[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Cape York Contributed by: Anne Black http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Meteorite smashes into Nicaraguan capital ???
Anyone read or hear more on this? http://news.yahoo.com/meteorite-smashes-nicaraguan-capital-230034550.html Sincerely Don Merchant Founder-Cosmic Treasures Celestial Wonders www.ctreasurescwonders.com IMCA #0960 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Heritage Auction has 51 meteorite u for sale
I Shawn and all, This community doesn't care for paying 10% buyer's premium. How do you think they feel about paying 25% buyer's premium? I was personally struck with the lack of information when I Checked out the $12,500.00 minimum bid S-A as I could find no Mention anywhere as to what the weight wasit was nice to look At but I was left with no idea as to whether it was 35 grams or 35 kilos. Best to all, Michael On 9/7/14 12:39 PM, Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: Hello Listers For those of you looking for some magnificent meteorites, look no further. Heritage Auction house has some great meteoritic samples up for auction. Take a look at the link down below and enjoy. http://fineart.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?Ne=2130N=50+793+794+792+2088+429494 4482+2305 S Shawn Alan IMCA 1633 ebay store http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633nyc/m.html Website http://meteoritefalls.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] A Managua, Nicaragua meteorite?
Kevin, List, It looks a great deal like the Carancas crater, although it's a little smaller, about 80% of its size. The test would be: are there meteorites scattered about? Good photo (official Army photo) found here: http://www.smh.com.au/world/rare-meteorite-impact-causes-blast-in-nicaraguas -capital-managua-20140908-10dsqo.html and http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/09/07/meteorite-strikes-nicaragua/15 262973/ and some film from Russia: https://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=entab=wnar=1410130829 They are sweeping with metal detectors, but only on the well-worn pathway, not in the grass! More photos here: http://news.yahoo.com/meteorite-smashes-nicaraguan-capital-230034550.html;_y lt=AwrSyCUf6AxUNwYAZ5fQtDMD Sterling Webb -- -Original Message- From: Meteorite-list [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Kichinka via Meteorite-list Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2014 5:47 PM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] A Managua, Nicaragua meteorite? Team Meteorite: There appears a photo of an alleged meteorite crater in the news just a few moments ago. It's being well-guarded by armed Sandinista's. Does anyone beside Nica jefe Daniel Ortega think this looks like a met crater? http://www.ticotimes.net/2014/09/07/meteorite-smashes-into-nicaraguan-capita l Kevin Kichinka Rio Oro, Santa Ana, Costa Rica The Art of Collecting Meteorites (Amazon and Barnes and Noble eBook) The Global Meteorite Price Report - 2015 out in late December mars...@gmail.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] A Managua, Nicaragua meteorite?
Hi Sterling, Note the erroneous, yet predictable association with 2014 RC in these reports. It's Chelyabinsk and 2012 DA14 all over again. Does sound a little like Carancas Take 2, but near a city of over 1 million people -- no fireball witnesses? --Rob -Original Message- From: Meteorite-list [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Sterling K. Webb via Meteorite-list Sent: Monday, September 08, 2014 7:05 AM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] A Managua, Nicaragua meteorite? Kevin, List, It looks a great deal like the Carancas crater, although it's a little smaller, about 80% of its size. The test would be: are there meteorites scattered about? Good photo (official Army photo) found here: http://www.smh.com.au/world/rare-meteorite-impact-causes-blast-in-nicaraguas-cap ital-managua-20140908-10dsqo.html and http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/09/07/meteorite-strikes-nicaragua/152629 73/ and some film from Russia: https://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=entab=wnar=1410130829 They are sweeping with metal detectors, but only on the well-worn pathway, not in the grass! More photos here: http://news.yahoo.com/meteorite-smashes-nicaraguan-capital-230034550.html;_ylt=A wrSyCUf6AxUNwYAZ5fQtDMD Sterling Webb -- -Original Message- From: Meteorite-list [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Kichinka via Meteorite-list Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2014 5:47 PM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] A Managua, Nicaragua meteorite? Team Meteorite: There appears a photo of an alleged meteorite crater in the news just a few moments ago. It's being well-guarded by armed Sandinista's. Does anyone beside Nica jefe Daniel Ortega think this looks like a met crater? http://www.ticotimes.net/2014/09/07/meteorite-smashes-into-nicaraguan-capita l Kevin Kichinka Rio Oro, Santa Ana, Costa Rica The Art of Collecting Meteorites (Amazon and Barnes and Noble eBook) The Global Meteorite Price Report - 2015 out in late December mars...@gmail.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Heritage Auction has 51 meteorite u for sale
