Re: [meteorite-list] Very sad news

2024-03-15 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Hello Bernd, Indeed, this is very sad news.  Thanks for your post. It should be noted that not only was John Blennert a legendary Arizona metal-detectorist in regards to gold and meteorites, he made substantial contributions to archeology.  (See links below)  He known worldwide, so it is no

Re: [meteorite-list] Artificial Meteor Science Data Gained

2023-10-04 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Thank you "newsspace" for providing this link.  I'll limit my comments to your link, although there is more information about this "Subject", but it is behind a paywall.   I'm surprised that this List didn't comment sooner on the well-documented, well-tracked recovery, and more to the point: 

Re: [meteorite-list] Artificial Meteor Science Data Gained

2023-10-04 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Thank you "newsspace" for providing this link.  I'll limit my comments to your link, although there is more information about this "Subject", but it is behind a paywall.   I'm surprised that this List didn't comment sooner on the well-documented, well-tracked recovery, and more to the point: 

[meteorite-list] Mysterious patches of glassy rock across Atacama Desert

2023-08-15 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
This story caused a big splash on the Internet back in late-2021, but I'm still looking for a published paper.   Has anyone heard anything more about this speculated comet impact?   Here is a follow-up article (dated Nov. 8, 2021) regarding a reported finding of impact-melt glass from a suspect

[meteorite-list] Scientists Intrigued by Huge Structure Buried Under Australia

2023-08-15 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
World’s largest asteroid impact may be buried in Australia Magnetic patterns beneath New South Wales' Murray Basin correspond to a colossal impact structure. https://interestingengineering.com/science/worlds-largest-asteroid-impact-australia    New evidence suggests the world’s largest known

[meteorite-list] Show me the Shock

2023-07-25 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
https://www.space.com/boomerang-meteorite-left-earth-and-returned A dark reddish-brown stone, picked up from the Sahara desert in Morocco a few years ago, appears to be an Earth rock that was flung into space where  it stayed for thousands of years before returning home ? surprisingly intact. 

Re: [meteorite-list] Still no pics of "meteorite" that hit French woman.

2023-07-23 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
ng one man and seriously injuring another. On Sunday, July 23, 2023 at 02:18:21 PM PDT, Robert Verish via Meteorite-list wrote: From:  https://www.unilad.com/news/world-news/woman-hit-meteorite-size-golf-ball-france-616020-20230717  --  "Woman claims she was hit by a meteorite the size of a

[meteorite-list] Still no pics of "meteorite" that hit French woman.

2023-07-23 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
the images in the above news article is the Subject meteorite.  It isn't!  That edited image is from the Getty Archive, and it is me (Robert Verish) holding the Los Angeles meteorite 24 years ago.  And the other image is an obvious chunk of slag.  Look at how many articles have already been wri

[meteorite-list] Heritage "Thursday Auction" this week is mostly meteorites

2022-04-11 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
The "Thursday Auction" on Heritage (which runs for a week, and is usually minerals and fossils) is mostly meteorites this week. There are 6 Sikhote-Alin currently being given away (literally) at an opening bid of $1. 

[meteorite-list] Fw: Heritage Nature & Science Auction #8073

2022-03-24 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
There are also a couple of tektites offered, to include a 30gram Bediasite.Bob V. - Forwarded Message - From: Kissick, Craig - 1995 To: Kissick, Craig - 1995 Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 05:36:54 PM PDTSubject: Nature & Science Auction #8073 Dear Friend of Natural History,

[meteorite-list] Fw: January 17 Showcase Nature & Science Auction

2022-01-13 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android - Forwarded Message - From: "Kissick, Craig - 1995" To: "Kissick, Craig - 1995" Cc: Sent: Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 21:21 Subject: January 17 Showcase Nature & Science Auction Dear Friend of Natural History,   I just wanted to reach out with

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Minerals -- the book

2021-10-20 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Hello All, Just wanted to inform the subscribers of this Met-List, that Alan Rubin and Chi Ma have written a book called "Meteorite Mineralogy", just published by Cambridge University Press as part of its Planetary Science Series. I think the readers on this List will find it of interest.  It

Re: [meteorite-list] Breja

2021-07-11 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Oued Sfayat Meteoritical Bulletin: Search the Database | | | | Meteoritical Bulletin: Search the Database | | | On Friday, July 9, 2021, 10:58:18 PM PDT, Albert Jambon via Meteorite-list wrote: Algeria Le 09/07/2021 à 19:14, John Lutzon via Meteorite-list a écrit : >

