Re: [meteorite-list] They're Leprechauns!

2009-09-10 Thread GREG LINDH
Phil, Personally, I like your posts. Keep them coming. Greg Lindh > From: prairiecac...@rtcol.com > To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:24:53 -0400 > Subject: [meteorite-list] They're Leprechauns! > > Darren & late night Listoidians: > > Th

[meteorite-list] They're Leprechauns!

2009-09-10 Thread Phil Whitmer
Darren & late night Listoidians: There exists today, a prevelant belief in outer space aliens living in advanced technological civilizations. A majority of Americans inexplicably believes that they have visited us. This belief is prevelant amongst the vast majority of scientists. A NASA sci

[meteorite-list] Doing a lap around the island

2009-09-10 Thread Darren Garrison
http://www.marsdaily.com/reports/Opportunity_Update_Circling_The_Meteorite_999.html Opportunity Update: Circling The Meteorite by Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 11, 2009 Opportunity has commenced circumnavigation and full-circle imaging of the large meteorite "Block Island". On Sol 1997 (Sep

[meteorite-list] Vigarano piece needed.

2009-09-10 Thread countdeiro
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Re: [meteorite-list] They're Leprechauns!

2009-09-10 Thread Darren Garrison
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:16:11 -0400, you wrote: >Just once, I'd like to read one of these articles that doesn't include the >grains of sand analogy. At least they are using something similar to sound reasoning skills. Here's an analogy for your "thought" process: You have two books-- you read t

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[meteorite-list] They're Leprechauns!

2009-09-10 Thread Phil Whitmer
Sterling, Listerians, Friends, Countrymen, Pleiadians: The problem I have with the cosmological principle is that it's a tenet in a belief system (theoretical astrophysics) that I don't necessarily adhere to. E.g., I don't believe in multiple alternative copies of the Universe, Heaven or Hell,

Re: [meteorite-list] TKW of all Lunar meteorites? Martians?

2009-09-10 Thread Greg Catterton
Thanks! Why is there such a variation in amount of them? From 38 to 65 is a lot. Greg C. --- On Thu, 9/10/09, Gary Fujihara wrote: > From: Gary Fujihara > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] TKW of all Lunar meteorites? Martians? > To: "Greg Catterton" > Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > D

Re: [meteorite-list] TKW of all Lunar meteorites? Martians?

2009-09-10 Thread Gary Fujihara
http://www.meteoris.de/luna/list.html On Sep 10, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Greg Catterton wrote: Hi to everyone, a few questions... Does anyone know the TKW of all lunar meteorites? The Metbase lists only 38 approved lunar meteorites, is this still correct? Anyone know a good resource for statisti

[meteorite-list] TKW of all Lunar meteorites? Martians?

2009-09-10 Thread Greg Catterton
Hi to everyone, a few questions... Does anyone know the TKW of all lunar meteorites? The Metbase lists only 38 approved lunar meteorites, is this still correct? Anyone know a good resource for statistics on lunar meteorites? Is this info available for Martians also? Thanks! Greg C PS L/LL disc

[meteorite-list] How Organisms Survived Asteroid Impacts

2009-09-10 Thread Sterling K. Webb
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090910-am-impact-mixotrophs.html Life in the Dark: How Organisms Survived Asteroid Impacts By Jeremy Hsu -- Astrobiology Magazine 10 September 2009 A dinosaur-killing asteroid may have wiped out much of life on Earth 65 million years ago, but now scienti

Re: [meteorite-list] They're Leprechauns CORRECTION

2009-09-10 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi Phil, and List, When the Aliens do land, I'll do all I can to promote YOU as the chief Press Officer for the new Earth Chamber of (Interstellar) Commerce! Tell'em how wonderful we are. Until then, I'm cutting you off. No more free drinks. Sterling K. Webb -

Re: [meteorite-list] They're Leprechauns

2009-09-10 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi Phil, and List, When the Aliens do land, I'll do all I can to promote as the chief Press Officer for the new Earth Chamber of (Interstellar) Commerce! Tell'em how wonderful we are. Until then, I'm cutting you off. No more free drinks. Sterling K. Webb

[meteorite-list] Almost A Comet

2009-09-10 Thread Meteorites USA
Well, sort of... http://transientsky.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/bright-comet-seen-over-canada-and-the-northern-us/ http://www.spaceweather.com/ It's the ISS... Cool photos! ISS: http://spaceweather.com/submissions/large_image_popup.php?image_name=Clair-Perry-_MG_4652xSW_1252547311.jpg Enjoy..

