Re: [meteorite-list] Pebbly Rocks Testify to Old Streambed on Mars (MSL)
I believe I did not describe properly what I was trying to say. The video link I sent clearly showed co2 gas being poured from a beaker. During the cold mars night a thin layer of co2 frost can form on a hillside. when daylight returns and thaws the frost, the recently sublimated co2 being colder than the surrounding atmosphere is going to flow down hill. Millions of years of colder denser gas flowing down hill is going to cause erosion that simulates the flow of water. Mars has an 100 thousand year polar freeze thaw cycle. When billions of tons of co2 sublimate from the poles its going to flow out from the poles and cause erosion as it does so. Millions of years of this repeated cycle of the colder gas flowing down hill is going to carve what looks like river beds, canyons and lakes. all without any water needed. Cheers Steve --- On Fri, 5/31/13, Graham Ensor graham.en...@gmail.com wrote: From: Graham Ensor graham.en...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Pebbly Rocks Testify to Old Streambed on Mars (MSL) To: lebof...@lpl.arizona.edu Cc: Steve Dunklee steve.dunk...@yahoo.com, Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com, Ron Baalke baa...@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov Date: Friday, May 31, 2013, 11:39 PM Hi Larry, that's exactly the word I was trying to look for...sublimates...just could not bring it to mind. (any was being too lazy to look it up) So my thoughts were rightvery unlikely for there ever to be any liquid CO2 on Mars. G On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 6:32 PM, lebof...@lpl.arizona.edu wrote: Hi Graham and Steve: Technically, you are wrong--CO2 sublimates (turns from solid to gas) and does not evaporate (turns from liquid to gas). The triple point (where solid, liquid, and gas exist)of CO2 is 5.1 atmospheres. Since the sea level pressure on Mars is about 0.006 atmospheres, the atmospheric pressure on Mars would have had to have been 1000 times greater than it is now. Not very likely. To have liquid water (enough for flowing rivers) the pressure would have to be about 0.006 atmospheres at 0 degrees C. In fact, I think that this is how they originally defined the mean surface of Mars. The only problem is that Mars is generally too cold at this pressure for there to be liquid water, so you would need a warmer Mars (by a about 60 degrees centigrade for the average temperature) in order to get water flowing on Mars. This is much more likely than a 1000-fold increase in surface pressure. In fact, there is evidence for liquid water on Mars, but not in great amounts (gullies, for example). Larry Hi Steve, Liquid CO2 cannot exsist as a liquid at atmospheric pressure. It must be pressurized above 60.4 psi to remain as a liquidso would it have ever flowed on Mars at all? Solid CO2 evaporates to gas on Earth and I would say it does the same on Marssomebody correct me there if I am wrong? Interesting thought about bog iron.we would have hopes on Mars which would be the reverse of our hopes on Earth. Many pieces of bog iron have got folks excited on Earth because they were thought to be meteorites but are meteorwrongs. On Mars we would be hoping that a meteorite was bog iron as that would indicate a bog and thus peat and plantlife. As far as I know bog iron is associated with pea bogs and cannot form just with water...now a layer of old peat bog/coal would be an exciting find on Mars. Graham On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Steve Dunklee steve.dunk...@yahoo.com wrote: What is the composition of the pebbles? and other deposits? if there are not carbonates or other water soluable constiuentes then we may have to accept the flow of carbon dioxide as the cause of the water like erosion caused by the heating and cooling on mars. where is the bog iron and limestone or other precipitates which would be formed by water? As much as I would wish for life and water on mars I see nothing to convince me yet. Cheers Steve Dunklee --- On Thu, 5/30/13, Ron Baalke baa...@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov wrote: From: Ron Baalke baa...@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov Subject: [meteorite-list] Pebbly Rocks Testify to Old Streambed on Mars (MSL) To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Thursday, May 30, 2013, 7:01 PM http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-181 Pebbly Rocks Testify to Old Streambed on Mars Jet Propulsion Laboratory May 30, 2013 PASADENA, Calif. - Detailed analysis and review have borne out researchers' initial interpretation of pebble-containing slabs that NASA's Mars rover Curiosity investigated last year: They are part of an ancient streambed. The rocks are the first ever found on Mars that contain streambed gravels. The sizes and shapes of the gravels embedded in these conglomerate rocks -- from the size of sand particles to the size of
[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: NWA 7838 TS Contributed by: Anthony Love 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
Re: [meteorite-list] Misabled/ poorly advertized meteorites
Hm. I said as much when I saw the Bondoc label on facebook some days ago. My comment describing the issue with the label has since been removed by Martin. The labels are computer-printed (notice the bottom of every g missing on the Bondoc label) and the font and underlining is wrong for AML labels. The pictured labels even use the typical European , instead of a . when describing the weights of the specimens [ xxx,x grams ]. And then there's the glossy paper... Painfully obvious fakes, probably made in Europe given the punctuation. I wonder where they came from...and why my observations were not only ignored, but erased. Jason www.fallsandfinds.com On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Michael Farmer m...@meteoriteguy.com wrote: I'm pretty sure the piece sold as Estherville is not a meteorite as well. It certainly does not match up with my other Estherville pieces. I would like to know where this material originated. The labels are fake, and I am highly disappointed that this stuff has entered the market. Michael Farmer Sent from my iPad On May 31, 2013, at 9:24 PM, Jeff Kuyken i...@meteorites.com.au wrote: Hi Mike, all, As an Aussie, I can say with 100% absolute certainty that this isn't Murchison. It's not even close. In fact, I'm actually wondering it's a meteorite at all as it looks more like some type of porphyritic rock. The only meteorite I have seen that looks even remotely like this would be a CV3 dark inclusion. But the rectangular fragment on the back side doesn't bode well for a chondritic meteorite either. It would be easier to tell in-person. Cheers, Jeff -Original Message- From: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Michael Farmer Sent: Saturday, 1 June 2013 12:52 PM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Misabled/ poorly advertized meteorites Martin, I am sorry but this IS NOT Murchison, and the Estherville IS NOT Estherville. I emailed you regarding the Murchison and the fact that the photos clearly show an NWA type old carbonaceous chondrite only minutes after you posted to the list, and got no response. Anyone who has ever laid eyes on Murchison knows that it does not have desert varnish on the outside, nor white chondrules and CAI's on a CV3 matrix. I feel sorry for whoever got burned on that one. You advertised the low price, I guess it is low because it is not Murchison. anyone reading this, feel free to speak up and tell us how this Murchison looks compared to real Murchison. http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Murchison_8_13_g_004.JPG http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Murchison_8_13_g_003.JPG http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Murchison_8_13_g_001.JPG I bought the Estherville which you claim is from American Meteorite Laboratory. I assumed since you advertised and showed a label that it was real, I was reading my email on an iphone while at the Laboratory in ASU, I showed the photo of the Murchison to the people in the lab who just laughed. My spider senses were not in order obviously because I went ahead and paid for the Estherville. I received it today, and it is NOT Estherville, I am pretty certain it is not a meteorite. The crust looks fake, or slaggy. I have more than 50 pieces of Estherville all from British Museum and Smithsonian, and this isn't close. Furthemore the lable is nothing more than a printed piece of paper laminated. I have the Nininger and Huss collections of meteorites books, and Estherville under Nininger is #42, Huss is H230. Again, some homework on my part would have caused me to not purchase this piece, but the price was good and I thought it would sell fast (I bought it in seconds). It is a firm reminder that something too cheap to be true, isn't! You piece has no number on the stone ( Nininger and Huss both would have matched the number on the label and painted it on the stone). And the AML number on the fake label is not matched up to their normal numbers (yours is (2) 680.501. This is not a Nininger or Huss number You claim in your email (attached with this one below for all to read), that these pieces have their passports IE American Meteorite Laboratory labels as provenance, yet you deliver to me a fake printed laminated label done on a computer. Martin, this is NOT PROVENANCE, this is pretty much outright FRAUD! I know you have been doing meteorites for a while, and I know Murchison is easily one of the easiest meteorites to identify, so I have to question what is going on when such a false piece can pass the hands of such an experienced seller? This Estherville is not an Estherville, it is not a Nininger or Huss piece as advertised, and I do not think it is even a meteorite. I put in a request for refund via paypal, and now I am making the same request publically. I don't know where you got these but you got burned. I will deliver it by hand in
