[meteorite-list] NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Finds Dead Stars 'Polluted' With Planet Debris
May 09, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harring...@nasa.gov Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md. 410-338-4514 vill...@stsci.edu RELEASE: 13-133 NASA'S HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE FINDS DEAD STARS 'POLLUTED' WITH PLANET DEBRIS WASHINGTON -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found the building blocks for Earth-sized planets in an unlikely place-- the atmospheres of a pair of burned-out stars called white dwarfs. These dead stars are located 150 light-years from Earth in a relatively young star cluster, Hyades, in the constellation Taurus. The star cluster is only 625 million years old. The white dwarfs are being polluted by asteroid-like debris falling onto them. Hubble's Cosmic Origins Spectrograph observed silicon and only low levels of carbon in the white dwarfs' atmospheres. Silicon is a major ingredient of the rocky material that constitutes Earth and other solid planets in our solar system. Carbon, which helps determine properties and origin of planetary debris, generally is depleted or absent in rocky, Earth-like material. We have identified chemical evidence for the building blocks of rocky planets, said Jay Farihi of the University of Cambridge in England. He is lead author of a new study appearing in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. When these stars were born, they built planets, and there's a good chance they currently retain some of them. The material we are seeing is evidence of this. The debris is at least as rocky as the most primitive terrestrial bodies in our solar system. This discovery suggests rocky planet assembly is common around stars, and it offers insight into what will happen in our own solar system when our sun burns out 5 billion years from now. Farihi's research suggests asteroids less than 100 miles (160 kilometers) wide probably were torn apart by the white dwarfs' strong gravitational forces. Asteroids are thought to consist of the same materials that form terrestrial planets, and seeing evidence of asteroids points to the possibility of Earth-sized planets in the same system. The pulverized material may have been pulled into a ring around the stars and eventually funneled onto the dead stars. The silicon may have come from asteroids that were shredded by the white dwarfs' gravity when they veered too close to the dead stars. It's difficult to imagine another mechanism than gravity that causes material to get close enough to rain down onto the star, Farihi said. By the same token, when our sun burns out, the balance of gravitational forces between the sun and Jupiter will change, disrupting the main asteroid belt. Asteroids that veer too close to the sun will be broken up, and the debris could be pulled into a ring around the dead sun. According to Farihi, using Hubble to analyze the atmospheres of white dwarfs is the best method for finding the signatures of solid planet chemistry and determining their composition. Normally, white dwarfs are like blank pieces of paper, containing only the light elements hydrogen and helium,Farihi said. Heavy elements like silicon and carbon sink to the core. The one thing the white dwarf pollution technique gives us that we just won't get with any other planet-detection technique is the chemistry of solid planets. The two polluted Hyades white dwarfs are part of the team's search of planetary debris around more than 100 white dwarfs, led by Boris Gansicke of the University of Warwick in England. Team member Detlev Koester of the University of Kiel in Germany is using sophisticated computer models of white dwarf atmospheres to determine the abundances of various elements that can be traced to planets in the Hubble spectrograph data. Farihi's team plans to analyze more white dwarfs using the same technique to identify not only the rocks' composition, but also their parent bodies. For more information about NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/hubble -end- __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] NASA Curiosity Rover Team Selects Second Drilling Target on Mars
May 9, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.br...@nasa.gov Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 guy.webs...@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-136 NASA CURIOSITY ROVER TEAM SELECTS SECOND DRILLING TARGET ON MARS PASADENA, Calif. -- The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Mars has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling. The rover will set course to the drilling location in coming days. This second drilling target, called Cumberland, lies about nine feet (2.75 meters) west of the rock where Curiosity's drill first touched Martian stone in February. Curiosity took the first rock sample ever collected on Mars from that rock, called John Klein. The rover found evidence of an ancient environment favorable for microbial life. Both rocks are flat, with pale veins and a bumpy surface. They are embedded in a layer of rock on the floor of a shallow depression called Yellowknife Bay. This second drilling is intended to confirm