RE: [meteorite-list] Red Rain in India

Don't know about red rain but this looks pretty Alien!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4785482.stm :) __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

AW: [meteorite-list] Collections in MetBase

Hello Mike, You are welcome to send me your collection details. There is no firm criteria as to whether a collection is included in MetBase or not. Naturally, private collections are by far more dynamic than institutional. This often causes problems to keep the information up-to-date. I

Re: [meteorite-list] Bernd's Collection Lepidopterist

GREAT photos Thanks, Michael on 3/8/06 2:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola Michael, Believe it or not !! I was interested in Lepidopterans long before the digital revolution. I still haven't migrated from the robust capabilities of the film camera

[meteorite-list] velocity of fall of PF

Dear Geoff and Met List, After thinking more about my reply to your question I wish to apologize if I appeared rude. This was not my intent. Perhaps your question can be answered indirectly IF soil conditions and any penetrations (craters) were observed. Most likely too late. Another

[meteorite-list] 2007 Planetary Defense Conference

http://www.aero.org/conferences/planetarydefense/index.html 2007 Planetary Defense Conference March 5-8, 2007 George Washington University Washington, D.C. The objective of the conference is to develop a white paper that assesses the current state of our ability to discover and track near

Re: [meteorite-list] velocity of fall of PF

If I understood the original question correctly, the issue isn't the speed of the meteorites at the time they fell (which was presumably just the well understood terminal velocity for objects of their mass, size, and shape), but whether the entry velocity was higher than usual for a body that

[meteorite-list] Mass Extinctions -- A Threat from Outer Space or Our Own Planet's Detox?

Press and Publications Office University of Leicester Leicester, U.K. 09/03/2006 Mass Extinctions -- A Threat from Outer Space or Our Own Planet's Detox? University scientists suggest extraterrestrial theories are flawed and that more down to earth factors could have accounted for past mass

[meteorite-list] Re: claimed meteorite fall in Bangladesh

Thanks to Ed Cannon. Here's a news story about the same event: http://www.independent-bangladesh.com/news/feb/15/15022006ft.htm Fireball of meteorite astonishes Shingpara villagers The Independent (Bangladesh) February 15, 2006 People of Shingpara village in Thakurgaon were

Re: [meteorite-list] Mass Extinctions -- A Threat from Outer Space or Our Own Planet's Detox?

I didn't think this was a new idea. In fact there have been TV drama/documentaries (docudramas) made about the possibility of Yellowstone doing precisely this. I think it was caled Supervolcano or something similar. There is also the predicted impact frequency to think about for meteorites of

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: claimed meteorite fall in Bangladesh

On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:00:06 -0800 (PST), you wrote: Before the villagers thought it was a mortal shell from other side of As opposed to an immortal shell? Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission or National Science Museum. Finally Atomic Energy Commission will carry out research and experiment on

[meteorite-list] NASA's Cassini Discovers Potential Liquid Water on Enceladus

March 9, 2006 Erica Hupp/Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington (202) 358-1237/1726 Carolina Martinez Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. (818) 354-9382 RELEASE: 06-088 NASA'S CASSINI DISCOVERS POTENTIAL LIQUID WATER ON ENCELADUS NASA's Cassini spacecraft may have found evidence

[meteorite-list] Ad- NWA4042 rare achondrite, smaller pieces

Dear List Members, a few months ago I had introduced a new achondrite NWA4042 (achondrite, ungrouped). At this time were available only full slices and I had some inquiries of collectors whether also smaller slices are available. Recently I had cut the larger remaining slices to smaller part

Re: [meteorite-list] Monze Meteorite: Behind the Scene Notes

Mark B. writes: I have recently communicated with Michael Lambert, son of Hugh Henry John Lambert, who wrote The Monze Meteorite published in The Northern Rhodesia Journal, Volume I - No. 4 - 1951... ... Slight editing has been done, but it is pretty much complete as I received it. I am

Re: [meteorite-list] Mass Extinctions -- A Threat from Outer Space orOur Own Planet's Detox?

Hi Rob and List Actually, as far as I know (reading and specific tv documentaries by paleontologists), there isn't a dinosaur fossil within 100K years or more of the iridium layer, that's before it was laid down. The exceptions are the birds. And that's another story. But, all the data collected

[meteorite-list] Cool Fresh Chondrites and Slick-n-Slide

Dear List Members, I have been going through the material I brought back from my Morocco trip last week. Here are some photos of some very nice fresh chondrites, an unusual thing these days coming out of Morocco. There are two pictures of some very good examples of Slick-n-Slide also. I have

Re: [meteorite-list] Cool Fresh Chondrites and Slick-n-Slide

Greg all, Nice specimens. Just a minor side point: the term is slickensides for the striated, movement-polished surface itself, or slickensided for a rock showing slickensides. Your version is a common, but erroneous, transliteration. Cheers, Norm http://tektitesource.com --- Greg Hupe