Re: [meteorite-list] I Witnessed large fireball last night in NC

2009-09-10 Thread Sterling K. Webb
The "big flare-up" is a bad sign for meteorites coming from an object. Observed falls tend to have a long steady burn that suddenly goes dark at the end. This would mean that the object has been slowed enough for ablation to stop, and that would usually be necessary for survival of any part of an

[meteorite-list] They're Leprechauns

2009-09-10 Thread JoshuaTreeMuseum
Sterling: You're kidding right? The Earth and it's inhabitants are mediocre? That pantheon of really smart guys you mentioned are mediocre? Elvis, the most perfectly evolved human being and the reason for the existence of the universe is merely mediocre? So you're telling me that rock n roll,

Re: [meteorite-list] I Witnessed large fireball last night in NC

2009-09-10 Thread GeoZay
>>LOL, ok you got me there. No doubt it was a meteor is what I guess I should have said<< Don't worry...you will have plenty of chances to correct me about something on this list. When it comes to meteorites, I'm essentially a newbie. :O) GeoZay __

Re: [meteorite-list] I Witnessed large fireball last night in NC

2009-09-10 Thread Greg Catterton
LOL, ok you got me there. No doubt it was a meteor is what I guess I should have said. Greg C. --- On Thu, 9/10/09, geo...@aol.com wrote: > From: geo...@aol.com > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] I Witnessed large fireball last night in NC > To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > Date: Thursd

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Re: [meteorite-list] I Witnessed large fireball last night in NC

2009-09-10 Thread GeoZay
>>No doubt was a meteorite...<< I don't have much doubt that it was a meteor, but have a little more doubt that you saw a meteorite. :O) GeoZay __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http:

[meteorite-list] I Witnessed large fireball last night in NC

2009-09-10 Thread Greg Catterton
Last night around 11:30 pm or so I saw a pretty nice sized fireball outside in my front yard. It traveled in a NNW direction. Pretty nice sized, it lit up the sky for about 3-5 seconds with a nice flare up in the middle of that time. Color was a greenish/blue to white. No doubt was a meteorite

[meteorite-list] Speaking of space pee

2009-09-10 Thread Darren Garrison
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[meteorite-list] What If Copernicus Was Wrong?

2009-09-10 Thread JoshuaTreeMuseum
Dark Energy v. The Void: What if Copernicus was Wrong? Living in a Void: Testing the Copernican Principle with Distant Supernovae Timothy Clifton,? Pedro G. Ferreira, and Kate Land Oxford Astrophysics, Physics, DWB, Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3RH, UK A fundamental presupposition of modern cosm

Re: [meteorite-list] They're Leprechauns!

2009-09-10 Thread Sterling K. Webb
ad one of these articles that doesn't include the grains of sand analogy. Phil Whitmer http://www.southbendtribune.com/article/20090910/News01/909100311&template=247art September 10. 2009 6:59AM Notre Dame panelists ponder: Is there life out there? Experts talk about possibility,

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[meteorite-list] They're Leprechauns!

2009-09-10 Thread JoshuaTreeMuseum
Oh wait, leprechauns aren't little green men, they're little men with beards that always wear green! Close enough. Just once, I'd like to read one of these articles that doesn't include the grains of sand analogy. Phil Whitmer http://www.southbendtribune.com/art

Re: [meteorite-list] Chondritic parent bodies: Clarification

2009-09-10 Thread Jeff Grossman
Yes, it's the same idea. Usually, the L(LL) notation is used for highly unequilibrated (petrologic type type 3.0-3.4) ordinary chondrites. I've been studying these things for decades and I still don't know of any way to distinguish a low type L from LL chondrite using an optical microscope,

Re: [meteorite-list] Chondritic parent bodies: Clarification

2009-09-10 Thread Jeff Kuyken
And there are also quite a few with L(LL) for example. I always thought this was the classifier saying they were not totally sure for some reason but their 'best guess' was the first class outside of the brackets. Is this similar to L/LL? Cheers, Jeff - Original Message - From: T