Re: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect?
In a message dated 12/1/2006 12:08:30 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just took a couple of quick photos of some of my best (in terms of size, shape, color, condition, or any of the above) larger (and some smaller) shark teeth. Try to overlook the quality of the photo (taken inside, with flash). I'm not making any claims that they are museum-worthy, but I'm happy with them, and some here may never seen similar ones before. They are a mixture of mostly ones bought from local sources (river divers selling them at a flea market, tourist stops along the South Carolina coast) and a few from Ebay. Unfortunately, I've never been lucky enough to find anything large on my own. The scale coin is a US half-dollar. http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/sharkteeth1.jpg http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/sharkteeth2.jpg __ I did a lot of mineral shows with Alain Carion, and he always had some small specimens for the kids, and of course, some small shark teeth. And it never failed, there would always be some kids asking: "how do you get those teeth from the sharks?" I was often tempted to say: "Oh, just with a pair of pliers!". Just to see the reactions. ;-) Anne M. Black www.IMPACTIKA.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] President, I.M.C.A. Inc. www.IMCA.cc __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect?
I just took a couple of quick photos of some of my best (in terms of size, shape, color, condition, or any of the above) larger (and some smaller) shark teeth. Try to overlook the quality of the photo (taken inside, with flash). I'm not making any claims that they are museum-worthy, but I'm happy with them, and some here may never seen similar ones before. They are a mixture of mostly ones bought from local sources (river divers selling them at a flea market, tourist stops along the South Carolina coast) and a few from Ebay. Unfortunately, I've never been lucky enough to find anything large on my own. The scale coin is a US half-dollar. http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/sharkteeth1.jpg http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/sharkteeth2.jpg __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect?
Good grief! Where do you all house such huge collections? or collections of collections, in some cases? Or do you have a warehouse in your backyards??? I limit myself to minerals, but I have 500-600 specimens and they are all over the house. And I agree with Anita, I love fluorite, such great colors! I have about 200 of them. And yes, Tracy, I do have a couple specimens of sphene. And, well, I also have a couple thousand books, mostly archaeology and history, and lots of maps. And about 50 small cats carved in all kinds of minerals, and bought all over the place. One of my latest acquisitions was an amber-cat. Does that count as a collection too? Goodnight. Anne M. Black www.IMPACTIKA.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] President, I.M.C.A. Inc. www.IMCA.cc __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] What else do you collect?
This has been a fun thread to watch. When I started selling meteorites I decided not to allow myself to collect them and so for years I didn't but I still collected other things in fact I picked up a couple of other lines of collectables to compensate for the denial in meteorite collecting. So I collect antiquarian books on North American Indian Tribes, Ethnology and Artifacts specializing in the Northwest U.S.,also books on Egyptology, Paleontology, Geology, Mineralogy, Petrology, Art, signed first edition classics and last but not least Meteoritics. In the library there are over 10,000 books and over 700 on meteoritics. The oldest books are: M. Michaele Stanhuf - 'De Meteoris Libro' from 1578, 489 pages; Joannis Jioviani Pontani - 'Ni Liber De Meteoris' from 1539, 236 pages; Johannes Outzen Bjorn - 'Aerolithorum' from 1816, 88 pages; and D. Carl Von Schreibers - 'Meteorites of Stone And Metal' from 1820, 92 pages. Many of you know that D. Carl Von Schreibers was the name sake of Schreibersite. In addition, the house is full of art, the cellar is stocked with ancient wine (some over 200 years old) and the vault contains a collection of over 1000 thin sections. In this business I have learned that many of the most obsessed collectors become dealers in whatever they collect and trade. I believe that the most effective and compassionate dealer is one who understands the passion with which his or her clients covet their own collections. In my travels I have been honored with many visits to collector's homes. Many of these homes rival world class museums. I have clients with massive collections (in addition to meteorites) of race cars, antique surfboards, suits of armor, terra cotta soldiers from China, death masks, Egyptian sarcophagi, antique microscopes, Leonardo Da Vinci relics, art and instruments, human skeletons, mummies, rare oddities like two headed calves and two headed snakes, Maria pottery, Suiseki stones, magnets, antique telescopes, antique binoculars, insects. One client has a collection of Zulu Warrior shields from the Zulu/Boar Wars and another one owns the largest Pez dispenser collection in the World. There are some really amazing collections out there. Cheers, Edwin __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect?
Hello all, I have always been a collector and usually end up going off the deep end in various items. Stamp collectors use the term study to justify purchasing vast accounts of pretty much the same item. I guess I "study" a lot of things. Things that I am somewhat actively collecting include: War Letters, mostly WWII but have various letters from the Civil War up to Desert Storm. Have no current war letters if anyone has family members active...;^) US Stamps, have about 95% of all of commemoratives and defintives (and their major variations), a good share of the back of books and am running out of stamps that I don't have and are within a price I am willing to pay. Various other sub-collections, like Air Mail First Day Covers (FDC) and programs (preferred signed). US Coins, have about 95% of all of them and again, running out of ones that I don't have and are within a price I am willing to pay. Have not bought any for myself for about a year, mostly just rolls of proof coins and the like for ebay. PSA graded sport cards: Third party grading has always been a good thing, but now they have an online registry that allows you to compare your collections with others and compete for award certificates. Its a way to spend $10 on a card worth $0.25 if not graded. I also have a collection of about 1200 different Steve Young football cards, with about 100 different game used cards. Years ago I use to deal in cards and made about $100 a week as an early teenager which seemed like a lot more money then. Meteorites. Subcollections meteorite pamphlets, toys, books and publications. If anyone has any meteorite pamphlets or will be making at any time I would like one. Mad Magazine and Cracked Magazine Original Art...along with the related printing overlays and printing note cards, most of which are no longer done as Mad and Cracked are finished on computers now. Most purchased from the artist and usually for just about nothing. Space related items: Astronaut autographs and letters, NASA flown hardware. The strangest thing I bought along this line was one of the X-Prize space rockets.this taught me the valuable lesson I like to joke about, Space rockets do not fit through doorways. I have a quite a bit of minerals, fossils (most dinosaur) and petrified wood as well, but dont really actively collect these items. Clear Skies, Mark __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] What else do you collect?
Another packrat here. I've collected a little bit of everything (it seems like) over the years. Fossils-- especially ammonites and trilobites (I have an inordinate fondness of Flexicalymene sp. trilobites from around Ohio-- I have dozens of them) and large shark teeth. Other minerals to some extent. Banknotes and coins. DVDs and books. Photons (like someone else mentioned). Seashells. Etc, etc, etc. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect?
