Barb B. wrote:
If there is ejecta from earth floating around in space, are there
meteorites of earth origin that have been found and classified
Hi Barb,
This is a recurring question among meteorite enthusiasts.
At the moment, the only confirmed place lots of ejecta is floating
around is in
Larry A. wrote:
Does a hammer stone this make?
Hello Larry, Bernd, Listees,
Most definitely does IMO, but better than that, it sounds more like the
unique delivery the Courier service from the Heavens left on the front
door, and whoever left it was nice enough to ring the celestial
doorbell
Anita W. wrote:
Would that be a hammer hammer?
Hi Anita,
... maybe a hammered stone, to complement a stoned hammer?
When a meteorite hits a Mars Exploration Rover, what an opportunity for
a naming party :-)
(Human, Animal, Manmade, MER).
Best wishes
Doug
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Al M. wrote:
It is their rarity that makes us take notice and ponder them.
Not for me Al. We all have our personal reasons for collecting. I
don't think Darren and Walter deserve any moral criticism. Also, they
were not unrealistic, as if that had any bearing. For example, would
you
, March 19, 2008 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Further thoughts
Hi mexicodoug, et al,
Does anyone have evidence of what really happens (i.e. explode or
fragment)
with meteors/meteoroids that pass through the atmosphere? I'm a newbie
and
therefore not pretending to know what I'm
Robert W. wrote:
VERY rough ESTIMATE of the spread of time by simply dividing the
length of the strewnfield by a max free fall speed of ~ 200mph??? ...
IF all the above is even halfway accurate, could one safely say that
during a typical fall, meteorites are impacting down the length of
the
Pete wrote:
Some will be blown up and some will be blown down.
I believe this is a common misconception for many in the meteorite
community and common thought. I don't think anything is blowing up.
Simply fragmenting. Each part of the original whole maintains its
portion of momentum upon
http://www.explorernews.com/article/show/21655
Don't miss Twink's great article about the display of some of Jim
Kriegh's meteorites in Oro Valley! Best,
Doug
Kriegh's rocks from the sky on display in OV
Guest column by Twink Monrad
Steve, do you mean the world's tallest?
As for Michael Casper: He was(is?) the 'adjunct curator' (there was no
chief curator) of the meteorite collection at Cornell, held by SPIF.
Just ask Rick Kline at Cornell's Spacecraft Planetary Imaging Facility
(SPIF). I am sure he could comment on
McCartney T. wrote:
One picture can say so much...Riddle me this, and Riddle me that,
Can't you all guess where the meteorites at?
Hi McCartney,
Cat. Hat. In French, chat chapeau. In Spanish, el gato in a sombrero.
(The picture is saying to me ... You pulled it out of your sombrero!)
Que
Michael B. wrote:
If you want to be really fussy, (I am) rinse with 95% to 99% alcohol
after and dry in the oven with the pilot light.
The very cheapest you can get is in Mexico - any drug store.
Hi Michael and McCartney, List amigos,
Of course, you can never be too fussy, cutting meteorites
Hey Michael,
...all this time I thought you were practicing batik ;-( Doug
Michael wrote:
Say Mr,
Watch what you say about tie-dyes!
Michael
on 3/7/08 12:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael B. wrote:
If you want to be really fussy, (I am) rinse with
Hello Michael and Moni,
It is a real pleasure that Michael has been recognized. The RFSPOD's
are a great perk from Michael and participating list members, for the
rest of us
and I love 'em.
Thanks for the post Moni,
Doug
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From: Moni Waiblinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear List,
Please refer to the links for the 1.2 kilogram Benguerir, Morocco piece.
It is a very attractive piece about 94% crusted with nice black fusion
crust picked up close to the time of the fall. The piece has become
available after a museum offer fell through last year and it was put
I'd guess Park Forest, because more list members were picked up then than
at any other time, it probably was relfected in the Database as well. Unless
all the continued Franconia, Gold Basin, Campo or Brenhem would do it?
Moss probably came in closebut doesn't have the three year benefit...
Hey Martin, I had my guesses so thy are used and this is in response to it
not being the obvious:
Probably MIHONOSEKI or maybe CARANCAS caught up in spite of the short time
due to the scandal :-)
If it isn't the obvious, it'll be a surprise, but I doubt any NWA can do it
...
Doug
-
Hi Michael, Twink and friends,
Gold Basin Birthday Cake To the Tucson Meteorite Auction and it will
contain 3 gold basin meteorites (careful chewing!)
Thanks Twink for volunteeing such great Tucson hospitality - again! The
Gold Basin Birthday Cake is the greatest!
