[meteorite-list] Ad - meteorite / planetary books for sale

[Ted Brattstrom via Meteorite-list]

Aloha,

In the process of devolving myself of things that I don’t use currently, the 
following books are for sale. 

All books are in very good / near new shape - 

Price (USD) is a bit negotiable :-) Though based on a bit lower than current 
rates from eBay / amazon / ABEbooks. Postage is extra - but at cost. Buy more 
than one book!!!  :-)

I can send them via Media mail or fixed rate boxes. International, can also be 
via media mail (may be very slow) or one of the fixed rate boxes (express is 
also available for even more$ :-) )



The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites - Norton   US$115

Meteorites and the Early Solar System II - Lauretta / McSween  - LPIUS$75   

Asteroids III - Bottke / Cellino / Paolicchi / Binzel - LPI US$65

Planetary Materials 36 - Papike US$50

Mercury - Vilas / Chapman / Matthews1989  (Pre-Messenger)   US$50

Pluto and Charon - Stern / Mitton   1999 (Pre-New Horizons)US$8

Venus: The Geological Story - Cattermole   1994 US$5


OK, One last not very meteorite - but science:

3rd edition - Newton’s Opticks - rebound, a missing plate replaced by facsimile 
  US$3000

Need images? Send an email. Make an offer? Send an email.

Aloha - Ted  t...@hawaii.edu
 (Yes, Gary - aka The Big Kahuna - lives not to far away - Hi Gary!)
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[meteorite-list] AD (1): For sale/bid – a historic Allende individual

[Ted Brattstrom via Meteorite-list]

For sale/bid  – a historic Allende individual. 
 
This special meteorite was collected by Dr. Elbert A. King Jr., former curator 
of NASA’s Lunar Receiving Laboratory. ‘Bert” traveled to Mexico in 1969 and was 
the first scientist to collect Allende. This specimen was kept as a 
particularly cherished piece in his personal collection.  This individual is 
now for sale by his eldest daughter, Dr. Lisa King. This roughly fist-sized 
stone is a mostly crusted 967g individual and can be seen at: 
 
https://goo.gl/photos/oPBy4JnLwAbiFntcA 
<https://goo.gl/photos/oPBy4JnLwAbiFntcA> 
 
Bidding starts at US$19,000 ($20/gram) This specimen would be perfect for the 
serious meteorite collector, a space museum or a significant geology 
collection. Once purchased, an unpublished addendum to the story found in Moon 
Trip by Dr. King will be provided to the buyer by his daughter. 

You can download Moon Trip at:   http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/books
The story of the recovery is on pages 82-86.
 
Payment will be via Cashiers Check or Bank Transfer and will be sent insured 
via USPS / UPS / FedEx / DHL 
 

Thank you for your consideration, Ted Brattstrom & Dr. Lisa King 
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Re: [meteorite-list] Craters @ -44.602245 -68.356722

[ted brattstrom]

Aloha - 


I had a quick look, sure looked like volcanics - looked farther around, really 
looks like volcanic craters!!!

I figured I better really check - so, a quick one  geological map 
argentina in google


http://geology.about.com/library/bl/maps/blargentinamap.htm

Yup, Cretaceous-Tertiary volcanics...

Alas, not all craters / circular features are impact craters...




(all of my local craters are non-impact, and they are exciting enough! much as 
I enjoy impact craters. The first 2 are about 5km from my house, the 3rd is 
about 8-9 km away)

Pu'u 'O'o live

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hvo/cams/POcam/


Halema'uma'u live

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hvo/cams/HMcam/


Halema'uma'u panorama live

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hvo/cams/KIcam/


Mauna Loa live

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hvo/cams/MLcam/


Cheers - ted



From: Rich Murray rmfor...@gmail.com
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com; Rich Murray rmfor...@gmail.com; Rich 
Murray rmfor...@comcast.net
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 6:11 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] -44.602245 -68.356722 km size, 45 m deep, more 
craters in all directions for great distances...: Rich Murray 2011.07.22

-44.602245  -68.356722 km size, 45 m deep, more craters in all
directions for great distances...: Rich Murray 2011.07.22

-44.602245  -68.356722  .623 km el low,
45 m under .628 km el to NE,
km size, more craters in all directions for great distances.
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[meteorite-list] Noerdlingen - Ries

[ted brattstrom]

Aloha - 

I Heartily endorse a visit to Noerdlingen / the Ries Krater - and while you are 
at it, Steinheim isn't far away... 

spend the time to go to the top of the Daniel, visit the RiesKrater Museum (at 
1 Eugene-Shoemaker-Platz), and walk the walls around the city - (At one of the 
gates, look out for the Oompa Loompas! - In classic form, I only realized where 
that scene of the movie was shot when I got home)

After you do the city, tour the crater - A day with a car will get you to the 
main sites, and probably only get you lost a little. Polsingen is the only 
tricky place, I had to go back on the second day.

