Re: [meteorite-list] Shipping theft IE HIGH CHARGES

2003-09-10 Thread M come Meteorite Meteorites
Hello all My shippig is fixed to $5 minimum but$2 go lost with the paypal tax normaly, or the all $5, if this no go lost all the $3 is for the registered shipping. This dealer accept paypal payments? Normaly many but a extra shipping cost for cover the money lost with the paypal tax. Regards

Re: [meteorite-list] Shipping theft IE HIGH CHARGES

2003-09-10 Thread ROCKS ON FIRE
Hi, Mike and List, I hope you all have recovered from your first shock on shipping charges. :-) Don't you think buyers do their math's when bidding for an item? If you clearly display your P/H charges I reckon it is up to the buyer to decide how much in total he/she is willing to pay for

Re: [meteorite-list] Shipping theft IE HIGH CHARGES

2003-09-10 Thread David Freeman
Dear All, I go with Norbert's post below, all of it. I like priority for a number of reasons (besides the handy free boxing). One, being since I am in the middle of no-where, that when myself or the customer pays with paypal, especially a buy it now option, instant money (sort of) that the

[meteorite-list] Recommended humidity for public display

2003-09-10 Thread mark ford
Rob The rust cycle is certainly highly dependent on temperature, the lower the better as far as I am concerned (i.e slower reaction rate) be careful about 120F will it not accelerate the rust cycle even at 30%? I guess also getting rid of atmospheric pollutants such as SO2 and

Re: [meteorite-list] Shipping theft IE HIGH CHARGES

2003-09-10 Thread Michael Farmer
If you want to do business, and get paid quickly, you should accept the paypal costs. I pay for everything with credit cards, and they do not add on money to pay for the % loss. If that is the case, you should charge for ebay fees, and electricity in the price too. - Original Message -

Re: [meteorite-list] Shipping theft IE HIGH CHARGES

2003-09-10 Thread M come Meteorite Meteorites
many accept payments with paypal charge of $5 or $7 for this. Matteo --- Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to do business, and get paid quickly, you should accept the paypal costs. I pay for everything with credit cards, and they do not add on money to pay for the %

[meteorite-list] Mars Global Surveyor Images - September 4-10, 2003

2003-09-10 Thread Ron Baalke
MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES September 4-10, 2003 The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now available: o South Polar Polygons (Released 04 September 2003) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2003/09/04/index.html o Dune and

[meteorite-list] meteorite auctions and shipping charges

2003-09-10 Thread S. Culver
Right on Mike! Thanks for your consideration to us buyers, and for keeping our shipping costs to a minimum. Steve Culver __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] OFF TOPIC - Unusual

2003-09-10 Thread mark ford
Very off topic, but some info on London parrots (!)... http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf0977/swlondon.html Mark

[meteorite-list] NASA Releases Near-Earth Object Search Report

2003-09-10 Thread Ron Baalke
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/neo/report.html NASA Releases Near-Earth Object Search Report NASA has released a technical report on potential future search efforts for near-Earth objects after a year of analysis by scientists working on this issue. This Science Definition Team was chartered to study

[meteorite-list] Cold hunting?

2003-09-10 Thread Tom aka James Knudson
Hello List, Two years ago today, Bernd pauli posted [meteorite-list] Arizona Meteorite Hunters. It quoted Twink Monrad as saying; I firmly believe that if a person were to go over any square mile, time after time, anywhere in the world, they'd also eventually find meteorites, How many list

RE: [meteorite-list] OFF TOPIC - Unusual

2003-09-10 Thread harlan trammell
neat birds! and i concur w/ you buffet- i have a house 25 miles from key west and if i ever want to kill some weeds or unwanted grass, i just put on a buffet cd, head out in the boat for the day and they're dead and withered when i get back! works on roaches too! From: "Charles R. Viau" <[EMAIL

Re: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting?

2003-09-10 Thread N Lehrman
Tom list, I've always liked the sound of this quote (the original formulation was Nininger's---), but I think it may be subject to a couple of qualifiers relating to preservation and exposure. As an exploration geologist, I spend at least 15-20 long days every month wandering the alluvial fans

[meteorite-list] Shipping Charge Bottom Line

2003-09-10 Thread Mike Groetz
Hello- I think as I said before- the bottom line is the final price and it all comes out of the same pocket. I set what I am willing to pay in my mind (shipping included) and my highest bid when all totalled is that. Doesn't matter how it is figured up in the end. I really don't think anyone

Re: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting?