Or how about this one: http://fineart.ha.com/itm/nature-and-science/nickel-iron-meteorite-tony-s-meteorite-shamokin-pennsylvania-usa/a/5192-73289.s It's a meteorite? (Quotes theirs, not mine) It's a rock someone found once and someone said it might be a meteortie. And they're selling this? Why? Get it analyzed by a lab and classified for crying out loud! Unbelievable. Is this ebay? It's probably not even a meteorite... Michael in so. Cal. On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Michael Blood via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: I Shawn and all, This community doesn't care for paying 10% buyer's premium. How do you think they feel about paying 25% buyer's premium? I was personally struck with the lack of information when I Checked out the $12,500.00 minimum bid S-A as I could find no Mention anywhere as to what the weight wasit was nice to look At but I was left with no idea as to whether it was 35 grams or 35 kilos. Best to all, Michael On 9/7/14 12:39 PM, Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: Hello Listers For those of you looking for some magnificent meteorites, look no further. Heritage Auction house has some great meteoritic samples up for auction. Take a look at the link down below and enjoy. http://fineart.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?Ne=2130N=50+793+794+792+2088+429494 4482+2305 S Shawn Alan IMCA 1633 ebay store http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633nyc/m.html Website http://meteoritefalls.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Heritage Auction has 51 meteorite u for sale
Hi All, Heritage will sell anything. They are always short on technical info in their lot descriptions because they are marketing to the uninformed. All they want to do is make money on both ends of the deal and hope the buyer is some person who sees the pretty picture and reads the idiotic and repetitive description and decides to buy because it's you know...a meteorite like I saw sold on Pawn Brokers for $4,2000! (Unclassified 300/400 gram NWA)and George would really like it on his desk. PT had it right. There's a sucker born every minute. Cordially, Count Deiro IMCA 3536 -Original Message- From: Michael Blood via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sep 8, 2014 4:59 AM To: Shawn Alan shawna...@meteoritefalls.com, Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Heritage Auction has 51 meteorite u for sale I Shawn and all, This community doesn't care for paying 10% buyer's premium. How do you think they feel about paying 25% buyer's premium? I was personally struck with the lack of information when I Checked out the $12,500.00 minimum bid S-A as I could find no Mention anywhere as to what the weight wasit was nice to look At but I was left with no idea as to whether it was 35 grams or 35 kilos. Best to all, Michael On 9/7/14 12:39 PM, Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: Hello Listers For those of you looking for some magnificent meteorites, look no further. Heritage Auction house has some great meteoritic samples up for auction. Take a look at the link down below and enjoy. http://fineart.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?Ne=2130N=50+793+794+792+2088+429494 4482+2305 S Shawn Alan IMCA 1633 ebay store http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633nyc/m.html Website http://meteoritefalls.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] A Managua, Nicaragua meteorite?
Without ruling out that this is indeed a meteorite impact, I take the near miss of asteroid 2014 RC rather as an argument against than for. Given the news exposure that the asteroid has had, early investigators might have jumped to conclusions. We should wait for more evidence. The impact seems to have taken place about 13 hours before the closest approach. That places it half a million km away or so. The link seems to be a stretch. -Steinar Sterling K. Webb via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com writes: Kevin, List, It looks a great deal like the Carancas crater, although it's a little smaller, about 80% of its size. The test would be: are there meteorites scattered about? __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Heritage Auction
Thanks Shawn for the link I would have missed this and it was fun to look at. The information is quite detailed for each specimen you just have to click on the photo on the group catalog page and a page for each specimen appears scroll down and you'll get all the info. I thought it was a very nice description and the size and weight are there with an estimated value and whether there is a reserve or not. A condition report for the specimen can be obtained by request. The information on the $12,500 Sikhote Alin is: Overall Measurements: 8 x 6 x 6.25 inches (20.32 x 15.24 x 15.88 cm), weighs 7.49 kg (16.5 lbs.) Offered at no reserve. Estimate: $25,000 - $30,000. Bye, Jim __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Another Ebay Scam!