LOTs of the old buildings in the town and in the crater are built of suevite, 
as is the Daniel and much of the town walls.

Many of the Suevite / Bunte Breccia quarries are open to visit, with signs 
saying, please only take a little, leave some for others to enjoy!


Here's some pics from my 2003 trip

http://kauscience.k12.hi.us/~ted/Craters/ries.htm


Here's the Steinheim part...

http://kauscience.k12.hi.us/~ted/Craters/steinheim.htm


Aloha - ted


--- On Sun, 7/17/11, Alexander Seidel g...@gmx.net wrote:

 From: Alexander Seidel g...@gmx.net
 Date: Sunday, July 17, 2011, 12:00 PM
 Nördlingen, Bavaria? Hey guys, here
 is some official stuff: http://www.noerdlingen.de/ISY/index.php?get=276
 
 If you go there to visit the place, you will be fascinated!
 There is a guy on the so-called Daniel church tower
 shouting out some few old words every evening at the full
 hour, and if you climb the Daniel at daytime you will be
 rewarded by a good view of the Ries crater rim on clear
 days.
 
 And, of course, don´t forget to visit the Rieskrater
 museum right there in town - very nice!
 
 Alex
 Berlin/Germany
 
 
  Original-Nachricht 
  Datum: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:28:18 -0400
  Von: MexicoDoug mexicod...@aim.com
  An: nakhla...@comcast.net,
 Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
  Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] DAWN drives up to Vesta
 
  Hey Rob
  
  No way I'm wrong about the Oompa-Loompas living secretly at Ries 
  Crater!  They absolutely do according to the original movie :Charlie 
  and the Chocolate Factory.

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Re: [meteorite-list] '100 percent' chance for life on newlyfoundplanet?

[ted brattstrom]

Aloha

Alas, WCX was operating in the AM band - a bit above 500kHz - and these 
signals don't do a very good job at getting out of the ionosphere.

http://www.michiguide.com/history/am.html

To get ETs attention, you have to wait until VHF signals start to be emitted 
from planet earth - and fairly high power at that... As was noted in the book 
Contact (Sagan) - that gets us into the 1930s... The Berlin Olympics and the 
Coronation of King George VI - these transmitters were operating around 50MHz, 
and those signals could make it through the ionosphere So - the 1936 
timeframe is the crucial one for our radio envelope expansion. (after that we 
start getting noisier!!! Military radars, TV programs, and all)


moving on:

Having read Part 97 of the FCC regulations (the part that regulates Amateur 
Radio) - I don't see any part that prohibits me from grabbing a 300+ meter 
dish, a 1500 watt amplifier, and beaming a signal to Space using any acceptable 
coding system approved for use in the amateur bands. I'd have to use 
appropriate frequencies in the Amateur Radio Spectrum  I'd have to identify 
myself using my callsign (NH6YK) in English / International Phonetics / or 
International Morse Code / (or in the medium (RTTY/FSTV/SSTV etc) being used)

So - 1296MHz at 1500W to the star of your choice??? seems legal to me - Unless 
- of course - the entities of the star/planet in question have registered (I 
think it's the ITU) that amateur radio communications are prohibited between 
amateurs of our country and their people/amateurs 

(since we are not transmitting to an Earth satellite - it is not subject to the 
sub-rules for the Amateur Satellite Service :-) :-) )


Cheers - 73 and aloha - ted - nh6yk



--- On Thu, 10/7/10, Steve Dunklee steve.dunk...@yahoo.com wrote:

 From: Steve Dunklee steve.dunk...@yahoo.com
 Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] '100 percent' chance for life on 
 newlyfoundplanet?
 To: sterling_k_w...@sbcglobal.net, geo...@aol.com, 
 meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
 Date: Thursday, October 7, 2010, 6:13 AM
 you are forgetting the first
 commercial radio stations. WJR which was WCX began
 broadcasting in 1922 . Thats about 88 light years of radio
 signals from Detroit. I wonder what they would think of us
 hearing music and shows like the lone ranger and flash
 gordon . If there is anyone out there. Cheers Steve
 
 On Wed Oct 6th, 2010 6:11 PM EDT Sterling K. Webb wrote:
 
 We have already sent them I Love Lucy, just
 by broadcasting it from October 15, 1951 to
 May 6, 1957. In the Fifties, the radio brightness
 of the Earth was about 700 times greater than
 our Sun's radio brightness. A bright radio source
 in orbit about a G-class star is like firing up a
 beacon for everyone within 50 lightyears, one
 that screams Yoo-Hoo!