Re: [meteorite-list] meteorites sold from Europe, not as described
Hi Mike and all, its really always sad, to experience, what internet did to some, regarding communication, couth and manners. As told yesterday to you, as you are obviously not content with the specimen, we offered you to send in back and to refund you. Your temper and your readiness to doom and damn each and everyone in public, as soon as an opportunity shows up, is legendary on that list here, as the archives tell manifold and that behavior caused so many new collectors to turn their backs on to their new hobby, when they read your endless flame wars here on the list, because they had imagined meteorite collecting more august than to witness brawls on the fish-market. Here you can observe a difference about Andis and my notion of the meteorite scene, we never took advantage in trying to badmouth you, when you sold e.g. a Bensour of 85g to S.A. which landed with your label at M.V., who asked you again and you identified it without doubts as Bensour, but after he cut it, it turned out to be H and rather a Bassikonou. To the specimens. They originally stem from an old private collection from Hungary. A collection from pre-desert times. As you might remember even from the times, when you were still peddling with your little bag with your sales inventory from client to client, in former times, the 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90s the idea of pedigree-collecting wasnt born yet, the fascination emanating from the specimens themselves, the fact that they were meteorites, was for the collectors overwhelming enough, so that they did not need the little extra-boost of having a written note, from whom they had acquired them (because they knew it anyway). Hence they were proud on the specimens as they were now their specimens, so they wrote their own labels and threw often the labels of the sellers/source away. I dont know how many specimens you acquired from private collections of these times, but you will agree, that the majority of such specimens comes without any label or they come with the label of the collector, and we at least had dozens of cases, where the old original label was preserved, but where the collector had cut off the part with the name of the dealer or the museum. Here with these two specimens of Estherville and Bondoc, it was a luck, that the labels why the collector enlarged and laminated once them we dont know, maybe for his collection filing box gave the hint, where the collector once had acquired them from. They were Huss specimens. And Huss at that time wasnt the glorified successor of Nininger, he was nothing else than a dealer for his contemporaries, just like today, a Hupe, a Haiderer or a Cottingham for us. If you take Bondoc, the specimen numbers are absolutely consistent with all the numbers of the Huss-Bondocs offered by Geoff Notkin, or at Arnaud in the Tricottet Collection or on Murrays fine new collection site or those Peter Marmet showed us. Btw. none of these is listed in the both Huss-catalogues, none of these got a number painted on the surface by Huss. (We would have expected you to know that, as U.S.-expert) As told, we are convinced of the authenticity of the specimens, as well as those esteemed list members, who had them already in their hands. And as it is our policy, we offer always a return to our private buyers. So thank you Anne, Jeff and Mike for your efforts, to keep the Market clean, but we dont see yet any reason for hysteria. (Aside from the likeliness, that we after 33 years of meteorite collecting and 10+ years meteorite dealing, would have nothing better to do, than to forge Esthervilles and Bondocs and to fake a legend, to sell them at those cheapest prices we did). However, and there you most probably will agree, we see no sense in a written theoretical discussion here on the list, but like it the sober way. Youll bring the Estherville to Ensisheim, we got so many requests for that very specimen and there are so many experts, who will identify it as that, what it is, that we wont be in no way reluctant or shy to show the specimen to each and everyone, who wants. Therefore we will adjourn the further theatre, if you dont mind, until 3 weeks. Martin Andi __ 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] Pebbly Rocks Testify to Old Streambed on Mars (MSL)
Hi Steve: Yes, I did see your video link. Thanks for sending that. All that this demonstrates is that CO2 is denser than air and that, when it displaces the oxygen, the candle goes out. So, even in this case it is not the force of the CO2 that is putting the flame out, but the lack of oxygen. CO2 gas is 1.5 as dense as air, but 1/500 the density of water. I doubt that you could mimic the know effects of moving water in a stream bed with a much less dense gas. If nothing else, the gas would disperse in the atmosphere rapidly unlike the much denser water. Sublimation is a very slow process, look at comet nuclei. There is a limit to how fast something can sublimate. As the ice warms up and turns to gas, the energy needed to do this actually cools the surface (the same thing as evaporative cooling which cools you as sweat evaporates off of your skin). I wrote several papers years ago on ice sublimation. The scientists used the sizes and size distribution of the rounded grains to compare with what we see in stream beds on Earth and can actually come up with depth, duration, and speed of the water. I do not see how you could replicate that with a gentle flow of gas no matter how long you had. Your idea is interesting, but decades of research have shown that geologic processes on Mars (and other objects) are not that different than what we see on Earth. If we see on Mars what looks like a stream bed on Earth, it is likely that the process that formed the stream bed on Earth (water) also did this on Mars. So, what conditions would have been necessary for the stream bed to have formed on Mars? A little more atmosphere and a little warmer! I hope that this helps. Larry I believe I did not describe properly what I was trying to say. The video link I sent clearly showed co2 gas being poured from a beaker. During the cold mars night a thin layer of co2 frost can form on a hillside. when daylight returns and thaws the frost, the recently sublimated co2 being colder than the surrounding atmosphere is going to flow down hill. Millions of years of colder denser gas flowing down hill is going to cause erosion that simulates the flow of water. Mars has an 100 thousand year polar freeze thaw cycle. When billions of tons of co2 sublimate from the poles its going to flow out from the poles and cause erosion as it does so. Millions of years of this repeated cycle of the colder gas flowing down hill is going to carve what looks like river beds, canyons and lakes. all without any water needed. Cheers Steve --- On Fri, 5/31/13, Graham Ensor graham.en...@gmail.com wrote: From: Graham Ensor graham.en...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Pebbly Rocks Testify to Old Streambed on Mars (MSL) To: lebof...@lpl.arizona.edu Cc: Steve Dunklee steve.dunk...@yahoo.com, Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com, Ron Baalke baa...@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov Date: Friday, May 31, 2013, 11:39 PM Hi Larry, that's exactly the word I was trying to look for...sublimates...just could not bring it to mind. (any was being too lazy to look it up) So my thoughts were rightvery unlikely for there ever to be any liquid CO2 on Mars. G On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 6:32 PM, lebof...@lpl.arizona.edu wrote: Hi Graham and Steve: Technically, you are wrong--CO2 sublimates (turns from solid to gas) and does not evaporate (turns from liquid to gas). The triple point (where solid, liquid, and gas exist)of CO2 is 5.1 atmospheres. Since the sea level pressure on Mars is about 0.006 atmospheres, the atmospheric pressure on Mars would have had to have been 1000 times greater than it is now. Not very likely. To have liquid water (enough for flowing rivers) the pressure would have to be about 0.006 atmospheres at 0 degrees C. In fact, I think that this is how they originally defined the mean surface of Mars. The only problem is that Mars is generally too cold at this pressure for there to be liquid water, so you would need a warmer Mars (by a about 60 degrees centigrade for the average temperature) in order to get water flowing on Mars. This is much more likely than a 1000-fold increase in surface pressure. In fact, there is evidence for liquid water on Mars, but not in great amounts (gullies, for example). Larry Hi Steve, Liquid CO2 cannot exsist as a liquid at atmospheric pressure. It must be pressurized above 60.4 psi to remain as a liquidso would it have ever flowed on Mars at all? Solid CO2 evaporates to gas on Earth and I would say it does the same on Marssomebody correct me there if I am wrong? Interesting thought about bog iron.we would have hopes on Mars which would be the reverse of our hopes on Earth. Many pieces of bog iron have got folks excited on Earth because they were thought to be meteorites but are meteorwrongs. On Mars we would be hoping that a meteorite was bog iron as that would