Hello, I have just been told that there is a guy on Ebay selling a 7 pounds unclassified planetary (yes, unclassified but planetary!!) under the name NEMS - North East Meteorite Society. However if you have been around for a while you know that NEMS stands for New England Meteorite Society, Russ Kempton business, and a very reliable, knowledgeable meteorite dealer. And I imagine he is not happy about this right now. Please take a look, and stay away from: http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEMS-00d1-Lunar-Meteorite-Feldspathic-Breccia-9lb-Unclassified-/331313560211?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0hash=item4d23d3ba93 As usual: Buyer Beware! Anne M. Black www.IMPACTIKA.com impact...@aol.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Reports of Meteorite Strike in Nicaragua and Update on Asteroid 2014 RC
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news185.html Reports of Meteorite Strike in Nicaragua and Update on Asteroid 2014 RC NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office September 8, 2014 Reports in the media over the weekend that a small meteorite impacted in Nicaragua have yet to be confirmed. A loud explosion was heard near Managua's international airport Saturday night, and photos of a 24-meter (80-foot) crater have been circulated. As yet, no eyewitness accounts or imagery have come to light of the fireball flash or debris trail that is typically associated with a meteor of the size required to produce such a crater. Since the explosion in Nicaragua occurred a full 13 hours before the close passage of asteroid 2014 RC, these two events are unrelated. As predicted, the small asteroid 2014 RC flew safely past the Earth at 18:01 UT (2:01 pm EDT, 11:01 am PDT) on September 7 at a distance of 33,550 km (20,800 miles) above the Earth's surface. Astronomers around the world took the opportunity to observe this fairly rare event, and learned that the asteroid is about 12 meters (40 feet) in size and is spinning very rapidly. R. P. Binzel, D. Polishook (MIT) and S. J. Bus (Univ. Hawaii) observed 2014 RC from NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Sept. 6 in near-infrared wavelengths. From their spectra, they conclude that the asteroid belongs to the Sq-class, which has an average albedo (reflectivity) of 24%. Based on the available measurements of the asteroid' intrinsic brightness, they conclude that 2014 RC is about 12 meters (40 feet) across, roughly the size of a school bus. This puts 2014 RC at about one-half the size of the February 15, 2013 Chelyabinsk impactor. Lance Benner and Marina Brozovic, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, meanwhile, reported that radar observations of 2014 RC taken at the Goldstone site in southern California on September 6-7 were weaker than expected due to an extreme Doppler broadening of the radar echoes. If the 12-meter size is adopted and an equatorial radar view is assumed, then the radar measurements indicate an extremely fast rotation rate of at least several revolutions per minute. Following up on this preliminary result, A. Thirouin, B. Skiff, and N. Moskovitz (Lowell Observatory) analyzed the brightness variations of 2014 RC across multiple nights using Lowell Observatory' 1.1m Hall telescope, Lowell's 4.3m Discovery Channel Telescope and NASA's IRTF. A subset of these images have been combined into an movie which can be downloaded here: http://www2.lowell.edu/users/nmosko/2014RC_flyby.gif These data indicate a best fit rotation period of about 15.8 seconds, and a low light curve amplitude of ~0.1 magnitude. This is the fastest rotating asteroid observed to date, roughly 50% faster than the previous record holder. __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] A Managua, Nicaragua meteorite?