--snip--

 Sterling K. Webb



  
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Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Densities - Brother Guy

[ted brattstrom]

Aloha - 

This looks like a possible source of information - :-)   

Grain densities, Bulk Densities, and Porosity... 

Now to find a source of those tiny glass beads!

Cheers - ted


Stony Meteorite Porosities and Densities: A Review of the Data through 2001
D. T. BRITT1 and G. J. CONSOLMAGNO S.J

http://homepage.mac.com/brother_guy/.Public/Meteorite%20Densities.pdf




--- On Thu, 9/30/10, Richard Kowalski damoc...@yahoo.com wrote:

 From: Richard Kowalski damoc...@yahoo.com
 Subject: [meteorite-list] Amateur Meteoriticists?
 To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
 Date: Thursday, September 30, 2010, 3:05 PM
 David's original question got me


snip ..

 
 Now to a more direct response to David. Over dinner Guy
 commented a bit about his work and how amateurs could
 perform density and specific gravity measurements of their
 own meteorites. I suggested contacting him, and other
 scientists for copies of their papers if you don't have
 access to pay sites. 

...snip...
 
 I can't say he is looking for co-authors, but he may be
 able to direct interested amateurs to the researchers who
 would be interested. 
 
 --
 Richard Kowalski
 Full Moon Photography
 IMCA #1081
 


  

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[meteorite-list] Gigapan and Barratta Thin Section

[ted brattstrom]

Aloha - 

In concert with Bob Walker - of Queensland, and the person who takes the thin 
section images for him, I figured that, a series of images of a thin section 
could be stitched together using GigaPan, and presented for your enjoyment. 

These two are the first attempts, and are using the 20x image set. When I have 
some more free time :-) the 50x set will get stitched together,

For those who haven't played with gigapan images, The cool part is you can do 
some serious zooming! since the overall image is made up of a number of high 
resolution images, the potential is good. In these cases, 16 images were joined 
up to make a 120MB image. The focus still needs to be worked on. That's over at 
the original image side of things :-)  I hope the 50x ones are a bit crisper!

If all goes well, we'll start a whole series of these! I'm looking forward to 
it.

cheers - Ted Brattstrom


Barratta - L4

(Handy Hint - Launch the Full Screen Viewer)

xpol

http://gigapan.org/gigapans/59099/

Normal

http://gigapan.org/gigapans/59098/



  

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Re: [meteorite-list] Gigapan and Barratta Thin Section

[ted brattstrom]

Aloha Count - and all...

Just had a look at both the xpol and regular light. I think what we have there 
is - first of all, an area with no material except the adhesive used to adhere 
the rock to the slide - And, within that area, some bubbles in the adhesive.

Now - in the xpol image, the artifacts are in the same location as the bubbles 
- so, I agree, they are likely to be reflections... If you look at other areas, 
top left, and a few other empty spaces - you can find other bubbles, and 
other reflections.

Now to see if they are in the higher magnification images :-)

Cheers - ted


--- On Sun, 9/19/10, countde...@earthlink.net countde...@earthlink.net wrote:

 From: countde...@earthlink.net countde...@earthlink.net
 Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Gigapan and Barratta Thin Section
 Date: Sunday, September 19, 2010, 10:56 AM
 Good on ya.. Ted!
 
 Bob has been talking about this for quite awhile. He wasn't
 exaggerating about how super the images are...and will only
 be sharper as you perfect the process.
 
 I notice on the 59099 image that in the upper right hand
 corner there is a large black inclusion that sports some
 artifacts that look like light reflections. Do you know what
 they are?
 
 Count Deiro
 IMCA 3536 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: ted brattstrom volcano...@yahoo.com
 Sent: Sep 19, 2010 2:42 AM
 To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
 Subject: [meteorite-list] Gigapan and Barratta Thin
 Section
 
 Aloha - 
 
 In concert with Bob Walker - of Queensland, and the
 person who takes the thin section images for him, I figured
 that, a series of images of a thin section could be stitched
 together using GigaPan, and presented for your enjoyment. 
 
 These two are the first attempts, and are using the 20x
 image set. When I have some more free time :-) the 50x set
 will get stitched together,
 
 For those who haven't played with gigapan images, The
 cool part is you can do some serious zooming! since the
 overall image is made up of a number of high resolution
 images, the potential is good. In these cases, 16 images
 were joined up to make a 120MB image. The focus still needs
 to be worked on. That's over at the original image side of
 things :-)  I hope the 50x ones are a bit crisper!
 