Re: [meteorite-list] meteorites sold from Europe, not as described
If you take Bondoc, the specimen numbers are absolutely consistent with all the numbers of the Huss-Bondocs offered by Geoff Notkin, or at Arnaud in the Tricottet Collection or on Murray’s fine new collection site or those Peter Marmet showed us. Yes, but the rear (and cut face of it) look like slag compared to other Bondocs on the market. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2047675.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0_nkw=bondoc+meteorite_sacat=0_from=R40 There are a variety of textures, but none so porous, and the knobbly back and metal distribution look rather like slag. Such observations are not conclusive, but...meh. I'd return or ditch the material. Regards, Jason www.fallsandfinds.com On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Martin Altmann altm...@meteorite-martin.de wrote: Hi Mike and all, it’s really always sad, to experience, what internet did to some, regarding communication, couth and manners. As told yesterday to you, as you are obviously not content with the specimen, we offered you to send in back and to refund you. Your temper and your readiness to doom and damn each and everyone in public, as soon as an opportunity shows up, is legendary on that list here, as the archives tell manifold and that behavior caused so many new collectors to turn their backs on to their new hobby, when they read your endless flame wars here on the list, because they had imagined meteorite collecting more august than to witness brawls on the fish-market. Here you can observe a difference about Andi’s and my notion of the meteorite scene, we never took advantage in trying to badmouth you, when you sold e.g. a “Bensour” of 85g to S.A. which landed with your label at M.V., who asked you again and you identified it without doubts as Bensour, but after he cut it, it turned out to be H and rather a Bassikonou. To the specimens. They originally stem from an old private collection from Hungary. A collection from pre-desert times. As you might remember even from the times, when you were still peddling with your little bag with your sales inventory from client to client, in former times, the 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90s – the idea of “pedigree”-collecting wasn’t born yet, the fascination emanating from the specimens themselves, the fact that they were meteorites, was for the collectors overwhelming enough, so that they did not need the little extra-boost of having a written note, from whom they had acquired them (because they knew it anyway). Hence they were proud on the specimens as they were now their specimens, so they wrote their own labels and threw often the labels of the sellers/source away. I don’t know how many specimens you acquired from private collections of these times, but you will agree, that the majority of such specimens comes without any label or they come with the label of the collector, and we at least had dozens of cases, where the old original label was preserved, but where the collector had cut off the part with the name of the dealer or the museum. Here with these two specimens of Estherville and Bondoc, it was a luck, that the labels – why the collector enlarged and laminated once them we don’t know, maybe for his collection filing box – gave the hint, where the collector once had acquired them from. They were Huss specimens. And Huss at that time wasn’t the glorified successor of Nininger, he was nothing else than a dealer for his contemporaries, just like today, a Hupe, a Haiderer or a Cottingham for us. If you take Bondoc, the specimen numbers are absolutely consistent with all the numbers of the Huss-Bondocs offered by Geoff Notkin, or at Arnaud in the Tricottet Collection or on Murray’s fine new collection site or those Peter Marmet showed us. Btw. none of these is listed in the both Huss-catalogues, none of these got a number painted on the surface by Huss. (We would have expected you to know that, as U.S.-expert) As told, we are convinced of the authenticity of the specimens, as well as those esteemed list members, who had them already in their hands. And as it is our policy, we offer always a return to our private buyers. So thank you Anne, Jeff and Mike for your efforts, to keep the “Market” clean, but we don’t see yet any reason for hysteria. (Aside from the likeliness, that we after 33 years of meteorite collecting and 10+ years meteorite dealing, would have nothing better to do, than to forge Esthervilles and Bondocs and to fake a legend, to sell them at those cheapest prices we did). However, and there you most probably will agree, we see no sense in a written theoretical discussion here on the list, but like it the sober way. You’ll bring the Estherville to Ensisheim, we got so many requests for that very specimen and there are so many experts, who will identify it as that, what it is, that we won’t be in no way reluctant or shy to show the specimen to each and everyone, who wants. Therefore we will adjourn the further theatre, if
Re: [meteorite-list] meteorites sold from Europe, not as described
Hi Jason, as told, I won't discuss that until perhaps in 3 weeks. Last year I almost bought the farm, therefore I have no fervor anymore to take part in such kind of discussions. I experience once some years ago in Germany a really unbelievable dirty rumpus against me, which dissolved first in a little cloud of dust and than in smooth zero. There I still allowed myself to let me a nerves-cancer grow. But now I learned, it's not worth time and effort. So sorry for the popcorn seller, I will stay out. Especially from silly dealers' fights. I swapped as a collector for decades, I sold so many thousands specimens, I can't remember to have received a single doubt or complaint about authenticity. The labels are a nice extra, the persons and the source we acquired the specimens from have zero to do with contemporary meteorite market. And anyway, at those prices we offered them, we could have also thrown the labels in the dustbin before, and they would have sold fast. Just a request came in from - no offense meant - a veteran collector of broad experience, in whom I trust more to rate the specimen, than in your tele-diagnosis-skills, asking whether the Estherville would be free again now. So it's quite simple and valid not only for us, but for anyone wanting to buy a meteoritic specimen: If you have doubts in the specimen or in the seller: Just don't buy. And these were my last cents in that non-affair. Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Jason Utas [mailto:meteorite...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Samstag, 1. Juni 2013 14:23 An: Martin Altmann; Meteorite-list Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] meteorites sold from Europe, not as described If you take Bondoc, the specimen numbers are absolutely consistent with all the numbers of the Huss-Bondocs offered by Geoff Notkin, or at Arnaud in the Tricottet Collection or on Murrays fine new collection site or those Peter Marmet showed us. Yes, but the rear (and cut face of it) look like slag compared to other Bondocs on the market. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2047675.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0_nkw=bon doc+meteorite_sacat=0_from=R40 There are a variety of textures, but none so porous, and the knobbly back and metal distribution look rather like slag. Such observations are not conclusive, but...meh. I'd return or ditch the material. Regards, Jason www.fallsandfinds.com On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Martin Altmann altm...@meteorite-martin.de wrote: Hi Mike and all, its really always sad, to experience, what internet did to some, regarding communication, couth and manners. As told yesterday to you, as you are obviously not content with the specimen, we offered you to send in back and to refund you. Your temper and your readiness to doom and damn each and everyone in public, as soon as an opportunity shows up, is legendary on that list here, as the archives tell manifold and that behavior caused so many new collectors to turn their backs on to their new hobby, when they read your endless flame wars here on the list, because they had imagined meteorite collecting more august than to witness brawls on the fish-market. Here you can observe a difference about Andis and my notion of the meteorite scene, we never took advantage in trying to badmouth you, when you sold e.g. a Bensour of 85g to S.A. which landed with your label at M.V., who asked you again and you identified it without doubts as Bensour, but after he cut it, it turned out to be H and rather a Bassikonou. To the specimens. They originally stem from an old private collection from Hungary. A collection from pre-desert times. As you might remember even from the times, when you were still peddling with your little bag with your sales inventory from client to client, in former times, the 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90s the idea of pedigree-collecting wasnt born yet, the fascination emanating from the specimens themselves, the fact that they were meteorites, was for the collectors overwhelming enough, so that they did not need the little extra-boost of having a written note, from whom they had acquired them (because they knew it anyway). Hence they were proud on the specimens as they were now their specimens, so they wrote their own labels and threw often the labels of the sellers/source away. I dont know how many specimens you acquired from private collections of these times, but you will agree, that the majority of such specimens comes without any label or they come with the label of the collector, and we at least had dozens of cases, where the old original label was preserved, but where the collector had cut off the part with the name of the dealer or the museum. Here with these two specimens of Estherville and Bondoc, it was a luck, that the labels why the collector enlarged and laminated once them we dont know, maybe for his collection filing box gave the hint, where the collector once had acquired them from. They