Hi, 1.) Vintage and handmade acoustic guitars. At the last census, the population figure was 52, a diverse society which includes guitars made entirely of metal and guitars made entirely of banjo (a few). Happiest to have found a good home is the personal guitar of the late George Rose, who played (in the day) with Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Benny Goodman, and lots of other cats. 2.) 16-, 32-, and 64-bit (1986-1995) Atari computers (14), software and devices (tons), 1600 floppy discs and ~100 old small hard drives. (What do you do with YOUR basement?) I was an Atari software developer for ten years; that's how The Atari Museum started. 3.) Books, books, books. Can't count that high. Maybe 4,000; maybe double that. Oldest book by publication: from 1620. Started saving books when I was seven. Lots of sub-sub-collections in there. Some would say too many. 4.) "Junk" of all kinds. I was also an antique dealer for ten years and always snatching up the odd find: silver, furniture, china, glass, old scientific equipment, Japanese art... OK, let's face it -- I'm not a "collector," just a packrat. I even sold meteorites (NWA 267) in my antique store (what's older than that?) Having just read Bill's recent post, all I can ask is: where were you when I was selling antiques? You sound like a one-man customer base! At one time or another, I have sold every item on that list of yours. 5.) Meteorites and tektites, of course... Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: "Gary K. Foote" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 6:11 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect? > As a neophyte collector of meteorites I have > amassed about $1K in specimens, all of which > I cherish dearly. I am learning about preservation > as some of my specimens are beginning > to show signs of scaling, kamacite ooze > and other such degradations. > > Interestingly enough, along the way I've also > become interested in terrestrial rocks, > fossils, impactites and the like. I was just wondering; > > What else does everyone collect? > > Gary > __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Lunar? Met 101 Long Rant
OK... a sanity check here. If it screams meteorwrong why list it in the collection of meteorites with the caption "Possible lunar???" Such speculation cloaked in "???" is a disservice to novices who happen upon the photo when Googling and use that caption to justify their meteorwrongs. Maybe it is just me, but when I see meteorwrongs casually listed in a list of valid meteorites I wonder what we are doing here. Suggesting that this is a meteorite is like putting the cart before the dead horse. Hinting it is possibly a rare lunar meteorite is something we collectors should stay far away from. It feeds into the Boggy Creek Vision Rock mindset. If one is serious about becoming a mentor for others they should master "Meteorite 101". There are many obvious contradictions in this example. This rock should never have gotten to first base as a meteorite candidate. I don't know what criterion this object was evaluated with but whatever they were, throw them away! 1. How many lunarites have chondrules?.Zero. Lunarites by definition don't have chondrules. 2. What do chondrules look like?...well... not like fossils and not like these. A student of meteorites should know what chondrules look like. They should also know on sight 10 items mistaken for chondrules. 3. What "anorthosite" properties was the friend referring to? Cleavage? hardness? Specific gravity? Or was it microscopic clays in this SANDSTONE(or so it appears)? 4. There is NO fusion(root word:fuse: aka melt) crust on this slice. Manganese /organic staining from being buried in acidic soil should not be mistaken for it. Hint: a grainy surface almost by definition can't show "flow features" This is a huge peeve of mine. So many wannabe Ebayers are advertising fusion crust where none exists that the myth is starting to take over. Just like chondrules: people read descriptions then try to adapt their rock to fit the description. Same with "fusion" crust claims. A black color doesn't fusion crust make! There is a pallasite on EBay right now that literally a rusty ball, but the seller assures buyers this is fusion crust. I hear all the time about fusion crusts on iron meteorites--ain't no such thing! Seems any wind worn NWA on EBay that isn't obviously fractured has fusion crust--NOT. --and next time any of us get coned into identifying someone's "meteorite" instead of giving them false hope just say NO! It is harder to say no but in the long run; People get mad at you when you tell them they don't have a meteorite even when you make them promise before hand to not get mad. I know I sound like a pedantically nagging purist insisting on "book learning" but I think we should strive for accuracy. We are no better than the Boggy Creek Emerald Meteorite Vision Rock crowd when we ignore the science in favor of the romance. Sincerely, Elton --- "Gary K. Foote" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Norbert. My first impression was the same as > yours. The porosity of the specimen > was my first clue. It does seem to have some > flow-like shape on one edge and there > appear to be something like chondrules in the > matrix, but beyond that it screams > meteorwrong to me too. > > Hi Gary, > I see actually nothing that would make me think > that this sample could be > of lunar origin. The overall texture, color, and > appearance doesn't even > hint to a meteoritic origin. Probably just another > terrestrial rock. > > Sorry. > > > All the best, > > Norbert Classen __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] What else do you collect?
Hi all, My collections remind me of the Johnny Cash song, I've been everywhere. Every time I acquire something new it sparks another collection. I collect everything. Antique bottles, jugs, decorated stoneware, spongeware, spatterware, advertising, toy soldiers, comics, sports cards, non-sports cards, playing cards, tin litho tobacco tags, porcelain signs, cast iron banks, dolls, tins, kitchenware, doorstops, prints, oil paintings, primitive furniture, deco furniture, all kinds of furniture, cap guns, old firecrackers, guns, swords, fishing equipment, postcards, tintypes, books, musical instruments, neon and advertising signs, clocks, posters, broadsides, toy trains, military items, marbles, paperweights, lamps, pottery of all types, straight razors, bookends, music boxes, newspaper headlines, railroad items, butter churns, pewter, cutlery, saltboxes, hats, vintage clothing, cookie jars, hatpins, beer steins, bottle openers, trivets, graniteware, coins, sterling silver, copperware, locks, kitchen gadgets. Just to name a few things. I also have a few meteorites. Bill __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] monomict vs.polymict
Hello Steve, Listoids, These are the terms describing the composition of meteorite breccias not just Eucrites. "Poly" means plural-- or many, and "mono" means single. In a monomict all the clasts are of the same type and class (i.e. Lithologies). Meaning they came from a single parent body. In a polymict it has more than two or more lithologies. Indicating some sort of collision and melding of material from different areas of the same parent or different parents. Technically, in my book, a Howardite, while being a regolith (i.e. asteroidal soil) is also a pollymict breccias. Elton --- steve arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello and good evening list.I have seen with many > eucrites that there is a polymict type and a > monomict > type.What are the differences? > > > > > > > steve arnold > > Steve R.Arnold,chicago,Ill,Usa!! > Collecting Meteorites since 06/19/1999!! > > > > > > Do you Yahoo!? > Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail > beta. > http://new.mail.yahoo.com > __ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Escaped ejecta from large impacts
Hi all - Re: martian and lunar meteorites I have been asked what percentage of material from a large impact will actually reach escape velocity for impacts on different bodies, and I am at a loss for any handy dandy quick reference. Help! good hunting, Ed Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Essexite Gabbro Max size
Good Question, Mark: Hap McSween author of Meteorites and their Parent Bodies and Department head at the UNIV of [EMAIL PROTECTED] did calculations for maximum and minimum sizes at launch that allowed a Martian meteorite to arrive on the ground. It had to be small enough to not flash melt at launch and large enough to completely ablate. A lot of assumptions as to ablation loss. Seems like the size of a grapefruit give or take for the upper limit. Lunar was a goose egg size. However, since He did calculations for both Mars and Moon and I've not read the book in 5 years, perhaps someone else can look it up. Either way I believe Zigami exceeded that size and We've at least one lunar that was larger. When Vision quest first came to the list I mentioned there were at east three things from the information at hand that disqualified the Vision Rock as a Martian meteorite without further analysis. The excessive size was one of them. No one bothered to ask so I figured I'd let it lie until it occurred to some critical thinker. Congratulations! Elton --- MARK BOSTICK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > An interesting observation on lunar meteorites is > that they are small. The largest around one kilo. Has anyone done any math on the size of lunar > meteorites that could make it to the earth? > > Clear Skies, > Mark Bostick __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] AD - Some Extra Antarctic Meteorite Books For Sale
I have some duplicates of rare Antarctic Meteorite titles available: 1. Photographic Catalog of the Selected Antarctic Meteorites, NIPR 1981 Full color red hardcover. One of the crown jewels of meteorite catalogs! $295 2. Catalog of Antarctic Meteorites 1977-1978, Smithsonian Contributions to Earth Sciences Number 23. $15 3. Field and Laboratory Investigations of Meteorites from Victoria Land, Antarctica. SCTES Number 26. $20 4. Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on Antarctic Meteorites No. 5, March 1992. $15 5. Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on Antarctic Meteorites No. 6, May 1993. $15 6. Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on Antarctic Meteorites No. 7, March 1994. $15 7. Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on Antarctic Meteorites No. 8, March 1995. $15 Shipping is extra. Go to http://www.astro-artifacts.com/Astroartifacts/NIPR.html if you need more detailed info on the NIPR books. Thanks for looking! Kind regards, Mike Bandli __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] What else do you collect?
In order: 1. Meteorites 2. Space Hardware 3. Guns 4. Guitars 5. Audiophile stuff - Valve Amps, Vinyl, etc. 6. Things you never knew existed... Kind regards, Mike Bandli www.Astro-Artifacts.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] monomict vs.polymict
steve arnold wrote: > I have seen with many eucrites that there is a polymict type and a > monomict > type.What are the differences? Dear Steve: May I recommend a very useful resource to you: "The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites" By O. Richard Norton Cambridge University Press First edition 2002 This excellent book will answer all your technical questions and then some. It has pictures too! Regards, Geoff N. www.aerolite.org __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect?
Hi List It's kinda fun to learn what people like and collect. I collect things, which the wife calls it "stuff". This is different from her sewing and dog sport items that fill the house since it gets put in boxes and containers which generally isn't seen by visitors. Some of the "stuff" I collect are: Meteorites and tektites. Rocks and fossils, Books, gots to have books...sci-fi and paleontology books mainly, although there are a few boxes of rock and gem and lapidary journal stashed away somewhere under sewing "stuff". Comics...bronze age to modern (because I can't afford to get the books I read as a kid in southern California which didn't get moved with the rest of my "stuff" and now resides in a landfill outside of Saugus or Newhall). I have a small coin and stamp collection as well. Mark Ferguson __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect?