 If all goes well, we'll start a whole series of these!
 I'm looking forward to it.
 
 cheers - Ted Brattstrom
 
 
 Barratta - L4
 
 (Handy Hint - Launch the Full Screen Viewer)
 
 xpol
 
 http://gigapan.org/gigapans/59099/
 
 Normal
 
 http://gigapan.org/gigapans/59098/
 
 
 
       
 
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Re: [meteorite-list] AD Plus Notice: Meteorites For Sale Price Increase

[ted brattstrom]

Aloha - 

Amazingly, Hawaii IS part of the USA and uses the USPS - so, shipping (USPS) to 
Hawaii, for the past few decades has been the same as to the other 49 states!!! 
(yes, UPS is over priced!)

We've been a state for just over 50 years...

BTW, you can even use USPS to American Samoa, Guam, CNMI and some of the former 
Trust Territories - as they are part of USPS!!!

Cheers - ted


--- On Sun, 3/21/10, Meteorites USA e...@meteoritesusa.com wrote:

 From: Meteorites USA e...@meteoritesusa.com
 Subject: [meteorite-list] AD Plus Notice: Meteorites For Sale Price Increase
 Date: Sunday, March 21, 2010, 12:40 PM
 Hi Listees,
 

 The good news is shipping
 is still cheap on most orders in the USA. Even shipping to
 Hawaii is relatively cheap between $5 and $15 depending on
 weight.
 
 Regards,
 Eric Wichman
 Meteorites USA



  

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Re: [meteorite-list] Manchester Museum (UK) Visit, Article and Images

[ted brattstrom]

Very nice presentation...


And it sparked a question:

 Museums / collectors glue labels onto their rocks (or used to) - What glue 
is used? and what are the ramifications for alteration to the rock. (thinking 
back to the discussion of putties for holding meteorites a week or so ago.)

Likewise, for the paint and ink method... a what was traditionally used? and 
b effect on the rock. (which should be obvious once the paint is indicated :-) 
)

Thanks!

ted


--- On Wed, 2/24/10, matt metl...@plu.to wrote:

From: matt metl...@plu.to
Subject: [meteorite-list] Manchester Museum (UK) Visit, Article and Images
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 9:09 PM

Last week members of the British and Irish Meteorite Society (BIMS, 
http://www.bimsociety.org ) visited the Manchester Museum.

I've written an article about the visit including lots of images and 
information on the history, people and specimens involved. You can view the 
article directly at http://www.bimsociety.org/article-manchester.shtml

Enjoy!

Matt.



  

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[meteorite-list] Fw: Re: OT - Gold Hoard Found in England

[ted brattstrom]

 Some Nice pictures of the Hoard
 
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8272370.stm
 
 cheers - ted
 
 --- On Fri, 9/25/09, Greg Hupe gmh...@htn.net
 wrote:
 
  From: Greg Hupe gmh...@htn.net
  Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] OT - Gold Hoard Found in England
  Date: Friday, September 25, 2009, 8:30 AM
  Hello All who commented on the Gold

 
  If anyone goes to view these items, I would like to see
  some photos if possible. That, or if a web site is created,
  please send a link. Thanks!
  
  Best regards,
  Greg
  
  
  Greg Hupe
  The Hupe Collection


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[meteorite-list] Images of Honolulu and Palolo meteorites wanted

[ted brattstrom]

Aloha - 

I am going to be doing a presentation on meteorites and impact next month in 
Hilo, and to make it a little locally interesting, I was hoping someone might 
have some good / large images of the Honolulu meteorite and the Palolo (valley) 
meteorite I could incorporate into my presentation.

The couple I've seen online have been either smallish, or have slight focus 
problems.

Pointers / or copies are welcome.

Mahalo / Thanks


For those interested in impact craters - my latest trip - to Kelly West Crater 
in Australia is online in a first draft format :-)
 http://kauscience.k12.hi.us/~ted/Craters/KellyWest.html

and the links to the rest of the trips:
 http://kauscience.k12.hi.us/~ted/craters_and_more.htm


Ted (who used to live in the Palolo valley)


  
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Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - May 7, 2009

[ted brattstrom]

Aloha - 

Alas, the mass of the rocks presented at the museum were not listed on the 
labels, and for some reason there was a pane of glass between me and the rock, 
so I couldn't pick it up or weigh it :-) (for the bigger irons, there 
wasn't any glass :-) )

There must be a list somewhere at the museum. Anyone in Perth?

cheers - ted


--- On Thu, 5/7/09, Alexander Seidel g...@gmx.net wrote:

 From: Alexander Seidel g...@gmx.net
 Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - May 7, 
 2009
 Date: Thursday, May 7, 2009, 12:42 AM
  http://www.rocksfromspace.org/May_7_2009.html
 
 Wow, what a stone! They have 20 kg in Perth, according
 to MetBase. I wonder whether it is all in this single
 specimen. Does anyone know the mass of the stone pictured? 
 Ted?
 