Re: [meteorite-list] meteorites sold from Europe, not as described
Martin, Do you feel a plastic label printed on your home computer qualifies as an American Meteorite Laboratory passport as you write in your email? I can print such things in seconds, as can anyone. So by using your usually very high standards, I can print €500 notes on my computer, as long as I put the name of the European bank reserve on the fake, it would make it a real €500 note? I think I'll try to pass a few around at dealers tables in Ensisheim and see how many rocks I can buy. Sorry but this collector is calling your passport a fake travel document. You sold this Estherville to me as an extremely rare well documented piece, you clearly state that it is with AML labels, but there is no AML label, just a plastic modern-made card. You know it is NOT am AML label, and selling it as such is a scam. Since there is not label, no number on the stone, absolutely nothing to show provenance, clearly the entire email you spent hours writing was a sales gimmick. You know I am a knowledgeable and serious collector, so why you would pass off this manufactured piece to me I don't know. Surely knowing my temper as you right here, you would know what the response would be? The only reason I bought it is because you stated it was AML with label. I figured that if it has an AML label then I was safe. I did not consider that I would receive a plastic card in substitute for AML documentation. I don't know who did it, or what Romanian collection it came from, I can't understand how you passed that off as acceptable. Where is my refund? I will be happy when my money is back in my account. Why you are defending these fake pieces with a story about a mislabeled meteorite I sold years ago I am not sure. The piece was cut and yes, it was in the wrong box or bag or whatever. Mistake yes, fraud of making and selling fake old labels and provenance, no. I have made at least one mistake mixing up a piece, but you know what, thankfully a collector caught it, I OK'd him to cut and see and once cut we recognized the error and removed the piece. The way things should go. I wrote to the list because you wrote ke a very nasty private email telling me how many decades you have been selling and how you could just resell the piece angered me. You know they are fake, now the whole list knows, you can compare your murchison to real murchisons and see there is no comparison. I don't want them resold onto perhaps other less knowledgable collectors. Something really really is fishy is going on here. By the way, you sold me and others these pieces in this forum, so why not clear it up in this forum? I also do not want to see these things sold and resold for years to come. What about the obvious fake Murchison? You don't even answer as to why you are selling such a piece. I am really concerned at how this has come to pass. Michael Farmer Sent from my iPhone On Jun 1, 2013, at 5:05 AM, Martin Altmann altm...@meteorite-martin.de wrote: Hi Mike and all, it’s really always sad, to experience, what internet did to some, regarding communication, couth and manners. As told yesterday to you, as you are obviously not content with the specimen, we offered you to send in back and to refund you. Your temper and your readiness to doom and damn each and everyone in public, as soon as an opportunity shows up, is legendary on that list here, as the archives tell manifold and that behavior caused so many new collectors to turn their backs on to their new hobby, when they read your endless flame wars here on the list, because they had imagined meteorite collecting more august than to witness brawls on the fish-market. Here you can observe a difference about Andi’s and my notion of the meteorite scene, we never took advantage in trying to badmouth you, when you sold e.g. a “Bensour” of 85g to S.A. which landed with your label at M.V., who asked you again and you identified it without doubts as Bensour, but after he cut it, it turned out to be H and rather a Bassikonou. To the specimens. They originally stem from an old private collection from Hungary. A collection from pre-desert times. As you might remember even from the times, when you were still peddling with your little bag with your sales inventory from client to client, in former times, the 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90s – the idea of “pedigree”-collecting wasn’t born yet, the fascination emanating from the specimens themselves, the fact that they were meteorites, was for the collectors overwhelming enough, so that they did not need the little extra-boost of having a written note, from whom they had acquired them (because they knew it anyway). Hence they were proud on the specimens as they were now their specimens, so they wrote their own labels and threw often the labels of the sellers/source away. I don’t know how many specimens you acquired from private collections of these times, but you will agree, that the majority of such
Re: [meteorite-list] Misabled/ poorly advertized meteorites
I was looking at the sale on my iPhone when I made the purchase. I never considered that Martin would pass me a fake label through his hands knowingly. I was busy and it was not a major purchase so I didn't look carefully enough. You can never say that this plastic modern label suggest in any way that these are AML pieces. However I am dead serious about my collection and the integrity of this business. As a dealer in meteorites, the loss of trust in material is the most dangerous thing that could happen. If we don't remove these fakes from the market, we are in trouble. I dont care who made it, but I can't believe Martin would ever sell such things. Michael Farmer Sent from my iPhone On Jun 1, 2013, at 4:54 AM, Jason Utas meteorite...@gmail.com wrote: Hm. I said as much when I saw the Bondoc label on facebook some days ago. My comment describing the issue with the label has since been removed by Martin. The labels are computer-printed (notice the bottom of every g missing on the Bondoc label) and the font and underlining is wrong for AML labels. The pictured labels even use the typical European , instead of a . when describing the weights of the specimens [ xxx,x grams ]. And then there's the glossy paper... Painfully obvious fakes, probably made in Europe given the punctuation. I wonder where they came from...and why my observations were not only ignored, but erased. Jason www.fallsandfinds.com On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Michael Farmer m...@meteoriteguy.com wrote: I'm pretty sure the piece sold as Estherville is not a meteorite as well. It certainly does not match up with my other Estherville pieces. I would like to know where this material originated. The labels are fake, and I am highly disappointed that this stuff has entered the market. Michael Farmer Sent from my iPad On May 31, 2013, at 9:24 PM, Jeff Kuyken i...@meteorites.com.au wrote: Hi Mike, all, As an Aussie, I can say with 100% absolute certainty that this isn't Murchison. It's not even close. In fact, I'm actually wondering it's a meteorite at all as it looks more like some type of porphyritic rock. The only meteorite I have seen that looks even remotely like this would be a CV3 dark inclusion. But the rectangular fragment on the back side doesn't bode well for a chondritic meteorite either. It would be easier to tell in-person. Cheers, Jeff -Original Message- From: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Michael Farmer Sent: Saturday, 1 June 2013 12:52 PM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Misabled/ poorly advertized meteorites Martin, I am sorry but this IS NOT Murchison, and the Estherville IS NOT Estherville. I emailed you regarding the Murchison and the fact that the photos clearly show an NWA type old carbonaceous chondrite only minutes after you posted to the list, and got no response. Anyone who has ever laid eyes on Murchison knows that it does not have desert varnish on the outside, nor white chondrules and CAI's on a CV3 matrix. I feel sorry for whoever got burned on that one. You advertised the low price, I guess it is low because it is not Murchison. anyone reading this, feel free to speak up and tell us how this Murchison looks compared to real Murchison. http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Murchison_8_13_g_004.JPG http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Murchison_8_13_g_003.JPG http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Murchison_8_13_g_001.JPG I bought the Estherville which you claim is from American Meteorite Laboratory. I assumed since you advertised and showed a label that it was real, I was reading my email on an iphone while at the Laboratory in ASU, I showed the photo of the Murchison to the people in the lab who just laughed. My spider senses were not in order obviously because I went ahead and paid for the Estherville. I received it today, and it is NOT Estherville, I am pretty certain it is not a meteorite. The crust looks fake, or slaggy. I have more than 50 pieces of Estherville all from British Museum and Smithsonian, and this isn't close. Furthemore the lable is nothing more than a printed piece of paper laminated. I have the Nininger and Huss collections of meteorites books, and Estherville under Nininger is #42, Huss is H230. Again, some homework on my part would have caused me to not purchase this piece, but the price was good and I thought it would sell fast (I bought it in seconds). It is a firm reminder that something too cheap to be true, isn't! You piece has no number on the stone ( Nininger and Huss both would have matched the number on the label and painted it on the stone). And the AML number on the fake label is not matched up to their normal numbers (yours is (2) 680.501. This is not a Nininger or Huss number You claim in your email (attached with this one
