[meteorite-list] WARNING: New twist on eBay spoof (scam)

2006-03-04 Thread R. N. Hartman
As I have not seen this posted yet, I will send this warning along. It appears as if you are getting a message from an eBay member re: an auction #6436472319. The sender wants a reply and the message form looks quite real. In fact, it is an ebay message reply template. It may state that they

Re: [meteorite-list] Largest Crater in the Sahara Desert and LDG

2006-03-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Everybody, Tektites again, oh, boy! The chief reason we don't call LDG tektites is that workers in the field don't, a question of nomenclature, but whether it should be changed is another matter. LDG was described as early as 1850 by Fresnel. There is a history of about 100

[meteorite-list] Los Angeles meteorite??

2006-03-04 Thread Charlie Devine
List, Can't get the link but check out item# 6610535940. What's up with that? Even the description of the discovery is similar to Bob Verish's account. Best wishes, Charlie __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Los Angeles meteorite??

2006-03-04 Thread M come Meteorite Meteorites
for me its a fake, from the photo its similar to metal... Matteo --- Charlie Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: List, Can't get the link but check out item# 6610535940. What's up with that? Even the description of the discovery is similar to Bob Verish's account. Best wishes,

Re: [meteorite-list] WARNING: New twist on eBay spoof (scam)

2006-03-04 Thread almitt
Hi Ron and all, Some of the new ebay spoofs are designed so you can't even forward the spoof to ebay. There have been a couple where I couldn't forward it to them. I did try to tell them about the spoof but there damn automated software won't acknowledge your complaint. So beware! --AL

Re: [meteorite-list] WARNING: New twist on eBay spoof (scam)

2006-03-04 Thread Meteoriteshow
Hi All, I have also received such spams and usually forward any ebay spam to ebay. But... I wonder what they really do about them. The more I send to ebay, the more I seem to receive spams! Of course I don't say that ebay are the spamers themselves, of course not, but what do they do against

Re: [meteorite-list] Los Angeles meteorite??

2006-03-04 Thread M come Meteorite Meteorites
answer from the seller: These were found 40 years ago on a family vacation in the mojave desert--- 20 years early than the two Bob Verish had found. Just like he had done we put them in the back yard and left them there it wasnt until a few month ago that we cut a piece off one of them and

Re: [meteorite-list] Los Angeles meteorite??

2006-03-04 Thread Meteoriteshow
The item was removed by the seller (no longer for sale...) Cheers, Frederic Beroud http://www.meteoriteshow.com IMCA member # 2491 (http://www.imca.cc/) - Original Message - From: M come Meteorite Meteorites [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Charlie Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED];

[meteorite-list] Largest Crater in the Sahara Desert and LDG

2006-03-04 Thread Mike Fowler
This is actually a more general point: there are lots and lots of impact craters but very few tektite producing ones; why? Sterling K. Webb Why not very high velocity comet impacts, at a near vertical angle. Maximum cometary velocities would be about 10 times more than average

[meteorite-list] The Origin of Chondrules and Chondrites

2006-03-04 Thread Stefan Brandes
Hi list, I´m considering to buy: The Origin of Chondrules and Chondrites by Derek Sears, Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2004 ISBN 0-521-83603-4 any recommendation? just curious Stefan __ Meteorite-list mailing list

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2006-03-04 Thread Steve Arnold, Chicago!!
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[meteorite-list] The Origin of Chondrules and Chondrites - Part 1 of 3

2006-03-04 Thread bernd . pauli
Guten Abend Stefan, Hello List, I'm considering to buy: The Origin of Chondrules and Chondrites by Derek Sears, any recommendation? Book Review: MAPS 40-4, 2005 April, pp. 655-656: The origin of chondrules and chondrites, by Derek Sears. Cambridge University Press, 2004, 209 pp. $110.00,

[meteorite-list] The Origin of Chondrules and Chondrites - Part 2 of 3

2006-03-04 Thread bernd . pauli
Book Review: MAPS 40-4, 2005 April, pp. 655-656 The origin of chondrules and chondrites, by Derek Sears. Cambridge University Press, 2004, 209 pp. $110.00, hardcover (ISBN 0-521-83603-4). Chondrites are the end products of nebular processes that operated in the protoplanetary disk and

[meteorite-list] The Origin of Chondrules and Chondrites - Part 3 of 3

2006-03-04 Thread bernd . pauli
Book Review: MAPS 40-4, 2005 April, pp. 655-656 The origin of chondrules and chondrites, by Derek Sears. Cambridge University Press, 2004, 209 pp. $110.00, hardcover (ISBN 0-521-83603-4). To test impact and nebular models for the origin of chondrules and relate the spectral properties of

[meteorite-list] updated collection page.

2006-03-04 Thread Mike / flattoprocks
Hello everyone, I have made some additions to my collection and Geoff Notkin has add ed them to my website. If any of you care to look the link is at the bottom of this e-mail. Thanks Mike Miller // E-Bay flattoprocks Website // www.meteoritefinder.com Mike Miller 230 Greenway Dr.. Kingman

Re: [meteorite-list] Largest Crater in the Sahara Desert and LDG

2006-03-04 Thread MexicoDoug
Sterling W. writes: Crustal rocks have 5 or 10 times more fluorine than boron. Tektites should have a ratio of 1.0, indicating that they were heated to temperatures high enough to drive off most of the fluorine and leave the two halogens at identical levels (however low the absolute amount),

Re: [meteorite-list] WARNING: New twist on eBay spoof (scam)

2006-03-04 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear Ron, List; I have experience this exact same spoof problem with ebay a few times last fall. What seems to work for me with ebay issues/spoofs is to only answer the emails in your message box on the secure my ebay page. I have not tried the ebay tool bar security option that they tout

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Re: [meteorite-list] updated collection page.

2006-03-04 Thread Gerald Flaherty
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[meteorite-list] OT: 1859 aurora in HI

2006-03-04 Thread tracy latimer
Our librarian is searching for information relating to an aurora that supposedly was visible from the Hawaiian islands (all right, the Sandwich Islands) in 1859. She has searched all the available local records, newspapers, genealogies and accounts, but has come up blank. Something like an

Re: [meteorite-list] updated collection page.

2006-03-04 Thread Dave Carothers
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Re: [meteorite-list] OT: 1859 aurora in HI

2006-03-04 Thread ks1u
Tracy: Unless there are other islands of the same name, the Sandwich Islands with which I am familiar are just north of Antarctica in the South Atlantic. It would not be unusual for them to get an Aurora but it would be an Aurora Australis and not Borealis. I don't pay great attention to

Re: [meteorite-list] Largest Crater in the Sahara Desert and LDG

2006-03-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Doug, I am really not quite sure why Sterling mentions the F and B assays would tend to identical levels in tektites... Both fluorine and boron, become volatile if you heat them up enough. Fluorine's a gas but it forms strong bonds and boron's much less volatile. The point is that

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: 1859 aurora in HI

2006-03-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, From the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich_Islands The Sandwich Islands was the name given to Hawaii by Captain James Cook on his discovery of the islands on January 18, 1778. The name was made in honour of one of his sponsors, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, who