Re: [meteorite-list] The Impire strikes dust

2008-09-01 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, the cosmic origin becomes clear and even precise as to asteroidal source type (a methodologically appealing argument). I'm going to go sweep some asteroid dust off my porch now, while I wait for the next big asteroid breakup... Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Old Meteorite Photo?

2008-08-31 Thread Sterling K. Webb
of anything. In fact, you have to take his word (or interpretation) that the mass is a rock, as the image is too vague to determine even that with any certainly. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Mike Bandli [EMAIL

Re: [meteorite-list] A Crater Wrong?

2008-08-24 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Time will tell. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: E.P. Grondine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 1:23 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] A Crater

[meteorite-list] Acraman Corections

2008-08-24 Thread Sterling K. Webb
that the event extincted the mysterious Ediacaran fauna. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all?content=10.1080/08120090500181036 And the Australians are now officially referring to Acraman as the Acraman-Bunyeroo Event. Don't ask me what a Bunyeroo is... Maybe a relative of the Bunyip? Sterling K

Re: [meteorite-list] When the Sahara was wetter (relevant to yourinterests)

2008-08-17 Thread Sterling K. Webb
south as the edges of Zambia and Angola. The Earth, just like any other planet, can be terraformed, you know. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Fw: How well can you view this?

2008-08-11 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Tim, Running a 2.7Ghz XP box with 1.25 gig Ram, on 3 Megabit DSL that moves at 80% capacity. With IE6 as browser, I get 5-6 secs of video, then a long wait (15-20 sec), then another 5-6 sec, etc, quite unlike my usual experience. (Sometimes I get a little buffering pause at the beginning

[meteorite-list] MARTIAN MOON NAMES... AGAIN

2008-08-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
the meaning of Clustril, Drunlo, Flimnap, Limtoc, Reldresal, and Skyresh... http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/images/Phobos_comp.pdf Hobbits on the Martian moons? Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Phoenix Analyzing Martian Soil Data

2008-08-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 1:04 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Phoenix Analyzing Martian Soil

Re: [meteorite-list] FW: More on Mitchell's Aliens

2008-08-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
object in any number of copies? A really big bomb? You name it; it arrives within minutes -- no restrictions, everybody gets what they ask for... exactly what they ask for. What could be nicer than that? Think the planet would survive a week? Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] ET phone Nome...

2008-08-02 Thread Sterling K. Webb
subject. Ideas? Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 11:56 AM Subject

Re: [meteorite-list] ET phone Nome...

2008-08-02 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. It does sound like somebody has the bit between their teeth, as it were. We will either hear an announcement in the reasonably near future or one of those this-is-all-a-wild-rumor press statements. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] ET phone Nome...

2008-08-02 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Jerry, Wet Chemistry experiment's only tests for metals are lead, copper, cadmium, zinc and iron. Somehow, THAR'S ZINC IN THEM THAR HILLS!!! doesn't quite have the same ring to it... Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message

Re: [meteorite-list] Old guy doesn't find meteorite

2008-07-30 Thread Sterling K. Webb
The cell phone-sized, 4-ounce stone... [he] described the rock as flat on one side, rusty and covered with little volcanoes. But, you would have to admit that this makes the Sarasota Stone the record holder for the smallest magmatic volcanic minor planet! Sterling K. Webb

[meteorite-list] Saturn's Moon Titan Has A Liquid Surface Lake

2008-07-30 Thread Sterling K. Webb
is below. Sterling K. Webb http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080730140726.htm Scientists have confirmed that at least one body in our solar system, other than Earth, has a surface liquid lake. Using an instrument

Re: [meteorite-list] More on Mitchell's Aliens

2008-07-28 Thread Sterling K. Webb
theories about their campaign to confuse us are ridiculous evasions. Please! Explain to me what they are doing? Unless of course, they ain't there... or rather here. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From

Re: [meteorite-list] Problem With Catalog of Meteorites SoftwareProblem

2008-07-23 Thread Sterling K. Webb
it in the same place in the XP machine, and it worked fine forever after. The Catalogue's Insight Engine will be the only activity on newer machines that ever looks for it or uses it. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [meteorite-list] Fourth Dwarf Planet Named Makemake

2008-07-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
and is getting ready to fold their cards and let dwarf planets become a footnote which will be forgotten by the public, but having managed to dump Pluto, which was all they really wanted to do all along, you know. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Ceres May Be An Asteroid Impersonator

2008-07-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
... Isn't it? Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 6:25 PM Subject: [meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] LOOK UP! TOO LATE...