Re: [meteorite-list] meteorites sold from Europe, not as described
By the way, I love your story about labels being thrown away and new ones made up, surely you could have mentioned this little detail in your sales pitch and this could have been avoided because I never would have made the purchase. Since you hyped the AML label as a crucial part of the package, surely with your typical very German attention to detail (I mean that in a very good way as Germans are unmatched in that category) you would have also considered that perhaps the small part about plastic man-made labels might actually be important enough to include in the sales brochure. A small but important detail that I do not believe you missed, but willingly lied to me about. Issue the refund please. Michael Farmer Sent from my iPhone On Jun 1, 2013, at 5:05 AM, Martin Altmann altm...@meteorite-martin.de wrote: Hi Mike and all, it’s really always sad, to experience, what internet did to some, regarding communication, couth and manners. As told yesterday to you, as you are obviously not content with the specimen, we offered you to send in back and to refund you. Your temper and your readiness to doom and damn each and everyone in public, as soon as an opportunity shows up, is legendary on that list here, as the archives tell manifold and that behavior caused so many new collectors to turn their backs on to their new hobby, when they read your endless flame wars here on the list, because they had imagined meteorite collecting more august than to witness brawls on the fish-market. Here you can observe a difference about Andi’s and my notion of the meteorite scene, we never took advantage in trying to badmouth you, when you sold e.g. a “Bensour” of 85g to S.A. which landed with your label at M.V., who asked you again and you identified it without doubts as Bensour, but after he cut it, it turned out to be H and rather a Bassikonou. To the specimens. They originally stem from an old private collection from Hungary. A collection from pre-desert times. As you might remember even from the times, when you were still peddling with your little bag with your sales inventory from client to client, in former times, the 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90s – the idea of “pedigree”-collecting wasn’t born yet, the fascination emanating from the specimens themselves, the fact that they were meteorites, was for the collectors overwhelming enough, so that they did not need the little extra-boost of having a written note, from whom they had acquired them (because they knew it anyway). Hence they were proud on the specimens as they were now their specimens, so they wrote their own labels and threw often the labels of the sellers/source away. I don’t know how many specimens you acquired from private collections of these times, but you will agree, that the majority of such specimens comes without any label or they come with the label of the collector, and we at least had dozens of cases, where the old original label was preserved, but where the collector had cut off the part with the name of the dealer or the museum. Here with these two specimens of Estherville and Bondoc, it was a luck, that the labels – why the collector enlarged and laminated once them we don’t know, maybe for his collection filing box – gave the hint, where the collector once had acquired them from. They were Huss specimens. And Huss at that time wasn’t the glorified successor of Nininger, he was nothing else than a dealer for his contemporaries, just like today, a Hupe, a Haiderer or a Cottingham for us. If you take Bondoc, the specimen numbers are absolutely consistent with all the numbers of the Huss-Bondocs offered by Geoff Notkin, or at Arnaud in the Tricottet Collection or on Murray’s fine new collection site or those Peter Marmet showed us. Btw. none of these is listed in the both Huss-catalogues, none of these got a number painted on the surface by Huss. (We would have expected you to know that, as U.S.-expert) As told, we are convinced of the authenticity of the specimens, as well as those esteemed list members, who had them already in their hands. And as it is our policy, we offer always a return to our private buyers. So thank you Anne, Jeff and Mike for your efforts, to keep the “Market” clean, but we don’t see yet any reason for hysteria. (Aside from the likeliness, that we after 33 years of meteorite collecting and 10+ years meteorite dealing, would have nothing better to do, than to forge Esthervilles and Bondocs and to fake a legend, to sell them at those cheapest prices we did). However, and there you most probably will agree, we see no sense in a written theoretical discussion here on the list, but like it the sober way. You’ll bring the Estherville to Ensisheim, we got so many requests for that very specimen and there are so many experts, who will identify it as that, what it is, that we won’t be in no way reluctant or shy to show the specimen to each and
Re: [meteorite-list] meteorites sold from Europe, not as described
I agree, and I have 50 kilograms of Bondoc, directly exchanged out of the ASU meteorite vault. I do not believe that is a meteorite as well. I also think slag as a first guess, same as my Estherville. I would gladly cut and have tested if I wasn't out $1300. I want my money back. Michael Farmer Sent from my iPhone On Jun 1, 2013, at 5:23 AM, Jason Utas meteorite...@gmail.com wrote: If you take Bondoc, the specimen numbers are absolutely consistent with all the numbers of the Huss-Bondocs offered by Geoff Notkin, or at Arnaud in the Tricottet Collection or on Murray’s fine new collection site or those Peter Marmet showed us. Yes, but the rear (and cut face of it) look like slag compared to other Bondocs on the market. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2047675.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0_nkw=bondoc+meteorite_sacat=0_from=R40 There are a variety of textures, but none so porous, and the knobbly back and metal distribution look rather like slag. Such observations are not conclusive, but...meh. I'd return or ditch the material. Regards, Jason www.fallsandfinds.com On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Martin Altmann altm...@meteorite-martin.de wrote: Hi Mike and all, it’s really always sad, to experience, what internet did to some, regarding communication, couth and manners. As told yesterday to you, as you are obviously not content with the specimen, we offered you to send in back and to refund you. Your temper and your readiness to doom and damn each and everyone in public, as soon as an opportunity shows up, is legendary on that list here, as the archives tell manifold and that behavior caused so many new collectors to turn their backs on to their new hobby, when they read your endless flame wars here on the list, because they had imagined meteorite collecting more august than to witness brawls on the fish-market. Here you can observe a difference about Andi’s and my notion of the meteorite scene, we never took advantage in trying to badmouth you, when you sold e.g. a “Bensour” of 85g to S.A. which landed with your label at M.V., who asked you again and you identified it without doubts as Bensour, but after he cut it, it turned out to be H and rather a Bassikonou. To the specimens. They originally stem from an old private collection from Hungary. A collection from pre-desert times. As you might remember even from the times, when you were still peddling with your little bag with your sales inventory from client to client, in former times, the 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90s – the idea of “pedigree”-collecting wasn’t born yet, the fascination emanating from the specimens themselves, the fact that they were meteorites, was for the collectors overwhelming enough, so that they did not need the little extra-boost of having a written note, from whom they had acquired them (because they knew it anyway). Hence they were proud on the specimens as they were now their specimens, so they wrote their own labels and threw often the labels of the sellers/source away. I don’t know how many specimens you acquired from private collections of these times, but you will agree, that the majority of such specimens comes without any label or they come with the label of the collector, and we at least had dozens of cases, where the old original label was preserved, but where the collector had cut off the part with the name of the dealer or the museum. Here with these two specimens of Estherville and Bondoc, it was a luck, that the labels – why the collector enlarged and laminated once them we don’t know, maybe for his collection filing box – gave the hint, where the collector once had acquired them from. They were Huss specimens. And Huss at that time wasn’t the glorified successor of Nininger, he was nothing else than a dealer for his contemporaries, just like today, a Hupe, a Haiderer or a Cottingham for us. If you take Bondoc, the specimen numbers are absolutely consistent with all the numbers of the Huss-Bondocs offered by Geoff Notkin, or at Arnaud in the Tricottet Collection or on Murray’s fine new collection site or those Peter Marmet showed us. Btw. none of these is listed in the both Huss-catalogues, none of these got a number painted on the surface by Huss. (We would have expected you to know that, as U.S.