results from the first drilling, which indicated the chemistry of the first powdered sample from John Klein was much less oxidizing than that of a soil sample the rover scooped up before it began drilling. We know there is some cross-contamination from the previous sample each time, said Dawn Sumner, a long-term planner for Curiosity's science team at the University of California at Davis. For the Cumberland sample, we expect to have most of that cross-contamination come from a similar rock, rather than from very different soil. Although Cumberland and John Klein are very similar, Cumberland appears to have more of the erosion-resistant granules that cause the surface bumps. The bumps are concretions, or clumps of minerals, which formed when water soaked the rock long ago. Analysis of a sample containing more material from these concretions could provide information about the variability within the rock layer that includes both John Klein and Cumberland. Mission engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., recently finished upgrading Curiosity's operating software following a four-week break. The rover continued monitoring the Martian atmosphere during the break but the team did not send any new commands because Mars and the sun were positioned in such a way the sun could have blocked or corrupted commands sent from Earth. Curiosity is about nine months into a two-year prime mission since landing inside Gale Crater on Mars. After the second rock drilling in Yellowknife Bay and a few other investigations nearby, the rover will drive toward the base of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile (5-kilometer) tall layered mountain inside the crater. JPL manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project, of which Curiosity is the centerpiece, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. For more information about the mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/msl To follow the mission on Facebook and Twitter, visit: http://www.facebook.com/marscuriosity and http://www.twitter.com/marscuriosity -end- __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Water on Earth and Moon May Have Same Source
http://www.space.com/21047-earth-moon-water-meteorites.html Water on Earth and Moon May Have Same Source by Charles Q. Choi space.com 09 May 2013 Water deep inside Earth and the moon may originate from the same source: ancient meteorites, scientists say. The findings hint that water may have existed on Earth before the giant impact the planet received that created the moon, and that the moon possessed water from its earliest moments, scientists added. It remains a mystery exactly how water found within the moon survived this violent collision, though. Water is vital to life as we know it, with organisms found virtually everywhere there is water on Earth. When Earth was born, the ingredients of the planet's water most likely would have formed beyond the orbit of Earth. As such, all the water on the planet must have come from either comets or meteorites hurtling inward from the outer solar system. Until recently, scientists thought the interior of the moon was bone-dry, originating as the moon did from the molten debris of a giant impact of a Mars-size protoplanet against Earth about 4.5 billion years ago. The heat of this collision should have baked all the ingredients of water out of the moon. However, five years ago, the first evidence of hydrogen was discovered in lunar samples from the Apollo missions. Hydrogen is a main ingredient of water, along with oxygen. To discover the origins of this water, scientists analyzed crystals and glass beads from the moon rocks brought to Earth by the Apollo 15 and 17 missions. These crystals and beads possessed tiny pieces of glass that serve as records of the moon's geological history. The researchers focused on isotopes of the hydrogen found in this lunar magma. All isotopes of an element have the same number of protons, but each has a different number of neutrons. For instance, regular hydrogen has no neutrons, while the hydrogen isotope known as deuterium has o ne neutron. In general, objects formed closer to the sun have less deuterium than bodies that formed farther out. The ratio of deuterium to hydrogen seen in meteorites known as carbonaceous chondrites is similar to that seen in water on Earth, suggesting that as much as 98 percent of Earth water may have come from those space rocks instead of comets. Now, researchers find the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen in moon rocks is similar to that seen on Earth as well. Altogether, these findings suggest that water on the moon and Earth share a common origin in carbonaceous chondrites, meteorites found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter that are thought to be among the oldest objects in the solar system. With a good degree of certainty, we know that the water came to the moon and Earth from primitive meteorites now located in the outer parts of the asteroidal belt, said study lead author Alberto Saal, a geochemist at Brown University. He and his colleagues detailed their findings online today (May 9) in the journal Science. The simplest explanation for this commonality between the moon and