[meteorite-list] NWA 4485 boast

2007-03-31 Thread Dave Harris
Hi, Just a word to boast that I am the very proud owner of a 0.315g slice of the new KREEP-rich lunar thanks to Martin Altmann and Stefan Ralew of Chladni's Heirs! This is an astonishingly rare lunar (TKW 188g) - paired with Greg and Adam s find - incredible under the 'scope and it has really

[meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - March 31, 2007

2007-03-31 Thread SPACEROCKSINC
http://www.spacerocksinc.com/March_31_2007.html ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite coins and other ridiculous wastes oftime

2007-03-31 Thread Martin Altmann
Armando, I don't know whether it's to indiscreet, but allow me a question: What's your age? Each collector, each museum, each lab can acquire from the meteorite dealers partslices, fullslices, endcuts, whole stones and in most cases also the main masses of those stones, where also micromounts

[meteorite-list] NWA 4472 KREEP-rich

2007-03-31 Thread Greg Hupe
Hi Dave and List Yes, NWA 4472 is great KREEP-rich Lunar material and if you ever want first-hand classification information on anything we have, feel free to contact me or the NomCom-approved scientist's for anything we have brought to the meteorite community. Best regards, Greg

Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 4472 KREEP-rich

2007-03-31 Thread Martin Altmann
Yep, and those, who missed the opportunity to take advantage from Greg's sales of NWA 4472, which is sold out, (isn't it?) as it was a 64g-stone only (not that bad, if you remember that Apollo 12 brought back only a single 88g KREEP first) has now the opportunity to acquire a slice from its

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite coins and other ridiculous wastes oftime

2007-03-31 Thread Michael Farmer
My god Armando, We are not talking about Mars rock here, we are talking about Campo del Cielo, a meteorite with HUNDREDS, actually THOUSANDS of TONS of material. Now, I do not break up Campo to make the coins, I buy the shredded and tumbled scraps from people who do cut them up, they are the

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite coins - speaking with myself...

2007-03-31 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi Armando, perhaps that last answer was to rude.. I think, that what you aren't able to see, if you construct your artificial conflict between commerce and science, is that science, if we over-simplify, seems not to have a greater interest in new hot-desert-finds or new finds elsewhere, as no

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite coins! A-1

2007-03-31 Thread Kirk Jenks
Hi Mike All, Some people just don't get it! It's an individuals choice on what they want to buy, based on what individuals see, like or collect for themselves. This item that Mike and Jim produced is very unique indeed; even though the Meteorite that was used is not a rare one, and is

Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - March 29, 2007

2007-03-31 Thread Gerald Flaherty
Recently there was an interesting TV [I think the History Channel]special on the theoretical origin of Libyan Desert Glass. It proposed a Tunguska like air burst, in relatively recent geologic time in what was then an entirely different ecologic environment. Although the event proposed was

[meteorite-list] KREEP and SAU 169

2007-03-31 Thread Dave Harris
So, in the process of googling around I see that the only other KREEP rock (other than the Hupe's and Chladni's paired specimens) is SAU 169 - which, as far as I can tell has not been distributed into any private hands (correct me, of course!) The thing is about SAU 169 is that they have a

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite coins and other ridiculous wastes oftime

2007-03-31 Thread Michael Farmer
Actually you insulted everyone on this list, calling dealers pirates again. Of course you have a right to your opinion as does everyone else, but when you start calling names, then your opinion no longer matters. since you have used the term pirate to directly impugn myself, and the post was

[meteorite-list] Mojave Hunt Images

2007-03-31 Thread Adam Hupe
Dear List, Here are a few images of last week's Mojave hunt: Dancing with dust devils on bike: http://themeteoritesite.com/LakeBedBike.JPG Desert pan search: http://themeteoritesite.com/DesertPanSearch.JPG One dry lake bed is covered with these crystals giving it an almost magical appearance:

Re: [meteorite-list] KREEP and SAU 169

2007-03-31 Thread Martin Altmann
Almost correct, the small Dho 925/960/961 grouplet was revaluated in January to be also Kreep-bearing, see Korotev's fine scheme: http://meteorites.wustl.edu/lunar/moon_meteorites_list_alumina.htm The rough parent location could be the Mare Imbrium/Oceanus Procellarum region, as - aside in ejecta

[meteorite-list] bad posts against mf

2007-03-31 Thread steve arnold
Hey armondo what is all the bad postd aginst mike?What he and jim are thier business.If it benefits 1 person,that person are happy and so are they.That is what is all about.Just like me.If all I want to collect is gao meteorites,that is my choice.No one else's!I think you should lay off mike and

[meteorite-list] NWA 4716 [Provisional]

2007-03-31 Thread Gary K. Foote
NWA 4716 [Provisional] Sent to Bathurst Observatory in New Zealand in March, 2007 for analysis, this meteorite has been classified by them as H6, S4, W5. Originally I reported 2.08kg as TKW. I have, today, notified them via email that, during slicing and polishing and moving stuff around,

Re: [meteorite-list] Mojave Hunt Images

2007-03-31 Thread Adam Hupe
An update, I couldn't remember the name of the crystals on the dry lake bed but Dave Freeman provided me with the answer: The crystals are selenite, or gypsum, an evaporate mineral. The strange home I was told were made by some kind of beetle. The mascot is none other than Captain Chondrite.