-expert) As told, we are convinced of the authenticity of the specimens, as well as those esteemed list members, who had them already in their hands. And as it is our policy, we offer always a return to our private buyers. So thank you Anne, Jeff and Mike for your efforts, to keep the “Market” clean, but we don’t see yet any reason for hysteria. (Aside from the likeliness, that we after 33 years of meteorite collecting and 10+ years meteorite dealing, would have nothing better to do, than to forge Esthervilles and Bondocs and to fake a legend, to sell them at those cheapest prices we did). However, and there you most probably
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Re: [meteorite-list] meteorites sold from Europe, not as described
Mike, it's enough. I'm not your Raspberry Tony. I wrote to the list because you wrote ke a very nasty private email I sent you a single email, yesterday at 11:11 p.m. containing the same content about labels ect, just I wrote here today, plus offering you to send the Estherville back and to refund the purchase price and the shipment costs. That email didn't contain any single harsh word, neither was it nastier than the first email we wrote to the list today. An answer you didn't wrote to us, instead we could read your effusions this morning on the list. So stop that immature clownery or look for somebody else to play with. Where is my refund? I will be happy when my money is back in my account. Your email yesterday came in half an hour earlier than our answer to you. As you might now, booking period of banks is in Germany (and Europe) ending at 5:00p.m. And booking takes place only on working days not on weekends. For accounting and tax purposes we have to withdraw each Paypal-payment onto our bank accounts. So we have first to refill the paypal-account again, which takes 2 working days. Hence probably Wednesday you'll get your refund, Which btw. matches the 5 days you had needed to pay the specimen. Else, much fun still in continuing, I won't support you in that, as in past you often enough you talked yourself in a ride or fall on this list, and anyway I trust enough in the competence of the collectors, to built their own opinion, what they will think about this. So see you in Ensisheim, Until then I won't be at your disposal here. Have a nice day, Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Michael Farmer Gesendet: Samstag, 1. Juni 2013 15:38 An: Martin Altmann Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] meteorites sold from Europe, not as described Martin, Do you feel a plastic label printed on your home computer qualifies as an American Meteorite Laboratory passport as you write in your email? I can print such things in seconds, as can anyone. So by using your usually very high standards, I can print €500 notes on my computer, as long as I put the name of the European bank reserve on the fake, it would make it a real €500 note? I think I'll try to pass a few around at dealers tables in Ensisheim and see how many rocks I can buy. Sorry but this collector is calling your passport a fake travel document. You sold this Estherville to me as an extremely rare well documented piece, you clearly state that it is with AML labels, but there is no AML label, just a plastic modern-made card. You know it is NOT am AML label, and selling it as such is a scam. Since there is not label, no number on the stone, absolutely nothing to show provenance, clearly the entire email you spent hours writing was a sales gimmick. You know I am a knowledgeable and serious collector, so why you would pass off this manufactured piece to me I don't know. Surely knowing my temper as you right here, you would know what the response would be? The only reason I bought it is because you stated it was AML with label. I figured that if it has an AML label then I was safe. I did not consider that I would receive a plastic card in substitute for AML documentation. I don't know who did it, or what Romanian collection it came from, I can't understand how you passed that off as acceptable. Where is my refund? I will be happy when my money is back in my account. Why you are defending these fake pieces with a story about a mislabeled meteorite I sold years ago I am not sure. The piece was cut and yes, it was in the wrong box or bag or whatever. Mistake yes, fraud of making and selling fake old labels and provenance, no. I have made at least one mistake mixing up a piece, but you know what, thankfully a collector caught it, I OK'd him to cut and see and once cut we recognized the error and removed the piece. The way things should go. I wrote to the list because you wrote ke a very nasty private email telling me how many decades you have been selling and how you could just resell the piece angered me. You know they are fake, now the whole list knows, you can compare your murchison to real murchisons and see there is no comparison. I don't want them resold onto perhaps other less knowledgable collectors. Something really really is fishy is going on here. By the way, you sold me and others these pieces in this forum, so why not clear it up in this forum? I also do not want to see these things sold and resold for years to come. What about the obvious fake Murchison? You don't even answer as to why you are selling such a piece. I am really concerned at how this has come to pass. Michael Farmer Sent from my iPhone On Jun 1, 2013, at 5:05 AM, Martin Altmann altm...@meteorite-martin.de wrote: Hi Mike and all, it’s really always sad, to experience,
Re: [meteorite-list] meteorites sold from Europe, not as described
Ok, so no answers then. I really don't understand your wit sometimes. Sorry it is above my head. So you refuse to answer why you sold me plastic label when your add said best provenance? Whoever bought the Bondoc and Murchison should step forward and get rid of that garbage. I am trying to see where this mess got started. Clearly you have no interest in that. See you in France, your piece will be hand delivered. Michael Farmer Sent from my iPhone On Jun 1, 2013, at 7:22 AM, Martin Altmann altm...@meteorite-martin.de wrote: Mike, it's enough. I'm not your Raspberry Tony. I wrote to the list because you wrote ke a very nasty private email I sent you a single email, yesterday at 11:11 p.m. containing the same content about labels ect, just I wrote here today, plus offering you to send the Estherville back and to refund the purchase price and the shipment costs. That email didn't contain any single harsh word, neither was it nastier than the first email we wrote to the list today. An answer you didn't wrote to us, instead we could read your effusions this morning on the list. So stop that immature clownery or look for somebody else to play with. Where is my refund? I will be happy when my money is back in my account. Your email yesterday came in half an hour earlier than our answer to you. As you might now, booking period of banks is in Germany (and Europe) ending at 5:00p.m. And booking takes place only on working days not on weekends. For accounting and tax purposes we have to withdraw each Paypal-payment onto our bank accounts. So we have first to refill the paypal-account again, which takes 2 working days. Hence probably Wednesday you'll get your refund, Which btw. matches the 5 days you had needed to pay the specimen. Else, much fun still in continuing, I won't support you in that, as in past you often enough you talked yourself in a ride or fall on this list, and anyway I trust enough in the competence of the collectors, to built their own opinion, what they will think about this. So see you in Ensisheim, Until then I won't be at your disposal here. Have a nice day, Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Michael Farmer Gesendet: Samstag, 1. Juni 2013 15:38 An: Martin Altmann Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] meteorites sold from Europe, not as described Martin, Do you feel a plastic label printed on your home computer qualifies as an American Meteorite Laboratory passport as you write in your email? I can print such things in seconds, as can anyone. So by using your usually very high standards, I can print €500 notes on my computer, as long as I put the name of the European bank reserve on the fake, it would make it a real €500 note? I think I'll try to pass a few around at dealers tables in Ensisheim and see how many rocks I can buy. Sorry but this collector is calling your passport a fake travel document. You sold this Estherville to me as an extremely rare well documented piece, you clearly state that it is with AML labels, but there is no AML label, just a plastic modern-made card. You know it is NOT am