2008-07-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
place. It's now named V598 Puppis. Is anybody looking up? If we can miss a naked-eye bright nova, what makes anybody think we'd see, oh, say, a big impactor until two days before? Sterling K. Webb __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Mamemake mademade plutonpluton

2008-07-14 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, Goddess of light and creator goddess, Karraur Zanahary, Creator god, Madagascar Zeme Mate, Creator of earth, Latvia Zipaltonal, Female spirit who is the creator of all earth, Nicaragua Wonder what he proposed for EL61? Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Mamemake mademade plutonpluton

2008-07-14 Thread Sterling K. Webb
to check the whole long list, but not at 2:30 in the morning... Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Kashuba [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Meteorite List' meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, July

Re: [meteorite-list] Re Cu meteorite

2008-07-12 Thread Sterling K. Webb
sites routinely blow off questions about big chunks of ice falling from the sky as urban myths, more UFO fantasies, whacky ignorance... What? Rocks falling from the sky? Nonsense. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message

Re: [meteorite-list] Re Cu meteorite

2008-07-12 Thread Sterling K. Webb
winds, bright lights in the sky or meteors, dark clouds, explosions, black rains, none of which have any connection whatsoever with earthquakes but which sound a great deal like airbursts to me. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message

Re: [meteorite-list] THE MOON IS NO LONGER A DRY COUNTY?

2008-07-10 Thread Sterling K. Webb
want? Water. Sterling K. Webb - Historical note: the water content they measured is consistent with the very low end of the water content of tektites, so if there's anybody still alive out there that believes in the lunar volcano

Re: [meteorite-list] Pairing ?-Type Asteroids to OC's (fromArkansas)

2008-07-10 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Here is the original article by T. Mothé-Diniz and D. Nesvorný Visible spectroscopy of extremely young asteroid families It's freely accessible. Why read press releases? http://www.aanda.org/index.php?option=articleaccess=doidoi=10.1051/0004-6361:200809934view=pdf Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Pairing ?-Type Asteroids to OC's (fromArkansas)

2008-07-10 Thread Sterling K. Webb
of a Locomotive Engine for Dalian Locomotive Rolling Stock Works. Now, I'm trying to figure out why Salvador Dali would want SwRI to design a locomotive engine for him, and just what a Dalian Locomotive would look like... Sterling K. Webb

[meteorite-list] THE MOON IS NO LONGER A DRY COUNTY?

2008-07-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
in Moon Rocks. Water is discovered in Moon Samples http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080709-moon-water.html Sterling K. Webb __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net

Re: [meteorite-list] Ohio and Indiana gold, silver, and diamonds

2008-07-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
hard to persuade rivers to run uphill. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: E.P. Grondine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 1:44 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] Copper meteor-wrong...was RSPD - July 7, 2008

2008-07-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. This copper meteorite is discredited, It contains 33% Zn, small Pb inclusions and less than 0.1% Ni. It is similar to yellow brass, and distinct from native terrestrial copper and meteoritic copper, the latter having 0.4% to 2.4% Ni. Sounds like a bushing to me... Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Fwd: 5:15 UT slow, bright Mediterranean bolide

2008-07-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
flashed. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 7:15 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Fwd: 5:15 UT slow, bright Mediterranean bolide Hi List, Rob

Re: [meteorite-list] Fwd: 17:15 UT slow, bright Mediterranean bolide

2008-07-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
that must be a ghost... you are following, I think. There are a lot of ghosts on the internet. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, July 08

Re: [meteorite-list] More golden showers

2008-07-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
place, they speak of a three-mile comet, elsewhere in the press release, they speak of the multiple airbursts... Always good to have a couple of different stories going, I guess. This just gets more entertaining by the day... Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] spmeone had a great 4th sometime, what a photo!