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite pictures

2021-06-18 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Dean has informed me that his specimen has been turned-in for classification, and that the general consensus is -- enstatite chondrite -- so Michael, you may be right. Time will tell, Bob V. __  HERITAGE AUCTIONS - VERY RARE MAIN MASS METEORITES

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite pictures

2021-06-17 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Hey Dean, Did you ever get an ID or resolution on your metal-grain-rich meteorite? I'm surprised that no one mentioned the possibility of it being an "HH chondrite".See these two photos by Greg Stanley of his Nova 010 purchase:

[meteorite-list] Fw: [UCLA Meteorite Gallery] UCLA Meteorite Gallery Poetry Contest 2021- Submissions Open!

2021-04-11 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
https://meteorites.ucla.edu/ -- Forwarded message - From: UCLA Meteorite Collection Date: Sat, Apr 10, 2021, 11:02 AM Subject: [UCLA Meteorite Gallery] UCLA Meteorite Gallery Poetry Contest 2021- Submissions Open! To: | | UCLA Meteorite Gallery Poetry Contest | | In

[meteorite-list] Fireball over Connecticut [AMS Event# 2019 3151]

2019-07-26 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Hello Roberto and List, Thanks for posting those links.  I can only add one more, and you will have to go over to facebook to get more info on this event: https://www.facebook.com/GalacticAnalyticsLLC/ This was a widely witnessed event with more than 9 videos and more still images, so more

[meteorite-list] This year - More Gold and even More Meteorites

2019-07-19 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
https://www.lot-art.com/auction-catalogue/2019-July-20-Nature-and-Science-Signature-Auction-Dallas/139588 For those of us who are not subscribed to facebook, you may have missed the notices being posted about the big auction in Dallas, including many meteorites:

Re: [meteorite-list] greenland meteor strike

2019-03-20 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
" which we all know is entertaining. Wonder what the discussion groups in say India, thing about our news. Also, wonder how "Rocket Man" Ron Baalke a former active list member at JPL, who is missed, got suspended and if it was related to setting off the sensational narrative on the G

Re: [meteorite-list] greenland meteor strike

2019-03-20 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
ch we all know is entertaining. Wonder what the discussion groups in say India, thing about our news. Also, wonder how "Rocket Man" Ron Baalke a former active list member at JPL, who is missed, got suspended and if it was related to setting off the sensational narrative on the Gree

Re: [meteorite-list] greenland meteor strike

2019-03-18 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Regarding the Bering Sea meteor strike, the difference between the BBC reporting, versus the Fox"News" story, is the difference between a factual accounting, and another example of  anxiety-inducing "fake news".  https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2019/Bob V.  Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

[meteorite-list] Meteorites on Heritage Auction

2018-12-15 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Ending today is the Heritage Auction - Nature & Science, which includes a variety of meteorites. But, due to a clerical error, there were two items that were omitted: Lot #72220 -- La'gad Lunar Meteorite -- main-mass (171 grams)

[meteorite-list] (no subject)

2018-08-06 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
This might be old news to those of you on facebook, but for those of us who are not, here is some news out of the MetSoc Meeting: Gold hunters in southern Russia might have been disappointed to learn that the speckled, yellow rock they uncovered was not a sizeable pebble of valuable metal.

Re: [meteorite-list] Recently found Algerian Iron

2018-04-05 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
” surely don’t own it any more than anyone else sharing the photos. I’ve received them from people in Kenya, U.K., China, and about 1000 Moroccans. It’s a total scam. Good luck suckers. Michael Farmer > On Apr 5, 2018, at 1:51 AM, Robert Verish via Meteorite-list > <meteorite-list@mete

[meteorite-list] Recently found Algerian Iron

2018-04-04 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Hello All, Finally have some good news to report. Some fellow meteorite-hunters have contacted me to report that they have recovered a 255kg iron from the Sahara Desert in Algeria. This was well before April Fools Day, and the photos of it in-situ and "oiled-up" are very convincing. I

Re: [meteorite-list] Lots of Gold and Meteorites on Heritage Auctions

2017-11-03 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Thank you, Peter, for posting again (for a 2nd time) the link to the MBD entry for the La'gad meteorite.  It was a simple, but polite, way to point out that all of the questions that have been asked about this meteorite have their answers in that entry. It shouldn't be necessary, but now that