AML label, and selling it as such is a scam. Since there is not label, no number on the stone, absolutely nothing to show provenance, clearly the entire email you spent hours writing was a sales gimmick. You know I am a knowledgeable and serious collector, so why you would pass off this manufactured piece to me I don't know. Surely knowing my temper as you right here, you would know what the response would be? The only reason I bought it is because you stated it was AML with label. I figured that if it has an AML label then I was safe. I did not consider that I would receive a plastic card in substitute for AML documentation. I don't know who did it, or what Romanian collection it came from, I can't understand how you passed that off as acceptable. Where is my refund? I will be happy when my money is back in my account. Why you are defending these fake pieces with a story about a mislabeled meteorite I sold years ago I am not sure. The piece was cut and yes, it was in the wrong box or bag or whatever. Mistake yes, fraud of making and selling fake old labels and provenance, no. I have made at least one mistake mixing up a piece, but you know what, thankfully a collector caught it, I OK'd him to cut and see and once cut we recognized the error and removed the piece. The way things should go. I wrote to the list because you wrote ke a very nasty private email telling me how many decades you have been selling and how you could just resell the piece angered me. You know they are fake, now the whole list knows, you can compare your murchison to real murchisons and see there is no comparison. I don't want
[meteorite-list] Of Martian Rodents
Sales of all Martian rodents are hereby suspended until further notice. http://www.zdnet.com/was-a-squirrel-discovered-on-mars-716191/ -- - 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
Re: [meteorite-list] Of Martian Rodents
History repeats itself. Rats hitched rides on boats and infested many islands like Hawaii. It is clear to any student of history that the rat hitched a ride on Curiosity and died of disappointment when he realized he had not landed on our cheese filled moon but instead had landed on Mars. The present residents of Mars are now inserting probes into the rat with plans of reviving him and sending him back to earth to spy on us. Makes perfect sense to me ... Mendy From: Galactic Stone Ironworks meteoritem...@gmail.com To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, June 1, 2013 8:40 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Of Martian Rodents Sales of all Martian rodents are hereby suspended until further notice. http://www.zdnet.com/was-a-squirrel-discovered-on-mars-716191/ -- - 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 __ 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] Of Martian Rodents
Xerus martis ? Atlantoxerus martis? Looks like good eatin'! Curiosity does have that [PEW PEW PEW!] laser for a reason, right? --- Jodie Saturday, June 1, 2013, 9:06:50 AM, you wrote: History repeats itself. Rats hitched rides on boats and infested many islands like Hawaii. It is clear to any student of history that the rat hitched a ride on Curiosity and died of disappointment when he realized he had not landed on our cheese filled moon but instead had landed on Mars. The present residents of Mars are now inserting probes into the rat with plans of reviving him and sending him back to earth to spy on us. Makes perfect sense to me ... Mendy From: Galactic Stone Ironworks meteoritem...@gmail.com To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, June 1, 2013 8:40 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Of Martian Rodents Sales of all Martian rodents are hereby suspended until further notice. http://www.zdnet.com/was-a-squirrel-discovered-on-mars-716191/ -- - 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 __ 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 -- Best regards, Jodiemailto:spacero...@spaceballoon.org __ 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] Pebbly Rocks Testify to Old Streambed on Mars (MSL)
Yes, Steve, Larryerosion, if the flowing CO2 could produce any, would not be anything like flowing water...eg tumbling rock into round pebbles..the best you could hope for would be some sorts of ventifacts being created...just as flowing gases (wind) create on earth. Graham On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 1:14 PM, lebof...@lpl.arizona.edu wrote: Hi Steve: Yes, I did see your video link. Thanks for sending that. All that this demonstrates is that CO2 is denser than air and that, when it displaces the oxygen, the candle goes out. So, even in this case it is not the force of the CO2 that is putting the flame out, but the lack of oxygen. CO2 gas is 1.5 as dense as air, but 1/500 the density of water. I doubt that you could mimic the know effects of moving water in a stream bed with a much less dense gas. If nothing else, the gas would disperse in the atmosphere rapidly unlike the much denser water. Sublimation is a very slow process, look at comet nuclei. There is a limit to how fast something can sublimate. As the ice warms up and turns to gas, the energy needed to do this actually cools the surface (the same thing as evaporative cooling which cools you as sweat evaporates off of your skin). I wrote several papers years ago on ice sublimation. The scientists used the sizes and size distribution of the rounded grains to compare with what we see in stream beds on Earth and can actually come up with depth, duration, and speed of the water. I do not see how you could replicate that with a gentle flow of gas no matter how long you had. Your idea is interesting, but decades of research have shown that geologic processes on Mars (and other objects) are not that different than what we see on Earth. If we see on Mars what looks like a stream bed on Earth, it is likely that the process that formed the stream bed on Earth (water) also did this on Mars. So, what conditions would have been necessary for the stream bed to have formed on Mars? A little more atmosphere and a little warmer! I hope that this helps. Larry I believe I did not describe properly what I was trying to say. The video link I sent clearly showed co2 gas being poured from a beaker. During the cold mars night a thin layer of co2 frost can form on a hillside. when daylight returns and thaws the frost, the recently sublimated co2 being colder than the surrounding atmosphere is going to flow down hill. Millions of years of colder denser gas flowing down hill is going to cause erosion that simulates the flow of water. Mars has an 100 thousand year polar freeze thaw cycle. When billions of tons of co2 sublimate from the poles its going to flow out from the poles and cause erosion as it does so. Millions of years of this repeated cycle of the colder gas flowing down hill is going to carve what looks like river beds, canyons and lakes. all without any water needed. Cheers Steve --- On Fri, 5/31/13, Graham Ensor graham.en...@gmail.com wrote: From: Graham Ensor graham.en...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Pebbly Rocks Testify to Old Streambed on Mars (MSL) To: lebof...@lpl.arizona.edu Cc: Steve Dunklee steve.dunk...@yahoo.com, Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com, Ron Baalke baa...@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov Date: Friday, May 31, 2013, 11:39 PM Hi Larry, that's exactly the word I was trying to look for...sublimates...just could not bring it to mind. (any was being too lazy to look it up) So my thoughts were rightvery unlikely for there ever to be any liquid CO2 on Mars. G On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 6:32 PM, lebof...@lpl.arizona.edu wrote: Hi Graham and Steve: Technically, you are wrong--CO2 sublimates (turns from solid to gas) and does not evaporate (turns from liquid to gas). The triple point (where solid, liquid, and gas exist)of CO2 is 5.1 atmospheres. Since the sea level pressure on Mars is about 0.006 atmospheres, the atmospheric pressure on Mars would have had to have been 1000 times greater than it is now. Not very likely. To have liquid water (enough for flowing rivers) the pressure would have to be about 0.006 atmospheres at 0 degrees C. In fact, I think that this is how they originally defined the mean surface of Mars. The only problem is that Mars is generally too cold at this pressure for there to be liquid water, so you would need a warmer Mars (by a about 60 degrees centigrade for the average temperature) in order to get water flowing on Mars. This is much more likely than a 1000-fold increase in surface pressure. In fact, there is evidence for liquid water on Mars, but not in great amounts (gullies, for example). Larry Hi Steve, Liquid CO2 cannot exsist as a liquid at atmospheric pressure. It must be pressurized above 60.4 psi to remain as a liquidso would it have ever flowed on Mars at all? Solid CO2 evaporates to gas on Earth and I would say it does the same on
Re: [meteorite-list] Pebbly Rocks Testify to Old Streambed on Mars (MSL)