2008-07-06 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Look at the image full size. The meteor-like object is actually Comet McNaught. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Pete Shugar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mafer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday

Re: [meteorite-list] Holocene start impacts

2008-07-06 Thread Sterling K. Webb
... But there isn't. Hence, evidenceless comets (or whatever). No fingerprints. Perfect Crime. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: E.P. Grondine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent

Re: [meteorite-list] spmeone had a great 4th sometime, what a photo!

2008-07-06 Thread Sterling K. Webb
there (January, 2007). You could see it in broad daylight. What I liked about it is that its ion tail was made of IRON atoms. A special gift for all the people who insist comets are just iceballs -- an Iron Comet! Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Holocene start Extinction Level Event

2008-07-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
/releases/2003/10/21_packrat.shtml Someone explain that, please... Hunted to extinction by Clovis Man, perhaps? Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: E.P. Grondine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Exploding asteroid theory strengthened bynew evidence located in Ohio, Indiana

2008-07-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
American academics, is more accepted in Europe, and is most accepted in the UK, though still a minority view. The problem is finding evidence, unequivocal evidence. We should look for it, but we should do a better job than this. Or we could just wait for it to happen to us. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Exploding asteroid theory strengthened bynew evidence located in Ohio, Indiana

2008-07-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, but where's the evidence?) The whole case stinks. It's not a Chicxulub-No-More-Dinosaurs kind of case in the weight of evidence. It's a case of Little Comet, Little Extinction, Little Evidence Sterling K. Webb - Original

Re: [meteorite-list] Tunguska..

2008-07-01 Thread Sterling K. Webb
I left out the UFO pages, Mark. You want Tunguska solutions? Go crazy! Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Mark Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 2:22

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Exploration Rover Update - June 6-12, 2008

2008-06-27 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, All, Everything else, including on-board computers and memories, radios, cameras, sensors and actuators, gets by on about 140 watt-hours -- enough energy to run a microwave oven for a scant 7 minutes. Obviously, the key to long-term survival is to NOT use the microwave on the Rover

Re: [meteorite-list] SOHO Discovers Its 1500th Comet

2008-06-27 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Rob, List, I never thought I'd have the occasion to say it, but Happy 1500th! Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Rob Matson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] 100 Years of Space Rock: The Tunguska Impact

2008-06-27 Thread Sterling K. Webb
on the front line, Kulik was wounded in the leg and captured by the advancing German Army. Imprisoned in a Nazi camp in Spas-Demensk, in the Smolensk district, the fifty-eight-year-old scientist contracted typhus and died on April 24, 1942. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] The wonderful wizards of Osmium CHICXULUB I

2008-06-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
that the crater was 500 miles or 800 km in diameter. You shouldn't believe everything you see on TV (or video). However, it was plenty big enough. Just ask your local dinosaurs... Whoops! Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message

Re: [meteorite-list] Classification Criteria was Am I missingsomething here?

2008-06-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
=PA84lpg=PA84dq=meteorite+classification+criteria+source=webots=NEYI15fuq5sig=eI2t355Y_wVkZ38He1xJhH5G7Ushl=ensa=Xoi=book_resultresnum=8ct=result#PPA232,M1 Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Mr EMan [EMAIL

[meteorite-list] PLUTO'S IDENTITY CRISIS

2008-06-19 Thread Sterling K. Webb
the URL of another article, interviews with professional astronomers who explain that defining a planet is a useless waste of time. The title is Why Planets Will Never Be Defined. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/061121_exoplanet_definition.html Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] NASA Phoenix Lander Bakes Sample, Arm Digs Deeper

2008-06-18 Thread Sterling K. Webb
with continuous pass-through of Martian samples and 18 experiments online in each one (let's have four of'em) and a sample return rocket that sends 100 kg of Martian samples up to Martian orbit to be returned to Earth. Let's have two, if you're in the mood... Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] NASA Phoenix Lander Bakes Sample, Arm Digs Deeper

2008-06-18 Thread Sterling K. Webb
software in integration. I only meant to point out the extra $31 million was a good investment, considering the outcome. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Pete

Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas paper

2008-06-18 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, they wave their hand, Oh, it's been magically transformed! That's pretty extraordinary. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent

Re: [meteorite-list] And the winner is-- PLUTOID!

