[meteorite-list] meteorites from Phobos?
Hi Al Mitt and List, Regarding my question, thanks to those of you who shared your oppinions on the possibility of meteorites coming from Phobos (or Deimos) and reaching Earth. The article on the Kaidun meteorite,as havingits probable originfrom Phobos, was most interesting to read. Jose Campos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[meteorite-list] Hurricane Isabel
Hello All, The overall consensus here on the US east coast is that we were lucky not to get hit worse by this monster storm...Isabel. For those in it's path the damage and difficulties are bad enough. Billions of dollars in damage and millions have been without power...and many still are. Flooding from the storm surge/push onto land was extensive. Cities like Baltimore along the coast had areas that were/are under several feet of water. Geoff Cintron alluded to how bad the North Carolina/Virginia coastal areas got whacked. John Sinclair is probably out there cleaning up...if, he has even gotten back to his home yet. Areas in South Jersey, Southeast Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland were ravaged with 50 to 80 miles an hour winds knocking down trees (and power lines) by the thousands. The speed of this fasting moving storm saved us all from tremendous rains and extensive periods of winds. Even my area here in PA..far from the storm's center got lots of wind Thursday night...knocking power out for 1/2 day and taking down several trees and large branches in the neighborhood. Yes, we were lucky it was not worse...but believe me, it was bad enough. I cannot imagine what a direct hit of a category 4 or 5 would do to the Mid- Atlantic or Northeast areas with all the people and development we have. Even worse for us and others would be the tsunami from a large asteroidal hit in the (Atlantic) ocean. Count your blessings every day, John __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
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[meteorite-list] Odessa Crater
Does anyone have a contact at the Odessa Meteor Crater Visitor Center. I have made multiple attempts to contact the visitors center, but have had no luck whatsoever. This telephone number is the only contact information I have: 432-381-0946. I would appreciate any help you can offer. Teresa Moss Oscar E. Monnig Meteorite Gallery -- Teresa Moss Director, Monnig Meteorite Gallery Texas Christian University Box 298830 Fort Worth, Texas 76129 Phone: 817-257-MARS (6277) FAX: 817-257-7789 __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re-2: [meteorite-list] Kentucky?
Lots of limestone from a geology standpoint...also my good friend John Curchin gave me a wonderful shattercone that came from Kentucky. I forget what the name of the impact structure that is there Middlesburg or Middlesboro maybe? Yes, it's Middlesboro - it has a diameter of about 6 km with a central uplift and shattercones. Congratulations on your job offer...hope all goes well if you decide to go. Congrats and good look if you go! Bernd To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: Re-2: [meteorite-list] Kentucky?
Bernd, Thanx Bernd...I should have looked first. According to the attached site there are 3 impact locations in Kentucky. http://www.uky.edu/KGS/education/meteorites.html John Lots of limestone from a geology standpoint...also my good friend John Curchin gave me a wonderful shattercone that came from Kentucky. I forget what the name of the impact structure that is there Middlesburg or Middlesboro maybe? Yes, it's Middlesboro - it has a diameter of about 6 km with a central uplift and shattercones. Congratulations on your job offer...hope all goes well if you decide to go. Congrats and good look if you go! Bernd To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Odessa Crater
Teresa, Bob Rice is the curator. His number is 915-381-0946. If you can't reach him, let me know. Ken Newton IMCA #9632 Teresa Moss wrote: Does anyone have a contact at the Odessa Meteor Crater Visitor Center. I have made multiple attempts to contact the visitors center, but have had no luck whatsoever. This telephone number is the only contact information I have: 432-381-0946. I would appreciate any help you can offer. Teresa Moss Oscar E. Monnig Meteorite Gallery -- Teresa Moss Director, Monnig Meteorite Gallery Texas Christian University Box 298830 Fort Worth, Texas 76129 Phone: 817-257-MARS (6277) FAX: 817-257-7789 __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Meteorite Slides
List, Does anyone have or know off any meteorite picture slide sets which are for sale. Slides of beautifully shaped stones and also other educational slides are needed. Cheers and Thanks, Mike Tettenborn Owen Sound, Ontario __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Kentucky?