Aeolian desert sands can exhibit remarkable sphericity, rounding and sorting not unlike extremely mature water worn clastic sediments, but I don't think the phenomena extends to grain sizes beyond a few millimetres. It does seem conceivable that very high wind speeds with a denser atmosphere might get tumbling agitation going with larger rocks, but poorly sorted conglomerates suggests water not wind from an earthly perspective. John On 01/06/2013 23:55, Graham Ensor graham.en...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, Steve, Larryerosion, if the flowing CO2 could produce any, would not be anything like flowing water...eg tumbling rock into round pebbles..the best you could hope for would be some sorts of ventifacts being created...just as flowing gases (wind) create on earth. Graham On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 1:14 PM, lebof...@lpl.arizona.edu wrote: Hi Steve: Yes, I did see your video link. Thanks for sending that. All that this demonstrates is that CO2 is denser than air and that, when it displaces the oxygen, the candle goes out. So, even in this case it is not the force of the CO2 that is putting the flame out, but the lack of oxygen. CO2 gas is 1.5 as dense as air, but 1/500 the density of water. I doubt that you could mimic the know effects of moving water in a stream bed with a much less dense gas. If nothing else, the gas would disperse in the atmosphere rapidly unlike the much denser water. Sublimation is a very slow process, look at comet nuclei. There is a limit to how fast something can sublimate. As the ice warms up and turns to gas, the energy needed to do this actually cools the surface (the same thing as evaporative cooling which cools you as sweat evaporates off of your skin). I wrote several papers years ago on ice sublimation. The scientists used the sizes and size distribution of the rounded grains to compare with what we see in stream beds on Earth and can actually come up with depth, duration, and speed of the water. I do not see how you could replicate that with a gentle flow of gas no matter how long you had. Your idea is interesting, but decades of research have shown that geologic processes on Mars (and other objects) are not that different than what we see on Earth. If we see on Mars what looks like a stream bed on Earth, it is likely that the process that formed the stream bed on Earth (water) also did this on Mars. So, what conditions would have been necessary for the stream bed to have formed on Mars? A little more atmosphere and a little warmer! I hope that this helps. Larry I believe I did not describe properly what I was trying to say. The video link I sent clearly showed co2 gas being poured from a beaker. During the cold mars night a thin layer of co2 frost can form on a hillside. when daylight returns and thaws the frost, the recently sublimated co2 being colder than the surrounding atmosphere is going to flow down hill. Millions of years of colder denser gas flowing down hill is going to cause erosion that simulates the flow of water. Mars has an 100 thousand year polar freeze thaw cycle. When billions of tons of co2 sublimate from the poles its going to flow out from the poles and cause erosion as it does so. Millions of years of this repeated cycle of the colder gas flowing down hill is going to carve what looks like river beds, canyons and lakes. all without any water needed. Cheers Steve --- On Fri, 5/31/13, Graham Ensor graham.en...@gmail.com wrote: From: Graham Ensor graham.en...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Pebbly Rocks Testify to Old Streambed on Mars (MSL) To: lebof...@lpl.arizona.edu Cc: Steve Dunklee steve.dunk...@yahoo.com, Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com, Ron Baalke baa...@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov Date: Friday, May 31, 2013, 11:39 PM Hi Larry, that's exactly the word I was trying to look for...sublimates...just could not bring it to mind. (any was being too lazy to look it up) So my thoughts were rightvery unlikely for there ever to be any liquid CO2 on Mars. G On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 6:32 PM, lebof...@lpl.arizona.edu wrote: Hi Graham and Steve: Technically, you are wrong--CO2 sublimates (turns from solid to gas) and does not evaporate (turns from liquid to gas). The triple point (where solid, liquid, and gas exist)of CO2 is 5.1 atmospheres. Since the sea level pressure on Mars is about 0.006 atmospheres, the atmospheric pressure on Mars would have had to have been 1000 times greater than it is now. Not very likely. To have liquid water (enough for flowing rivers) the pressure would have to be about 0.006 atmospheres at 0 degrees C. In fact, I think that this is how they originally defined the mean surface of Mars. The only problem is that Mars is generally too cold at this pressure for there to be liquid water, so you would need a warmer Mars (by a about 60 degrees centigrade for the average temperature) in order
[meteorite-list] AD:332g Diogenite
Hello All am offering an 332g diogeneit at very good price ,please contacte me off list if you are interested Best greetings -- Rachid Chaoui IMCA # 4157 __ 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] Dawn Journal - May 31, 2013
http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/journal_05_31_13.asp Dawn Journal Dr. Marc Rayman May 31, 2013 Dear Confidawnts, Traveling from one alien world to another, Dawn is reliably powering its way through the main asteroid belt with its ion propulsion system. Vesta, the fascinating and complex protoplanet it explored in 2011 and 2012, falls farther and farther behind as the spacecraft gently and patiently reshapes its orbit around the sun, aiming for a 2015 rendezvous with dwarf planet Ceres. The stalwart adventurer has recently completed its longest uninterrupted ion thrust period yet. As part of the campaign to conserve precious hydrazine propellant, Dawn now suspends thrusting once every four weeks to point its main antenna to Earth. (In contrast, spacecraft with conventional chemical propulsion spend the vast majority of time coasting.) Because of details of the mission operations schedule and the schedule for NASA's Deep Space Network, the thrust durations can vary by a few days. As a result, the spacecraft spent 31.2 days thrusting without a hiatus. This exceeds Deep Space 1's longest sustained powered flight of 29.2 days. While there currently are no plans to thrust for longer times, the unique craft certainly is capable of doing so. The principal limitation is how much data it can store on the performance of all subsystems (pressures, temperatures, currents, voltages, valve positions, etc.) for subsequent reporting to its terrestrial colleagues. Thanks to the ship's dependability, the operations team has been able to devote much of its energies recently to developing and refining the complex plans for the exploration of Ceres. You might be among the privileged readers who will get a preview when we begin describing the plans later this year. Controllers also have devised some special activities for the spacecraft to perform in the near future, accounts of which are predicted to be in the next two logs. In addition, team members have had time to maintain their skills for when the spacecraft needs more attention. Earlier this month, they conducted an operational readiness test (ORT). One diabolical engineer carefully configured the Dawn spacecraft simulator at JPL to behave as if a pebble one-half of a centimeter (one-fifth of an inch) in diameter shooting through the asteroid belt collided with the probe at well over twice the velocity of a high-performance rifle bullet. When the explorer entered this region of space, we discussed that it was not as risky as residents of other parts of the solar system might assume. Dawn does not require Han Solo's piloting skills to avoid most of the dangerous rocky debris. The robot could tolerate such a wound, but it would require some help from operators to resume normal operations. This exercise presented the spacecraft team with an opportunity to spend several days working through the diagnosis and performing the steps necessary to continue the mission (using some of the ship's backup systems). While the specific problem is extremely unlikely to occur, the ORT provided valuable training for new members of the project and served to keep others sharp. One more benefit of the smooth operations is the time that it enables your correspondent to write his third shortest log ever. (Feel free to do the implied research.) Frequent readers can only hope he strives to achieve such a gratifying feat again! Dawn is 13 million kilometers (7.9 million miles) from Vesta and 54 million kilometers (34 million miles) from Ceres. It is also 3.25 AU (486 million kilometers or 302 million miles) from Earth, or 1,275 times as far as the moon and 3.20 times as far as the sun today. Radio signals, traveling at the universal limit of the speed of light, take 54 minutes to make the round trip. __ 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 27-31, 2013
MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES May 27-31, 2013 o Bakhuysen Crater (27 May 2013) http://themis.asu.edu/node/6169 o Yardangs (28 May 2013) http://themis.asu.edu/node/6170 o Yardangs (29 May 2013) http://themis.asu.edu/node/6171 o Dunes and Dust Devils (30 May 2013) http://themis.asu.edu/node/6172 o Channels (31 May 2013) http://themis.asu.edu/node/6173 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] what is a...
Can someone please tell me what a Raspberry Tony is? Thanx Paul Gessler __ 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] what is a...
I was wondering that myself. I just want a real Estherville, because this is slag. Michael Farmer Sent from my iPhone On Jun 1, 2013, at 9:03 PM, Paul Gessler cetu...@shaw.ca wrote: Can someone please tell me what a Raspberry Tony is? Thanx Paul Gessler __ 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 __ 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