 Best,
 Alex
 Berlin/Germany



  
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Re: [meteorite-list] Crater chains

[ted brattstrom]

Aloha -

Just a short note/comment - 

The Crater Chains seen on the Mercury images, as
well as on Lunar images are secondary craters - caused
by the impact of ejecta from the initial impact. They
head out radially from that initial impact.
Occasionally you can find tertiary craters - from the
impact of ejecta from the secondary impacts :-) :-)


This is not to be confused with the idea of crater
chains from a group of impactors that came from an
initial object that fragmented - (or was impacted) at
some time in orbit. (eg SL9)

I would highly suspect crater chains of this nature
would not be in close proximity to each other...

Cheers - ted


--- E.P. Grondine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi all - 
 
 Unless someone has a disintegration mechanism for
 stoney,  stoney iron, and iron impactors before they
 hit - 
 
 Then one hypothesis would be that any time you have
 a
 crater chain, it would be from cometary impact.
 
 Are there studies of crater chains on Earth which
 indicate what hit?
 
 E.P. Grondine
 Man and Impact in the Americas
 
 
 
 
  


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Re: [meteorite-list] crater chains and electric discharges II

[ted brattstrom]

Aloha -

If we can do electric discharges on CRTs, how about
Magnetic Swirls on the moon :-) :-)  (ignore the
coffee and cream NASA intro)


http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/26jun_lunarswirls.htm

http://www.google.com/moon/#lat=8.211490lon=-58.623046zoom=7map=visibleapollo=q=gamma%20reiner

cheers - ted


  

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[meteorite-list] AD - not quite a meteorite, but fell from orbit

[ted brattstrom]

Aloha -

Skylab returned to Earth on July 11, 1979 - Parts of
it fell into the Indian Ocean, but other fragments
landed in Western Australia (site of many other cool
meteorite falls). On behalf of a friend, I'm offering
up a piece of Skylab. It's got about a day and a half
to run (if this gets posted in a reasonable time :-) )

Have a look if you are interested:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=150201452455ssPageName=STRK:MESE:ITih=005

Or look via:

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZvolcanoted

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Re: [meteorite-list] using meteor trails

[ted brattstrom]

Aloha - 

Just a quick check here - how many list members are hams?

de NH6YK - ted Brattstrom

part 2

BTW, the new ham technique is using one of the JT series of software encoding 
-the old ham technique was voice/cw/hscw (record your morse, accelerate the 
tape - send - record whatever you hear, slow it down to decode...) Packet was 
the new for the 80's/90's...
Works well on 50MHz, 144MHz, 222MHz and 432MHz - and it has been in the books 
for a few decades using broadcast FM from over the horizon as a way of counting 
meteors - and identifying meteor showers that happen during daylight hours.

It also works when you bounce signals off the ionization trail of the 
re-entering space shuttle.

73 and aloha - ted


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List if you haven't heard of this new HAM technique I thought I'd pass it 
along.
I'm a HAM and one of my buddies told me about this technique this 
evening.Using 2 meter radio[which is usually line of sight], and utilizing 
the continuous bombardment of micro meteorites this program allows long 
distance communication at a rate of 950wpm[an expert code sender/receiver 
can negotiate 100wpm] by interfacing computer keyboard with Morse code 
translator and transmitter.
A Blue Blazer[a minute or more meteor trail] allows longer continuous 
communication.
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Blazers, we'd be able to be on the scene of major and seconary falls in a 
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[meteorite-list] Meteorite trip - story part 1

[ted brattstrom]

I had a nice spring break - visited Meteor Crater, Holbrook, Painted 
Desert/Petrified Forest, and Gold Basin - found some meteorwrongs, took 
pictures of meteorite location signs (where do I e-mail those???) and here is 
part 1 of the story:


Pallasite
   It was one of those interestingdays... I had arrived after two long days 
drive from northernCalifornia to my fathers house in Arizona, While sitting 
enjoyingan iced tea, my father comes over and says:You can't have 
it, but the guy who owns itthinks it's a meteorite... and hands me a nice 
chunk of heavyrock.
What a thing to be handed
We started talking, and I got more of thestory, the guy who 
owned it, got it 17-18 years ago from anotherguy who said he got it from 
near Wickenburg (west-centralArizona). One of the two tried to pry out 
some of the greencrystals, and then took a saw to it to see what was 
inside.Obviously he hadn't gotten all that far! However, it probably made   
 it the easiest meteorite to identify without resorting to anytests other 
than simple observation.
The saw cut shows off nice shiny metal, and thegreen of the olivine 
is stunning. As I continued to look at it, Irealized that the brown stained 
pits were where olivines hadburned out during it's descent..And what a 
greatshape!
We put it on a scale the next day and it is inthe vicinity 
of 9 pounds (4+ kg). Cool!!!
A few days later I was at NAU and had a chanceto chat with 
Dr. Wittke and then check the NHM database - nopallasites listed from 
Arizona, and the closest ones are over inNew Mexico. Several hundreds of 
miles away. So, is it a new findor did someome bring it over from New 
Mexico a number of yearsago. Anyone familiar with the morphology of the NM  
  pallasites?
Before you ask, my understanding is that theowner is not 
interested in selling. If you really must, I canprobably get offers to him, 
however I make no guarantee. He wasinterested in donating it to the 
appropriate institution at anappropriate time. (ASU - send me an e-mail :-) 
)