Steiner, List, I agree that it is silly to associate this tiny impact with 2014RC or any fragment or co-travelling object associated with it. I didn't say that, the comment was ascribed in the article to Nicaraguan authorities, who, it should be said, know nothing about meteorites. Not saying that to insult them; it is simply the case. 2014RC passed beneath the plane of the Earth's orbit: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2014+RCorb=1 That alone makes any connection unlikely. Unlike Carancas, which was a near-vertical impact (70 to 80 degrees), this appears to have been an impact from a lower angle, perhaps 30-40 degrees or so. The crater appears not to be perfectly circular but to have a pushed-up back wall and to be slightly eccentric (in the one photo). We should wait for more evidence... Actually, ANY evidence of an impacting body is missing so far, other than the likelihood that there must have been one. If it had been an artillery shell or bomb there would be metal fragments, of course, but there doesn't seem to be. Sterling Webb -- -Original Message- From: Meteorite-list [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Steinar Midtskogen via Meteorite-list Sent: Monday, September 08, 2014 10:53 AM To: Sterling K. Webb via Meteorite-list Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] A Managua, Nicaragua meteorite? Without ruling out that this is indeed a meteorite impact, I take the near miss of asteroid 2014 RC rather as an argument against than for. Given the news exposure that the asteroid has had, early investigators might have jumped to conclusions. We should wait for more evidence. The impact seems to have taken place about 13 hours before the closest approach. That places it half a million km away or so. The link seems to be a stretch. -Steinar Sterling K. Webb via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com writes: Kevin, List, It looks a great deal like the Carancas crater, although it's a little smaller, about 80% of its size. The test would be: are there meteorites scattered about? __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft Makes Final Preparations For Mars
http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasas-maven-spacecraft-makes-final-preparations-for-mars/ NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft Makes Final Preparations For Mars Izumi Hansen and Elizabeth Zubritsky NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center September 8, 2014 On Sept. 21, 2014, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft will complete roughly 10 months of travel and enter orbit around the Red Planet. The orbit-insertion maneuver will be carried out as the spacecraft approaches Mars, wrapping up an interplanetary journey of 442 million miles (711 million kilometers). Six thruster engines will fire briefly for a settling burn that damps out deviations in pointing. Then the six main engines will ignite two by two in quick succession and will burn for 33 minutes to slow the craft, allowing it to be captured in an elliptical orbit. This milestone will mark the culmination of 11 years of concept and development for MAVEN, setting the stage for the mission's science phase, which will investigate Mars as no other mission has. We're the first mission devoted to observing the upper atmosphere of Mars and how it interacts with the sun and the solar wind, said Bruce Jakosky, principal investigator for MAVEN at the University of Colorado in Boulder. These observations will help scientists determine how much gas from Mars' atmosphere has been lost to space throughout the planet's history and which processes have driven that loss. En route Procedures to line up MAVEN for proper orbit insertion began shortly after MAVEN launched in November 2013. These included two trajectory-correction maneuvers, performed in December 2013 and February 2014. Calibration of the mission's three suites of science instruments - the Particles and Fields Package, the Remote Sensing Package and the Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer - was completed during the cruise phase to Mars. Every day at Mars is gold, said David Mitchell, MAVEN's project manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The early checks of instrument and spacecraft systems during cruise phase enable us to move into the science collection phase shortly after MAVEN arrives at Mars. The voyage also gave the team an opportunity to take data on the interplanetary solar wind using the Fields and Particles Package. Meanwhile, teams in California, Colorado and Maryland carried out rehearsals of the entire orbit insertion twice. The science team also performed a weeklong simulation of the planning and implementation required to obtain science data. Two months prior to arrival at Mars, all instruments were turned off, in preparation for orbit insertion. Into orbit During orbit insertion, MAVEN will be controlled by its on-board computers. By that time, the team will have uploaded the most up-to-date information about the spacecraft's location, velocity and orientation. The insertion instructions will have been updated, and the fuel valves will be open, to warm the fuel to an operating temperature of about 77 to 79 degrees Fahrenheit (25 to 26 degrees Celsius). If all goes well, the spacecraft will need no further commands from the ground. The important exception is that final trajectory corrections could be made, if needed, 24 hours or 6 hours prior to insertion. That would only happen, however, if the navigation team concluded that the spacecraft was coming in at too low of an altitude. Otherwise, during the last 24 hours, the spacecraft will carry out preprogrammed procedures to make all systems as quiet as possible, which is the safest condition for orbit insertion. These steps include automatically executing a new version of the fault protection, which will tell the craft how to react to an on-board component anomaly leading up to or during orbit insertion. In addition, the spacecraft will have to reorient itself so that the thrusters are pointed in the correct direction for the burn. In this final orientation, MAVEN's high-gain antenna, which is used for most communication with the spacecraft, will point away from Earth. During that period, MAVEN's low-gain antenna will be used for limited communication capacity at a reduced data rate. At last, the insertion will begin. For the next 33 minutes, the craft will burn more than half the fuel onboard as it enters an orbit 236 miles (380 kilometers) above the northern pole. Three minutes after the engines turn off, the MAVEN computers will reinstate the normal safeguards, reorient the spacecraft to point the high-gain antenna toward Earth, and reestablish normal communications. At that point, MAVEN will transmit the data obtained during the insertion back to Earth, along with information on the state of the spacecraft, and the MAVEN team will learn if everything worked properly. Then, there will be a sigh of relief, said Carlos Gomez-Rosa, MAVEN mission and science operations manager at Goddard. Later, the team will upload new instructions
[meteorite-list] Nicaragua Crater meteor event 07SEP2014
List, Nicaragua Crater meteor event 07SEP2014 The reason my reporting on the Nicaragua Crater report is slow to be posted about is because it is likely NOT a crater caused by a meteorite impact. and certainly not a related meteorite from Asteroid 2014RC as they are reporting. There are NO witness reports of persons seeing a meteor prior and given the fact that it occurred near an airport leads me to conclude that it was possibly a munition or mortar shell that is responsible for the crater- LunarMeteoriteHunter, Tokyo http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2014/09/nicaragua-crater-meteor-event-07sep2014.html Dirk Ross...Tokyo __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] A Managua, Nicaragua meteorite?