Hi All, This is an interesting thread. In addition to meteorites, I collect books on meteorites, tektites, the manned space program, catholic prayer books, local history, and the sciences. I collect family history (genealogy), woodworking tools, guns, catholic rosaries and medals. If I had space and the appropriate budget I would also collect flown Apollo Program materials. Pat > > What else does everyone collect? > > > > Gary > > > > __ > > Meteorite-list mailing list > > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > > > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > > > > > > > Do you Yahoo!? > Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail > beta. > http://new.mail.yahoo.com > __ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Essexite Gabbro - Not Mars Meteorite
Hi Darren, In the words of one of the world's greatest minds ever: "Well, this is science,' replied the professor, 'the attempt of the human mind to understand everything around us, be it giant stellar galaxies, microscopic bacteria, or these elementary particles. It is interesting and exciting and that is why we are doing it." "But doesn't the development of science serve practical purposes by improving the comfort and well being of people?" "Of course it does, but this is only a secondary purpose. Do you think that the main purpose of music is to teach buglers to waken soldiers in the morning, to call them for meals, or to order them to go into battle? They say "curiosity kills the cat"; I say "Curiosity makes a scientist"." And with these words the professor wished Mr Tompkins a good night. - Original Message - From: "Darren Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 7:54 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Essexite Gabbro - Not Mars Meteorite > On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:30:01 -0500, you wrote: > >>geologist) while weathering met-list critical group-think. >>Congratulations, > > In defense of "critical group-think", the "critical group-thinkers" were > saying > that it isn't a meteorite, proving that it isn't a meteorite would in no > way > change the mind of the wackjob, and that Gary would be wasting his time if > he > thought that the wackjob would acknowledge or accept the results. Well, > guess > what? It isn't a meteorite, the wackjob's mind wasn't changed, and Gary > wasted > his time if he thought the wackjob would acknowledge or accept the > results. So > the "crital group-thinkers" were 100% spot-on accurate. > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280049934416 > > BTW, only slightly less wacky: > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140058962456 > __ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Essexite Gabbro - Not Mars Meteorite
Hello all again, It was just pointed out to me that the largest has 13.5kg. I guess we can count Botswana meteorites as meteorites...;^) http://www.meteoris.de/luna/list.html The majority due seem to come in the small size. Clear Skies, Mark __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] monomict vs.polymict
Hello and good evening list.I have seen with many eucrites that there is a polymict type and a monomict type.What are the differences? steve arnold Steve R.Arnold,chicago,Ill,Usa!! Collecting Meteorites since 06/19/1999!! Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Essexite Gabbro - Not Mars Meteorite
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:24:53 -0600, you wrote: >Hello all, > >An interesting observation on lunar meteorites is that they are small. The >largest around one kilo. Has anyone done any math on the size of lunar >meteorites that could make it to the earth? What about that super-secret 13 kilo one from Africa? __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Essexite Gabbro - Not Mars Meteorite
Hello all, An interesting observation on lunar meteorites is that they are small. The largest around one kilo. Has anyone done any math on the size of lunar meteorites that could make it to the earth? Clear Skies, Mark Bostick www.meteoritearticles.com www.kansasmeteorites.com www.imca.cc __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Essexite Gabbro - Not Mars Meteorite
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:30:01 -0500, you wrote: >geologist) while weathering met-list critical group-think. Congratulations, In defense of "critical group-think", the "critical group-thinkers" were saying that it isn't a meteorite, proving that it isn't a meteorite would in no way change the mind of the wackjob, and that Gary would be wasting his time if he thought that the wackjob would acknowledge or accept the results. Well, guess what? It isn't a meteorite, the wackjob's mind wasn't changed, and Gary wasted his time if he thought the wackjob would acknowledge or accept the results. So the "crital group-thinkers" were 100% spot-on accurate. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280049934416 BTW, only slightly less wacky: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140058962456 __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Sylacauga Meteorite in 1954 Struck Woman
Hi all - "lime green" - what is sylacuaga made of? good hunting, Ed --- Ron Baalke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/061130/meteorite.shtml > > [Photo] > The late Dr. Moody Jacobs in 1994 with a copy of the > Dec. 13, 1954, > issue of Life magazine, which featured a story about > the Sylacauga > meteorite. In the black-and-white photo on the > table, Jacobs points to > the large bruise on Ann Hodges' left hip after it > was struck by the rock. > Daily file photo by Daniel Giles > > A star fell on Sylacauga > '54 meteorite struck home, woman, changed lives > By M.J. Ellington > The Decatur Daily (Alabama) > November 30, 2006 > > Sylacauga residents old enough to remember a famous > meteorite strike > there 52 years ago may understand why Decatur-area > residents were so > curious about a lime-green object streaking across > the night sky Tuesday. > > People began calling 911 lines when the object > appeared at 5:28 Tuesday, > bright enough for residents of Morgan and Cullman > counties to wonder if > the object they saw was a plane crashing or the > result of an explosion. > > On today's date in 1954, Sylacauga residents and > others from as far away > as Tuscaloosa saw a strange object streaking across > the early afternoon > sky and heard noises they described as explosions or > loud booms. > > That afternoon, a Sylacauga-area woman who was not > feeling well was > asleep on her living room sofa. She woke up when an > 8½-pound object > crashed through her living room ceiling, bounced off > a console radio, > struck her left hip and bruised her left hand. > > The incident put 34-year-old Ann Elizabeth Hodges in > the history books > as the only documented case of a human struck by a > meteorite. It also > added former Decatur physician Moody Jacobs to the > history books as the > only doctor who ever treated a person struck by a > meteorite. > > Ann Hodges never fully recovered from the incident > that put a > grapefruit-sized bruise on her left hip and left > permanent emotional > scars. She died of kidney failure in 1972 at a > Sylacauga nursing home. > The 52-year-old woman's family buried her in Charity > Baptist Church > cemetery in Hazel Green. > > Dr. Jacobs was only a year out of medical school > when he treated Hodges > that day. Within a few years, he moved his medical > practice to Decatur > and lived in the city until his death in 2001. > > On Tuesday night, firefighters and police searched > Morgan and Cullman > counties for an airplane crash or other evidence to > explain the > mysterious sight in the sky. They found no fire, no > smoke, no trace of > the object that caused curious residents to make > calls to the emergency > number and The Daily. > > Experts speculate that the object was a meteoroid or > man-made space > junk. An object as small as a golf ball could > produce the reaction that > caused such curiosity among people in the area, > experts said. > > Imagine the atmosphere in Sylacauga in 1954, when > there was no Internet, > few televisions and longer time lags between news > reports. In that era, > people were anxious about atomic bombs, flying > saucers and aliens from > outer space. They were curious about how that > particular star fell on > Alabama. > > John C. Hall was custodian of the Hodges meteorite > during his years as > assistant director of the Alabama Museum of Natural > History at The > University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where the > object is on permanent > display. > > Though Hall retired from the museum, he continues to > research the Hodges > meteorite and a related incident involving a > fragment of the meteorite > that broke off and landed less than three miles > away. > > Hall believes that Ann Hodges, her husband, Eugene > Hulitt Hodges, and > the couple's landlady, Birdie Guy, were all victims > of the culture of > the times. > > The Hodgeses' rented, white-frame house on Oden's > Mill Road in the Oak > Grove community was across the road from the Comet > Drive-In Theater, > complete with a neon sign that showed a comet > streaking toward the heavens. > > Hall told a gathering at the Alabama Department of > Archives and History > that after years of research, his talks on the > meteorite have changed. > Instead of just telling a dramatic but quirky story > from Alabama > history, he tries to set the record straight about > the events. > > Hall believes that the continued media attention, > curiosity seekers and > dashed hopes about the initial financial potential > of the famous rock > added to Ann Hodges' problems. She finally gave the > object, then in use > as a doorstop, to the museum. > > Eugene Hodges was frustrated that first day by the > crowds at his home. > Hall said Hodges was also upset that police officers > and government > officials took away the meteorite without his > family's permission. > > Hodges worked with a lawyer who secured the > meteorite's return, but he > sa
Re: [meteorite-list] Essexite Gabbro - Not Mars Meteorite
Dear Steve and Gary, Listees, I had forgotten about Steve S.'s involvement in this case. I just wanted to express my appreciation to Gary for sharing this project with the list and having the iniciative to persevere to a gold standard collaborative conclusion. Steve Schoner's contributions to meteoritics are legendary and rightfully worthy of great respect. I to also make an extra plug for Gary. It's not every day a Newbee (at that time, anyway) on the list becomes so enthusiastic and does such a bang-up job, in the appropriate channels (earning him a thank you from an enthused geologist) while weathering met-list critical group-think. Congratulations, Gary, and thanks for sticking to your guns and letting many of us learn about this together with you. IMO this is science at its very best in a nutshell. The chase is over and the fact that the seller seemes delusional doesn't tarnish in the slightest the success and enjoyment from your Galilean project. As Steve points out, you just helped debunk a $33,000,000 apparent fraud! I'm thoroughly impressed by both of you and the page you put up was great. You might consider offering to the IMCA (via Ken Newton) a link to you, or cover your and Steve's great story. Best wishes, Doug - Original Message - From: "Steve Schoner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 6:42 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Essexite Gabbro - Not Mars Meteorite > To all, > > Before this guy posted his "mars meteorite" on eBay, he sent me a > fragment of it (sometime in 2002). Upon looking at it I came up with > exactly the same conclusion that Gary posted in his extensive tests. > > The only exception was I did not know the exact location from which > this erratic was transported from. But I was very clear with this > person that the rock in question was not a meteorite and was instead an > erratic which was transported by glaciers during the Ice Age. > > He was adamant that God had revealed in a vision that my assessment was > wrong-- he then went ahead and listed this thing for $33,000,000.00 on > eBay. (He has since dropped the asking price a bit) > > So, with "faith" on his side I doubt that anyone on earth can convince > him otherwise-- even if one took him to the mountain from which this > rock was transported and revealed to him the exact rock from which his > boulder originated. > > Steve Schoner/ AMS > IMCA #4470 > > > > [meteorite-list] Essexite Gabbro - Not Mars Meteorite > > Gary K. Foote > Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:06:26 -0800 > > Seems I posted the wrong URL for that 'mars meteorite' you keep seeing > on eBay. > Here's > the right one. > > http://www.meteorite-dealers.com/essexite/ > > Gary > > > > __ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] e-bay