Re: [meteorite-list] Lots of Gold and Meteorites on Heritage Auctions

2017-11-03 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
questions? https://tinyurl.com/Any-ques  --   On ‎Friday‎, ‎November‎ ‎03‎, ‎2017‎ ‎12‎:‎40‎:‎58‎ ‎AM, Robert Verish via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> wrote: Thank you, Peter, for posting again (for a 2n

Re: [meteorite-list] Lots of Gold and Meteorites on Heritage Auctions

2017-11-03 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Thank you, Peter, for posting again (for a 2nd time) the link to the MBD entry for the La'gad meteorite.  It was a simple, but polite, way to point out that all of the questions that have been asked about this meteorite have their answers in that entry. It shouldn't be necessary, but now that

Re: [meteorite-list] Lots of Gold and Meteorites on Heritage Auctions

2017-11-02 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
La'gad doesn't show up in the Meteoritical Bulletin. What institution or scientist examined this exact specimen or is it unofficial or self-paired? Adam On 11/2/2017 3:07 PM, Robert Verish via Meteorite-list wrote: > > > I had the honor and the pleasure (while they were temporarily in m

Re: [meteorite-list] Lots of Gold and Meteorites on Heritage Auctions

2017-11-02 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
n ‎Wednesday‎, ‎November‎ ‎01‎, ‎2017‎ ‎05‎:‎23‎:‎41‎ ‎PM, Luther Jackson via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> wrote: What’s your involvement in this auction Bob, just to be clear? Luther UK > On 11/1/17, Robert Verish via Meteorite-list > &

Re: [meteorite-list] Fw: Lots of Gold and Meteorites on Heritage Auctions

2017-11-02 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
oordinates that show it was found in the country of Western Sahara.  Enjoy,Bob V. --- On ‎Tuesday‎, ‎October‎ ‎24‎, ‎2017‎ ‎06‎:‎49‎:‎48‎ ‎PM, Robert Verish <bolidecha...@yahoo.com> wrote: I just received my copies of the Heritag

Re: [meteorite-list] Lots of Gold and Meteorites on Heritage Auctions

2017-11-01 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
oordinates that show it was found in the country of Western Sahara.  Enjoy, Bob V. --- On ‎Tuesday‎, ‎October‎ ‎24‎, ‎2017‎ ‎06‎:‎49‎:‎48‎ ‎PM, Robert Verish <bolidecha...@yahoo.com> wrote: I just received my copies of the Heritag

Re: [meteorite-list] First recorded visit to this solar system by an interstellar object

2017-10-30 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Rob has made a good point about this object not being a comet, and for that matter, the presumption that this thing is natural and unguided.  Personally, I am very disappointed that this object wasn't a comet and that it didn't leave a trail of dust and gases, that one day we could have

Re: [meteorite-list] Possible Newfoundland Meteorite

2017-10-26 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Dean, You neglected to mention the more "entertaining" article: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/meteorite-hunters-southside-hills-1.4370650 Priceless, Bob V. On ‎Wednesday‎, ‎October‎ ‎25‎, ‎2017‎ ‎12‎:‎08‎:‎53‎ ‎PM, dean bessey via Meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Fw: Lots of Gold and Meteorites on Heritage Auctions

2017-10-24 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
I just received my copies of the Heritage Nature & Science Auction catalog.   The photography is stunning.  There are so many items and the images are so large, they had to make two separate catalogs:  one catalog for all of the gold nuggets, gemstones, and fine minerals -- and in the other, are

Re: [meteorite-list] AD: New shipment of Lunars from Western Sahara

2017-06-01 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Hello all Lunar collectors and dealers,  Well, it's another month and the finders of these "new Lunar" stones are still sending them to the US market, even though their prices are at historic lows.  This is clearly a Lunar "buyer's market", giving collectors the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

[meteorite-list] AD: New shipment of Lunars from Western Sahara

2017-06-01 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Hello all Lunar collectors and dealers, Well, it's another month and the finders of these "new Lunar" stones are still sending them to the US market, even though their prices are at historic lows. This is clearly a Lunar "buyer's market", giving collectors the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

