Re: [meteorite-list] Exciting News from Norway
Hi Geoff, Norway... trudging through the muck, mud and a forest carpeted with a dense layer of Moss. Congratulations to Mike, Morton and Robert for their success at recovering some material. They should alter their hunting plans after Norway and head for India! Best regards, Greg Greg Hupe The Hupe Collection NaturesVault (eBay) [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMCA 3163 - Original Message - From: Notkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 5:35 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Exciting News from Norway Dear Listees: I just this minute received a satellite phone call from my neighbor Mike Farmer. He is still in Norway, and asked me to post the following news on his behalf: Mike, Morton, and Robert Ward found a nice fresh specimen for the new fall last night. Mike says it is a very fragile carbonaceous chondrite with tiny chondrules, less than 1/2 mm across. The stone broke upon impact and the team recovered a number of pieces. Mike met with the curators of the Norwegian Natural History museum who researched the question of exporting meteorites from Norway. Mike was pleased to report that there are no laws prohibiting their find from leaving the country. Mike will post details to the List as soon as he gets a reliable internet connection. That's all I have for now. Mike is still in the field. Big congrats to Mike, Morton, and Robert. There aren't many people who can say they've found a fresh carbonaceous chondrite fall! Regards, Geoff N. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
RE: [meteorite-list] Exciting News from Norway
Hi Geoff and List, Thanks for forwarding the news of the success of the Mike-Morton-Robert team in Norway. The small chondrule size mentioned by Mike would tend to rule out the vast majority of chondrite types: CV, LL, CR, CK, L, EL and K chondrites all have mean chondrule diameters greater than 500 microns. However, CO chondrules are tiny with average chondrule size in the 150-micron range (0.15 mm). (The only carbonaceous chondrite with smaller chondrules is CH -- and these are much, much smaller -- 20 microns.) Unless Mike is saying that the chondrules are quite a bit smaller than a half-millimeter, it would seem that CM is a better match (mean diameter ~300 microns). Marcin, Matteo and Marco (3Ms): your guesses are looking better! (P.S. Did your first names have any influence on your CM guess? ;-) EH, H and rumurutiites also have mean chondrules sizes in the 200-400 micron range, but Mike has seen enough meteorites that he should be able to rule out these types. --Rob __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
RE: [meteorite-list] Exciting News from Norway
Hello Geoff and ListThank you very much for this information. My congratulation to the new finding at Mike and Co. I am already very interested what has to report Mike in future. Many greetings from Germany say MirkoNotkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Dear Listees:I just this minute received a satellite phone call from my neighbor Mike Farmer. He is still in Norway, and asked me to post the following news on his behalf:Mike, Morton, and Robert Ward found a nice fresh specimen for the new fall last night. Mike says it is a very fragile carbonaceous chondrite with tiny chondrules, less than 1/2 mm across. The stone broke upon impact and the team recovered a number of pieces.Mike met with the curators of the Norwegian Natural History museum who researched the question of exporting meteorites from Norway. Mike was pleased to report that there are no laws prohibiting their find from leaving the country.Mike will post details to the List as soon as he gets a reliable internet connection. That's all I have for now.Mike is still in the field. Big congrats to Mike, Morton, and Robert. There aren't many people who can say they've found a fresh carbonaceous chondrite fall!Regards,Geoff N.__Meteorite-list mailing listMeteorite-list@meteoritecentral.comhttp://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Keine Lust auf Tippen? Rufen Sie Ihre Freunde einfach an. Yahoo! Messenger. Jetzt installieren . __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