Hello M.M. and welcome to the list,hope you enjoy your long stay.I have been getting some fake e-mails of ebay too and , of course. like you i delete after sending it to spoof at ebay or paypal whichever they are trying to mimic.Good luck and happy meteorites to you. Best Wishes;Herman Archer. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Send Your Name, Message to the Moo
Thanks Ron,i registered and hope to get used. Best Regards:Herman Archer. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Essexite Gabbro - Not Mars Meteorite
To all, Before this guy posted his "mars meteorite" on eBay, he sent me a fragment of it (sometime in 2002). Upon looking at it I came up with exactly the same conclusion that Gary posted in his extensive tests. The only exception was I did not know the exact location from which this erratic was transported from. But I was very clear with this person that the rock in question was not a meteorite and was instead an erratic which was transported by glaciers during the Ice Age. He was adamant that God had revealed in a vision that my assessment was wrong-- he then went ahead and listed this thing for $33,000,000.00 on eBay. (He has since dropped the asking price a bit) So, with "faith" on his side I doubt that anyone on earth can convince him otherwise-- even if one took him to the mountain from which this rock was transported and revealed to him the exact rock from which his boulder originated. Steve Schoner/ AMS IMCA #4470 [meteorite-list] Essexite Gabbro - Not Mars Meteorite Gary K. Foote Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:06:26 -0800 Seems I posted the wrong URL for that 'mars meteorite' you keep seeing on eBay. Here's the right one. http://www.meteorite-dealers.com/essexite/ Gary __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect?
I used to collect stamps, (in general), but since around 1980, I collect only stamps that are thematic to Astronomy and Space Exploration; I have a large collection of the Sky & Telescope magazine, since 1965 (some nºs are missing, unfortunately); I am also interested in books on Astronomy and in books related to both Portuguese and Spanish sea discoveries of the 15th and 16th Centuries; as well as ancient Maps; and military uniforms and badges; and minerals and fossils and of course, meteorites (not that many, yet...) - as against my wife's, who collects coins and tea-pots! José Campos Portugal - Original Message - From: "Marco Langbroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "meteorite list" Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 6:09 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect? > > At the moment I do not actively collect things, but besides meteorites I > have > the following collections: > > - books by W.E. Johns (I am member of the International Biggles > Association); > > - books on the exploration of New Guinea; > > - wartime propaganda books by the Dutch Government in Exile. > > I also have a bit of Asmat art & Asmat artifacts, but wouldn't dare to > call it a > collection (3 pieces, all inherited from my granddad). > > In a figurative sense, I collect asteroids (discovered a number of them). > > - Marco :-) > > - > Dr Marco Langbroek > Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > private website http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek > DMS website http://www.dmsweb.org > - > > __ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Confused
Welcome Scott Liston; This a great meteorite list and very informative.Sometimes some bickering but we all bicker sometimes.Hope you enjoy the list and meteorite collecting.i sure do. Good luck;Herman Archer. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] What else do you collect? AD Delete
Hello Gary; Thanks for asking"What else we collect".I collect terrestial rocks and oddities,artifacts ( surface finds ) and just plain old junk tools and such,preferrably hand made from wood and iron.But,of course,mostly meteorites. Best Regards;Herman Archer. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Carbon globules in meteorite may have seeded Earth
> Now, analysis of atomic isotopes shows that the globules could not have come > from Earth and must have formed in very cold conditions, possibly before the > Sun > was born. The research was led by Keiko Nakamura-Messenger of NASA's Johnson > Space Center in Houston, Texas, US. Keiko is one of the Stardust aerogel cutters. At a recent workshop she mentioned this research to me. Also, asteroid 7862 Keikonakamura was recently named in her honor. Ron Baalke __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] e-bay
--- "m.mackintosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only small problem is that I got a 'fake' email from E-Bay today, > which I deleated as fast as possible !!! You will find that these will be fairly common. I get a couple a week (sometimes more) from either eBay or PayPal. Just delete immediately unless you know that either you have bid on an item, or just made a payment via PayPal. Don __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Chladni - Chladniite - Chladni's Birthday - Chladni's Heirs
McCOY T.J. et al. (1994) Chladniite, Na2CaMg7(Po4)6: A new mineral from the Carlton IIICD iron meteorite (Am. Mineral. 79, 375-380). McCOY T.J. et al. (1993) Chladniite: A new mineral honoring the father of METEORITICS (Meteoritics 28-3, 1993, A394): Na2CaMg7(Po4)6 Chladniite is named for Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni (1756-1827), who is widely regarded as the "Father of Meteoritics." After his initial training as a lawyer, Chladni turned his attention to science, particularly problems in acoustics. He was not, however, able to obtain a permanent position and embarked upon the life of a nomad, traveling among the great cities of Europe lecturing about acoustics. During these travels, he eventually gained an interest in meteoritics. It was Chladni's pioneering book of 1794 that, for the first time, presented strong evidence for an extraterrestrial origin of meteoritic stones and irons. In addition, Chladni argued that meteorites must have been the building blocks of all planets and argued that a large iron core must exist inside the Earth. During his extensive travels, Chladni also established a meteorite collection that can still be seen at Humboldt University in Berlin. It is appropriate that a mineral be named in his honor as we approach the 200th anniversary of the publication of his monu- mental work. Best wishes, Bernd __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Carbon globules in meteorite may have seeded Earth life
Carbon globules in meteorite may have seeded Earth life * 19:00 30 November 2006 * NewScientist.com news service * David Shiga Life on Earth may have started with the help of tiny hollow spheres that formed in the cold depths of space, a new study suggests. The analysis of carbon bubbles found in a meteorite shows they are not Earth contaminants and must have formed in temperatures near absolute zero. The bubbles, called globules, were discovered in 2002 in pieces of a meteorite that had landed on the frozen surface of Tagish Lake in British Columbia, Canada, in 2000 (see Hydrocarbon bubbles discovered in meteorite). Although the meteorite is a fragile type called a carbonaceous chondrite, many pieces of it have been remarkably well preserved because they were collected as early as a week after landing on Earth, so did not have much time to weather. Researchers were excited to find the globules because they could have provided the raw organic chemicals needed for life as well as protective pockets to foster early organisms. But despite the relatively pristine nature of the meteorite fragments, there was no proof that the globules were originally present in the meteorite, and were not the result of Earthly contamination. Now, analysis of atomic isotopes shows that the globules could not have come from Earth and must have formed in very cold conditions, possibly before the Sun was born. The research was led by Keiko Nakamura-Messenger of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, US. Cold gas cloud The globules are enriched in heavy forms of hydrogen and nitrogen, called deuterium and nitrogen-15, respectively, ruling out their formation on Earth. The relative amounts of these isotopes is characteristic of formation in a very cold environment: between 10 and 20 Kelvin above absolute zero. This means that the globules may predate our Sun, since temperatures like these would have prevailed in the cold cloud of gas from which our Sun formed and ignited. Alternatively, the globules might have formed after the Sun but while the planets were still developing. The right temperatures would also have existed in the outer reaches of the developing solar system where the comets are thought to have formed. Intriguingly, comets are known to contain particles of organic material of roughly the same size, although the shape of these particles is not known. Membrane-like structures Either way, the globules are extremely old, says team member Scott Messenger, also of the Johnson Space Center. "We're looking at the original structures of organic objects that formed long before the Earth formed," he told New Scientist. Nakamura-Messenger's team says the globules could have been important for the origin of life by providing the raw materials and membrane-like structures needed. Some scientists think that the presence of some sort of container that could separate an organism's internal chemistry from its environment was a crucial stage in the evolution of life. "It's sort of reminiscent of membrane type structures," agrees Larry Nittler, at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington DC, US. But as for whether the structures could have kick-started life on Earth, "I think thats highly speculative at this point," he says. Journal reference: Science (vol 314, p 1439) __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] e-bay
Dear List, I would like to say how grateful I am for all the interesting emails on this site. I am very much a beginner in collecting minerals, some crystals, local stones and five meteorites, which I love ! This site has given me the opportunity to learn a lot and I am very happy with it. The only small problem is that I got a 'fake' email from E-Bay today, which I deleated as fast as possible !!! With greetings, MM __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect?