[meteorite-list] Cool California Find

2007-03-31 Thread Jason Utas
Hello All, Usually I don't post find images, but I thought this one from the day before yesterday was pretty cool. http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f306/JUtas/DSCN2320.jpg http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f306/JUtas/DSCN2315.jpg It's the smallest stone we've ever found, weighing in at

Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 4472 KREEP-rich

2007-03-31 Thread Greg Hupe
Hi Martin and other KREEPY friends, I mean no disparagement by my warm greeting ;-) I think a lot of people would like to be the owners of a KREEP-rich Lunar meteorite. Martin wrote: Greg's sales of NWA 4472, which is sold out, (isn't it?) No, I am not sold out of NWA 4472, here is a listing

Re: [meteorite-list] Cool California Find

2007-03-31 Thread bernd . pauli
Jason wrote: Usually I don't post find images, but I thought this one from the day before yesterday was pretty cool. http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f306/JUtas/DSCN2320.jpg http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f306/JUtas/DSCN2315.jpg Congratulations! A beautiful, fully crusted, fresh-looking

[meteorite-list] Bad Emails vs Mike

2007-03-31 Thread Rob McCafferty
I'm gonna get a pasting for this but I'm saying it anyay. Mike does get a lot of flak from people whom abviously share a view which I describe as reverse polarity from ourshowever Mike, you don't do yourself any favours by being so confrontational yourself. Now, personally, I get a perverse

[meteorite-list] AD-Park forest and Cumberland Falls

2007-03-31 Thread Matt Morgan
I have some outstanding slices of Park Forest, fresh off the saw. Dual lithology light/dark clasts, totally brecciated. Best I have seen in a couple of years. Also, I have some wire-saw cut Cumberland Falls slices. Email me for details, Matt Morgan __

[meteorite-list] Just to say, Hi once again!

2007-03-31 Thread Mal Bishop
Hello everyone once again! After almost a four year absence, I had an irresistible urge to again stroll back to the old neighborhood and see how much or how little it may have changed. It is rather refreshing to see many of the same old names I remember from the past, as well as some new

Re: [meteorite-list] iron streams? Ed

2007-03-31 Thread Michael Murray
Hi Ed, and List Just writing to let you know a couple things about your last email iron streams. I had that message come into my inbox, but it doesn't show on the met-list archives, at least not yet. Likewise, I see messages on the archives from quite recent that never showed up in my

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite cutting

2007-03-31 Thread Pamela Shireman
Hello all: Even though I am a lightweight in the meteorite world - I want to weigh in on the discussion going on right now concerning cutting meteorites. I am the curator of the Woolard Hinkle Williams Meteorite Collection that belongs to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. I can't

[meteorite-list] Fwd: Tennessee fall picture on postcard , Cosby Creek.

2007-03-31 Thread Metorman46
** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ---BeginMessage--- Hello Robin; Cosby Creek is available on the market.Geoff Cintron was selling it when i acquired my specimen from him.I have visually hunted Cosby and,so far,found nothing.There is a good

Re: [meteorite-list] Cool California Find

2007-03-31 Thread Adam Hupe
Link to our other mascot that does not give nightmares. The meteorite monster protected our valuable finds: http://themeteoritesite.com/Monster.jpg Best Regards, Adam __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Cool California Find

2007-03-31 Thread Greg Hupe
I think I ran into one of those in the nearly zero visibility river scuba diving I have been doing for fossils here lately! Greg - Original Message - From: Adam Hupe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 7:59 PM Subject: Re:

[meteorite-list] Moble phones attract asteroids!

2007-03-31 Thread Darren Garrison
http://www.mobilegazette.com/mobile-phones-to-destroy-earth-07x04x01.htm Will Mobile Phones Destroy the Earth? 1st April 2007 A shock report out this week will show that mobile phones prevent a bigger threat to the environment than anyone has imagined - in fact, it states that continued use of

Re: [meteorite-list] Cool California Find

2007-03-31 Thread Moni Waiblinger
Hello Bernd and Jason and list-members, This is really a nice little piece of a find Jason!!! A little individual - just perfect. A so fresh too! You are so lucky!!! With best regards, Moni From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Cool

Re: [meteorite-list] Mojave Hunt Images

2007-03-31 Thread Moni Waiblinger
Hello Adam and all, Well congratulations to you too! This looks like a very nice find. Can't wait to find out from where and who at the end the meteorite belongs to, California or Nevada? Nice find! It will be interesting to see what kind it is! Guess the bicycles meant you went back to

Re: [meteorite-list] Just to say, Hi once again! (Walter)

2007-03-31 Thread Maria Haas
Hello Mal, My best wishes are with you and your son for the loss of your wife. Walter's condition was touch and go for a while. He is still struggling but is slowly recovering. Rebekah was injured in the accident and has bounced back like only a kid can. If you search the list archives you can