If you search for Lexington, U.S.A., you will find a whole list of places to be able to live in, but if you go for Lexington, Kentucky, you will find that at N 38.0 and W 84.5 degrees, quite close to a famous meteorite fall, which is Bath Furnace (L6, fell on Nov 15, 1902, with 86 kg preserved, on display in the Chicago Field Museum). Alex Berlin, Germany Tom aka James Knudson wrote: Hello List, Looks like things might be looking up for me, finally! I got a job offer in Lexington Kentucky. Just got to work out the details. I am into meteorites, not race horses, is there anything or anyone interesting in Kentucky? I think this will be safer the Iraq!!! : ) Thanks, Tom Peregrineflier The proudest member of the IMCA 6168 __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Kentucky? / Bath Furnace
Actually, the main mass of Bath Furnace is in the Chicago Field Museum, weighing a whopping 82.5 kg. About 1 kg is in London, and the rest is distributed somewhere in other collections with 537 g in Jim Schwade´s one, according to MetBase V6.0. Anyone interested in old documents? Well, here we go: http://www.rasny.org/V4P193-2.HTM Alex Berlin, Germany Alexander Seidel wrote: If you search for Lexington, U.S.A., you will find a whole list of places to be able to live in, but if you go for Lexington, Kentucky, you will find that at N 38.0 and W 84.5 degrees, quite close to a famous meteorite fall, which is Bath Furnace (L6, fell on Nov 15, 1902, with 86 kg preserved, on display in the Chicago Field Museum). Alex Berlin, Germany Tom aka James Knudson wrote: Hello List, Looks like things might be looking up for me, finally! I got a job offer in Lexington Kentucky. Just got to work out the details. I am into meteorites, not race horses, is there anything or anyone interesting in Kentucky? I think this will be safer the Iraq!!! : ) Thanks, Tom Peregrineflier The proudest member of the IMCA 6168 __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Middlesboro Built In Meteor Crater, Geologists Say; Town Hopes To Cash In
http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2003/09/20ky/met-5-crater0920-6646.html Middlesboro built in meteor crater, geologists say; town hopes to cash in By ROGER ALFORD Associated Press September 20, 2003 MIDDLESBORO, Ky. - An Eastern Kentucky town that has been struggling through economic decline is hoping that an out-of-this-world attraction can help turn things around. State geologists have concluded that Middlesboro was built in a meteor crater, and local officials are confident that the discovery will pay huge dividends in tourism dollars. William M. Andrews Jr., a geologist with the Kentucky Geological Survey, said erosion and vegetation have hidden most signs of the meteor's impact. Enough evidence remains, however, to support the conclusion, he said. You have the round shape, shattered rock in the middle and deformed rocks around the sides that have been bent, folded or shoved, Andrews said. That's pretty strong evidence that it was a meteor impact crater. It's enough to excite local tourism officials, who are hoping people will come from across the nation to visit the town. They're now promoting Middlesboro as the only town in America built inside a meteor crater. We're trying to get the word out, said Judy Barton, director of the Bell County Tourism Commission. This is just another jewel in our crown. Middlesboro, historically dependent on the mining industry, has been in decline for decades, suffering alongside coal operators. Mines have shut down, shops have closed and workers have hit unemployment lines. With no upturn in sight, local leaders have been trying to bolster the tourism economy. Barton said more than a million people already come to Middlesboro each year to visit Cumberland Gap National Historic Park, which is home of the famed mountain pass through which settlers traveled into the nation's midsection in the late 1700s. Tourists can walk the footsteps of the famous frontiersman Daniel Boone, who led the way through Cumberland Gap for a flood of settlers to come into Kentucky and beyond. Nearby is the Lost Squadron Museum, home to a World War II fighter plane that spend a half century encapsulated in the icy heart of a glacier. Some 20,000 people came to Middlesboro last year to see the P-38 Lightning fly for the first time since being pulled piece by piece from beneath 268 feet of ice and snow in Greenland. The plane was among six fighters and two bombers forced to crash-land during foul weather on July 15, 1942. The crews were rescued from the glacier, but the warplanes were left behind to be slowly buried by snow and ice. A local restaurateur spent some $3 million to recover and rebuild the plane. Barton said those two attractions keep Middlesboro-area hotels and restaurants busy. When word spreads that people have the opportunity to see an actual meteor crater, Barton believes tourism may skyrocket. In fact, more than 60 geologists arrived in town Thursday to survey the crater and to be on hand yesterday when the Kentucky Society of Professional Geologists declared the city a distinguished geological site. Andrews said geologists who have visited Middlesboro are confident that the valley is a crater. Middlesboro is in this strangely round valley in the middle of Appalachia, he said. You don't get round valleys here. It's not normal. While the shape of the valley initially drew the interest of geologists, they soon found stronger evidence. Andrews said rocks were found near the center of the basin in 1966 that were so shattered that something out of this world had to have occurred. The theory is that a meteor more than 1,500 feet in diameter struck the earth here some 300million years ago, creating the crater four miles in diameter. The crater is among those noted by the Planetary and Space Science Centre at the University of New Brunswick, which has compiled a list of all known meteor craters in the world. In Middlesboro, Andrews said, huge sections of rock have been flipped upside down or bent into odd positions, suggesting a powerful impact. Tom Shattuck, who operates Wilderness Road Tours in Middlesboro, said he routinely takes visitors up a mountainside in the national park to an overlook where they can get a bird's eye view of the crater. That, Shattuck said, is an easy way to convince doubters that a meteorite gets credit for forming the valley. Of course, he said, standing in the middle of town and looking up at the bowl-shaped mountains may be just as convincing. It's really something to see, he said. __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