I started collecting stamps and seashells when I was a small kid. Then when I was 12 a friend of my father (a micromounter of minerals) gave me my first fossils and minerals. I was amazed with the fossil seashells and ammonites, as one of my most loved seashells were the nautilus. For several years fossils were my main interest, then I turned to both minerals and fossils. I also like archeology. For the last 20 years Ive been trying to get some representative items of worldwide different cultures. And about 12 years ago I discovered the meteorites. My seashell collection is still at my parents house, but did not add anything in the last 25 years. Stamps collecting was dropped several years ago (except for some related with minerals, fossils, meteorites and mineral collecting/deposits/mining I like). I have a cabinet with about 300 archealogy pieces (rarely add something new here). And now my three main collecting areas are: Minerals, Fossils and Meteorites Lets start with Minerals: I have over 11000 Micromounts with about 2500 different species, a fluorescent collection of 300 specimens with over 150 different minerals, and another 2000 specimens displayed in 12 cabinets including one with about 150 different pseudomorphs. I especially like Sulfides, Fluorites and the Phosphate / Arseniante / Vanadate group. About fossils, I have 7 cabinets with over 600 fossils, and lots of drawers, totaling about 1500 more fossil remains, especially cephalopods (amonites, nautilus, etc). And finally my most recent collection: Meteorites. In the beginning they were included in my mineral collection, and about 6 years ago I start building a separated collection which now consist of about 340 meteorites, with over 300 different ones including 100 different falls and 100 different not sahara/dag/nwa finds. I have them in 3 cabinets in a humidity controlled room. Eduardo > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary > K. > Foote > Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 7:11 PM > To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > Subject: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect? > > As a neophyte collector of meteorites I have amassed about $1K in > specimens, > all of which > I cherish dearly. I am learning about preservation as some of my > specimens > are beginning > to show signs of scaling, kamacite ooze and other such degradations. > > Interestingly enough, along the way I've also become interested in > terrestrial rocks, > fossils, impactites and the like. I was just wondering; > > What else does everyone collect? > > Gary > > __ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > > > > __ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect?
At the moment I do not actively collect things, but besides meteorites I have the following collections: - books by W.E. Johns (I am member of the International Biggles Association); - books on the exploration of New Guinea; - wartime propaganda books by the Dutch Government in Exile. I also have a bit of Asmat art & Asmat artifacts, but wouldn't dare to call it a collection (3 pieces, all inherited from my granddad). In a figurative sense, I collect asteroids (discovered a number of them). - Marco :-) - Dr Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] private website http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek DMS website http://www.dmsweb.org - __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Back home after 3 week "vacation?
Anyone who has been looking for me, I am finally home. Ebay will be back up and running in a day or so. Mike Farmer Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Happy Birthday, Ernst Florens Friedrich!
> > Just noted that today is Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni's 250. birthday. > :-) > > Cheers, Herbert Wow, so then did I hear that Chladni's Heirs have tooday 250% discount on all meterial ? ;D -[ MARCIN CIMALA ]-[ I.M.C.A.#3667 ]- http://www.Meteoryt.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.PolandMET.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.Gao-Guenie.com GSM +48(607)535 195 [ Member of Polish Meteoritical Society ] __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect?
7. Experience ;-) Best, Bernd I like Bernd's answer best :), but for my own part in addition, 1. Bookmarks from around the world, although by necessity, mostly from the US 2. Semiprecious gems; I like the more obscure stones that people rarely hear about. How many of you have ever heard of sphene? I also like to find terrestrial examples of meteorite minerals. 3. Supplies for RPGs, like miniature figures and dice. For some reason, these always seem to get abused and lost... 4. Of course, meteorites! TRacy Latimer _ Get the latest Windows Live Messenger 8.1 Beta version. Join now. http://ideas.live.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Send Your Name, Message to the Moon on Japan's SELENE Spacecraft
http://www.jaxa.jp/pr/event/selene/index_e.html -- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency -- Deliver Your Message to the Moon ~SELENE "WISH UPON THE MOON" Campaign~ November 30, 2006 (JST) Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is scheduled to launch the Selenological and Engineering Explorer (or Moon explorer) "SELENE" by an H-IIA Launch Vehicle in the summer of 2007. The major objective of the SELENE mission is to acquire scientific data to answer key questions on the Moon's origin and evolution. It is the first fully-fledged lunar exploration project since the Apollo program. As we would like to stir everybody's interest in the Moon as well as in the SELENE project, we decided to launch the "WISH UPON THE MOON" campaign. We are asking you to write your name and message to deliver them to the Moon by etching them on a sheet and having it onboard the SELENE. The SELENE will be injected into the Moon's orbit about one month after its launch. This is a worldwide campaign from Japan and the United States sponsored by JAXA in cooperation with The Planetary Society of Japan and The Planetary Society of the U.S.A. 1. To apply Please send us your name and message within the following letter limits. In Japanese: Name should be within 10 characters, and the message should be within 20 characters. In English: Name should be within 10 letters, and the message should be within 40 letters. The name and message will be etched on a sheet and it will be loaded near the access panel or the adaptor truss of the SELENE. (Please refer to the image below for the sheet and onboard locations.) The SELENE is currently scheduled to be launched in the summer of 2007. * Please understand that the limits for letters are set in order to accept names and messages from as many people as possible. * Please be aware that your message may be published on the JAXA website or released to the press without your permission for the purpose of this campaign's public relations activities. 2. When to apply Between December 1 (Fri), 2006, through January 31 (Wed), 2007 (If applying by postcard, the postmark date must be before Jan. 31, 2007.) 3. How to apply (1) Internet Please apply via the following site. In Japanese: http://www.jaxa.jp/pr/event/selene/index_j.html In English: http://www.jaxa.jp/pr/event/selene/index_e.html The English site will be accessible from 4:00 a.m. Japan Standard Time (or 11:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time in the U.S.) on December 2 (Sat), 2006. (2) Reply-paid postcard(Japanese Only) Please write the following on the postcard. - Name and message that will be onboard the SELENE, your address, name, age, gender, and telephone number. - On the reply card, your zip code, address, and name. (We will send you back the reply side as confirmation.) - The postcard can be sent to: SELENE "WISH UPON THE MOON" Campaign Office Japan Space Forum 2-2-1, Shin Otemachi Bldg. 7F Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-0004, Japan * Your personal information will be used solely for the campaign under JAXA control. Except for cases where its disclosure is required under applicable laws and regulations, we will disclose your personal information only to campaign-related parties, and NOT to any third party without your permission. 4. For inquiries: Japan Space Forum SELENE "WISH UPON THE MOON" Campaign Secretariat Address: 2-2-1, Shin Otemachi Bldg. 7F, Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-004, Japan Tel: +81-3-5200-1309 (between 9:15 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. on weekdays Japan Standard Time) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sheet and Onboard Locations http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2006/11/20061130_selene_e.html#at01 __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Sylacauga Meteorite in 1954 Struck Woman