If you want better quality/more pictures - I'vegot 38 images at 
4-6MB each :-)
Now, what do I do to get this official???
Pictures at:

www.k12.hi.us/~tbrattst/Pallasite/arizona_pallasite.htm




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[meteorite-list] AD - Darwin Glass

[ted brattstrom]

Aloha - 

My first AD on the list :-) 

I was near the Darwin Crater in Tasmania, Australia in January - and in the 
(legal part of the) strewn field - and managed to pick up a few pieces - I have 
5 pieces listed on eBay - starting at 99cents. If you need a sample of a 
moderately rare impactite - please bid!

This links to the first one - view sellers other idems will get you to the 
other 4 pieces.
  
 
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=150093687420ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:US:11items
 end Sunday evening (Monday morning in Europe)

I'll get my Darwin Crater webpage up next week, so you can have a look.

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[meteorite-list] AD - Darwin Glass

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Aloha - Since it seems like my posting of a couple days ago hasn't shown up on 
the list, I will try again. I apologize in advance if my previous one shows up.
 
 I was in Tasmania in January and went to the vicinity of Darwin crater (story 
with pictures to come) and managed to find some darwin glass pieces. I put 5 of 
them up on eBay - starting at 99 cents. If you have a need of a moderately rare 
impactite glass, by all means bid.
 
 This will take you to the first one - do a view sellers other items for the 
others. At the moment, they are all still 99 cents!
 
  
  
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=150093687420ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:US:11
  
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Re: [meteorite-list] Republic of Palau / Coin

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Aloha - Alii

While I can't speak to the question of the meteorite coin showing up on the 
streets of Koror, I was able to purchase one of the 1990's colored coins in 
Koror (Capital of the Republic of Palau). They were not used as currency (US 
dollars were!) and they were only available in one place - memory escapes me, 
it may have been a national bank or ministry, it was not the Bank of Guam or 
Bank of Hawaii :-) Since the purchase price was in the $5-10 realm, it was 
really for the collector trade.

Palau is definitely a small country, with a small population, but with some of 
the best scuba diving in the world. Near the center of the whole Indo-Pacific 
system, there are about 1500 species of fish, and 400 species of coral. Water 
clarity is fairly good, and the wall/drift dives are quite spectacular, if a 
little giddy getting into the water 50 meters away from land, and 500+ meters 
deep! 
The ultimate experience is snorkelling Jellyfish Lake

To go back to the meteorite theme - I doubt any old ones would be found there - 
it is uplifted coral for the most part, ancient reefs. Using a metal detector 
wouldn't help, as it was occupied before and during WW2 by Japan, and after by 
the US. There are lots of pieces of metal around :-) What isn't trivial to walk 
on is jungly and hot and humid, so I'm not holding my breath for a Palau 
meteorite.

Cheers - ted
who spend about 4 months in Palau in 3-4 trips

MexicoDoug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello listees, Merry Christmas and happy 
holidays to everyone,

If you really want to keep abreast of the Palau coins, there is a quite
beautiful series I'd like to recommend.  The particular 1993 kicked off the
series (well there was an uglier one in '92) with a sexy and nice outer
space conservation theme (a cool color coin):

http://www.numis-gallery.com/images/PALAU-93-NEW.jpg

Palau, a small country between the Philippines and Hawai'i with an area
smaller than Los Angeles has just over 20,000 inhabitants who depend
principally on tourism and subsistence agriculture.  While the country is on 
the US dollar standard, I would be interested in knowing whether the $1 
meteorite coins ever even passed through any of the Palau islands, or if they 
are the product of a continental entrepreneurial Asian mint gift shop?



