[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: NWA 4379 Contributed by: Hanno Strufe 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] New Brazilian fall field trip report - The Vicencia Meteorite
Thanks a lot for the interesting report, André! It's a pleasure to read! This fall is already one of my favorites of recent times! It reminds me a bit of Varre-Sai ... both great stories of a man's encounter with a meteorite! abraços Martin Von: André Moutinho mouti...@bol.com.br An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: [meteorite-list] New Brazilian fall field trip report - The Vicencia Meteorite Datum: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 04:15:13 +0200 Hello all! I have arrived today from another field trip to recover the most recent Brazilian fall. I have solved to write this small report to let everybody know about this fall: This very interesting fall event occurred on a small district of Vicencia named Borracha. Vicência is a small city located about 120 km from Recife city, the capital of Pernambuco state in Brazil northwest. According to residents, Borracha interestingly received its name because it grew very fast stretching like rubber, that means Borracha in Portuguese. Mr. Adeilson was working in front of his modest joinery in Borracha village on a sunny Monday day of September, 21st. At a certain moment at around 3:00 PM he stooped to pick up something on the the ground and suddenly heard a very loud noise of something that had just hit the ground nearby him. He did not know what had happened but soon noticed a very strange black rock on a small pit only about 1 meter from him (he told us he measured the distance from where he was and the meteorite pit with a measuring tape and this can be seen on some youtube videos). Mr. Adeilson caught the almost hammer stone that could have killed him and noticed that one side of the rock was still hot and the other cold. Many neighbors were in front of their houses and witnessed the impact event noticing only the loud noise of the meteorite impact on the ground. As usual, nothing at impact zone was heard or seen in the air except the ground hit impact. One or two of them were just on the exact impact location very few minutes ago. I had just arrived home from another hard work day on Friday 27th and read some Internet hot news concerning a possible new meteorite fall in Brazil. According to these news only a meteorite could have caused such event. I immediately called Dr. Elizabete Zucolotto, meteorite researcher and curator of the Brazilian NM. She also read the news and there was no doubt that it could be a meteorite fall. We had to go to that location immediately. We bought the flight tickets to Recife at that same night and traveled the following day. Arriving at Recife we rented a car and headed to Vicência and then to Borracha village. On the way from Vicência city to the village we started to notice the mountains were covered with sugar cane and banana plantations and started to notice that finding more pieces of this fall could possibly be harder than Varre-sai. At least in Varre-sai there were some pastures to search. The entrance for the village is near an alcohol plant. Finding the village was also hard as there was no signs on the way and we had to ask to many people we found on the way. A lot of them were drunk and we thought that the sugar cane plantion were only for local usage.. The village is basically one road with houses on both sides and a small church. Interestingly the first person we have found on that village was Mr. Adeilson in front of his joinery that I have recognized by the videos and pictures. As hapenned in Varre-Sai with Mr. Germano, Mr Adeilson was already a famous person on that small village and had already given some interviews to TV channels and local radios. Fortunatelly the rock was still with him besides the fact that he had received many offers to sell but refused. The first lower offer he received was from a local resident that offered a new motorcycle. At fall location we made video interviews with Mr. Adeilson and some neighbors that witnessed the fall event. It was hard even for us that are Portuguese native to sometime understand what Mr. Adeilson said because of his strong accent. We then asked him if we could see the rock. He agreed and lead us to his modest house nearby the joinery. Holding the stone there was no doubt it was a beautiful super fresh meteorite that had fallen less than a week ago and was recovered still hot from the ground! We took pictures and talked to a lot of people that were in front of Mr. Adeilson's house attracted by the outer space visitor notice that spread like fire. There was no condition to try buying the stone at that moment and we decided to leave Mr. Adeilson's house and headed again to the fall area to try search on nearby mountains covered with plantations. Also we have used the best effective meteorite recovery method: teaching locals to find meteorites and offering them a reward. Another thing that must be done was trying to figure out the meteorite bolide direction and possible strewn field
Re: [meteorite-list] New Brazilian fall field trip report - The Vicencia Meteorite