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/061130/meteorite.shtml [Photo] The late Dr. Moody Jacobs in 1994 with a copy of the Dec. 13, 1954, issue of Life magazine, which featured a story about the Sylacauga meteorite. In the black-and-white photo on the table, Jacobs points to the large bruise on Ann Hodges' left hip after it was struck by the rock. Daily file photo by Daniel Giles A star fell on Sylacauga '54 meteorite struck home, woman, changed lives By M.J. Ellington The Decatur Daily (Alabama) November 30, 2006 Sylacauga residents old enough to remember a famous meteorite strike there 52 years ago may understand why Decatur-area residents were so curious about a lime-green object streaking across the night sky Tuesday. People began calling 911 lines when the object appeared at 5:28 Tuesday, bright enough for residents of Morgan and Cullman counties to wonder if the object they saw was a plane crashing or the result of an explosion. On today's date in 1954, Sylacauga residents and others from as far away as Tuscaloosa saw a strange object streaking across the early afternoon sky and heard noises they described as explosions or loud booms. That afternoon, a Sylacauga-area woman who was not feeling well was asleep on her living room sofa. She woke up when an 8½-pound object crashed through her living room ceiling, bounced off a console radio, struck her left hip and bruised her left hand. The incident put 34-year-old Ann Elizabeth Hodges in the history books as the only documented case of a human struck by a meteorite. It also added former Decatur physician Moody Jacobs to the history books as the only doctor who ever treated a person struck by a meteorite. Ann Hodges never fully recovered from the incident that put a grapefruit-sized bruise on her left hip and left permanent emotional scars. She died of kidney failure in 1972 at a Sylacauga nursing home. The 52-year-old woman's family buried her in Charity Baptist Church cemetery in Hazel Green. Dr. Jacobs was only a year out of medical school when he treated Hodges that day. Within a few years, he moved his medical practice to Decatur and lived in the city until his death in 2001. On Tuesday night, firefighters and police searched Morgan and Cullman counties for an airplane crash or other evidence to explain the mysterious sight in the sky. They found no fire, no smoke, no trace of the object that caused curious residents to make calls to the emergency number and The Daily. Experts speculate that the object was a meteoroid or man-made space junk. An object as small as a golf ball could produce the reaction that caused such curiosity among people in the area, experts said. Imagine the atmosphere in Sylacauga in 1954, when there was no Internet, few televisions and longer time lags between news reports. In that era, people were anxious about atomic bombs, flying saucers and aliens from outer space. They were curious about how that particular star fell on Alabama. John C. Hall was custodian of the Hodges meteorite during his years as assistant director of the Alabama Museum of Natural History at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where the object is on permanent display. Though Hall retired from the museum, he continues to research the Hodges meteorite and a related incident involving a fragment of the meteorite that broke off and landed less than three miles away. Hall believes that Ann Hodges, her husband, Eugene Hulitt Hodges, and the couple's landlady, Birdie Guy, were all victims of the culture of the times. The Hodgeses' rented, white-frame house on Oden's Mill Road in the Oak Grove community was across the road from the Comet Drive-In Theater, complete with a neon sign that showed a comet streaking toward the heavens. Hall told a gathering at the Alabama Department of Archives and History that after years of research, his talks on the meteorite have changed. Instead of just telling a dramatic but quirky story from Alabama history, he tries to set the record straight about the events. Hall believes that the continued media attention, curiosity seekers and dashed hopes about the initial financial potential of the famous rock added to Ann Hodges' problems. She finally gave the object, then in use as a doorstop, to the museum. Eugene Hodges was frustrated that first day by the crowds at his home. Hall said Hodges was also upset that police officers and government officials took away the meteorite without his family's permission. Hodges worked with a lawyer who secured the meteorite's return, but he saw the potential for fortune fade in legal battles over its ownership. The Hodgeses divorced in 1964. Eugene Hodges, now past 80, still lives in Central Alabama. Court battle over rock Landlady Birdie Guy wanted the hole in the roof of her house repaired and believed as property owner the meteorite belonged to her. She fought the Hodgeses in court and won in multiple appeals. Hall said Guy came across negatively in news
Re: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect?
I collect cameras, over 300 now, minerals, fluorescent minerals, impactites and books on all subjects relating to my collections and hobbies. My meteoritic library is now 57 volumes. Astronomy books have overwhelmed the bookcase that is dedicated to that topic. Dan Wray - Original Message - From: "Gary K. Foote" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 6:11 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect? > Mike - I've always been a knife freak and have looked at the meteorite knives on ebay > with some interest. I haven't bought one yet, but I likely will soon. I also collect > cabs in many varieties. My favorite is turquoise, but lots of other things interest me. > I have a Brazilian Geode Enhydro that is just fantastic. I also have samples of pure > silica, petrified wood, impactites of many kinds, amber, volcanic melts and more. I find > my collection is more satisfying to me if it is diverse. Meteorites led me oto this path > but it gets wider every day. > > ary > > On 29 Nov 2006 at 16:52, Mike Miller wrote: > > > > > Hello Gary and all. I started with meteorites that I had found and then I started tobuy > > some and so on. My collecting has now spilled over into Gold, some of which I have found. > > But I have also bought and traded for some of it. Then I found myself acquiring knives, it > > started with a Gibeon knife then a Campo knife. Now I have a couple regular knives in my > > display cabinet. Then I noticed some really cool cabs made from interesting rocks and I > > have started a small collection of different cabs and rock specimens. I also do a lot of > > metal detecting so I find some interesting junk (I call them treasures) so I also have a > > collection of rusty cans nails and other interesting items that have been dug up or found > > in old junk piles. I even have a Samurai sword, but they are way too expensive to collect > > very many, 1 sword from the mid 1700's costs 6k ouch! So I guess I love to collect and > > meteorites just got me started! > > > > Mike Miller Po Box 314 Gerber Ca 96035 > > www.meteoritefinder.com > > 530-384-1598 > > > > __ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Team Begins Releasing a Flood of MarsImages Over The Internet
These HIRISE pics are as advertized!! Jerry Flaherty - Original Message - From: "Ron Baalke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Meteorite Mailing List" Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 1:55 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Team Begins Releasing a Flood of MarsImages Over The Internet HiRISE TEAM BEGINS RELEASING A FLOOD OF MARS IMAGES OVER THE INTERNET (From Lori Stiles, University Communications, 520-626-4402) - Wednesday, November 29, 2006 Contact information, Web links, photo links and captions at the end The University of Arizona-based team that operates the high-resolution camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, in conjunction with NASA, is releasing the first of what will be a non-stop flood of incredibly detailed Mars images taken during the spacecraft's two-year primary science mission. The High Resolution Science Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) camera took almost 100 images during the first two weeks of its main science mission, which began Nov. 7. "There's no Earth analog for some places we see, while other places look remarkably like Earth," said Professor Alfred S. McEwen of UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, HiRISE principal investigator. "The details we're seeing are just fantastic." The HiRISE team is posting about 15 of the new large images on the HiRISE Website http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ today. Last week, they added more than a dozen new Mars images, as well as reprocessed images, taken from low orbit during test imaging in early October. The team plans to release the latest HiRISE images on their Website every Wednesday. The views released today show seemingly endless fields of sand dunes, including some carved by gullies that possibly form when carbon dioxide or water frost in the dunes is heated by sunlight, triggering avalanches of flowing sand. Other HiRISE images show layered arid terrains that resemble landscapes protected as national parks on our own planet, and a fossil delta inside a crater that once held a lake. HiRISE images resolve meter-sized blocks within the delta channel that may be blocks of sand and gravel carried along as the channels eroded. HiRISE images also capture numerous impact craters, including Endurance crater that NASA's Opportunity rover explored for ten months of its now nearly 3-year mission. Details visible in the HiRISE image of Opportunity's landing site show the parachute lying on the Martian surface, Opportunity's heat shield at a different location, and the lander itself on the floor of the small impact crater where the airbag came to a stop. Other images show layered polar terrains that likely record Martian climate changes, and also polygon-patterned northern plains regions that are among candidate landing sites for the Phoenix Lander spacecraft in 2008. "You see stuff at this level of detail and you want to see more," said Candy Hansen of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a HiRISE co-investigator who has helped lead imaging operations at the HiRISE Operations Center (HiROC) during the first weeks of the science mission this month. "These images are at a geologist's scale," Hansen said. "A geologist could hike the terrain seen in the width of one of our images, six kilometers, in a day. These images bring the planet down to scales that match our own human level of experience, and that's a big help with interpretation." The HiRISE camera takes images of 3.5-mile-wide (6 kilometer) swaths as the orbiter flies at about 7,800 mph between 155 and 196 miles (250 to 316 km) above the planet. The camera resolves geologic features as small as 40 inches across. "It's been a constant race to look at all these images while we're planning our future targets," McEwen said. "But it's important to examine the data so we can learn how to use the best possible settings, and make decisions about which targets we'll need to get in stereo or color." HiRISE began a new imaging cycle last week (Nov. 19) and begins another next week (Dec. 3). Over the next couple of weeks, the camera is targeting "all the easy-to-find hardware on Mars," McEwen said. That includes NASA's rover Spirit, the Viking 1 and Viking 2 landers, and Mars Pathfinder. McEwen has been working a 12-hour day, seven days a week this month. The rest of the team has been clocking major overtime, too. "We're trying not to get people too burned out, but we have to keep up. We're going to get about a hundred new images every two weeks without a break," McEwen said. "The spacecraft doesn't take Thanksgiving or Christmas off." Information about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is online at http://www.nasa.gov/mro. The mission is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, is the prime contractor and built the