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

Hola Sterling, and thank you for the gracious email. Hopefully this gas cooled down; I won't go for another round on this one now, I promise. I pray the tektite debate won't continue until after we are dust, but in some places, probably you are dead right there. I've always thought that one

Re: [meteorite-list] Cool Fresh Chondrites and Slick-n-Slide

Hi Norm, Thanks for the correct, I knew I was close but not quite correct. Take care, Greg - Original Message - From: Norm Lehrman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greg Hupe [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 4:18 PM Subject: Re:

[meteorite-list] Scientists Hope Comet Dust Will Give Numerous Insights (Stardust)

http://record.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/6766.html Scientists hope comet dust will give numerous insights By Susan Killenberg McGinn Record, Vol. 30, No. 25 Washington University in St. Louis March 10, 2006 It's a short elevator ride to the fourth floor of Compton Hall - home of the Laboratory

[meteorite-list] Matteo and Ebay.

Matteo was thrown off of eBay again today. Anyone know why? Mike Farmer __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] SMART-1's View of Mayer and Bond Craters Reshaped by Lava and Debris

http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMREBNVGJE_index_0.html SMART-1's view of Mayer and Bond craters reshaped by lava and debris European Space Agency 9 March 2006 This composite image, obtained by the Advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, shows a nice scene near the

[meteorite-list] Cassini Images of Enceladus Suggest Geysers Erupt Liquid Water at the Moon's South Pole

University Communications University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona UA contacts on this research: Alfred McEwen, 520-626-4573 Elizabeth Turtle, 520-621-8284 Jason Perry, 520-626-0760 March 09, 2006 Cassini Images of Enceladus Suggest Geysers Erupt Liquid Water at the Moon's South Pole By

[meteorite-list] Identifying Gems and Minerals on Earth and Mars

IDENTIFYING GEMS AND MINERALS ON EARTH AND MARS (From Mari N. Jensen, UA Office of University Communications, 520-626-9635) - Thursday, March 9, 2006 Contact information is at the end of this release.

Re: [meteorite-list] Matteo and Ebay.

you are happy uh Farmer? No problem, I return at 7 daysproblems with a idiot in the italian ebay forum... Matteo --- Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Matteo was thrown off of eBay again today. Anyone know why? Mike Farmer __

[meteorite-list] Re: 1859 aurora -- thanks!

Thank you to everyone who helped me track down information about the auroras of 1859. Not only was our patron thrilled, our Hawaii and Pacific state library reference crew wanted the information as well for their database, so the links did double duty. Thanks again! Tracy Latimer

[meteorite-list] Whole individual

List, Back to the whole individual question. Really fresh specimens can be confusing at a glance. Many appear to be fragments with fresh exposed matrix, exposed as if they broke on impact with a hard surface. After a second look I see the light matrix from the exposed face frosted over the

RE: [meteorite-list] Matteo and Ebay.

Matteo, Matteo, Matteo, how many times have you been thrown off of ebay? Isn't is odd that it is always some idiot's fault? You know what I and others have noticed, there are a lot of Idiots out there, and they all seem to revolve round Matteo from Venice in some fashion. I remember when some

RE: [meteorite-list] Park Forest Fireball Question

Hello Geoff, I found the following table in The orbit, atmospheric dynamics, and initial mass of the Park Forest meteorite paper by P. BROWN, D. PACK, W. N. EDWARDS, D. O. REVELLE, B. B. YOO, R. E. SPALDING, and E. TAGLIAFERRI7, which was published in Meteoritics Planetary Science 39, Nr

Re: [meteorite-list] Cool Fresh Chondrites and Slick-n-Slide

Pete list, There are meteorites with slickenside?! It would have to be Martian, then, right? Yes, slickensided meteorites have been discussed several times on the list. But no, they don't have to be planetary. I would only be speculating on the actual limiting conditions, but the parent

RE: [meteorite-list] Matteo and Ebay.

But want you thing to know of it you? You do not be in the italian forum of ebay. You are only good to put fake informations around. Stop to broken me AGAIN! Matteo --- Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Matteo, Matteo, Matteo, how many times have you been thrown off of ebay?

RE: [meteorite-list] Cool Fresh Chondrites and Slick-n-Slide

I have seen many chondrites with slickensides. Zag being one of the most common. Mike Farmer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Norm Lehrman Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 10:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

RE: [meteorite-list] Matteo and Ebay.

You have no problem attacking everyone else's ebay auctions, I can show in the archives where you have done it to me a hundred times. You can't handle it when people do the same to you Matteo? All I asked was why you were kicked off of ebay again. So tell us, what does the Italian forum have to