Great report and recovery Andre, Graham On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 3:15 AM, André Moutinho mouti...@bol.com.br wrote: Hello all! I have arrived today from another field trip to recover the most recent Brazilian fall. I have solved to write this small report to let everybody know about this fall: This very interesting fall event occurred on a small district of Vicencia named Borracha. Vicência is a small city located about 120 km from Recife city, the capital of Pernambuco state in Brazil northwest. According to residents, Borracha interestingly received its name because it grew very fast stretching like rubber, that means Borracha in Portuguese. Mr. Adeilson was working in front of his modest joinery in Borracha village on a sunny Monday day of September, 21st. At a certain moment at around 3:00 PM he stooped to pick up something on the the ground and suddenly heard a very loud noise of something that had just hit the ground nearby him. He did not know what had happened but soon noticed a very strange black rock on a small pit only about 1 meter from him (he told us he measured the distance from where he was and the meteorite pit with a measuring tape and this can be seen on some youtube videos). Mr. Adeilson caught the almost hammer stone that could have killed him and noticed that one side of the rock was still hot and the other cold. Many neighbors were in front of their houses and witnessed the impact event noticing only the loud noise of the meteorite impact on the ground. As usual, nothing at impact zone was heard or seen in the air except the ground hit impact. One or two of them were just on the exact impact location very few minutes ago. I had just arrived home from another hard work day on Friday 27th and read some Internet hot news concerning a possible new meteorite fall in Brazil. According to these news only a meteorite could have caused such event. I immediately called Dr. Elizabete Zucolotto, meteorite researcher and curator of the Brazilian NM. She also read the news and there was no doubt that it could be a meteorite fall. We had to go to that location immediately. We bought the flight tickets to Recife at that same night and traveled the following day. Arriving at Recife we rented a car and headed to Vicência and then to Borracha village. On the way from Vicência city to the village we started to notice the mountains were covered with sugar cane and banana plantations and started to notice that finding more pieces of this fall could possibly be harder than Varre-sai. At least in Varre-sai there were some pastures to search. The entrance for the village is near an alcohol plant. Finding the village was also hard as there was no signs on the way and we had to ask to many people we found on the way. A lot of them were drunk and we thought that the sugar cane plantion were only for local usage.. The village is basically one road with houses on both sides and a small church. Interestingly the first person we have found on that village was Mr. Adeilson in front of his joinery that I have recognized by the videos and pictures. As hapenned in Varre-Sai with Mr. Germano, Mr Adeilson was already a famous person on that small village and had already given some interviews to TV channels and local radios. Fortunatelly the rock was still with him besides the fact that he had received many offers to sell but refused. The first lower offer he received was from a local resident that offered a new motorcycle. At fall location we made video interviews with Mr. Adeilson and some neighbors that witnessed the fall event. It was hard even for us that are Portuguese native to sometime understand what Mr. Adeilson said because of his strong accent. We then asked him if we could see the rock. He agreed and lead us to his modest house nearby the joinery. Holding the stone there was no doubt it was a beautiful super fresh meteorite that had fallen less than a week ago and was recovered still hot from the ground! We took pictures and talked to a lot of people that were in front of Mr. Adeilson's house attracted by the outer space visitor notice that spread like fire. There was no condition to try buying the stone at that moment and we decided to leave Mr. Adeilson's house and headed again to the fall area to try search on nearby mountains covered with plantations. Also we have used the best effective meteorite recovery method: teaching locals to find meteorites and offering them a reward. Another thing that must be done was trying to figure out the meteorite bolide direction and possible strewn field area. To accomplish this we tried to interview other residents further from the impact zone and to discover if someone had seen the bolide or heard the explosion in the air. Nobody saw any sign of the bolide or smoke in the air but we got some clues that some noise could have
Re: [meteorite-list] Met Bull
Working fine here, Johnno! Jim On 10/3/2013 7:13 PM, John Cabassi wrote: G'Day List Now this really sucks. Wanted to do some research and this is the response http://www.usgs.gov/ Cheers John -- Jim Wooddell jim.woodd...@suddenlink.net http://pages.suddenlink.net/chondrule/ __ 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] Met Bull
Clear your browser cache Jim, it ain't working. Nor are just about all USGS pages. Sent from my iPad On Oct 5, 2013, at 5:57 AM, Jim Wooddell jim.woodd...@suddenlink.net wrote: Working fine here, Johnno! Jim On 10/3/2013 7:13 PM, John Cabassi wrote: G'Day List Now this really sucks. Wanted to do some research and this is the response http://www.usgs.gov/ Cheers John -- Jim Wooddell jim.woodd...@suddenlink.net http://pages.suddenlink.net/chondrule/ __ 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] Met Bull
If it is the Meteoritical Bulletin you are seeking, it hasn't been at the USGS for 3 years, although the old address does redirect. The current address is: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php Jeff On 10/5/2013 9:46 AM, Steve Richey wrote: Clear your browser cache Jim, it ain't working. Nor are just about all USGS pages. Sent from my iPad On Oct 5, 2013, at 5:57 AM, Jim Wooddell jim.woodd...@suddenlink.net wrote: Working fine here, Johnno! Jim On 10/3/2013 7:13 PM, John Cabassi wrote: G'Day List Now this really sucks. Wanted to do some research and this is the response http://www.usgs.gov/ Cheers John -- Jim Wooddell jim.woodd...@suddenlink.net http://pages.suddenlink.net/chondrule/ __ 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 __ 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] Met Bull
