[meteorite-list] OT: Please dont...

2005-04-07 Thread Lars Pedersen
Hello List and specialy Maria I got am email today, I dont know how it ends up on my computer, since it was not send to me. Please dont collect money. I don't know how to express myself, without sounding ungrateful. It has been really nice that so many people have expresses their sympathy. For

[meteorite-list] What's this? -for the geology experts out there

2005-04-07 Thread Graham Christensen
Hello list I've had this rock sitting on my kitchen table since last year when I picked it up along the side of the road while out for a walk. It is a fairly smooth green rock with black bits in it and it looks somewhat like my DAG 476 shergottite but it's a slightly lighter shade of green. I

[meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - April 7, 2005

2005-04-07 Thread SPACEROCKSINC
http://www.spacerocksinc.com/April7.html __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - April 7, 2005

2005-04-07 Thread ROCKS ON FIRE
Hi, List, Michael and Jeff, at first I reckon it's about time for me to thank Micheal for his never ending effords in keeping us up-to-date with the latest of interesting 'Rocks From Space Picture of the Day' issues. I can hardly imagine the time and work involved keeping us entertained. So,

Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - April 7, 2005

2005-04-07 Thread Gerald Flaherty
Jeff that's the best duck-billed dinosaur meteorite I ever saw! Too bad someone had to shoot it in the eye!! Jerry - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 6:11 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Rocks From Space

Re: [meteorite-list] What's this? -for the geology experts out there

2005-04-07 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Graham, looks like a case for John Divelbiss with his great Mars surrogate gabbros for the not so wealthy collectors, who can't afford a slice of a shergottite! Buckleboo (it starts again...) Martin - Original Message - From: Graham Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - April 7, 2005

2005-04-07 Thread Graham Christensen
How would that pit have been formed? By an impact in space or while it was in the atmosphere? I would have thought that any external traces of impacts in space would by erased by the ablation process. Graham ~ Graham Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - April 7, 2005

2005-04-07 Thread Jeff Kuyken
G'day Graham, It's an interesting question. There are a couple of theories listed on the main page. http://www.meteorites.com.au/features/funkysa.html Cheers, Jeff - Original Message - From: Graham Christensen To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005

[meteorite-list] What's this? -for the geology experts out there

2005-04-07 Thread Robert Verish
Hello Brother Graham and List, http://marzmeteorite.tripod.com/mars-rocks/2mars1not.jpg As you can tell from the above image, Brother Graham and I belong to the same fraternity - The Fraternal Order of Green Rock Picker-Uppers. And here is an in-situ image showing where I found my green rock:

RE: [meteorite-list] What's this? -for the geology experts out there

2005-04-07 Thread mark ford
Nice pics. A Classic illustration of why classification is so very important! Especially with Martian and Lunar Material... Best, Mark -Original Message- From: Robert Verish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] What's this? -for the geology experts out there

2005-04-07 Thread Graham Christensen
Brother Bob, that is a fine specimen of probably exactly what I have and I'm glad to see I'm not the only one picking up every odd coloured rock and dragging it home. Thanks for showing that. And here is an in-situ image showing where I found my green rock Haha! If only! I can probably borrow

[meteorite-list] What is this?

2005-04-07 Thread C. Giessler
Hola, List, i got something here and im not sure about what it really is. I dont think its a meteorite, but what is it, is it a pyrite nodule, like the list talked about a few weeks ago? The crystals that are at one side of it look a bit similar. At the sides are some kind of lines. Here are

Re: [meteorite-list] What's this? -for the geology experts out there

2005-04-07 Thread David Freeman
Dear Bob, Graham, and list; I should entitle this thread treatise on common colored stone. Throughout my rock involved history, I have come to the conclusion that picking up colored Earthly trinkets is extremely healthy for our physics. From the inquisitive child-like mind, we note the

Re: [meteorite-list] Google Maps

2005-04-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Google maps is fun, but not terribly useful. I spent a quarter hour trying to find Manacouagan crater, to duplicate Marc's view, with atlases at my side to help me, but Google Maps refused to do it without my coughing up its postal code. Do craters have postal codes? I tried Google

[meteorite-list] Re: Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - April 7, 2005

2005-04-07 Thread Notkin
http://www.spacerocksinc.com/April7.html Excellent! The splash effect around the pit is particularly pronounced. Nice photo Jeff. I have a couple of Sikhotes with good impact pits -- one of my favorite meteorite collectables. I'll try to photograph them this week and send them along to Michael

[meteorite-list] Benguerir individuals sale

2005-04-07 Thread Jan Bartels
Hi listees, Last week we received over 2 kilos of Benguerir from Morocco. Very fresh material! Mostly individuals with lots of fusion crust. One 480 gr. piece i kept for myself, the others will be for sale but will not be on Ebay. Here's what still have: 231 grams with about 15% crust. 268 grams

Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - April 7, 2005

2005-04-07 Thread Gerald Flaherty
I second that mightily!! Jerry - Original Message - From: ROCKS ON FIRE [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 7:17 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - April 7, 2005 Hi, List, Michael and Jeff,

Re: [meteorite-list] Google Maps

2005-04-07 Thread Marc Fries
Oh, for Christ's sake, folks! Y'all are looking at this whole Google Maps thing the wrong way. Try this: ---===it's FREE===--- It will not locate each hair on your head or make the longer-lasting light bulb, but it serves well as another tool in your cartographical toolbox. I've found it

Re: [meteorite-list] What's this? -for the geology experts out there

2005-04-07 Thread Gerald Flaherty
Nicely done Dave!!! - Original Message - From: David Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Graham Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Robert Verish [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 11:19 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What's

Re: [meteorite-list] Google Maps

2005-04-07 Thread Gerald Flaherty
WOW! Sterling, no comparision. Terraserver wins by a mile Jerry - Original Message - From: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Google Maps Hi, Google maps is fun, but not

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: Please dont...