2008-06-12 Thread Sterling K. Webb
a toast to each and every one of the Solar System's 23 Planets. Sterling K. Webb --- PS: Oddly, Mike Brown seems to think Santa (2003 EL61) will be counted as a Plutoid even it clearly is not bright enough (at H = +0.17); the IAU

[meteorite-list] PLUTOID CORRECTIONS

2008-06-12 Thread Sterling K. Webb
they dispose of naming. Sterling K. Webb __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] And the winner is-- PLUTOID!

2008-06-12 Thread Sterling K. Webb
to the names, for things come first and names afterward. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent

Re: [meteorite-list] Phoenix Lander

2008-06-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Reinforcing the previous point: http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/080603-phoenix-update.html Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Francis Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Phoenix Lander

2008-06-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
every foothold before you put your weight on it. Look before you leap. Small steps, small steps... Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Francis Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Just Another Question

2008-05-31 Thread Sterling K. Webb
(1952), presumably on his own. Jeff says, Show me the object, and I heartily agree and wish it was possible. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Just Another Question

2008-05-30 Thread Sterling K. Webb
-reinforcing judgement at work in that. 1. fusion crust, Check. 2. evidence for cosmic-ray exposure in space, Not Tested. 3. lithology that is completely exotic for its find location, Check. 4. being an observed fall, Check. 5. whereabouts, Unknown. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] color calibration

2008-05-29 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Earthly sunshine, your brain processing will correct it. It's a bright sunny day on Mars. And it's Spring. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: E.P. Grondine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Phoenix Lander and Mars Colors

2008-05-28 Thread Sterling K. Webb
/images/content/231350main_sol002_runout_color.jpg Things still need a tiny bit of tweaking, but it's a big improvement. Sterling K. Webb __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http

Re: [meteorite-list] Phoenix Lander and Mars Colors

2008-05-28 Thread Sterling K. Webb
landing two days ago, but I doubt enough red dust landed up there to change all the colors this much. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: ensoramanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent

Re: [meteorite-list] Success! The Phoenix has landed safely.

2008-05-25 Thread Sterling K. Webb
The BBC has posted a short video clip of the moment of the landing confirmation: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/743.stm Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] Observed lunar meteorite impacts hit 100

2008-05-24 Thread Sterling K. Webb
little hammers, whatever. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Chris Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 9:32 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Observed

Re: [meteorite-list] Greensburg hit by another tornado last night

2008-05-24 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 1:08 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Greensburg hit by another tornado last night What

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite offered (NOT an ad)

2008-05-20 Thread Sterling K. Webb
) is: 1,802,617,000,000 furlongs per fortnight I hope this helps... Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Mark Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Re: [meteorite-list] NASA Considers Manned Asteroid Mission

2008-05-16 Thread Sterling K. Webb
math. The gravitational acceleration is 0.30625 meters per second per second! My advice? Take a book (or two) along to kill time while you plummet to the ground. Sterling K. Webb --- PS: Keep an eye out for a Little Prince

Re: [meteorite-list] NASA Considers Manned Asteroid Mission

2008-05-16 Thread Sterling K. Webb
.] Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com; Larry Lebofsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 8:05

Re: [meteorite-list] NASA Considers Manned Asteroid Mission

2008-05-15 Thread Sterling K. Webb
know how astronauts love to play golf. Try not to leave any beercans behind. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Photo

2008-05-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
planets are not real planets be required to take a hiking trip around the equator of Ceres, the smallest dwarf planet. All they have to carry with them is 3-4 months of food, water, and air -- it's only 2000 miles. Nice scenery, though. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Ordovician Meteorites...was New or maybe oldQUESTION???