2003-09-10 Thread Tom aka James Knudson
Hello Norm and list, a few things need to be mentioned in this case. I live 40 miles as the hawk flies from Gold Basin, and our weather is for all practical purposes, the same. So meteorites have a good chance of surviving. Our deserts are littered with 50 caliber slugs from WW-2, so things

[meteorite-list] In Agreement was Re: Shipping Charge Bottom Line

2003-09-10 Thread Paul
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:29:02 -0700 (PDT) Mike Groetz wrote: I think as I said before- the bottom line is the final price and it all comes out of the same pocket. I set what I am willing to pay in my mind (shipping included) and my highest bid when all totaled is that. Doesn't matter how it

[meteorite-list] Cold hunting?

2003-09-10 Thread Robert Verish
Hello Norm List, One of the reasons that Norm mentions my name is because we've already been exchanging email and mostly on this very subject. (And why not, we've been crossing each others tracks for some time, now;-) But there are a number of us on this list that are interested in this

[meteorite-list] Cold hunting

2003-09-10 Thread Matson, Robert
Hi Norm and List, As an exploration geologist, I spend at least 15-20 long days every month wandering the alluvial fans and dry lakes of Nevada searching for mineralized float (and, unofficially, meteorites!). Some of the remote dry lakes are almost certainly unsearched, and can cover many

[meteorite-list] MIT Researchers Reasses Asteroid Hazards

2003-09-10 Thread Ron Baalke
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2003/asteroids.html MIT researchers reassess asteroid hazards September 5, 2003 Contact: Deborah Halber MIT News Office Phone: 617-253-2700 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MONTEREY, Calif.-Of the approximately 1,000 near-Earth asteroids larger than 1 kilometer in

[meteorite-list] Fresh Spin on Solar Powered Asteroids

2003-09-10 Thread Ron Baalke
http://space.com/scienceastronomy/asteroid_spin_030910.html Fresh Spin on Solar Powered Asteroids By Robert Roy Britt space.com 10 September 2003 Collisions can send asteroids whirling and twirling. But what can really put space rocks into a spin is the subtle yet constant effect of sunlight.

[meteorite-list] OFF TOPIC - [Not So] Unusual (here in SoCal)

2003-09-10 Thread Robert Verish
Since this OT thread continues to persist, here is a Southern California perspective on this subject: Searched web for parrot pasadena southern california Results 1 - 10 of about 866. Search took 0.36 seconds. Quick Facts About Pasadena ... Pasadena, Texas was named after Pasadena, California

Re: [meteorite-list] OFF TOPIC - For the birds

2003-09-10 Thread Howard Wu
When I lived in Santa Cruz, CA there was a "flock" of three parots that lived in the banana belt people saw all the time. I think this describes the northern most range of these tropical birds. Howard Wu Robert Verish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since this OT thread continues to persist, here is

Re: [meteorite-list] Shipping theft IE HIGH CHARGES

2003-09-10 Thread Ron Hartman
My two cents worth (and personal off-list replies always appreciated at [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Buy items from many businesses, for example, Edmund Scientific Company, etc. you will pay a rather substantial percentage for SH and with a fairly high starting amount. Edmund's minimum is now $ 9.00 for

Re: [meteorite-list] Recommended humidity for public display

2003-09-10 Thread Howard Wu
Interesting! However, many earth rocks are hydrates and of course would suffer from a dry enviroment. I recall some gypsum crystal in the Lemman caves with a +99% RH that were being damaged by human entrance to there lair. Howvever most meteorites have spend 4.5G in the vacuum of space (RH=0%).

[meteorite-list] Priority vs 1st class mail

2003-09-10 Thread Howard Wu
Hi List, An experiment published in the Wall Street Journal last year compared delivery times for 1st class mail versed priority mail from NYC to Florida. What they found was very often 1st class got there faster. In fact this experiment was a repeat of one they did years ago and they found the

Re: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting?

2003-09-10 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Tom, Taking the area of the Earth to be 5.1 x 10^8 km^2 and the meteorite flux to be 23,930 yr^-1 (that's the figure from the MORP study), this yields the assumed collisional cross section of the earth to be 21,360 km^2 yr^-1. This rate means that one meteorite per year falls on an area

Re: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting with or without a detector?

2003-09-10 Thread larrytwinkmonrad
With all of the meteorites that my two more experienced hunting partners and I have found in Arizona, I would still worry about the one that might be buried under a bit of dirt or sand, or be hidden among other rocks. We generally use detectors and our eyes. Twink Monrad

[meteorite-list] postage

2003-09-10 Thread joseph_town
This reminds me of the old issue of first class versus air mail, a while back... Eventually everything was sent airmail but the P.O. still charged extra for airmail. USPS seems to be raising rates as internet traffic increases. Shouldn't they be doing the opposite or at least mantaining rates?