Is it OK to run a
Hi Sterling, List,
While the international politics of Iraq is out of my league to comment on,
I must comment how I was very saddened to read this article.
It was 2012, then 2015, then 2020 or 2025 ... there is a trend here and it
is crap for most all of us. Let me tell you IMO what's broke
I am looking for a source for very inexpensive irons. They should be small
(around 10-15g) and $0.20 to $0.30 each...At the lower end, I could buy a
couple hundred of them.
Hi Bob,
Two cents per gram and classified means at best you could manage $40 to $60
for 2Kg to 3Kg of conveniently
Ruben wrote:
Here's is a link toa funny post that kinda
illustarates my point.NOT THAT I MIND
THIS TYPE OF WOMAN!!I DON'T!!
http://www.nuggetshooter.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=12123;
Stay tuned till next time while lusting after special meteorite finds
for a profligate, Love in the Time
Hi Mark, Marco, and others who enjoyed the Parker Bros. Napoleonic Risk
game as kids*,
Been playing around with this DIY Map software (macromedia based) since
Mark first posted. I think I like the Meteorite bulletin - USGS Google
Earth interface better, and would encourage you to check into
save some
problems, though I imagine if the coordinates are used for Erfoud or Agadir,
etc., it would look funny. Not much we can do about that mess, though...
Best wishes, Doug
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From: Mark Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: mexicodoug [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Meteorite
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From: Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: mexicodoug [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite List
meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Simple mapping software? (A little OT)
There was a bug on the MetBull database site that reported
Rhonda wrote:
I'm not sure you have to have a metorite in your
posession to be in love with metorites ... want
the first one to be special and I can't figure out what
exactly it should be.
Dear Rhonda and List friends,
This was one topic that was (for me) really not meteorite related at all,
Rob wrote:
I'm referring to is inertial electrostatic confinement, where the energy
required is very modest. It's not that difficult to produce neutrons with a
tabletop device using nothing other than electricity
Hi Rob,
That is a very long-shot in more ways than one. Unless I also
Hi Göran, Rob, Sterling, Darren, Ed, and other nuclear meteoriticists,
What an impressive post from Göran, don't you think? Rob has given us an
interesting option to think about measuring residue from a nuclear blast
during the time frames of interest.
While I'm not able to judge the
Would that be the cowboy Charlie Brown's photo that Nininger used to show
around, which was a somewhat helical smoke train?
Best wishes,
Doug
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From: Francis Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 12:57 PM
Hi Darren and friends,
I think your geometry is mostly fine though there is an easier way to check
the nuclear reaction asserted, left in the wake of the meteoroid. It's more
accurate and you don't even need to truncate the atmosphere:
Try this:
Km^2 nuclear reactor meteoroid=Pi*.5^2
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From: mexicodoug [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Neutron and Proton
productioninhyper-velocityimpacts
,
and would solve world hunger before settling down to do what the professor
assigned...
Best wishes,
Doug
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From: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: mexicodoug [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 2:00 PM
Subject
in with comets...and there is plenty of
semiheavy water in the ice caps :-)
What about 10-Be or Uranium ratios (238/235) I had mentioned. Any hope for
them IYO?
Best wishes,
Doug
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From: Rob Matson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: mexicodoug [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list
Hi Ed, Chris,
I also posted a reply to this along the lines Chris did, but it didn't show
up. Ed, I am gathering from Chris' conclusions from your post that you've
mixed up visible light with gamma rays as sources of neutrons because they
are both radiation?
Best wishes,
Doug
my original
Hi Pete,
It is 20% of less than 100 grams;
20 grams if more than 100 grams.
So if we grossed up the 90 grams it would not be 112.5 grams per guidelines,
but rather 110 grams. However, if we read the email, it seems the writer
seemed not to believe any was removed from the 90 grams yet, so
Tim,
I give up, what are you thinking - to sell them unclassified except for a 2
gram stone and then give a scientist 0.4 grams in exchange for classifying
the entire fall? Naughty naughty
Doug
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From: Timothy Heitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Timothy Heitz [EMAIL
Message -
From: Timothy Heitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: mexicodoug [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Samples
Doug,
This is what I'm thinking.
Lets say I bought 50 Mars stones and the biggest was only 8
Hello Listees,
http://quadrantid.seti.org/
An interesting post just showed up in the meteor observing forum.
The subject is an airline mission cramming lots of neat instruments and
scientists like sardines into a jet that could be the subject of a Gary
Larson Far Side cartoon is the
Dear Listees,
Here's a kind wish from us for peace and happiness, especially those who
have had a difficult year, for renewed hope and happiness. Written over
home-made egg nog (commercially nearly impossible to find in Mexico), I hope
it is still ok in the morning...