Re: [meteorite-list] Sad News :-(

2016-12-11 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Hello Dana, I just gave the sad news to Moni.  We are very saddened, but also very heartened that we got to know this very gentleperson.  I introduced Moni to Larry a decade ago at Majuba Hill when she joined Larry and me on a hunt at the Placers. John Wolfe introduced me to Larry back in the

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Crashes Through Thailand House Roof

2016-06-28 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
People that have unknowingly picked up a piece of dry ice with their bare hands have sworn that it is burnt their fingers. Bob Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Tommy via Meteorite-list wrote:   Hi Peter!     I get the

Re: [meteorite-list] Natiional Forest Rules

2016-06-03 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Adam is right about National Forest rules not permitting meteorite collecting. And, I'm not surprised that many of their forest service rangers are unaware of that fact and, more importantly, among the rangers that I have spoken with, most don't really know why it isn't permitted. It's

Re: [meteorite-list] 2nd recovered U.S. fall of 2016 - more details

2016-02-25 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Hello Rob, You could not have explained anymore succinctly everyone's contribution to this most successful recovery effort, without the risk of leaving out someone, or omitting a significant plot-turn to this remarkable story. I wonder, when this story hits the newswires, if the general

Re: [meteorite-list] Lake Eyre meteorite 'Crown property', researchers required to hand findings over

2016-01-15 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Hey Galactic Stone, why don't you tell us how you REALLY feel?  ;-) Did this line in that article hit you too close to home: "Professor Bland said he suspects there are amateur astronomers who are frustrated by legislation requiring them to hand back their discoveries from outer space." I find

[meteorite-list] Ad: End of Year Sale - Nevada Fall (L6)

2015-12-30 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Yes, it's Nevada's first and only witnessed fall: Battle Mountain (L6) Taking offers on a 25.7g complete slice with 2/3 of edge fusion-crusted. 5cm X 4cm X 0.35cm -- See links to images, below. Year-end Sale ending at midnight tomorrow. Yes, 12PM PST 31Dec2015 Happy New Year! Have

Re: [meteorite-list] Introducing the Worlds Newest Meteorite fall -Creston

2015-11-19 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Congrats to Robert Ward for his persistence and diligence in researching this fall. It was well-earned and deserving that he should make the first find. The only thing that I can add to this thread is that (over on facebook) Marc Fries has given credit to Rob Matson for doing the

Re: [meteorite-list] Very Bright Fireball Over Europe on Halloween Night

2015-11-04 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Yes Doug, I agree with you. In fact, I witnessed the very scenario you described. It was a long duration (earth-grazing) fireball that I was lucky enough to catch early-on in its flight. While it was at high elevation the fireball was a bright-blue ball with a greenish coma. As it

[meteorite-list] Time for change - here in US (was, Re: something about Las Vegas)

2015-09-15 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Hi Sonny, Apparently, you haven't read any of my articles where I clearly pointed to the top of the pyramid where the funding for meteorite studies are rationed-out, and why there is a lack of funding for classifying US meteorites. I commiserate with the classifiers on this lack of funding

Re: [meteorite-list] Local to Las Vegas expert needed to rewiew a find.

2015-09-15 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
No Larry, There actually is a problem. John's "opinion" is a common misconception that I even held until I personally learned of this recent trend. This is a concern that others have shared with me, and has prompted me to write on this subject in three separate articles, which essentially

Re: [meteorite-list] Local to Las Vegas expert needed to rewiew a find.

2015-09-14 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
I agree with Michael. I frequently get similar requests from people needing their "chondrite" authenticated and "placed into the system". Not much of a problem getting their stone identified, but the owners are becoming more and more dismayed by the increasing difficulty finding someone to

[meteorite-list] Helpful Tips For Nuking An Asteroid

2015-09-11 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
A recent article about the importance of knowing the composition and physical properties of asteroids. And as I have always said, we need to know everything we can learn from all of the meteorites (large and small) that we can find and study, as well as their rate of influx:

Re: [meteorite-list] Salinas man finds meteorites in Nevada

2015-08-17 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Just in case you were wondering, If you try to search in the Met Bulletin Database for Misfit Flats, it will result in No Matches Found. You will have to type-in the correct name for the locality, Misfits Flat in order to get results for Misfits Flat 001 002. This is a rare case where a

Re: [meteorite-list] Methane detected in meteorites adds fuel to life on Mars theories