Earth is that the Earth from its birth had water, Saal told SPACE.com. And it got to the moon during the giant impact without completely being lost by this event. After the moon-forming impact about 100 million years after Earth formed, our planet apparently did not receive significantly more water, he added. If the water in the Earth and moon was indeed there before the impact that formed the moon, it remains uncertain why the heat of the impact did not bake off all this water. One possibility is that the vaporized rock the impact generated could trap gas in it like soda, Saal said. This factor, along with the Earth's gravity, may have helped the planet keep hydrogen and thus water. The problem with that idea is the moon, which has much lower mass and therefore gravity, Saal said. Although the moon has maybe five to 10 times less water than the Earth, that's still a significant amount of water it retained. That's a problem I don't think we know the answer to yet. Other scientists maintain that Earth water might have come from comets. Planetary scientist Paul Hartogh at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, and his colleagues had previously discovered the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen seen in comets very closely matched that found in Earth water. If comets did bring water to Earth, they might also have done so later in time than Saal and his colleagues propose, meaning that Earth and the moon did not have water inside them from the start. I wonder whether Saal and his colleagues can exclude that the samples they investigated contain cometary water, Hartogh told SPACE.com. The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission might be able to resolve the question of whether comets or meteorites are the origins of water in Earth and the moon when it reaches the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014, Hartogh
[meteorite-list] Namibia meteorite fall 09May2013
Dear List, A new fall is reported. Namibia meteorite fall 09May2013 http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2013/05/mahangu-namibia-meteorite-fall-09may2013.html Dirk Ross...Tokyo __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] AD-Chely slices, individuals
Aloha mai kakou, Chelyabinsk slices and end cuts. A 140g fusion crusted stone recovered within days of the February 15 Russian fireball in the Urals. All material was sliced on a wire saw by Montana Meteorite Laboratory, featuring melt phases that transition to delicate tendrils of shock veins throughout the matrix, interspersed with FeNi and blobby FeS inclusions. You may be able to pay less, but you will not find higher quality than these specimens. http://bigkahuna-meteorites.com/Chely2.html Chelyabinsk individuals. An abundant selection of pristine Chelyabinsk meteorite individuals, from 'binsk berries to a 69.72g freshly fusion crusted and regmaglypted beauty. There are a few half stones that reveal a pale matrix, peppered with metal inclusions and streaked with stunning shock veins. Most have not a speck of oxidation, and are as fresh as the day they fell. http://bigkahuna-meteorites.com/Chely.html ebay auctions. As always, the Big Kahuna has ebay auctions that end this (and every) Saturday, May 11, starting at 8:00am Pacific / 11:00am Eastern / 4:00pm London / 6:00pm Helsinki / 11:00pm Singapore. FREE Worldwide shipping on select meteorites. http://www.ebay.com/sch/fujmon/m.html Gary Fujihara Big Kahuna Meteorites Inc. PO Box 4175, Hilo, HI 96720 (808) 640-9161 http://bigkahuna-meteorites.com/ http://www.ebay.com/sch/fujmon/m.html __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] AD-Chely slices, individuals
Aloha mai kakou, Chelyabinsk slices and end cuts. A 140g fusion crusted stone recovered within days of the February 15 Russian fireball in the Urals. All material was sliced on a wire saw by Montana Meteorite Laboratory, featuring melt phases that transition to delicate tendrils of shock veins throughout the matrix, interspersed with FeNi and blobby FeS inclusions. You may be able to pay less, but you will not find higher quality than these specimens. http://bigkahuna-meteorites.com/Chely2.html Chelyabinsk individuals. An abundant selection of pristine Chelyabinsk meteorite individuals, from 'binsk berries to a 69.72g freshly fusion crusted and regmaglypted beauty. There are a few half stones that reveal a pale matrix, peppered with metal inclusions and streaked with stunning shock veins. Most have not a speck of oxidation, and are as fresh as the day they fell. http://bigkahuna-meteorites.com/Chely.html ebay auctions. As always, the Big Kahuna has ebay auctions that end this (and every) Saturday, May 11, starting at 8:00am Pacific / 11:00am Eastern / 4:00pm London / 6:00pm Helsinki / 11:00pm Singapore. FREE Worldwide shipping on select meteorites. http://www.ebay.com/sch/fujmon/m.html Gary Fujihara Big Kahuna Meteorites Inc. PO Box 4175, Hilo, HI 96720 (808) 640-9161 http://bigkahuna-meteorites.com/ http://www.ebay.com/sch/fujmon/m.html Gary Fujihara Big Kahuna Meteorites Inc. PO Box 4175, Hilo, HI 96720 (808) 640-9161 http://bigkahuna-meteorites.com/ http://www.ebay.com/sch/fujmon/m.html __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Meteor over UK?