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Re: [meteorite-list] OT -- Mercury Transit

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Try the SOHO sitehttp://zeus.nascom.nasa.gov/~soc/transits/mercury/20061108/latest_MDI_512x512.gifit's updating a bit better now :-)cheers - ted[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A disappointed Rob writes:Unfortunately, none of the Mercury transit pages I've searched so fartoday have shown a live image of the solar disk -- very disappointing.As most of you astronomy-minded folks will know, this transit isn't visiblehere in Western Europe :-( but Rob's words show how lucky (and happy) I wason Jun 08, 2004, when I hurried home from school as fast as I could and asfast as the traffic on my way home permitted to quickly set up my 8" Celestronscope without properly aligning it (no time left to do so) during the last fewminutes of the Venus transit and to take a few quick pictures of
 Venus' egress.The last Venus transit had occurred on Dec. 06, 1882, more than 120 yearsbefore and the next time Venus will "walk across the sun's disk" won't beuntil June, 2012!Bernd__Meteorite-list mailing listMeteorite-list@meteoritecentral.comhttp://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list 


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Re: [meteorite-list] Monthly Favourite - November 2006

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Aloha Jeff and all -Thanks for resizing and putting up the pictures :-) and some nice commentary. Henbury is a great place to visit, and I always realize after I leave someplace, that there was something I missed.As to the aerial view - It is basically composed of a number of google maps screens put together at the highest resolution to catch the whole crater field area.You can do it yourself - or, I can e-mail the highest res image I have. (tell me what format you'd like it in. tiff/pict/jpeg/png etc.)Oh, non-commercial use only - as per the Google Maps terms.I finally got the Ries section done - so if you have the patience for an occasionally slow download this starts you off with links to Henbury, Gosses, Steinheim, Ries, and the Black Stone of the Kaaba in Istanbulhttp://www.keaaum.k12.hi.us/teachers/MrB/craters/neof-reporter.htmCheers - tedHeading to Darwin Crater for New
 Years.Jose Campos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kuykens!Really super pics. of the famous Hembury meteorite and craters. The aerial view is quite spectacular!Many thanks for sharing it with us.As for Norbert Kammel, who have been there several times: I "envy" you Norbert! :)José CamposPortugal- Original Message - From: "Jeff Kuyken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: "Meteorite List" Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 1:29 AMSubject: [meteorite-list] Monthly Favourite - November 2006 www.meteorites.com.au/favourite.html Cheers, Jeff Kuyken Meteorites Australia
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Re: [meteorite-list] living near a strewfield

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Aloha - When I lived on that other island (Oahu) I was within 2-3km of the  Palolo touchdown point, (since I lived in Palolo Valley) and it must  have been within 10-15 km of the Honolulu meteorite strewn field.Since I live on the Big Island, no one has found / identified a  meteorite here - difficult due to the problem of looking for black  rocks on black rocks - or rocks in dense rainforest... They must be out  there :-)Cheers - ted - from the rocking and rolling island. 
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[meteorite-list] What I did on my summer vacation... Henbury and Gosses

[ted brattstrom]

Thanks to Anne's OT post :-) for reminding me that it was time to mention that I had this summers pictures up.For those who want to see what Henbury and Gosses Bluff look like - my trip is online. (as well as Steinheim 3 years ago - and I just have to upload the Ries trip)http://www.keaaum.k12.hi.us/teachers/MrB/craters/neof-reporter.htmThat will start you - choose the appropriate place at the bottom(also the link to last summers search for the Kaaba stone in Istanbul, Trip to Uluru, and Snow in Hawaii)(sometimes the server is slow... and images 200k-300k - sorry - maybe it's time to shrink them some more!)Cheers - ted[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello,The weather was so beautiful  today, warm, bright sun, not a cloud anywhere, that I gave myself the afternoon  off and went up in the
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Re: Oops ---Re: [meteorite-list] Hajar al-Aswad/ black stone of Mecca

[ted brattstrom]

Aloha Eric and all -

good point -

and - luckily I have a slight clue - they were
cleaning other parts of the Suleymaniye Mosque, which
had turned quite grey - I saw them spraying
water/liquid over dark regions, and nearby regions had
gone back to light color. So, it is quite possible
that they had cleaned the walls of the tomb in the
recent past... 

So, we need a picture of the tomb entrance from a
couple years ago :-) :-)

which means we still don't know. Time to write some
letters to people at the mosques.

cheers - ted
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Ted the photos are really pretty good.   If I had to
 make a guess I would say that the piece at the tomb
 of Suleyman the Magnificent is not a meteorite. 
 That guess is based solely on the complete lack of
 any staining on the marble below the piece.   After
 such a long period of time in the weather even
 meteorites with small amounts of iron would have the
 iron leach out and stain the marble below.   Of
 course the area could have been sandblasted clean
 recently removing the stain which would invalidate
 the comments above.
 
 --
 Eric Olson
 ELKK Meteorites
 http://www.star-bits.com
 
 
  messed up the link!!!
  
  sorry
  
http://www.k12.hi.us/~tbrattst/Blackstone/hajar-al-aswad.htm
  
  That should work
  
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Re: [meteorite-list] Hajar al-Aswad/ black stone of Mecca

[ted brattstrom]

Aloha,

Norm sent off this message ages ago, and, as I was
going to Istanbul, I put it on my To Do list…


Quick answer: I wasn’t able to examine them (there are
6 potential pieces of Hajar al Aswad / Black Stone of
the Kaaba in Istanbul) closely enough to give an
answer, but I will tell the next person what to do to
get a better shot at it, and offer a few pictures.

