Re: [meteorite-list] eBay ad - GV and Tagish Lake
Hello and the main mass of GV is not here in Rome..the responsable of the piece in the Rome La Sapienza University have sold this and no have give a little piece for the museuma scandal! Regards Matteo --- Dave Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hullo, A quick ad to say that if anyone is interested I have put a tiny piece of Governador Valadares, the nakhlite and Tagish Lake, the odd CC for sale on eBay... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=731265836 Tagish Lake http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=731265841 GV Best regs dave In gentle decay, d. I have a proof that x^n+y^n=z^n never has integer solutions for n2. however, it won't fit into my signature file IMCA #0092 http://www.meteorites.ic24.net/index.html __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list = M come Meteorite - Matteo Chinellato Via Triestina 126/A - 30030 - TESSERA, VENEZIA, ITALY Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sale Site: http://www.mcomemeteorite.com Collection Site: http://www.mcomemeteorite.info International Meteorite Collectors Association #2140 MSN Messanger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EBAY.COM:http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/mcomemeteorite;excite.it/ __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Metal Detector. sort of an add.
Dave: I have purchased two metal detectors from Ebay and both at reasonable prices. The Whites XLT (~$600) was not very effective at Gold Basin but my Fisher Gold Bug 2 ($500) was good. I found six small pieces at Gold Basin ranging from 10 g. to 20 g. I recommend the Gold Bug 2 for general meteorite detection. You should be able to find a reasonable bargain on Ebay. Good Hunting, Dave __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Re: questions on Correo
Hello Robert, Add five more Correo meteorites found, four in 1997 and one in 1998 for a total of 244.7 grams. Four of the meteorites fit together, a rare find before the NWA meteorite rush. I wrote an article about the finds in Voyage! magazine, March-April 2000. About three years ago I traded off the 19.5g that did not fit with the others. I do know that there are people living in the area that look for Correo meteorites when going out on walks. Also that the kind and lovely lady that owns most of the land in the strewn field has always allowed me to search the area (she has a land sales office there). However, it has been two years since I've been there, the land was being sold at a steady rate and there are homes in the strewn field now. As the total known weights for most all of the strewn fields is under reported, so it goes for the Correo strewn field. High Regards, Fred Hall
[meteorite-list] Ebays ending tonight, all buy it nows!
Hi everyone, I have over 40 very nice meteorites ending this evening on ebay, all buy it now items. There are some beautiful large pieces, including a stunning ~1 kilo Morasko slice, and a ~1 kilo Tata iron slice. Beautiful, the Tata is at ONE DOLLAR $1 per gram! Half price. Grab this one now people. I have also loaded Tata on my website,a beautiful iron from Morocco, $2 gram on the site, $1.50 gram to list members. Thanks Mike Farmer http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/farmerm%40concentric.net/ http://www.meteoritehunter.com
[meteorite-list] Re: eBay auction, meteor story
If this STORY is true, the grandson is pond scum for selling the silver certificate! Maybe he should go to his Grandfather's grave site and dig the old fella up, section him up and sell the bones, mounted in gel membrane boxes, along with 1mm x 1mm pieces (Bessy Specks) of the silver certificate. The seller could include post cards of a meteor shower from the era and double his money. We can only hope that Grandma remains in the quiet safety of her grave. High Regards, Fred Hall
[meteorite-list] Is the NWA El Dorado over with?
