Contact: Mike Mathis, (510) 301-3612 Email: [email protected] Website: stocktonlapidary.org
OCTOBER 2019 October 5 - 6: GRASS VALLEY, CA Nevada County Gem & Mineral Society Nevada County Fairgrounds 11228 McCourtney Road Hours: Sat 10 - 5, Sun 10 - 4 Contact: Mitchell Frank Van Hecke, (530) 575-4252 Email: [email protected] Website: ncgms.org October 12 - 13: TRONA, CA Searles Lake Gem & Mineral Society Trona Gem Building 13337 Main Street Hours: Sat 7:30 - 5:00; Sun 7:30 - 3:00 Contact: Jim & Bonnie Fairchild, (760) 372-5356 Email: [email protected] Website: iwvisp.com/tronagemclub October 19: WEST HILLS, CA Woodland Hills Rock Chippers First United Methodist Church 22700 Sherman Way Hours: 10 - 5 Contact: Virginia Rotramel, [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: rockchippers.org October 19 - 20: PLACERVILLE, CA El Dorado County Mineral & Gem Soc. El Dorado County Fairgrounds 100 Placerville Drive Hours: 10 - 5 daily Contact: Debbie Winterson Email: [email protected] Website: eldoradorocks.org October 19 - 20: SANTA ROSA, CA Santa Rosa Mineral & Gem Society The Veterans Memorial 1351 Maple Avenue Hours: Sat 10 - 6; Sun 10 - 5 Contact: Jolene Coon, (707) 849-9551 Website: [email protected] Website: srmgs.org Show Page October 26 - 27: SACRAMENTO, CA Sacramento Mineral Society Scottish Rite Temple 6151 H Street Hours: Sat 10 - 5; Sun 10 - 4 Contact: Alyssa Meiszinger, (916) 205-4441 Email: [email protected] Web Site: sacramentomineralsociety.org
NOVEMBER November 2 - 3: ANAHEIM, CA American Opal Society Business Expo Center 1960 S. Anaheim Way Hours: Sat 10 - 6; Sun 10 - 5 Contact: Veronica Purpura, (714) 501-9959 Email: [email protected] Website: opalsociety.org/ November 2 - 3: CONCORD, CA Contra Costa Mineral & Gem Society Centre Concord 5298 Clayton Road Hours: 10 - 5 daily Contact: Mike Hopkins Email: [email protected] Website: contracostamineralandgemso-ciety.org Show Page November 9 - 10: YUBA CITY, CA Sutter Buttes Gem & Mineral Society Yuba-Sutter Fairgrounds, Franklin Hall 442 Franklin Blvd Hours: Sat 10 - 5; Sun 10 - 4 Contact: Karen Horita, (916) 677-6696 Email: [email protected] Website: sutterbuttesgemmin.org
DECEMBER
TBA
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Woodland Hills Rock Chippers, Incorporated
Our organization, a non-profit corporation, was formed for educational and instructive purposes: to foster collection and study of minerals, to disseminate knowledge about them, to sponsor field trips to find them, to encourage the use of them in lapidary and faceting studies, etc. And to have one whale of a good time doing those things with all of our friends. Regular meetings are held on the 3rd Saturday of each month at 7:00 p.m. Re-freshments are at 6:30 p.m. Field trips are at various times throughout the month. Guests are always welcome to attend. Membership is open to interested applicants after they have attended at least two meetings. Annual dues are due in November for the following year.
Elected Officers/Directors
President Sagi Salomon Director At Large Gene Berwager
Treasurer Barbara Bradbury Director At Large Lillian Berwager
Secretary Paty Mejorado. Director At Large Larry Bradbury
Corp. Adm. Deborah Hirlinger Director At Large John & Shanna O’Brien
Chairpersons and Appointed Positions
Auditor…………………....Virginia Rotramel
Bulletin Editor ……….……Melanie Demont
Classes/Workshop……......................Open
Courtesy/Hospitality…..…. Lillian Berwager
Custodian ……………………Sagi Salomon
Display/Education.……......................Open
Federation Director…………......Gary Levitt
Alternate Fed Director……..Maureen Levitt
Field Trips……………………………...Open
FRA…………………......Thalia Goldsworthy
Historian………….…….......Gene Berwager
Librarian…………………………...Shanna O’Brien
Library Displays…………….................Committee
Membership ………………. .…..Virginia Rotramel
Parliamentarian………...………...……….….Open
Programs …………………...………………...Open
Publicity………………………........................Open
Refreshments…….……...............Shanna O’Brien
Shop …………………………….….….. Committee
Show Chair………….……....…..Virginia Rotramel
Ways and Means…………….……...John O’Brien
Webmaster…………...............Thalia Goldsworthy
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WHRC Chippings Editor P. O. Box 205 Woodland Hills, CA 91365
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