2015-06-19 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Here is a link to the actual abstract/paper: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150616/ncomms8399/full/ncomms8399.html Evidence for methane in Martian meteorites - by Nigel J. F. Blamey, John Parnell, Sean McMahon, Darren F. Mark, Tim Tomkinson, Martin Lee, Jared

[meteorite-list] Fossil Meteorite Video

2015-05-20 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
To Shawn and List, Yes, an interesting video. But, This is not the original video! Here is the original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aEdhZP8g-s I don't know who Linda Ryan is but that person is using someone else's video to promote their erroneous opinion that there are fossils

[meteorite-list] Son of Man

2015-04-21 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
The following text is from Dr. Alan Rubin we're still trying to work out a html-to-text conversion problem hope this makes it to the Met-List. (You can charge me for this AD; I still have one more to my credit;-) Bob V. ***+___ It may offend some, but my new

Re: [meteorite-list] Wanted: Saffordites/Colombianites

2015-02-20 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Hello Matija, Please report back to the list should any of your specimens NOT bubble-up when heated-up in a microwave oven. Here are some other tektite tests: http://www.meteorite-times.com/Back_Links/2003/January/Jims_Fragments.htm http://tektitesource.com/Tektite_tests.html Bob V.

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireball over PA

2015-02-19 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Thanks for posting this to the List, John. Those that are not subscribed to facebook might have missed this discussion. Having a lot of relatives in this part of PA, I'm very familiar with this area. But, this area has had a long history of visitations from out there in space, and has

Re: [meteorite-list] Ron Hartman Collection items coming to Tucson

2015-02-04 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
, let alone hobbyists and their meteorites. So, it is no surprise that they have little concern about private property rights. Good luck in your battles protecting your rights. Bob V. -- On Feb 3, 2015, at 1:20 AM, Robert Verish

Re: [meteorite-list] Ron Hartman Collection items coming to Tucson

2015-02-03 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
. On Tue, 2/3/15, Gmail via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Ron Hartman Collection items coming to Tucson To: Robert Verish bolidecha...@yahoo.com Cc: Meteoritecentral List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date

[meteorite-list] Ron Hartman Collection items coming to Tucson

2015-02-03 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
I'm forwarding a message from the curator for the Ron Hartman Collection, that he will be in Tucson later this week and will be making available some specimens from that collection. Here is a short list of some of the specimens being offered for trade or sale: ID# 35) Clover Springs

[meteorite-list] Karoonda specimens larger than 2grams

2014-12-07 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Hello All, Hope everyone is having a pleasant and apparently quiet weekend. This post is directed to those of us who have specimens of Karoonda (CK4) in their collection that are greater than 2grams. I realize that it is highly unlikely that none are available, but I am curious how many 2g

Re: [meteorite-list] Finding organic compounds is not proof life has been found on Mars

2014-12-06 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
http://tinyurl.com/m32oa36 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] M 009

2014-11-27 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Hi Bernd and All, Thanks for the many leads and suggestions that you have given me, Bernd, but I'm starting to accept the possibility that the M (with a line through it) signifies that it is a Meteor-wrong. :-( Which would explain why it was in the Ron Hartman Collection without a label.

[meteorite-list] M_009.

2014-11-26 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Good afternoon All, Requesting your help in getting additional information about a specimen which has a label with this: M 009. ?? (Please see links to images of this label.) http://meteorite-recovery.tripod.com/misplaced/m_009_a.jpg

Re: [meteorite-list] M_009.

2014-11-26 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Today at 8:14 PM I agree with Michael Farmer. Agoult is way fresher than this specimen. I was hoping that Michael would chime-in because I know that a lot of Agoult has gone through his hands. And Bernd has been writing to me off-List trying to help me get this stone ID'd. He recognized

Re: [meteorite-list] [IMCA List] Martin Goff's Out Reach

2014-11-24 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
-stone.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone Twitter - http://twitter.com/galacticstone Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/galacticstone - On 11/23/14, Robert Verish bolidecha...@yahoo.com wrote

Re: [meteorite-list] [IMCA List] Martin Goff's Out Reach

2014-11-23 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Maybe Michael's questions are rhetorical, but I haven't read any answers or replies. After all, in the past others have asked these same questions, and still never any satisfactory answers. But, allow me to answer the question of how do you guarantee authenticity?, by stating the obvious:

Re: [meteorite-list] Still Arguing About Pluto

2014-10-04 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Pluto is a planet, and an infinite number of angels can dance on the head of a pin. Sorry for bringing up old debates, Bob V. On Friday, October 3, 2014 10:30 AM, Sterling K. Webb via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: Larry, And a dwarf star is still a small

[meteorite-list] Ice-rafted rocks on dry-lakes

2014-08-29 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
It's now official.  We can stop calling them sailing stones.  New video shows that playa rocks are being barged across the lakebed. Apparently, wind-driven, floating sheets of ice are dragging or pushing the rocks leaving their tracks in the wet lakebed sediment. Photos in the article show

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Sculpture by Katie Paterson

2014-08-01 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
I still can't grasp the reason why the meteorite had to be melted.  Would it have been any less artistic if, instead, the artist had melted leftover end-cuts/saw-cuttings/trimmings from other Campos and poured that into the mold?  And if including these handiworks of humanity into the 

[meteorite-list] Fossils Found in Impact Glass

2014-07-29 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
A short article, but it gave me much to chew-on.  But I still haven't swallowed: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25462#.U9gI1aZ0y70 Instant fossils found trapped in asteroid impact glass When asteroids strike Earth, it can mean death and destruction. But they can also be flashbulbs,

[meteorite-list] Fw: Greg Hupe Nature's Vault, Inc. - Meteoritic Future Guaranteed!

2014-07-08 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 4:00 PM, bolidecha...@yahoo.com bolidecha...@yahoo.com wrote: Never in doubt in my mind. As ever, Bob V. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android From:  Greg Hupé via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com; To:  

[meteorite-list] In memory of a good friend

2014-05-20 Thread Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
Can't believe that it is already 1 year gone by since I received the bad news about my friend and fellow meteorite-hunter, John P. Wolfe http://www.imorial.com/JohnWolfe/ Gone too soon, but not too soon forgotten, Bob V. __ Visit the Archives at

Re: [meteorite-list] Met Bulletin Update - Steins (New Mexico)

2014-03-12 Thread Robert Verish
You're welcome, Bernd!  :-) With best regards, Bob V. P.S. - What Bernd knows but others may not, is that I had to donate a thin-section and the type-specimen (taken from the main-mass) in order to get the ball rolling again, after it had come to a terminal stand-still in the approval

Re: [meteorite-list] Ad: Ebay auctions Ending Soon - North American Meteorites

2014-02-11 Thread Robert Verish
Hello All, There has been some confusion generated - the result of poor terminology and semantics. Hopefully, this image may help clear-up some of that misunderstanding:  http://meteorite-recovery.tripod.com/2014/sbw/sbw-jason-comparison.jpg Regards, Bob V. bolide*chaser

[meteorite-list] Ad: Ebay auctions Ending Soon - North American Meteorites

2014-02-10 Thread Robert Verish
For those collectors with an interest in North American meteorites, I would like to bring your attention to some 3-day eBay offerings (ending soon): http://www.ebay.com/sch/bolide*chaser/m.html  Hope you enjoy the images, Bob V. bolide*chaser

Re: [meteorite-list] Ad: Ebay auctions Ending Soon - North American Meteorites

2014-02-10 Thread Robert Verish
.   On Monday, February 10, 2014 12:50 PM, Robert Verish bolidecha...@yahoo.com wrote: For those collectors with an interest in North American meteorites, I would like to bring your attention to some 3-day eBay offerings (ending soon): http://www.ebay.com/sch/bolide*chaser/m.html

[meteorite-list] Ad: Ebay Steal Alert - North American Meteorite

2014-01-27 Thread Robert Verish
For those collectors with an interest in North American meteorites, I would like to bring your attention to some eBay offerings (ending soon): Norton County (AUB) - fall - Fusion-crusted Impact-melt BRECCIA  http://tinyurl.com/NortonCo Preview:

Re: [meteorite-list] Fwd: Ad: North American meteorite - San Bernardino Wash (L5)

2014-01-23 Thread Robert Verish
My apologies to all on the List, I neglected to send my reply in plain text, so you don't have the benefit of knowing what Jason is replying to.  Here is reprint of that missing post:  On Thursday, January 23, 2014 12:48 AM, Robert Verish bolidecha...@yahoo.com wrote: I started to write

Re: [meteorite-list] Fwd: Ad: North American meteorite - San Bernardino Wash (L5)