Dear List Members, We have been asked many questions about our recent trip to Northwest Africa. The main question is how we did at acquiring new material and is it true that fewer meteorites are being found. I do not mind answering these questions. I feel we did well at securing rare pieces but the Moroccans, disputed zone trade route villagers and nomads are now all aware of the prices being realized outside of their countries and are asking extremely high prices, in some cases higher than the retail amount. The word has seemed to spread to even the most remote places. The amount of material they are finding is about 25% by weight of what was coming out only two years ago. The good news is they are getting better at spotting achondrites so educating them on what to look for magnetic or not is paying off. They are also doing a better job of remembering where they found the meteorites so they can go back and look for more (expect a lot more pairings). Instead of selling their meteorites to Moroccan dealers several villages having been saving up material for us for months and this is what made the trip worthwhile. Each village we had an agreement with was excited to see us and one very remote village had a celebration both because they had visitors and we brought money and gifts for them. This village is so remote that no tourist has ever been there before plus it is in a very dangerous area. It used to be in Algeria but nobody knows now because it is in the most disputed area of the desert. I will write more about this fantastic village in a secret oasis later. We feel good that the nomads who are finding these meteorites are being rewarded for their hard work more directly now. Luckily our translator can speak several Berber dialects included Algerian Berber or these relationships would not be available to us. On our way out of the desert we stopped by several cities and checked out all of the major dealer's offerings and were surprised at the lack of new material. Most of this material my brother Greg recognized from our teams last expedition in April. I was glad to meet some of the people I have been corresponding with for years and the unexpected treasure of making new friends along the way. Is the Moroccan El Dorado over? It is a matter of prospective. If meteorites represent El Dorado than the answer is yes, it is 25% of the El Dorado it was just a couple of years ago. Was it worth going? Yes, through creative contacts and relationships we had a very successful expedition. Wishing everybody the best, Adam Hupe The Hupe Collection IMCA 2185
[meteorite-list] Meteorites Times
Hello Everybody, My November article in Meteorite Times is now posted and I just managed a little time to look at this latest issue. Great article Martin Horejsi! Thanks for sharing those photos with us. I have been debating on starting to number my rocks but I think I will just try to use a digital photo record instead. As on of the writers, I would like to thank the many readers that have said or posted positive comments on the web-zine and the advertisers for help making it possible. Thanks also to Paul and Tim for the constant work. Mark Bostick
[meteorite-list] A Recent Asteroid Crackup
A Recent Asteroid Crackup (Govert Schilling) Planetary scientists have identified fragments from a solar-system smashup that happened only 5.8 million years ago - just yesterday, cosmically speaking. That appears to be when a main-belt asteroid about 25 kilometers across was shattered by a much smaller body striking it at 5 km per second. So far there are 39 known fragments from this crackup; the largest, 832 Karin, is 19 km wide. David Nesvorný (Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado) and three colleagues found the cluster by carefully sifting through tens of thousands of minor-planet orbits to isolate those with similar semimajor axes, eccentricities, and inclinations. Then, by extrapolating the slowly changing orientations of 13 of these orbits backward in time, the team found that they were all aligned with each other 5.8 ± 0.2 million years ago - presumably the fateful date when their parent body was smashed to pieces. The Karin cluster is part of the much larger Koronis family. How- ever, in this and other older family associations, the orbits have been changed too much by subsequent collisions, gravitational disturbances, and radiation pressure to be traced back to a common origin. This new cluster will no doubt be the focus of attention for the asteroid community for some time, writes Derek C. Richardson (University of Maryland) in the June 13th issue of Nature. (Sky and Telescope, Nov. 2002, p. 20) __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Auction stuff..sale delete
Dear List; As requested by a couple of discriminating meteorite collectors, I will be posting some meteoritic items to ebay very soon. If you are bored while waiting...check out my other items under User Id mjwy Thanks for your patience...I will be putting up the requested sliced chunk of gibeon soon. Best Sundays, Dave Freeman Millennium Jade of Wyoming minerals, meteorites, petrified wood NJJ = not just jade. __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Fwd: Re: [meteorite-list] Thanks for the Meteorite Times, and questions on Correo