Has anyone else seen these two spectacular twitter meteor shots before...I am questioning if they are of the recent UK meteor? Graham __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Meteor over UK?
Sorry...forgot the link... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2321836/Green-fireball-meteor-spotted-shooting-UK-150-000-miles-hour.html On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Graham Ensor graham.en...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone else seen these two spectacular twitter meteor shots before...I am questioning if they are of the recent UK meteor? Graham __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Possible meteorite fall on 19 April around 10 p.m.in Wolcott, Connecticut, USA ???
Dear list members, a second meteorite was found in a home in Waterbury, Connecticut yesterday! http://www.nhregister.com/content/articles/2013/05/09/news/doc518c4b803040b020986628.jpg http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2013/05/09/news/doc518c4b803040b020986628.txt Martin Von: Matson, Robert D. robert.d.mat...@saic.com An: meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Possible meteorite fall on 19 April around 10 p.m.in Wolcott, Connecticut, USA ??? Datum: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:47:03 +0200 The pictures certainly do look promising for being a meteorite, so it would be good to get more accurate information on the exact time that people were reporting sonic booms in coastal Connecticut. --Rob __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Postfach fast voll? Jetzt kostenlos E-Mail Adresse @t-online.de sichern und endlich Platz für tausende Mails haben. http://www.t-online.de/email-kostenlos __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Meteor in UK
Meteor seen in UK See links: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22460642 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/video-large-green-fireball-meteor-seen-shooting-across-sky-above-england-and-wales-8608807.html __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: MIL 07028 (EH3) Contributed by: AMN http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpod.asp __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] *AD* - Stanfield Stones For Sale
Hello List, As most of you have heard by now the wittnessed fireball from June 1998 over Casa Grande Arizona has (likely) been found. This is a must have meteorite for any serious collector of witnessed falls. The significance is not just that it's an observed fall, (most likely), but the manner in which it was recovered, using the newest tool, Doplar radar. This new advancment has made it possible to locate meteorite falls from years past, truly an incredible move forward for us in the meteorite recovery community and all the other scientists and collectors that will benefit from the technique as well. Thousands of hours of hunting the Stanfield meteorite (provisional) have resulted in 30 recorded stones total, 9 of which I'm in posession of and need to sell now. Previous Stanfield stones have sold for $50/g and under. I'd like to get $50/g but I know times are tight for most of us. These stones will be sold for the best offer. No reasonable offers refused. Don't be shy, if you want one, buy one. Just make a fair offer and it's yours. These historic stones all have dark black fusion crust and show well. Email me off list for pictures of the ones that interest you. Sta 019 89.3g 95% Complete shield shaped stone with froth on the back. A stunning meteorite, simply gorgeous! Sta 021 10.3g 100% Complete stone Sta 024 17.6g 100% Complete stone Sta 025 27.8g 99% Crusted Sta 026 16.3g 99% Crusted Sta 027 23.8g 100%, Crusted, Cool shape Sta 028 26.2g 99% Crusted with small scoop Sta 029 30.1g 100% Awesome Stone Sta 030 64.0g ~80% Crusted Very Nice! Thanks for your interest. Sincerely, Larry Atkins IMCA # 1941 Ebay alienrockfarm __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] A California cold find
List, The thin section has been prepared: http://mikestang.com/user/cimage/mm01TSa-small.jpg Michael in so. Cal. On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Michael Mulgrew mikest...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, list. It is my pleasure to report my first cold find. It is 20.1 grams and oriented, with a few small flow lines in spots and a bit of roll-over and secondary crust on the back side. It is being thin sectioned and then off to be classified by Dr. Alan Rubin (thanks, Dru. Rubin!) at UCLA. As a native to southern California I am very please to know the type specimen will reside locally. I will be happy to share the exact find location after I submit to the NomCom' it was found generally in the Mojave here in so. Cal (not a dry lake) . http://mikestang.com/user/cimage/mpmCold1.jpg http://mikestang.com/user/cimage/mpmCold1a.jpg http://mikestang.com/user/cimage/mpmCold2.jpg http://mikestang.com/user/cimage/mpmCold3.JPG http://mikestang.com/user/cimage/mpmCold4.JPG http://mikestang.com/user/cimage/mpmCold5.JPG http://mikestang.com/user/cimage/mpmCold6.JPG http://mikestang.com/user/cimage/mpmCold8.JPG My classification guess is an H3.8 S0 W1. Regards, Michael in so. Cal. __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Animated graphic illustrates impact of meteorites on Earth
