Re: [meteorite-list] Comet Holmes/Parent bodies?

2007-11-07 Thread ensoramanda
Hi Al, All, Nice shots for first attemptI hav'nt had a go for ages...you've inspired me to give it a try whilst there is something special about. What equipment are you using? You also made me wonder about parent bodies when considering if there might be bits of Holmes about. I am not

[meteorite-list] New meteorite hunt?

2007-11-07 Thread ensoramanda
Hi All, Last week I was contacted by a landowner in the UK who has an elderly uncle with an interesting story. He seems like a typical farmer who went about his daily chores each day all through his life without any wish for outsiders intruding on his land or in his business. He gives an

[meteorite-list] Add-Meteorite dealers needed in Tucson

2007-11-07 Thread Arizona Keith
Hello Meteorite Dealer Do you need space to rent at the Tucson Show to sell meteorites and other stuff, We are looking for meteorite dealers to share space in an Tucson art studio, great lighting and location, near the Inns. Large spaces for 4 or 5 dealers, have 2 dealers in, need 2 more

Re: [meteorite-list] strange fragment found inside mali fall.

2007-11-07 Thread Michael Farmer
Aziz, it looks like high shock area. I found two pieces in Munich that I bought, one has a spectacular shock vein and the other is impact-melt material. Mike --- habibi abdelaziz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello list members, enjoy this fragment found inside mali fall, this came may be from a

Re: [meteorite-list] Impact-melt Gao on ebay, not even one cent bd!

2007-11-07 Thread Michael Farmer
No, there is no crater, only a tiny chip in the crust. It is a top-quality specimen though, this one should bring some hundreds of dollars. There was almost no Sikhote-alin in Munich, Germany, and what was there was mostly small shrapnel and low quality pieces. That meteorite is drying up fast.

[meteorite-list] strange fragment found inside mali fall.

2007-11-07 Thread habibi abdelaziz
hello list members, enjoy this fragment found inside mali fall, this came may be from a high impact. http://www.flickr.com/photos/azizhabibi/ thanks aziz the habibi. habibi aziz box 70 erfoud 52200 morroco phone. 21235576145 fax.21235576170

Re: [meteorite-list] Impact-melt Gao on ebay, not even one cent bd!

2007-11-07 Thread Don Rawlings
This is interesting. Is that a crater in the leading edge of this oriented Sikhote-alin that you have? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=140173837051 Don --- Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check out this great piece that is on ebay! What is up, not even one bid yet

[meteorite-list] Impact-melt Gao on ebay, not even one cent bd!

2007-11-07 Thread Michael Farmer
Check out this great piece that is on ebay! What is up, not even one bid yet after 9 days. Beautiful piece of very rare and beautiful immpact-melt Gao meteorite. http://cgi.ebay.com/_W0QQitemZ140173774635 See all available items at the links below.

[meteorite-list] Mali Melt

2007-11-07 Thread Christian Anger
Hi folks, I was also lucky enough to find a melted specimen of the Mali-meteorite in a big lot of Mohamed Sbais's individuals at the Munich show. see here www.austromet.com/collection/Mali_219g_A.jpg www.austromet.com/collection/Mali_219g_B.jpg www.austromet.com/collection/Mali_219g_C.jpg

[meteorite-list] Forming an Meteorite Association

2007-11-07 Thread Anita D. Westlake
Dear Listees: As I may have mentioned, we recently formed a new meteorite group in Georgia called Meteorite Association of Georgia. We already have about 25 members, including one in England! Maybe Mark Bostick or one of you out there in outer space can advise me on how one goes about

Re: [meteorite-list] Question about Polarizing Microscope Lomo Polam P-211

2007-11-07 Thread Francis Graham
On Novemeber 5, 2007 and in Question about Polarizing Microscope Lomo Polam P-211, Pat Brown asked: Can any of you help me learn anything more about this microscope? I contacted the good folks at Lomo USA and they tell me that this microscope was never supported in the US market and

[meteorite-list] Meteorite-Times request

2007-11-07 Thread Paul Harris
Dear List Members, We are running a little behind with Meteorite-Times and hope to have it up in a couple of days. We will have a new page starting next month. A Memories Page. On this new page we will list the links to pages that you have created for members of our meteorite community

[meteorite-list] Randall Gregory strikes again!