Hi Folks, Use this link. It works. link - http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php 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 - On 10/5/13, Steve Richey sfric...@gmail.com wrote: Clear your browser cache Jim, it ain't working. Nor are just about all USGS pages. Sent from my iPad On Oct 5, 2013, at 5:57 AM, Jim Wooddell jim.woodd...@suddenlink.net wrote: Working fine here, Johnno! Jim On 10/3/2013 7:13 PM, John Cabassi wrote: G'Day List Now this really sucks. Wanted to do some research and this is the response http://www.usgs.gov/ Cheers John -- Jim Wooddell jim.woodd...@suddenlink.net http://pages.suddenlink.net/chondrule/ __ 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 __ 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] Met Bull
Hi Steve, The IP Addr does not indicate it is at the USGS, nor does it show it's been there for some time! If you are using a usgs url, then it must be a redirect and that might be down. However the Met Bulls are up and running just fine at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php which is the correct url to useor at least that what I use. Hope this helps! Jim On 10/5/2013 6:46 AM, Steve Richey wrote: Clear your browser cache Jim, it ain't working. Nor are just about all USGS pages. Sent from my iPad On Oct 5, 2013, at 5:57 AM, Jim Wooddell jim.woodd...@suddenlink.net wrote: -- Jim Wooddell jim.woodd...@suddenlink.net http://pages.suddenlink.net/chondrule/ __ 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
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Re: [meteorite-list] Met Bull
Steve and all! Oops! I see Jeff respondedso my last post was sort of a duplicate of what he saidmy bad. Jim -- Jim Wooddell jim.woodd...@suddenlink.net http://pages.suddenlink.net/chondrule/ __ 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
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[meteorite-list] RES: New Brazilian fall field trip report - The Vicencia Meteorite
Thank you very much Graham! Best Andre -Mensagem original- De: Graham Ensor [mailto:graham.en...@gmail.com] Enviada em: sábado, 5 de outubro de 2013 05:19 Para: André Moutinho Cc: meteorite list Assunto: Re: [meteorite-list] New Brazilian fall field trip report - The Vicencia Meteorite Great report and recovery Andre, Graham On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 3:15 AM, André Moutinho mouti...@bol.com.br wrote: Hello all! I have arrived today from another field trip to recover the most recent Brazilian fall. I have solved to write this small report to let everybody know about this fall: This very interesting fall event occurred on a small district of Vicencia named Borracha. Vicência is a small city located about 120 km from Recife city, the capital of Pernambuco state in Brazil northwest. According to residents, Borracha interestingly received its name because it grew very fast stretching like rubber, that means Borracha in Portuguese. Mr. Adeilson was working in front of his modest joinery in Borracha village on a sunny Monday day of September, 21st. At a certain moment at around 3:00 PM he stooped to pick up something on the the ground and suddenly heard a very loud noise of something that had just hit the ground nearby him. He did not know what had happened but soon noticed a very strange black rock on a small pit only about 1 meter from him (he told us he measured the distance from where he was and the meteorite pit with a measuring tape and this can be seen on some youtube videos). Mr. Adeilson caught the almost hammer stone that could have killed him and noticed that one side of the rock was still hot and the other cold. Many neighbors were in front of their houses and witnessed the impact event noticing only the loud noise of the meteorite impact on the ground. As usual, nothing at impact zone was heard or seen in the air except the ground hit impact. One or two of them were just on the exact impact location very few minutes ago. I had just arrived home from another hard work day on Friday 27th and read some Internet hot news concerning a possible new meteorite fall in Brazil. According to these news only a meteorite could have caused such event. I immediately called Dr. Elizabete Zucolotto, meteorite researcher and curator of the Brazilian NM. She also read the news and there was no doubt that it could be a meteorite fall. We had to go to that location immediately. We bought the flight tickets to Recife at that same night and traveled the following day. Arriving at Recife we rented a car and headed to Vicência and then to Borracha village. On the way from Vicência city to the village we started to notice the mountains were covered with sugar cane and banana plantations and started to notice that finding more pieces of this fall could possibly be harder than Varre-sai. At least in Varre-sai there were some pastures to search. The entrance for the village is near an alcohol plant. Finding the village was also hard as there was no signs on the way and we had to ask to many people we found on the way. A lot of them were drunk and we thought that the sugar cane plantion were only for local usage.. The village is basically one road with houses on both sides and a small church. Interestingly the first person we have found on that village was Mr. Adeilson in front of his joinery that I have recognized by the videos and pictures. As hapenned in Varre-Sai with Mr. Germano, Mr Adeilson was already a famous person on that small village and had already given some interviews to TV channels and local radios. Fortunatelly the rock was still with him besides the fact that he had received many offers to sell but refused. The first lower offer he received was from a local resident that offered a new motorcycle. At fall location we made video interviews with Mr. Adeilson and some neighbors that witnessed the fall event. It was hard even for us that are Portuguese native to sometime understand what Mr. Adeilson said because of his strong accent. We then asked him if we could see