2005-04-07 Thread Michael L Blood
on 4/7/05 12:52 AM, Lars Pedersen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am deeply touched by your idea, but please don't I find it easy to give, but very hard to receive. --- It is wonderful you allow yourself the joy of giving. When you refuse to receive, you deny someone the right

[meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - April 7, 2005

2005-04-07 Thread Robert Verish
Hello Jeff, Michael, and List, Thanks to Michael for posting these images and giving us all an opportunity to see them and to discuss them. And thanks to Jeff for sharing with us his great webpage with those excellent images and the well-thought explanation. In an article I wrote 2 years

Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - April 7, 2005

2005-04-07 Thread Marc Fries
Funny you should ask... http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/LPSC98/pdf/1839.pdf Cheers, MDF I wonder if there have been impact craters found on any other iron meteorites? Bob V. -- Marc Fries Postdoctoral Research Associate Carnegie Institution of Washington Geophysical Laboratory 5251

[meteorite-list] Abundance and Diversity of Martian Meteorites from Northern Africa

2005-04-07 Thread Adam Hupe
Dear List, Please check out the link below to graphically see the abundance and importance of Martian meteorite finds from Northern Africa. Northwest Africa has truly been a treasure trove for the finding of important new Martian material which is of the greatest scientific interest. So far,

Re: [meteorite-list] Google Maps

2005-04-07 Thread Martin Altmann
Exist smth for freeonline with a similar resolution like the terraserver (gosh, I found my sister's car in Hupetown, Washington) for the whole world too? Martin - Original Message - From: Marc Fries [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, April 07,

[meteorite-list] AD - Best Offer Takes It - 18 items

2005-04-07 Thread Greg Hupe
Dear list members, I am having another Best Offer Takes It silent auction for list members starting today and will end Tuesday, April 12th, 2005 at 11:00PM EST (Florida, USA). Here are the descriptions and direct links to pictures (worth looking at even if you are not interested in making an

Re: [meteorite-list] What's this? -for the geology experts out there

2005-04-07 Thread Gerald Flaherty
Grahm, Robert and List, This has been one of the most refreshing threads I've had the pleasure of reading lately. As a rank beginner, I had put away my stooping at every odd looking rock as more and more(ALL) proved terra! So now I relearn from the experts that stooping is a good thing for mind,

Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - April 7, 2005

2005-04-07 Thread Gerald Flaherty
Hey Jeff can I borrow that spanner(wrench)in the Latest batch Of Glorietta Mt. meteorites pictured on that page? Jerry Flaherty - Original Message - From: Robert Verish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list Meteoritecentral meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, April 07,

[meteorite-list] Re: Wanted Gibeon slices

2005-04-07 Thread meteoriteplaya
Hi I have a customer that is looking for some gibeon slices. They must be around 2.5 mm thick. Let me know sizes and prices. Mike -- Mike Jensen IMCA 4264 Jensen Meteorites 16730 E Ada PL Aurora, CO 80017-3137 303-337-4361 website: www.jensenmeteorites.com

[meteorite-list] The best of the wrongs!

2005-04-07 Thread Tom Knudson
Hey List, some of you might have seen this in person, but I don't think I have shared it with the list. This is a crusted (looks like it anyways) wrong that had a lot of people thinking.. It has not been tested, but some real knowledgeable people said it is not, while others were not so

Re: [meteorite-list] The best of the wrongs!

2005-04-07 Thread Meteoryt.net
Hey List, some of you might have seen this in person, but I don't think I have shared it with the list. This is a crusted (looks like it anyways) wrong that had a lot of people thinking.. It has not been tested, but some real knowledgeable people said it is not, while others were not so

[meteorite-list] Scientists Find New Evidence of 'Snowball Earth'

2005-04-07 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=SNOWBALL-EARTH-04-07-05cat=II Scientists find new evidence of 'Snowball Earth' By LEE BOWMAN Scripps Howard News Service April 07, 2005 Scientists have new evidence from interplanetary dust that Earth was sheathed in ice at least twice during a

Re: [meteorite-list] What's this? -for the geology experts out there

2005-04-07 Thread j . divelbiss
Hello fellow green rock picker-uppers. I have more green rocks than Carter has pills. :) I collect green rocks on a regular basis. After years of collecting and studying, along with the help of fellow green rock collectors like Bob V, I have concluded that my shergonots are related to an area

[meteorite-list] Bullet Sikhote, simply breathtaking.

2005-04-07 Thread Michael Farmer
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=6524022200 Check this sucker out! Note the swirled flow lines, showing that this piece is a true bullet, spinning as falling. also note the interesting ring with little lines of molten material, like candle... This piece is unlike any other I

Re: [meteorite-list] The best of the wrongs!

2005-04-07 Thread M come Meteorite Meteorites
This is nothingtake a look to this meteorwrong have sent to me a photo days ago, 3 kg. weight http://it.geocities.com/tunguska2004/meteorwrong.JPG unfortunately is not a meteorite... Matteo --- Tom Knudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey List, some of you might have seen this in person, but