Re: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting

2003-09-10 Thread dfpens
The comment was made that: If you want to reduce search time per (cold) meteorite find (i.e. non-strewnfield), the #1 factor is survival time -- you must maximize it any way you can: 1. Low deposition rate -- ideally a ~negative~ deposition rate: you'd prefer a surface that is deflating 2.

[meteorite-list] NASA Report: Expand Search to Include Small Asteroids

2003-09-10 Thread Ron Baalke
http://space.com/scienceastronomy/asteroid_search_030910.html NASA Report: Expand Search to Include Small Asteroids By Robert Roy Britt space.com 10 September 2003 A panel of experts working at NASA's request has recommended a bold new search for potentially dangerous asteroids, including

Re: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting?

2003-09-10 Thread wrecks463
What are the rules for off roading in NV? I've always wondered if you could just drive out on the dry lake beds and search? Rex __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] need SA

2003-09-10 Thread Tom aka James Knudson
Hello List, Does anyone with good shipping rates have a really nice SA individual 10g's or smaller for sale? Thanks, Tom Peregrineflier The proudest member of the IMCA 6168 __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting

2003-09-10 Thread j . divelbiss
Dave, Being a former resident of Western PA and now living in Eastern PA...it is hard to imagine how difficult it would be find a meteorite on the ground surface in this jungle of a state. I would suspect the high amount of precipitation and the extreme temperatures seen through the year would

[meteorite-list] pre-mead topo map?

2003-09-10 Thread Tom aka James Knudson
Hello List, I would like a topo map of gold basin before the Hoover Dam was built and created lake Mead. Does anyone know if that is possible to obtain? Thanks, Tom Peregrineflier The proudest member of the IMCA 6168 __ Meteorite-list mailing list

Re: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting

2003-09-10 Thread j . divelbiss
it is Allen Shaw...not Alan, Sorry Allen, John Dave, Being a former resident of Western PA and now living in Eastern PA...it is hard to imagine how difficult it would be find a meteorite on the ground surface in this jungle of a state. I would suspect the high amount of precipitation

Re: [meteorite-list] pre-mead topo map?

2003-09-10 Thread joseph_town
Thank's for sparking my mind, Tom. I wish I could help with Gold Basin. Sounds like a job for Lloyd Bridges of Sea hunt fame. In the same frame though, I would very much appreciate any info. about an updated Park Forest strewn field map. Bill Kieskowski Hello List, I would like a topo map

Re: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting?

2003-09-10 Thread David Freeman
Dear Norm, List; After four years of cold hunting, bingo, blessed with PTK Post Tucson Karma, and found my first one, an L-6 chondrite. So, I really feel that the optimum conditions of soft dry sand with little or no moisture, and in a blowing area one square mile in size that the top three

Re: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting

2003-09-10 Thread David Freeman
Dear List; One more point, I recognized my 53.7 gram meteorite at about 40 feet away, and could confirm it to be meteoritic at about 30 feet by the excellent crust. I would have not seen it at all probably if I were in a vehicle, or riding a four wheeler. My method is walk ten steps, scan

[meteorite-list] Pre Mead Topo Map

2003-09-10 Thread Kevin Fly Hill
I bought several old --circa 1900 to 1920 Topos from this guy -- the ebay transactions were private (by his design) so I don't have the transaction # handy. You can most likely find him with this link. Fly Hill tomtex2( 963)

Re: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting

2003-09-10 Thread joseph_town
When I'm out, especially in wooded areas where enough light is penetrating the canopy, I'm pretty much encouraged by the fact that I can see seeds in droppings and debris that have been around for a long time, years. An old soda bottle covered with moss still in situ on the forest floor

Re: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting

2003-09-10 Thread Tom aka James Knudson
You could always burn the forest down and wait for the rain to wash the black soot off the rocks to make the black crusted meteorites stand out better. : ) PS. I am just kidding, please don't send any nasty replies. Thanks, Tom Peregrineflier The proudest member of the IMCA 6168 - Original

Re: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting

2003-09-10 Thread joseph_town
Gold Basin, Park Forest Unique situations, both. Rooting around the last pristine areas, the woods herenapalm is not an option. Bill Kieskowski You could always burn the forest down and wait for the rain to wash the black soot off the rocks to make the black crusted meteorites stand