2007-11-07 Thread Darren Garrison
http://media.wildcat.arizona.edu/media/storage/paper997/news/2007/11/06/Extra/Police.Beat-3080688.shtml Police were dispatched to the Kuiper Space Sciences building, 1629 E. University Blvd., after a woman reported having a suspicious e-mail sent to her by someone she knew Oct. 30. The woman

[meteorite-list] NWA 482 Cast ?

2007-11-07 Thread Bob Evans
Just curious if there was one made years ago. It would look nice next to my Adamana cast. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Crater in Puno, Peru to be a Tourist Attraction

2007-11-07 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.livinginperu.com/news/5038 Meteorite Crater in Puno, Peru to be a Tourist Attraction Living in Peru November 6, 2007 (LIP-ir) -- Hernan Fuentes, the regional president of Puno, Peru announced that Thursday or Friday a project to conserve the crater left by the meteorite that landed

[meteorite-list] Did a Collision Cause Comet 17P/Holmes' Mysterious Outburst?

2007-11-07 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/space/2007/11/did-collision-cause-comet-holmess.html Did a collision cause comet's mysterious outburst? Kimm Groshong New Scientist space blog November 06, 2007 Comet 17P/Holmes has certainly given sky-watchers - backyard and professional astronomers alike - a

[meteorite-list] stefan's email of 3D comet utube

2007-11-07 Thread Jerry
Could someone please forward Stefan's recent Utube 3D view of comet Holmes to me. I accidently deleted it. Thanks in advance. Stefan, that was one cool video, WICKED cool!!! Imagination and talent went into the making of that video. I have some of the former but lack the latter! [unless

Re: [meteorite-list] Did a Collision Cause Comet 17P/Holmes'MysteriousOutburst?

2007-11-07 Thread Jerry
Sterling, Larry and List, The burp theory as proposed by Sterling is as solid as any and more likely than most to guesstmate the auspicious, unusual cometary event that graced this generation of observers with a front row seat to the great mysteries of OUR existence. We, once more, have been

Re: [meteorite-list] Did a Collision Cause Comet 17P/Holmes' MysteriousOutburst?

2007-11-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, List, You would think with all the new (and old) scientists examining the collisional possibilities of Comet Holmes passing through the Asteroid Belt, some of them might have noticed that Comet Holmes DOES NOT PASS through the Asteroid Belt! I'm being sarcastic about this because I

Re: [meteorite-list] Comet Holmes

2007-11-07 Thread Stefan Brandes
Finaly I saw the comet tonight, thanks to clear skies here in southern Austria. I think that little animation I found on YouTube shows best what happend to the comet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJBHm2f-4zo Stefan __ Meteorite-list mailing

[meteorite-list] Plenty of Planetary - AD

2007-11-07 Thread Greg Hupe
Dear List Members, I have just loaded many eBay auctions, plenty of them being planetary. Of special notice are two complete slices of NWA 2995, a gorgeous lunar breccia. I polished one of the slices I had and have made it, another complete slice and a couple other smaller pieces available on

[meteorite-list] Scalecube Family

2007-11-07 Thread Mike Bandli
On June 21, 2007 Paul wrote: I have to wonder if ten years from now, there will be people collecting the different types of scalecubes/centimeter cubes as people on this list are collecting meteorites. Ten years? How about five months! My Scalecube family:

[meteorite-list] Ad - 83 gram Mars Meteorite

2007-11-07 Thread Tim Heitz
Hello List, I have a 83 gram Mars meteorite that I want to sell, if not sold on the list I will be putting it up on e-bay soon. http://www.meteorman.org/Mars_4857.htm For the serious collector only. Thank You, Tim Heitz MIDWEST METEORITES - http://www.meteorman.org/

Re: [meteorite-list] Did a Collision Cause Comet 17P/Holmes'MysteriousOutburst?

2007-11-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Jerry, Credit where credit is due! Larry Lebofsky used the expression burp on the List when arguing for a gas explosion from perihelion warming when I was arguing for a collision (before visualizing that orbit completely), so I began to think of these two causes as the Bump and Burp

Re: [meteorite-list] Scalecube Family

2007-11-07 Thread info
On November 7, 2007 Mike wrote: From left to right: Buhl 1cm Cube, Unknown 1cm Cube, NASA 'Scale Block' 1 inch Cube, Drake 1 inch Certified Cube, Drake 1cm Cube, Drake 1cm prototype. Dear Mike, when or where did NASA use a 1 inch cube? I am quite sure all their meteorite documentation use the