Kitty en Bill Heacox behoorden tot de eerste mensen die mij e-mails te stuurden toen het nieuws van de arrestatie van de Apollo maansteendieven in de media doorbrak. http://www.natgeotv.com/nl/million-dollar-moon-rock-heist/galerijen/bizarre-moon-rock-heist/2
http://www.natgeotv.com/nl/million-dollar-moon-rock-heist/overhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cHBheJgLpQ#t=31
Toen ze in 2006 naar Europa reisden bezochten ze mij thuis. Beiden zijn zeer gemoedelijke mensen en zij zijn waarschijnlijk het meest gastvrije paar wij ooit zult ontmoeten. We verbleven 17 dagen in hun gastenverblijf in 2013 en reden rond in hun auto. Beiden zijn fervente verzamelaars van fluorescerende mineralen en Kitty is al jaren “admin” voor de Rockhounds discussielijst. Als je kijkt naar de tweede foto weet u dat wij ten minste één gedeelde belangstelling hebben: fluorescerende mineralen! Mijn vorige hobby en nog steeds een van mijn belangrijkste interesses voor lezen en zelfstudie is astronomie en kosmologie. Ik ben bang dat Bill wat deze onderwerpen betreft echter in een ietwat hogere categorie speelt.
Bill schreef ook een boek over de expansie van het heelal, dat in november 2015 werd gepubliceerd Read and learn!
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Kitty Heacox was born in New Jersey and during the late 1940's her parents took her to the mine dumps at Franklin with a SW UV lamp that her father had rigged with an inverter so it could operate on a car battery. Thus at age five she became fascinated with rocks that glowed in the dark. In college she took a couple of geology courses but her mind was more suited to the arts than to science and she became a school teacher of art, drama, and literature. Today she's retired and does volunteer work at schools including demonstrations of her sizable collection of rocks and minerals and especially fluorescent ones.
Bill Heacox grew up in Spokane, Washington, and was always fascinated by nature and science. Professor Heacox holds degrees in Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy; and conducts research in all three areas. He has been the recipient of several research, instrumentation, and training grants from NASA, the National Science Foundation, and private foundations. He has held professional positions at NASA’s Goddard and Johnson Space Flight Centers, and Ames Research Center; the Lunar & Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona; Carter Observatory
(New Zealand); the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaii; and (since 1986) the University of Hawaii at Hilo, where he is a full professor of physics and astronomy. He currently teaches the full range of undergraduate astronomy courses and also such physics courses as Computational Physics, Thermodynamics, Optics, and General Relativity.Professor Heacox is a combat veteran of the Vietnam conflict, where he flew more than 200 reconnaissance missions. He served as a smokejumper in Montana and trained briefly as a space shuttle mission specialist candidate. His principle extramural hobbies are photography and geological minerals.