2008-05-06 Thread Sterling K. Webb
the terrestrial range. Tektites cannot be formed from local surface materials, nor any materials, of the Earth. Too tired to tackle the Hf/Sm system... but it's a mess too. We'll just stick to one point per post. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Ordovician Meteorites...was New or maybe oldQUESTION???

2008-05-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Maybe what we need to do to find Ordovician crater sites is map quarries? Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Mr EMan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, May

Re: [meteorite-list] New or maybe old QUESTION??????

2008-05-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Pete, Quick answer (with footnotes) is YES. There a deep sediment meteorite fragment from Chicxulub -- 66 million years old. There's an iron from Oklahoma, Lake Murray, more than 100 million years old; photos here: http://www.meteorlab.com/METEORLAB2001dev/labphoto/LakeMurray.htm

Re: [meteorite-list] What the heck is going on?? Nothing!!! It'sDEAD!!! JOKE

2008-05-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Don, Probably not. Sterling - - Original Message - From: Don Rawlings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 1:45 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What the heck is going on?? Nothing!!! It'sDEAD!!! JOKE

Re: [meteorite-list] Extra-solar material?

2008-05-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi All, The AMOR radars that are used to detect meteoroids at altitude all find a few percent of them have velocities too high to have originated in our solar system's gravitational family. The fast particles have a preferred origin, from which more than a quarter of them originate, a patch

Re: [meteorite-list] What a surprise! (not)

2008-05-02 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Postal Doug, Of course, the U.S. Mail is subsidized and supported by law -- it's a government service, as the National Posts of many nations are. I believe, as Mr. Franklin did, that governments exist to provide useful and necessary services for its citizens, and a mandate to establish a postal

Re: [meteorite-list] Trade offer, Hoodia Gordonii plants for meteorites or meteorite stuff.

2008-05-01 Thread Sterling K. Webb
) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054033/ Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Greg Hupe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:04 PM Subject: Re

Re: [meteorite-list] Mike Farmer in the Argentina Newpaper--sorrySpanish

2008-04-30 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Digital]. This online translation site also offers pronunciations: http://translation2.paralink.com/ Just click on the loud speaker icon and it goes to a speaker page completely with an animated spokes- speaker. I tried it with Orgueil and got something that sounded like Or - gool Sterling K

Re: [meteorite-list] Superheavy element found in nature

2008-04-29 Thread Sterling K. Webb
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability Here's an extended Periodic Table that shows all the elements that don't exist, but may exist afterall! http://www.apsidium.com/ext_pt/expertab.pdf Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message

Re: [meteorite-list] Book review of History of Meteoritics...

2008-04-23 Thread Sterling K. Webb
to a college assignment by Fred Smith, proposing a reliable overnight delivery service, in 1966. Smith would later go on to found Federal Express Corp. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Rob McCafferty [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [meteorite-list] Pronouncing Willamette and other meteoritenames

2008-04-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Darren, Chris, List The great dictionarianist Samuel Johnson described it as the sound of a goose hissing! I suppose it depends on how angry the Welsh speaker is at English dictionarianists... Pronunciation guide to Welsh: http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/Lesson01.html Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Chondrule close up!

2008-04-18 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 4:17 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Chondrule close up

Re: [meteorite-list] Dino killer size

2008-04-11 Thread Sterling K. Webb
is widespread. Now that they've found the cosmic osmium where we expect it to be, I want'em to look for osmium-188 spikes (or enrichment) in some long sedimentary cores from geologically more recent times for evidence of impacts we are unaware of, or only suspect. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Effect of fall of dollar against Euro/ dirham's

2008-04-10 Thread Sterling K. Webb
?). Some juggle, improve, upgrade, expand. Some just Collect. So, is this a general offer to the List, to buy whole collections? Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Michael L Blood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sterling K

Re: [meteorite-list] The wonderful wizards of Osmium CHICXULUB I

2008-04-10 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, a likely composition for a comet, which is afterall just an asteroid with extra frosting. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent

Re: [meteorite-list] 'Dino Killer' Asteroid Was Half the Size Predicted? CHICXULUB II

2008-04-10 Thread Sterling K. Webb
only 3200 meters across but moving at 72 km/second! Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, April 10