2014-01-23 Thread Robert Verish
.  If you're arguing for the *possibility,* I won't argue with you.  There's a very small, but indisputable, chance. Seems illogical to hedge your bet on it since they look so different, though. Regards, Jason www.fallsandfinds.com On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Robert Verish bolidecha

[meteorite-list] Ad: North American meteorite - San Bernardino Wash (L5)

2014-01-20 Thread Robert Verish
For those collectors with an interest in North American meteorites, I would like to bring your attention to an eBay offering (ending soon) of a classified find from the California Mojave Desert: San Bernardino Wash (L5) http://www.ebay.com/itm/221353605398  This under-appreciated meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] Ad: North American meteorite - San Bernardino Wash (L5)

2014-01-20 Thread Robert Verish
beyond equilibrated L?  As you can see, that slice looks a bit different. Regards, Jason www.fallsandfinds.com On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Robert Verish bolidecha...@yahoo.com wrote: For those collectors with an interest in North American meteorites, I would like to bring your attention

[meteorite-list] Global Shipping Program ?problems?

2014-01-19 Thread Robert Verish
Hello All, and particularly for all of you sellers on eBay, I have a question.  Is there a known (or a perceived) problem with the eBay Global Shipping Program?  Should I avoid using it? I've received a request from a potential overseas bidder to revise my auctions and to not use eBay's

Re: [meteorite-list] grains of sand

2013-11-07 Thread Robert Verish
Hi Paul, If what you're saying is true, then there are many many more meteors that we are not seeing (but would be visible to instruments more sensitive than are eyes, or to astronauts in Earth orbit that are closer to the action).  I think that a grain of sand is large enough to ionize

Re: [meteorite-list] Southern California Meteorite Tektite Club Meeting Photos

2013-09-08 Thread Robert Verish
Hi Michael,     Nice photos!  Thanks for taking the time to share them with us. To answer your question about who was the person that took the Group Picture, that would be the one-and-only Richard Garcia, but everyone calls him Rubin.   Both Richard and Rubin are two of the nicest guys that you

Re: [meteorite-list] Rock Or Meteorite? Strange Object Crashes Through Roof Of Business

2013-06-26 Thread Robert Verish
Hi All, Here is a resend of a post that I sent to the List on June 24th (but it never appeared in the Archives):  -- Re: [meteorite-list] Rock Or Meteorite? Strange ObjectCrashesThrough Roof O...  From * Robert Verish   To * MEM

Re: [meteorite-list] Rock Or Meteorite? Strange Object Crashes Through Roof Of Local Business

2013-06-26 Thread Robert Verish
Hi All, Here is a resend of another post that I sent to the List earlier today (but it never appeared in the Archives): Re: [meteorite-list] Rock Or Meteorite? Strange Object Crashes Through Roof Of Local Business From * Robert Verish   To * James Beauchamp     * Jodie Reynolds

Re: [meteorite-list] PRIMM DRY LAKE HELP

2013-05-07 Thread Robert Verish
Hello Paul and List, In an effort to assist you (and your father, Nicholas) in this endeavor, I've made a plaster-cast of a corner-fragment meteorite that Moni Waiblinger found on Roach Dry Lake, and have mailed it to your father. Nick will then forward it to you, if he can't get it to fit

Re: [meteorite-list] Article: Discovery of probably Tunguska meteorites at the bottom of Khushmo river's shoal

2013-05-02 Thread Robert Verish
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1304/1304.8070.pdf Discovery of probably Tunguska meteorites at the bottom of Khushmo river's shoal Andrei E. Zlobin Vernadsky State Geological Museum, Russian Academy of Sciences Mokhovaya 11/11, 125009, Moscow, Russian Federation e-mail: z-tungu...@yandex.ru

Re: [meteorite-list] Novato update

2013-04-30 Thread Robert Verish
recovered stone were generously donated by Lisa Webber to SETI for scientific analysis; of that, whatever is not consumed in destructive analyses has been promised to UCLA. So there is no cause for alarm; people just need to be patient.  --Rob On Apr 30, 2013, at 4:32 AM, Robert Verish

Re: [meteorite-list] Novato update (All recent falls unapproved, not just Novato)

2013-04-30 Thread Robert Verish
@meteoritecentral.com, Matson, Robert D. robert.d.mat...@saic.com, Robert Verish bolidecha...@yahoo.com Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 12:24 PM Agreed, somebody needs to cough up a piece to consolidate the type specimen and satisfy the requirements for publication in the Met Bulletin.  That is how

Re: [meteorite-list] AD: Novato back in the market

2013-04-29 Thread Robert Verish
Actually, it's still the Novato (provisional) meteorite.  It still is not in the Meteoritical Bulletin. This is the slice that Brien Cook originally cut with the intention of submitting it to UCLA.  But when he read that someone else was going to supply the type-specimen, he then placed it on

Re: [meteorite-list] Franconia AREA (was, Re: ...terminology...)