Re: [meteorite-list] Essexite Gabbro - Not Mars Meteorite
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:05:39 -0500, you wrote: >Seems I posted the wrong URL for that 'mars meteorite' you keep seeing on >eBay. Here's >the right one. > >http://www.meteorite-dealers.com/essexite/ Thanks for posting that. I can see how well it convinced the wackjob (just check ebay). __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Happy ***250th*** Birthday, Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni !!! (AD)
Hola list, it isn't only Chladni's Birthday, it is his 250th Birthday!! Time to tell a little bit more about this ingenious and venturous hero! Chladni was born on 30th of November 1756 in Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt. He grew up in relatively narrow circumstance, his father was dean of the local faculty of laws, rigorously educating him for a safe life-time job as jurist. Thus, despite his affinity to natural sciences he absolved a study of laws and philosophy. Shortly after his exams his father died and Chladni came to a plucky decision and sat at nought the comfort perspective to work as jurist and planned to dedicate his life to science. He jobbed in giving lectures in science and mathematics at the university of Wittenberg, but because the payments were meager, nor any regular employment in sight, he set his mind on inventing and discovering something new and chose for that the field of acoustics as he had also a foible for music, although he hadn't any lessons in music before he was 19. Immediately as it should be with a genius he found his famous figures of sound and invented several new musical instruments. In 1787 he published his first important work: "Discoveries about the Theory of Sound". He improved his new instrument, the Euphone, until it was ready for his purposes, to accentuate his planned lectures for his Road Show. He bought a cart et voila then he was on the road for the rest of his life. He travelled through whole Europe, giving cycles of lectures for the bread and butter, maintained his studies in hunting for rare scientific works in the local libraries and corresponded with and met the great savants of these times like Humboldt, Goethe, Lichtenberg, Schreibers, Laplace... His best guest performances he had once in 1817 in Hamburg, where he acted out in 3 cycles a 12 lectures and 1808 when he lectured to Napoleon, who rewarded him with 6000 Francs (very fair, because later during the liberation wars, his little home near Wittenberg planned for retirement burned down). Chladni, if you ask a physicist today, is known as the pioneer and father of modern acoustics and not so much because of the discovery about the true nature of meteorites and indeed the acoustics were always Chladni's main occupation. In 1802 he published his epoch making book "Die Akustik", Napoleon's cash he used for publishing an enlarged edition in French in 1809. The first contact with the ideas about meteorites he had in 1793, when he met Lichtenberg. It took only one year then, until Chladni published his for us so famous treaty: "Über den Urpsrung der von Pallas gefundenen und anderer ihr ähnlicher Eisenmassen". (About the Origin of the Pallas-iron and similar masses). His theory about the extraterrestrial origin of the meteorites stayed disregarded until the large shower of L'Aigle in 1803. Nevertheless meteorites were his obsession, on his travels he assembled a collection of meteorites in buying, swapping and by donations and started to collect all reports about fireballs, falls and stones in the libraries of the cities, he was coming through. In the period from 1816 to 1819 he planned his routes so, that he was able to visit as much meteorites as possible and from 1816 on, meteorites, together with the demonstrative material from his collection, were a topic in his popular lectures. Result of his researches was his comprehensive book (434pages) of 1819: "Über Feuermeteore und über die mit denselben herabgefallenen Massen". (About the fiery meteors and the masses which felt with them (or so)). All his life long Chladni was yearning for a regular employment and although he had prominent interceders, never such a position was grated to him, so that he had to carry on with his burdensome life as a scientific nomad. At the age of 70 years, he died on 3rd of April 1827 on the road in a motel in Wroclaw. The exact place of his grave is forgotten. By will Chladni disposed of his meteorite collection to the museum in Berlin, where today the largest part of it rots somewhere in some drawers in stack. Ooops, not to be unfair - I strongly hope, that the museum opened a special exhibition for Chladni's 250th Birthday, but can't find nothing in the internet. (So if you haven't a special Chladni Show there, shame on you!) Hey Mark, good idea, let's make your wishes come true! Chladni was the first one, who popularized meteorites to a broad audience. So for his birthday we crafted 2 dozens++ more of the fine Chladni Cases with our fresh granulitic NWA 4483 Moon. For collectors with small budgets. Mainly we tinkered those of size S, today for the birthday price is not 45$ per piece but 35$. Aaand we made some of size XS for 15$ only, so that really everyone could afford a piece of Moon (as long as stock lasts, I think they are also nice for Christmas presents). Airmail shipment to USA 3$, Europe & Germany 2.5$. You find an example for the boxes here: http://www.chladnis-heirs.com/special.html We made different desig
Re: [meteorite-list] Met Taza for sell
Hi List, I have best Taza quality meteorite for sell, Good shape, fusion crust, natural patina... http://search.stores.ebay.fr/Internet-Art_taza_W0QQfciZQ2d1QQfclZ4QQfsnZInternetQ20ArtQQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1QQftsZ2QQsaselZ208294925QQsofpZ0 Have a look... Free shipping Worldwide on simple request. Sincerely to all, Arnaud Valz-Blin IMCA #2093 --- E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. 06 13 24 09 84 --- __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect?
shark teeth, river arrowheads, naSTAR pins. i will be gradually switching over to yahoo mail (it has 100 FREE megs of storage). please cc to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: David Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.comSubject: Re: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect?Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 05:03:31 -0800 (PST)>>Along with meteorites, I collect art. Anita mentioned Jerry Armstrong,>I have a print of his "Impact of Comey Shoemaker-Levy 9" that is signed>by David Levy and I also have the original of his "The Great Allende>Fall" as seen on Michael Blood's Hammers page. My wife also has her>"rock" collection, but her's comes from jewelry stores.David Hardy>>>- Original Message >From: Anita D. Westlake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 7:36:17 AM>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect?>>I started out 20 years ago collecting "PLR's" (Pretty Little Rocks). Then I>graduated to fluorite. I thought it was the coolest thing on the planet.>>Then I discovered calcite. That was all I was ever going to collect. Nothing>else could turn my head. Full steam ahead for calcite!>>The more I learned, the more I collected. Soon my house was filling up with>rocks of all sizes, shapes and structures. So much for only collecting>calcite! Then, to my dismay, someone showed me a fossil. Now I was in full>collecting fever for fossils.>>And then, about 4 years ago, Jerry Armstrong showed me an Allende meteorite,>and everything else pales in comparison!>>As an added bonus, my specimens also collect dust. Tons of it.>>Anita>>-Original Message->From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary K.>Foote>Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 7:11 PM>To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>Subject: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect?>>As a neophyte collector of meteorites I have amassed about $1K in specimens,>all of which>I cherish dearly. I am learning about preservation as some of my specimens>are beginning>to show signs of scaling, kamacite ooze and other such degradations.>>Interestingly enough, along the way I've also become interested in>terrestrial rocks,>fossils, impactites and the like. I was just wondering;>>What else does everyone collect?>>Gary>>__>Meteorite-list mailing list>Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list>__>Meteorite-list mailing list>Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list>>>>Do you Yahoo!?>Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta.>http://new.mail.yahoo.com>__>Meteorite-list mailing list>Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Get the latest Windows Live Messenger 8.1 Beta version. Join now. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect?
