Hey Mike,
A big congrats! I warn you though it's quite addicting... ;) You're
gonna want to cut everything now just to see what's inside. It's like
Christmas every time you cut into one. Just when you think you know
what's inside they always surprise you.
I'm with Michael C, it really is an
Hello,
Congrats, you just entered an amazing world of endless discovery and
excitement. After countless of meteorite cuts (maybe 5,000 or more) I
still love opening up a meteorite for the first time. Meteorites,
remind me of books and each cut is like turning a page of a story...
Best Wish
Hi Listees!
I finally fired up my saw today and did my first cuts!
First, I had no idea that cutting stony meteorites was so EASY.
Albeit, I was cutting small ones.
I did my very first cut on a non-descript UNWA stone. It cut right in
half like butter. So, then I was feeling increasingly brave
Hello Bernd,
and do you remember the NWA 4905 in your collection, which in that context
could point in that direction?
Although we haven't new results yet.
Wait, Tom Phillips made also some of his fantastic takes with NWA 4905..
Here: http://www.meteorite-times.com/Back_Links/2009/april/index.h
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html
SPIRIT UPDATE: Studying Troy* /- sols 1941-1947, June 18-24, 2009:
Spirit is continuing her ambitious remote sensing and in-situ (contact)
science observations at the location called "Troy" on the west side of
Home Plate.
Using the rover robot
MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES
June 22-26, 2009
o Unusual Textures (Released 22 June 2009)
http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20090622a
o Coprates Chasma (Released 23 June 2009)
http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20090623a
o Sirenum Fossae (Released 24 June 2009)
http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20090624a
o Siren
http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/June09/Vesta.granite-like.html
*The Complicated Geologic History of Asteroid 4 Vesta*
Planetary Science Research Discoveries
June 25, 2008
--- Meteorites from asteroid 4 Vesta show that it contains patches of
granite-like rock.
Written by G. Jeffrey Taylor
Hawaii Inst
Bernd, List,
I have a follow-up question;
I realize the amount of quartz found in all of these different types of
meteorites is small but, why does that mean it cannot be found in larger
amounts? With all due respect, Who came up with this rule? As one example in a
million, even nickel in Iron
June 25, 2009
Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
katherine.trini...@nasa.gov
Josh Byerly
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
josh.bye...@nasa.gov
MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-116
NASA GIVES MEDIA, PUBLIC LOOK INSIDE APOLLO MOON ROCK VAULT
HOUSTON -- NASA will
Bernd, List,
I have a follow-up question;
I realize the amount of quartz found in all of these different types of
meteorites is small but, why does that mean it cannot be found in larger
amounts? With all due respect, Who came up with this rule? As one example in a
million, even nickel in Iron
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-102
Mars Rover Yielding New Clues While Lodged in Martian Soil
Jet Propulion Laboratory
June 25, 2009
PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars rover Spirit, lodged in Martian soil
that is causing traction trouble, is taking advantage of the situation
b
Hello Folks,
01) MONTEIRO J.F. (1989) Preliminary study of the Chaves
howardite (Meteoritics 24-4, 1989, pp. A305-A306):
"Quartz and tridymite were observed in thin section..."
02) RUBIN A.E. (1997) Mineralogy of meteorite groups
(Meteoritics 32-2, 1997, 231-247, p. 241, excerpts):
"The basalti
Hi Randy, Marco and List -
I'd refer the pest to one of these nutballs, and let them amuse each other :
http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/oldschool-av
http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/hockpooh
Perhaps they can validate each other's junk specimens. ;)
Best regards,
MikeG
On 6/26/09, Randy Korotev
Dear Marco:
I have been contacted ~30 times over the last year by someone at that
e-mail address who identifies himself as James Rice. He sends lots
of photos of things he identifies as "imbedded spherules," "lapilli,"
"fusion crust," and "widmanstatten" in his rocks, which he claims are
fro
Hello List,
I wanted to let everyone know that my 100kg Brenham pallasite is ending on
eBay Saturday night. It has no reserve and was started well below
wholesale. It is an incredible museum quality specimen found by our own
world renown meteorite hunter Steve Arnold, Arkansas. If you have a
Hi,
Anyone here getting mails from a 'Jude Noonan', e-mail bonk...@hotmail.com ?
He/she sent me pictures and apparent geochemical "descriptions" of a stone,
claimed to have been found in Amsterdam. He alternately suggests it is an impact
rock or a moon rock.
The whole is very fishy. However,
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