2013-04-28 Thread Robert Verish
or what ever H3-5's have been found outside the mapped strewn field? And how far? -Erik Fisler Sent from my iPhone On Apr 26, 2013, at 11:02 PM, Robert Verish bolidecha...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi All, Just read another article in the 2013 March edition of MPS, Stones from Mohave

[meteorite-list] Franconia AREA (was, Re: ...terminology...)

2013-04-27 Thread Robert Verish
Hi All, Just read another article in the 2013 March edition of MPS, Stones from Mohave County, Arizona: Multiple falls in the 'Franconia strewn field' by Melinda Hutson, et al. There is much to digest from this 5-author paper that is 25 pages long. What with 14 stones being studied and 7

Re: [meteorite-list] Cassini Observes Meteors Colliding With Saturn's Rings

2013-04-26 Thread Robert Verish
Actually, Chris, the IAU has already formalized that definition of meteor. It did so back in 1961. I've explained what I mean by all of this in my article: http://meteorite-recovery.tripod.com/2008/mar08.htm Apparently, a well-respected astronomer wrote a popular book soon after the 1961

Re: [meteorite-list] Third set of Human remains found in the Casa Grande?Stanfield Strewn Field

2013-04-12 Thread Robert Verish
I sure hope there are no more bodies found, as well, Sonny. Although there has been no forensic evidence found, so far, that suggests foul-play, which leaves weather-related causes as the usual suspects, there have been reports from the field of attempted theft of vehicles and/or theft of

Re: [meteorite-list] Met Bulletin Update - Yucca DCA

2013-03-09 Thread Robert Verish
MikeG, Thanks for the heads-up about this latest update. Haven't seen anything mentioned, yet, so I'd like to give a tip-of-the-hat to a local meteorite-hunter, Jim Wooddell (and his wife Wendy), for getting 2 of his finds into the MetBull: Yucca 016 and Yucca 017 Not only has Jim's finds

Re: [meteorite-list] [met-list] Fwd: sharp protrusion from an iron meteorite

2013-03-08 Thread Robert Verish
Except that I can't remember if we identified the protrusion. Long ago I remember someone suggesting that it might be a mineral inclusion that is differentially resistant to weathering, like silicates, or carbides, like the cohenite in this image: http://www.mindat.org/photo-8081.html But

Re: [meteorite-list] Met Bulletin Update - EL's and OC's

2013-02-17 Thread Robert Verish
One benefit of having two numbers is that it allows the classifier to clarify the differences between the two stones in order to show the range of variation among these paired EL stones. The difference in this case being one stone has Alabandite present, and the second stone was Extremely

[meteorite-list] FW: (meteorobs) [met-list] Moroc Long Duration Fireball with smoketrail 13FEB2013

2013-02-14 Thread Robert Verish
Original Message Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:55:55 + From: Esko Lyytinen esko.lyyti...@jippii.fi Subject: Re: (meteorobs) [meteorite-list] Moroc Long Duration Fireball     with smoketrail 13FEB2013 We had here in Finland probably the best meteorite dropping

Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 7034

2013-01-25 Thread Robert Verish
--- On Fri, 1/25/13, Anne Black impact...@aol.com wrote: Lets make it simple. Now we can have: Achondrite Martian Basaltic Breccia. Simple as that. Okay! We're settled, then: AMBB it will be! (Sorry, Anne, I couldn't resist;-) But seriously, folks. Consider the following: martian

Re: [meteorite-list] Unobserved fall [bounced reply - resent]

2013-01-07 Thread Robert Verish
control the MPOD and it was my decision to use unobserved fall in order to convey more information. cheers Paul Swartz IMCA 5204 --- End of Original Message --- Re: [meteorite-list] Unobserved fall From: Robert Verish bolidecha...@yahoo.com To: Meteorite-list

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