Founds this on Yahoo! news: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/animated-graphic-illustrates-impact-meteorites-earth-204547775.html Read short write-up at above link then click on the 'Bolides' graphic to go to the animation of meteorite Falls, or click on link below: http://bolid.es/ click on the timeline to see what fell when. ... a lot of work to compile the data, graph and animate! ...pretty, pretty cool! Enjoy - Mal __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] A California cold find
Hi Mike, Way to go great find! Sonny -Original Message- From: Michael Mulgrew mikest...@gmail.com To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Fri, May 10, 2013 6:34 am Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] A California cold find List,The thin section has been prepared:http://mikestang.com/user/cimage/mm01TSa-small.jpgMichael in so. Cal.On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Michael Mulgrew mikest...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, list. It is my pleasure to report my first cold find. It is 20.1 grams and oriented, with a few small flow lines in spots and a bit of roll-over and secondary crust on the back side. It is being thin sectioned and then off to be classified by Dr. Alan Rubin (thanks, Dru. Rubin!) at UCLA. As a native to southern California I am very please to know the type specimen will reside locally. I will be happy to share the exact find location after I submit to the NomCom' it was found generally in the Mojave here in so. Cal (not a dry lake) . http://mikestang.com/user/cimage/mpmCold1.jpg http://mikestang.com/user/cimage/mpmCold1a.jpg http://mikestang.com/user/cimage/mpmCold2.jpg http://mikestang.com/user/cimage/mpmCold3.JPG http://mikestang.com/user/cimage/mpmCold4.JPG http://mikestang.com/user/cimage/mpmCold5.JPG http://mikestang.com/user/cimage/mpmCold6.JPG http://mikestang.com/user/cimage/mpmCold8.JPG My classification guess is an H3.8 S0 W1. Regards, Michael in so. Cal.__Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.comMeteorite-list mailing listMeteorite-list@meteoritecentral.comhttp://six.pairlist.net/mailman/li stinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: May 6-10, 2013
MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES May 6-10, 2013 o Images of Gale #23 (06 May 2013) http://themis.asu.edu/node/6150 o Images of Gale #24 (07 May 2013) http://themis.asu.edu/node/6151 o Images of Gale #25 (08 May 2013) http://themis.asu.edu/node/6152 o Images of Gale #26 (09 May 2013) http://themis.asu.edu/node/6153 o Images of Gale #27 (10 May 2013) http://themis.asu.edu/node/6154 All of the THEMIS images are archived here: http://themis.asu.edu/latest.html NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. The Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) was developed by Arizona State University, Tempe, in co.oration with Raytheon Santa Barbara Remote Sensing. The THEMIS investigation is led by Dr. Philip Christensen at Arizona State University. Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, is the prime contractor for the Odyssey project, and developed and built the orbiter. Mission operations are conducted jointly from Lockheed Martin and from JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Met Bulletin Update - Antelope, Mandalay Spring, Smokey Spring, and 3 NWA's
Hi Bulletin Watchers, There are three new US approvals and 3 new NWA OC's. Linkage : Antelope (Nevada, H4) - http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=57455 Mandalay Spring (Nevada, L6) - http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=57454 Smokey Spring (Nevada, H4) - http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=57453 NWA 7870 (L4) - http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=57456 NWA 7871 (L6) - http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=57457 NWA 7873 (H5-6) - http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=57458 Best regards and happy huntings, MikeG -- - Web - http://www.galactic-stone.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone Twitter - http://twitter.com/GalacticStone Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/galacticstone RSS - http://www.galactic-stone.com/rss/126516 - __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Another Wolcott CT meteorite found - Waterbury?