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ ---BeginMessage--- --- Robert Woolard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, I too want to thank Paul and Jim and everyone else associated with the online Meteorite Times. I have really enjoyed them all, and they are something to look forward to each month. Great job everyone, and thanks a lot for your time and effort to put these together! I also would like to ask a few questions about the Correo meteorites. I just read Michael Blood's comments on searching there in this month's issue of Meteorite Times. The official information in the Catalog of Meteorites states that ~ 35 specimens totaling about 700g were found. Obviously, those figures are way out dated now. Would anyone know at least ABOUT how many individuals have been found by now, and their best guess for the current approximate TKW? Finally, would anyone be able to list the weights of, let's say, the top ten largest specimens, and how big was the main mass? I've been told that someone found one that weighed around 900g, if I remember correctly. Though I wasn't THAT lucky, I have hunted there a few times and I was blessed to find a very beautiful 326g individual with nice flow lines, regmaglyphs, and even a few spots of black fusion crust still remaining. I also bought some from the Lawrences there and donated them to a local university here in Little Rock along with other different meteorites to start a local meteorite collection. Thanks to anyone for any help on this, but I'm guessing that if anyone does know the answers to these questions, it might be Steve Schoner. He was kind enough to share some of his knowledge of the strewnfield with me when I first contacted him years ago. So, a special thanks to you too, Steve for your encouragement and help then ( and maybe now ?). Sincerely, Robert Woolard In the years from 1983 to 1991, I collected over 100 stones with weights of 1 gram to 126 grams in the areas that were state or private property. Total mass of all was in the neighborhood of 5,000 grams with the median weight about 40 to 50 grams. In my strewnfield calculations I surmised that the larger stones would be found to the northwest on Laguna Indian lands. I began a search, but reservation officers saw me out there and threatened to arrest me if I did not leave. I left, and that was the end of that story. The private, and state lands are open to searching (with permission from the private landowners), and if lucky one can still perhaps find one or two out there, but they are now very, very scarce. Of all the stones that I had found, I have only two left, a beautiful oriented 46 gram nosecone, and a flat thin and fresh looking 101 gram piece. Steve Schoner http://www.geocities.com/american_meteorite_survey __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ ---End Message---
[meteorite-list] Tucson Show 2003 - An interesting side trip.
Hello List, I know that most of you come to the Tucson Show exclusively for meteorites, but their is an opportunity to visit a marvelous living cave located quite close to Tucson. I thought that some of you with interests and/or backgrounds in geology might be interested in a side trip to Kartchner Caverns about 70 miles southeast of Tucson. If any of you are interested in more information, go to this URL. http://www.friendsofkartchner.org/ Regards, John Gwilliam __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Tucson Show 2003 - side trips
Hi John and List, John mentioned Kartchner Caverns southeast of Tucson as an interesting sidetrip. I couldn't agree more -- I took the tour back on Memorial Day this past year and it was fabulous. The cave, which is very much alive, has been expertly preserved through the use of double doors, minimal lighting, and constant monitoring of moisture and CO2 levels. Much of the cave has never been touched by man thanks to forward-thinking conservation efforts by the cave discoverers. Our tour guide was quite the character. You'll know if you get the same guy by his deep voice, dramatic pauses, and signature phrase preceding each move to the next part of the Caverns: Please follow me... If you do decide to go -- GET RESERVATIONS WELL IN ADVANCE. You'll need them. Another interesting, completely non-meteoritical side trip is a tour of a (decommissioned) Titan Missile Silo, also near Tucson. Both trips can be done quite easily in the same day. Cheers, Rob __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] If You Are Bored
Found this a while back, a fast, simple little flash program that lets you experiment with creating a moon while battling gravitational forces. Maybe the professor can validate its accuracy, where is he these days anyway? http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/applets/satellites.html -- Rob Wesel -- We are the music makers...and we are the dreamers of the dreams. Willy Wonka, 1971 __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] If You Are Bored
In a message dated 11/3/2002 9:15:08 PM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Found this a while back, a fast, simple little flash program that lets you experiment with creating a moon while battling gravitational forces. Maybe the professor can validate its accuracy, where is he these days anyway? Or you can go look at the bunch of things I just posted on Ebay. Who knows? you might even like some of them. :-) http:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Anne Black IMCA #2356 www.IMPACTIKA.com e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