The Tale of Happy
Greg wrote:
Lets say for conversation sake that the asteroid does hit Mars. Would there
be a Rover Extinction, and if so, should we name it Rover Ratatouille,
keeping in line with the recent Mammoth Stew thread?
I bet most of us have been over-gorged and over-stuffed on Mammoth stew. As
Hola Listees,
A couple of you asked me about the Rudolph comment I made for Christmas Eve
sight involving Mars. It is fairly well covered in some places, but I
thought it wouild be a good idea to post it for us. What could be better
for Christmas than a Lunar collision with Mars??? That's
Larry wrote:
something like 30 years ago. It would be nice if people gave credit where
credit was due.
Hi Larry, List,
I agree with your complaint that it is a more satisfying existence to give
credit when expressing ideas, to those upon whose shoulders one is
peering from. The press and
It's even hard to predict the exact results...
Hola Listees,
Yes, this is what Larry and I had already stated, Sterling. While on the
subject of James Clerk Maxwell, I wanted to add two interesting footnotes,
(1) Decated to Sterling, a guitar fellow with Maxwell (and not to forget
E.P.'s
: [meteorite-list] Phoenix desert fireball
for me is a satellite
matteo
--- mexicodoug [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto:
Hello List,
Surprised this unprecedented video recording of a
Geminid (?) long lasted
splintering fireball imaged from the helicopter
hasn't made it to the list
yet...
http
Ed wrote:
It seems to me that in the real world, the gravitational effects of the
Earth+Moon system should draw items in, gradually
changing their orbits from those passing near to ones which intersect.
Hello Ed,
Mabe, but the Solar System is a pretty happening place, and if it is an
Earth
Jason and Sterling chatted::
But we have to account for a crater (well, impactor at least - or maybe
just call it a 'body') large enough to deposit such a layer of dust, and I
don't think that you're going to get that from such a small impact.
Dear Listees,
Tusk, tsk ... Sounds like it would
Hello List,
Surprised this unprecedented video recording of a Geminid (?) long lasted
splintering fireball imaged from the helicopter hasn't made it to the list
yet...
http://www.thisismereporting.com/view_video.php?viewkey=7ddef7f2c4f25dc8fa86
Best wishes and Life,
Doug
Or so the story goes ...
anyways that's why CD would be spherules and not ellipsoidules or splatules
(if they were hot enough to penetrate bone appreciably) :-)
General comment: We got the idea! ... it *is* quite a far flung theory ...
but then again, like it or not, there are some parallels
[Strangely, the trail to finding the tusks began at a fossil sale in a motel
in Arizona. ... Recalling previous visits to the annual Tucson Gem and
Mineral Show, West says, A bulb went on in my head;]
A candidate for a real meteorite fossil (with no quotes?)
Hi Steve, Grail Purveyors, Listees,
The grail requires a romantic quest for something plausible yet not provable
nor obtainable. It must be legendary and miraculous and an object of only
the most religious passion, controversy, as well as a dark side of greed; be
erroneously linked with an
it is
based on volcanically shaky ground, but I thought you might appreciate that,
living life in that neighborhood of Earth :-)
- Original Message -
From: tracy latimer
To: mexicodoug ; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 1:31 AM
Subject: RE: [meteorite
Tracy wrote:
Thought experiment... Jupiter is known to have some heavy magnetic fields,
as well as intense radiation. Would an iron asteroid spending several
thousand years or so whipping through Jupiter's magnetic field develop a
notable magnetism of its own?
Hi Tracy, Listees[3rd posting
Hi Pete, List
Thanks for the extra kind post. Of course, if the object orbiting
physically flipped that would be one heck of a magnet! On the other hand,
there is nothing preventiing a liquid metallic core from reorienting in a
sinusoidal (sorry for the five-dollar word, but you said you
and float them on water to see this effect...
- Original Message -
From: Erich Kern
To: mexicodoug ; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] More data
Only if it remained oriented in the same direction as the field
Hi Elton, Listees,
I'm appreciating everyone's super comments and will respond to these kindly
offered ideas (optimistic, realistic and negative) and friendly concerns
weighed together, in one email after hopefully even more feedback.
But Elton needs more data, this is the best I can do (and
Pete wrote:
When the sun gives a large flare, what if the meteorite passed thru the
flame portion of the flare? Does the flare have enough energy to magnetize a
meteorite? The flare energy is typicaly 10 to the 27th ergs per second.
Jerry answered:
Passing THRU a solar flare would put this
Hi Pete and welcome to the meteorite world online!
Also, the heat of the entry into the atmosphere will kill any magnetism of
the meteorite
This wouldn't usually be expected to be true - and though this would be more
likely for an iron meteorite, other fine structures (and even volatiles)
I think you are confusing Cali with Caracas... Matt
Hi Matt,
Was there a recent fall in Venezuela?