Along with meteorites, I collect art. Anita mentioned Jerry Armstrong, I have a print of his "Impact of Comey Shoemaker-Levy 9" that is signed by David Levy and I also have the original of his "The Great Allende Fall" as seen on Michael Blood's Hammers page. My wife also has her "rock" collection, but her's comes from jewelry stores. David Hardy - Original Message From: Anita D. Westlake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 7:36:17 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect? I started out 20 years ago collecting "PLR's" (Pretty Little Rocks). Then I graduated to fluorite. I thought it was the coolest thing on the planet. Then I discovered calcite. That was all I was ever going to collect. Nothing else could turn my head. Full steam ahead for calcite! The more I learned, the more I collected. Soon my house was filling up with rocks of all sizes, shapes and structures. So much for only collecting calcite! Then, to my dismay, someone showed me a fossil. Now I was in full collecting fever for fossils. And then, about 4 years ago, Jerry Armstrong showed me an Allende meteorite, and everything else pales in comparison! As an added bonus, my specimens also collect dust. Tons of it. Anita -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary K. Foote Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 7:11 PM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect? As a neophyte collector of meteorites I have amassed about $1K in specimens, all of which I cherish dearly. I am learning about preservation as some of my specimens are beginning to show signs of scaling, kamacite ooze and other such degradations. Interestingly enough, along the way I've also become interested in terrestrial rocks, fossils, impactites and the like. I was just wondering; What else does everyone collect? Gary __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] cleaned vs.as is S.A.'s
Good morning list.It seems for me at least,to keep posts pertaining to non ad's,to just meteorite related items.Ok here goes.After the sikote-alin fall,with all the pieces that fell,some 50,000 KG,did alot of the pieces fall with the black shine,or did the come with a different color?I have only seen the nice black non rust type.And I will not even to take into account the shrapnal ones.I would like to know.I just got a 1.132 kilo piece and it is a real beauty. steve arnold Steve R.Arnold,chicago,Ill,Usa!! Collecting Meteorites since 06/19/1999!! Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] AD - Ebay Auctions Ending Tonight
Good Morning All.. I have auctions ending tonight catchafallingstar.com. Most started at 99 Cents!!!: http://members.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=catchafallingstar.com MINT 1998 Lapis Magazine with Sikhote-alin Article and LOTS of old photos. LAST ONE that I have for sale: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200050345118 An ORIENTED Sikhote-alin with a great roll over rim: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200047332381 An Oriented Sikhote-alin with a great roll over rim and lots of flow lines: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200049787076 LUNAR and MARS all with very favorable surface to weight ratio: NWA 482: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200047393181 NWA 2977: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200047408420 DAG 476: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200047410783 Full recap with photos on Paul and Jim's website: http://www.meteorite.com/meteorites/ebay/catch_a_falling_star_meteorites.htm Thanks for looking Jim Strope 421 Fourth Street Glen Dale, WV 26038 http://www.catchafallingstar.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect?
I started out 20 years ago collecting "PLR's" (Pretty Little Rocks). Then I graduated to fluorite. I thought it was the coolest thing on the planet. Then I discovered calcite. That was all I was ever going to collect. Nothing else could turn my head. Full steam ahead for calcite! The more I learned, the more I collected. Soon my house was filling up with rocks of all sizes, shapes and structures. So much for only collecting calcite! Then, to my dismay, someone showed me a fossil. Now I was in full collecting fever for fossils. And then, about 4 years ago, Jerry Armstrong showed me an Allende meteorite, and everything else pales in comparison! As an added bonus, my specimens also collect dust. Tons of it. Anita -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary K. Foote Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 7:11 PM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect? As a neophyte collector of meteorites I have amassed about $1K in specimens, all of which I cherish dearly. I am learning about preservation as some of my specimens are beginning to show signs of scaling, kamacite ooze and other such degradations. Interestingly enough, along the way I've also become interested in terrestrial rocks, fossils, impactites and the like. I was just wondering; What else does everyone collect? Gary __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Essexite Gabbro - Not Mars Meteorite
Seems I posted the wrong URL for that 'mars meteorite' you keep seeing on eBay. Here's the right one. http://www.meteorite-dealers.com/essexite/ Gary __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Happy Birthday, Ernst Florens Friedrich!
Let's hope they all get drunk and sell off some wonderful Lunar slices by mistake :) lol. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthias Bärmann Sent: 30 November 2006 11:39 To: Herbert Raab; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Happy Birthday, Ernst Florens Friedrich! That's why we'll wait invain for postings of the Heirs today. Be sure that they are involved in an enormous party and don't expect them to post here again before Sunday or so. Matthias - Original Message - From: "Herbert Raab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 10:47 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Happy Birthday, Ernst Florens Friedrich! > > Just noted that today is Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni's 250. birthday. > :-) > > Cheers, Herbert > > > > --- > Versendet durch aonWebmail (webmail.aon.at) > __ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Happy Birthday, Ernst Florens Friedrich!
That's why we'll wait invain for postings of the Heirs today. Be sure that they are involved in an enormous party and don't expect them to post here again before Sunday or so. Matthias - Original Message - From: "Herbert Raab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 10:47 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Happy Birthday, Ernst Florens Friedrich! > > Just noted that today is Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni's 250. birthday. > :-) > > Cheers, Herbert > > > > --- > Versendet durch aonWebmail (webmail.aon.at) > __ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect?
Gary asked: "What else does everyone collect?" 1. Meteorites 2. Minerals (quartz, amethyst, rock crystals, agate, fluorite, pyrite) 3. Australian Kookaburra and kangaroo silver coins 4. Stamps (especially Germany from 1948 till now) 5. Books, literature about Ancient Pharaonic Egypt 6. Astronomy (Moon, Open and Globular Clusters, Planetaries) 7. Experience ;-) Best, Bernd __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect?
Hi Gary, List! I collect: rocks (not only impactites), fossils (esp. fossil star fishes and brittle stars), stone age artefacts and minerals; also sand samples and extant samples of plants and animals (to compare with fossil record). Has something slipped my mind? Ohh yes: meteorites of course! ;) Best Wishes Ingo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Gary K. Foote Gesendet: Donnerstag, 30. November 2006 01:11 An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect? As a neophyte collector of meteorites I have amassed about $1K in specimens, all of which I cherish dearly. I am learning about preservation as some of my specimens are beginning to show signs of scaling, kamacite ooze and other such degradations. Interestingly enough, along the way I've also become interested in terrestrial rocks, fossils, impactites and the like. I was just wondering; What else does everyone collect? Gary __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Happy Birthday, Ernst Florens Friedrich!
Just noted that today is Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni's 250. birthday. :-) Cheers, Herbert --- Versendet durch aonWebmail (webmail.aon.at) __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Confused
Hi All, Although quite new to the list, and to collecting, I'm picking up all sorts of info. and tips on what is proving to be a fascinating hobby. So, many thanks for all that. The trouble is, I'm not really interested so much in who's smooching who, or who's clawing out who's eyes and why. Personally I find the Ads as interesting as anything else a lot of the time. There's often bits o info tucked away that I might miss otherwise, although, I think it would be a shame and a wasted opportunity if the list were to degenerate into a classified ads section. Posts about laser pointers were very informative! Thanks. Happy days to all. Scott <> __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