Re: [meteorite-list] Effect of fall of dollar against Euro/ dirham's

2008-04-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
want it?) Dead silence. See, NOBODY wanted to hear that! It MUST be the fault of high-priced gasoline, government debt, worthless politicians -- not me! Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Rob

Re: [meteorite-list] New, long, Carancas article II

2008-04-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, for whatever reason, is unlikely to have been broken into a sphere. I wish somebody would try to isotopically date the shock features of Carancas. I bet it has a history... Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From

Re: [meteorite-list] New, long, Carancas article II

2008-04-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
at least. It's like being the heat shadow. Both Schultz and I calculate that the object was still supersonic when it hit, still enclosed in a detached shock wave, so the sides never ablated at any point. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message

Re: [meteorite-list] New, long, Carancas article II

2008-04-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
roughly every three weeks. (That's 170 fresh 10-meter craters since 1998.) Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 11:26 AM Subject: Re

Re: [meteorite-list] New, long, Carancas article II

2008-04-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
will leave Wild Bill Occam out of all future discussions. Fact is, he's over to the saloon, drunk on his Franciscan keister, having discovered the advances in distillation that have happened since the 14th century... He's no longer available. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] New, long, Carancas article

2008-04-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
wants. A Taurus re-style in 1992 to a more rectangular style degraded the aerodynamics, but the next re-style of 1996 was more aerodynamic (and jelly-bean-like) than the 1986 original. The current Taurus models are about 0.29 drag. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] New, long, Carancas article II

2008-04-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
explanation that explains everything is the best one. Well, OK. What Bill actually said was, Entia non sunt multiplicanda sine necessitate, but he talks funny, you know. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From

Re: [meteorite-list] Bad Science on ancient meteorite impactor? - Part 2

2008-04-01 Thread Sterling K. Webb
rock by rubbing two mountains together. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 7:59 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Bad Science on ancient

Re: [meteorite-list] Bad Science on ancient meteorite impactor?

2008-03-31 Thread Sterling K. Webb
hits) Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: McCartney Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 2:33 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Bad Science on ancient

Re: [meteorite-list] Tektite fields and rotation

2008-03-28 Thread Sterling K. Webb
to the squirted jet theory of tektites, then I'm wasting my time keeping an eye out for them. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: E.P. Grondine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite market trends - a critical note

2008-03-26 Thread Sterling K. Webb
just to move the asteroid to Earth-Moon space, in orbit around one or the other. I suspect lunar orbit would be the preferred option as folks get nervous about asteroids headed toward Earth. Of course, it'll be a mining claim, but souvenirs are always good publicity. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Park Forest timing

2008-03-26 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Chauncey Walden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:10 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Park Forest timing Bernd

Re: [meteorite-list] UM-Led Team Finds Oldest Known Asteroids

2008-03-20 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, All, A very coy press release. What are the three asteroids? Where are they in the solar system? and a host of other questions go unanswered. They're large, 50km to 100km in diameter says the abstract: Calcium-, aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) occur in all classes of chondritic

Re: [meteorite-list] Oldest Known Asteroids

2008-03-20 Thread Sterling K. Webb
/980_Anacostia Discovered by G. H. Peters Nov. 21, 1921. It ranges from 2.74 AU to 3.294 AU in a period of 4.539 years. No diameter is given. Sterling K. Webb __ http

Re: [meteorite-list] New Crater Found?

2008-03-19 Thread Sterling K. Webb
of a rim on the western end on the other side of the gully. It IS circular, but is that enough? Maybe it is; maybe it isn't is my first impression. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Greg Redfern [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [meteorite-list] New Crater Found?

2008-03-19 Thread Sterling K. Webb
crater. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Greg Redfern [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eric Wichman [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] First Detection of Organic Molecules in Extrasolar Planetary Atmosphere

2008-03-19 Thread Sterling K. Webb
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/03/19/scialien119.xml Milestone in hunt for extraterrestrial life By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Astronomers have found organic chemicals on a planet outside our solar system for the first time, a milestone in the hunt for

Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas-- still weird

2008-03-11 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:46 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Carancas-- still weird

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