Round trip Tucson to Managua $663, Jeep rental and guide $475, CNN Picture of you standing on the edge of the crater, Priceless!!! Sent from my iPhone On Sep 8, 2014, at 2:37 PM, Sterling K. Webb via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: Steiner, List, I agree that it is silly to associate this tiny impact with 2014RC or any fragment or co-travelling object associated with it. I didn't say that, the comment was ascribed in the article to Nicaraguan authorities, who, it should be said, know nothing about meteorites. Not saying that to insult them; it is simply the case. 2014RC passed beneath the plane of the Earth's orbit: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2014+RCorb=1 That alone makes any connection unlikely. Unlike Carancas, which was a near-vertical impact (70 to 80 degrees), this appears to have been an impact from a lower angle, perhaps 30-40 degrees or so. The crater appears not to be perfectly circular but to have a pushed-up back wall and to be slightly eccentric (in the one photo). We should wait for more evidence... Actually, ANY evidence of an impacting body is missing so far, other than the likelihood that there must have been one. If it had been an artillery shell or bomb there would be metal fragments, of course, but there doesn't seem to be. Sterling Webb -- -Original Message- From: Meteorite-list [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Steinar Midtskogen via Meteorite-list Sent: Monday, September 08, 2014 10:53 AM To: Sterling K. Webb via Meteorite-list Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] A Managua, Nicaragua meteorite? Without ruling out that this is indeed a meteorite impact, I take the near miss of asteroid 2014 RC rather as an argument against than for. Given the news exposure that the asteroid has had, early investigators might have jumped to conclusions. We should wait for more evidence. The impact seems to have taken place about 13 hours before the closest approach. That places it half a million km away or so. The link seems to be a stretch. -Steinar Sterling K. Webb via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com writes: Kevin, List, It looks a great deal like the Carancas crater, although it's a little smaller, about 80% of its size. The test would be: are there meteorites scattered about? __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] AD - lunar collection for sale
Attention lunatics! After years of focusing mainly on lunar meteorites, I am now thinking of selling off my lunaite collection to pursue various other meteorite types. Anybody who might be interested can view all of my lunars at the EOM link below. The specimens aren't very large, but do represent over half of all non-antarctic lunar pairings, as listed on Dr. Randy Korotev's WUSTL web site. Many are extremely rare, and almost impossible to obtain. I would prefer to keep the whole collection together, and sell it as a set. If interested, feel free to email me with any questions or to make an offer. Thanks for looking! Authenticity of all specimens guaranteed. IMCA#2641 Link to the collection: http://www.encyclopedia-of-meteorites.com/collection.aspx?id=2904 Doug Ross IMCA #2641 d...@dougross.net __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Met Bulletin Update - 303 Antarctic Meteorites
Hi Bulletin Watchers, There are 303 new approvals, all from Antarctica. Most are OC's, but there are also some achondrites and carbonaceous types included. Link : http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?sea=%2Asfor=namesants=falls=valids=stype=containslrec=50map=gebrowse=country=Allsrt=namecateg=Allmblist=Allrect=phot=snew=2pnt=Normal%20tabledr=page=1 Best regards and Happy Huntings, MikeG -- - Web - http://www.galactic-stone.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone Twitter - http://twitter.com/galacticstone Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/galacticstone - __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