the rock. He agreed and lead us to his modest house nearby the joinery. Holding the stone there was no doubt it was a beautiful super fresh meteorite that had fallen less than a week ago and was recovered still hot from the ground! We took pictures and talked to a lot of people that were in front of Mr. Adeilson's house attracted by the outer space visitor notice that spread like fire. There was no condition to try buying the stone at that moment and we decided to leave Mr. Adeilson's house and headed again to the fall area to try search on nearby mountains covered with plantations. Also we have used the best effective meteorite recovery method: teaching locals to find meteorites and offering them a reward. Another thing that must be done was trying to figure out the meteorite bolide direction and possible strewn field area. To accomplish this we tried to interview other residents further from the impact zone and to
[meteorite-list] RES: New Brazilian fall field trip report - The Vicencia Meteorite
Hi Martin, Thank you for your comments concerning the report. Yes.. both Varre-sai and this new meteorite fall have great stories! In Varre-Sai the meteorite that was witnessed by Mr. Germano was acquired by the city and was not available for sale.. It did not happened again and it was possible to buy the meteorite that almost hit Mr. Adeilson. I believe adding extra value to it. Abraços Andre -Mensagem original- De: karmaka [mailto:karmaka-meteori...@t-online.de] Enviada em: sábado, 5 de outubro de 2013 04:25 Para: André Moutinho; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Assunto: Re: [meteorite-list] New Brazilian fall field trip report - The Vicencia Meteorite Thanks a lot for the interesting report, André! It's a pleasure to read! This fall is already one of my favorites of recent times! It reminds me a bit of Varre-Sai ... both great stories of a man's encounter with a meteorite! abraços Martin Von: André Moutinho mouti...@bol.com.br An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: [meteorite-list] New Brazilian fall field trip report - The Vicencia Meteorite Datum: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 04:15:13 +0200 Hello all! I have arrived today from another field trip to recover the most recent Brazilian fall. I have solved to write this small report to let everybody know about this fall: This very interesting fall event occurred on a small district of Vicencia named Borracha. Vicência is a small city located about 120 km from Recife city, the capital of Pernambuco state in Brazil northwest. According to residents, Borracha interestingly received its name because it grew very fast stretching like rubber, that means Borracha in Portuguese. Mr. Adeilson was working in front of his modest joinery in Borracha village on a sunny Monday day of September, 21st. At a certain moment at around 3:00 PM he stooped to pick up something on the the ground and suddenly heard a very loud noise of something that had just hit the ground nearby him. He did not know what had happened but soon noticed a very strange black rock on a small pit only about 1 meter from him (he told us he measured the distance from where he was and the meteorite pit with a measuring tape and this can be seen on some youtube videos). Mr. Adeilson caught the almost hammer stone that could have killed him and noticed that one side of the rock was still hot and the other cold. Many neighbors were in front of their houses and witnessed the impact event noticing only the loud noise of the meteorite impact on the ground. As usual, nothing at impact zone was heard or seen in the air except the ground hit impact. One or two of them were just on the exact impact location very few minutes ago. I had just arrived home from another hard work day on Friday 27th and read some Internet hot news concerning a possible new meteorite fall in Brazil. According to these news only a meteorite could have caused such event. I immediately called Dr. Elizabete Zucolotto, meteorite researcher and curator of the Brazilian NM. She also read the news and there was no doubt that it could be a meteorite fall. We had to go to that location immediately. We bought the flight tickets to Recife at that same night and traveled the following day. Arriving at Recife we rented a car and headed to Vicência and then to Borracha village. On the way from Vicência city to the village we started to notice the mountains were covered with sugar cane and banana plantations and started to notice that finding more pieces of this fall could possibly be harder than Varre-sai. At least in Varre-sai there were some pastures to search. The entrance for the village is near an alcohol plant. Finding the village was also hard as there was no signs on the way and we had to ask to many people we found on the way. A lot of them were drunk and we thought that the sugar cane plantion were only for local usage.. The village is basically one road with houses on both sides and a small church. Interestingly the first person we have found on that village was Mr. Adeilson in front of his joinery that I have recognized by the videos and pictures. As hapenned in Varre-Sai with Mr. Germano, Mr Adeilson was already a famous person on that small village and had already given some interviews to TV channels and local radios. Fortunatelly the rock was still with him besides the fact that he had received many offers to sell but refused. The first lower offer he received was from a local resident that offered a new motorcycle. At fall location we made video interviews with Mr. Adeilson and some neighbors that witnessed the fall event. It was hard even for us that are Portuguese native to sometime understand what Mr. Adeilson said because of his strong accent. We then asked him if we could see the rock. He agreed and lead us to his modest house nearby the joinery. Holding the stone there was no doubt it was a beautiful super fresh meteorite that