Hi List, There is another report of a meteorite recovered from the yard of a house in Waterbury and that it may be connected to the recent Wolcott fall. However, the photo provided shows a weathered meteorite that resembles a desert-varnished NWA. It does look like a meteorite, but it does not look nearly as fresh as the stone recovered from the house in Wolcott. What gives? Link - http://www.courant.com/community/waterbury/hc-waterbury-meteorite-0510-20130509,0,481664.story Best regards, MikeG -- - Web - http://www.galactic-stone.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone Twitter - http://twitter.com/GalacticStone Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/galacticstone RSS - http://www.galactic-stone.com/rss/126516 - __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Another Meteorite Lands (found) in a Connecticut W Town 19 days later
Hello Listers The meteorite fall 19 days go in Wolcott CT has generated another meteorite which also hit a house in a town that starts with W lol. http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Another-Meteorite-Hits-a-Connecticut-Home-206861751.html Shawn Alan IMCA 1633 ebay store http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633ny/m.html? http://meteoritefalls.com/ __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Material paired to NWA 7325
Dear List, Material paired to NWA 7325 is available for sale. If anyone interested chontact me please. Regards, Abdellah. __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Mars Rover Opportunity Update: May 5-8, 2013
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html#opportunity OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Making Smallest Turn Yet, As Dust Storm Affects Rover - sols 3296-3302, May. 05, 2013-May. 08, 2013: Opportunity is feverishly working to complete analysis of 'Esperance,' believed to be a phyllosilicate-rich target, before departing for her winter haven at 'Solander Point' to the south. On Sol 3296 (May 2, 2013), she attempted the smallest turn in her history (~0.5 degrees) to get a better position for the rock abrasion tool (RAT). The turn was successful and use of the RAT commenced on Sol 3301(May 7, 2013). Complicating the satisfactory completion of the rock Esperance analysis was the growth of a regional dust storm nearby, which drove the atmospheric opacity or tau to 1.53 (also on Sol 3301). The tau on Sol 3302 (May 8, 2013), slightly decreased to 1.45, but a close watch is being kept in case conditions worsen. If atmospheric opacity stabilizes or continues to decrease, we hope to complete instrument deployment device (IDD) work and begin driving away by Sol 3309 (May 15, 2013). Solar array energy on Sol 3302 (May 8, 2013), was 385 watt-hours with an atmospheric opacity (Tau) measurement of 1.45, and a dust factor of 0.584. All systems are nominal. Total odometry is 22.15 miles (35.65 kilometers). __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] New Fall in Namibia!
Hello All, This turned up today: http://www.hitradio.com.na/9-5-2013-nachrichten-am-abend/ This morning around 4:00 clock is a meteorite about 10km outside of Outapi toward Onesimus, pitched region in northern Namibia in the Omusati. The meteorite is the size of a tennis ball. According to eyewitnesses, Olaff Marais, a white light lit up the night sky. It was heard a loud roar and then a bang. There were no persons injured or property damaged. The police have cordoned off the crash site wide area. You can find pictures on the hit radio Namibia Facebook page. Looks good. Regards, Jason www.fallsandfinds.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Another Meteorite Lands (found) in a Connecticut W Town 19 days later
Maybe it's just me, but that stone looks more weathered than a recent fall should be. On 5/10/13, Shawn Alan photoph...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello Listers The meteorite fall 19 days go in Wolcott CT has generated another meteorite which also hit a house in a town that starts with W lol. http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Another-Meteorite-Hits-a-Connecticut-Home-206861751.html Shawn Alan IMCA 1633 ebay store http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633ny/m.html? http://meteoritefalls.com/ __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list -- - Web - http://www.galactic-stone.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone Twitter - http://twitter.com/GalacticStone Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/galacticstone RSS - http://www.galactic-stone.com/rss/126516 - __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