For the story and pictures 

http://www.k12.hi.us/~tbrattstr/Blackstone/hajar-al-aswad.htm


Cheers - ted   (volcanoted)


--- Norman Lehrman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Darren  list,
 
 There may be an indirect means to get a look at a
 piece of the black stone.  Years ago I visited the
 Suleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul.  In the forecourt of
 the mosque are some tombs.  Over the door to the
 Sultan Suleyman tomb (I think that was the one--),
 readily accessible, is what is purported to be a
 piece
 of the black stone, built into the stonework.  I
 knew
 essentially nothing about meteorites at the time,
 but
 this has always haunted me.  If any list members
 make
 it to Istanbul, remember this and check it out for
 us---
 
 Cheers,
 Norm
 (http://TektiteSource.com)
 
 --- Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Anyone know of any decent photos of the supposed
  meteorite called Hajar al-Aswad that is on the
 Hajj
  route?  Or know if anyone qualified to judge
  meteorites has been able to examine it?  (I would
  suspect that if most any of the readers of this
 list
  happened to get near it, he would be in risk of
  an unplanned head-removal surgery).
  
  The only photos I've found via Google have been
  small and poorly shot.
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Oops ---Re: [meteorite-list] Hajar al-Aswad/ black stone of Mecca

[ted brattstrom]

messed up the link!!!

sorry

http://www.k12.hi.us/~tbrattst/Blackstone/hajar-al-aswad.htm


That should work

ted


--- ted brattstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Aloha,
 
 Norm sent off this message ages ago, and, as I was
 going to Istanbul, I put it on my To Do list…
 
 
 Quick answer: I wasn’t able to examine them (there
 are
 6 potential pieces of Hajar al Aswad / Black Stone
 of
 the Kaaba in Istanbul) closely enough to give an
 answer, but I will tell the next person what to do
 to
 get a better shot at it, and offer a few pictures.
 
 For the story and pictures 
 

http://www.k12.hi.us/~tbrattstr/Blackstone/hajar-al-aswad.htm
 
 
 Cheers - ted   (volcanoted)
 
 
 --- Norman Lehrman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Darren  list,
  
  There may be an indirect means to get a look at a
  piece of the black stone.  Years ago I visited the
  Suleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul.  In the forecourt
 of
  the mosque are some tombs.  Over the door to the
  Sultan Suleyman tomb (I think that was the one--),
  readily accessible, is what is purported to be a
  piece
  of the black stone, built into the stonework.  I
  knew
  essentially nothing about meteorites at the time,
  but
  this has always haunted me.  If any list members
  make
  it to Istanbul, remember this and check it out for
  us---
  
  Cheers,
  Norm
  (http://TektiteSource.com)
  
  --- Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   Anyone know of any decent photos of the supposed
   meteorite called Hajar al-Aswad that is on the
  Hajj
   route?  Or know if anyone qualified to judge
   meteorites has been able to examine it?  (I
 would
   suspect that if most any of the readers of this
  list
   happened to get near it, he would be in risk of
   an unplanned head-removal surgery).
   
   The only photos I've found via Google have been
   small and poorly shot.
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Re: [meteorite-list] Re: meteorite lands near Mt. Fuji Japan

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Aloha - 

They do it on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa too!!! pretty
cool - there are signs on Saddle road warning of
artillery fire overhead. You just hope they are not
looking at moving targets

The other problem is the depleted uranium slugs... and
who lives downwind :-(

cheers - from the slopes of Kilauea - ted

--- Notkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Elton posted:
 
 Really? They fire tanks at a volcano? Now that
 sounds like some serious 
 fun.
 
 Dirk, can you get us all a backstage pass for that?
 
 : )
 
 
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Re: [meteorite-list] What's in a name? Name your meteorite for fame?

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Aloha - 

That should be Ka'a'awa :-)

And as someone who lives in Volcano :-) ... I keep
looking at dark colored rocks on the ground - but
there are just too many 

there are lapili from Kilauea, and Pele's tears - but
realistically, almost everything  on the ground is WAY
younger than most (make that all) meteorites.

- A lot of the Honolulu  meteorites landed in the
water, some were collected on the decks of ships. I
don't think there was any systematic mapping, but you
might check with the crew at UH Manoa.

cheers - 

ted Brattstrom


--- tracy latimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 raise you:
 Kaaawa

 Volcano (there's actually a town called this, on the
 slopes of Kilauea)


 Tracy Latimer

 btw, does anyone have any information on the
 Honolulu strewnfield?  Was it 
 ever plotted?


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