Best wishes,
Doug
--
Matt Morgan
Mile High Meteorites
http://www.mhmeteorites.com
P.O. Box 151293
Lakewood, CO 80215 USA
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL
http://www.diogenite.com/maybe.html
Dear Listees,
I quickly just wrote up the circumstances of a new UFO (Unidentified Found
Object), and hope the great list can give me some meteorite-relevant
comments relating to the form and texture of this iron object. It seemed to
be the only metallic
Mike wrote:
Only one way to know, cut it, etch it, do a ni test. Otherwise it could be
anything.
Hi Mike,
By posting, I just hoped to get some opinions on the shape, which I am
purposely not commenting on as it relates to meteorites in order to get some
feedback. Like someone's mother
Hi Dean,
Yes this is very confusing and unscientific. As you deal in fossils, I
think you have a gut appreciation of what a fossil is (rare occurence, once
living, formed in a long process, from sediment deposition) and what it is
not (an inorganic rock). For example, Adam Hupe has been
Mike wrote:
... chondrules in most pieces ...
if some ... chondules ... then it is a chondrite,
if ... a chondrite, it cannot be an Aubrite.
Dr. Grossman posted that the aubrite classification, or the E-chondrite
classification, like all classifications in the Bulletin, is not peer
reviewed
Here's the first public photo from China's first Moon orbiter launched last
month.
http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/n615709/n620682/n639462/132125.html
Not bad for the Chang'e ship (apparently pronounced Ch-ong-er after the
snooping woman in her husband's personal items, who feared being caught, ate
Excellent vintage, Dr. Watson!
...Holmes cocked his eye at me, leaning back on the cushions with a pleased
and yet critical face, like a connoisseur who has just taken his first sip
of a comet vintage.
Ref: The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes, The Stock-Broker's Clerk (1894) by
Arthur Conan
Dear Listees,
Anyone seen this and kind enough to comment? Tickets are a steep $26 but
are really just a piggybacked admission included with a visit to the
American Museum of Natural History (where, besides the Willamette mass,
etc., three Cape York meteorites are on display: 31-ton
Hi Jason, Michael,
Nice! Congratulations that's quite a fine Franconia find. Also, must be
great weather there right about now...
Thanks yest again, now to Jason, and as always, to Michael Johnson for the
perk of the day,
Best wishes and Great Health,
Doug
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First, let me commiserate with Steve #2 if this gets him down. Man and
Impact in the Americas is related to meteorites, though, and is competing
with Rocks from Space for shelf space, is advertised frequently here, has
even been sold in the Inn Suites in Tucson, so a balanced look under the
Dear Francis,
I was thinking exactly the same angle already posted by Larry, so let me
just comment on your question:
And at what size level does a meteorite cease to be of interest?
by offering the opinion:
At the level it ceases to contain any information attributable to
meteoroids,
(and I agree)
they are likely to be rare.
H. I like your suggestion that this would be an
interesting project to critically examine, in
conjunction with an educational project.
Francis Graham
--- mexicodoug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Francis,
I was thinking exactly the same angle
(Would that happen to be Brownlee?
:-) ), and what instruments and techniques are being used, would probably
laugh at this, but those're the thoughts from the peanut gallery.
Best wishes and Great Health,
Doug
- Original Message -
From: Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: mexicodoug [EMAIL
be tempted call that comment safe and let it
slide. Ball 1.
Best wishes and Great health,
Doug
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From: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: mexicodoug [EMAIL PROTECTED]; dmouat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 7:39
of purchase.
All rights reserved. Made in China.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: mexicodoug [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mr EMan [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Andreas Gren
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'E.P. Grondine' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc
Darren wrote:
...when you are writing in a plain text format, you are supposed to
underline it, so...
*Crikey!* Michael Darren,
As a certain kind list member always reminds me, never be rattled when such
a simple keyboard option for OT'S is available.
My delete finger was ready, willing,
Dear Listees,
Three weeks ago I posted our observational results for the viewing of Comet
Holmes (currently the largest member of the Solar System), and the Leonids
meteor shower peak November 17/18 gave motivation to hike back to the same
site and view the comet with the same binoculars: A
Dear Listees, especially those staying up for the midnight crescendo of an
average Leonid meteor shower this Saturday evening - Sunday morning:
http://leonid.arc.nasa.gov/estimator.html
Most visible Leonids are between 1 mm and 1 cm in diameter. For example, a
Leonid meteor of magnitude +5,
Hi Ed,
OK if you believe that, but to me the logic is about as sound as the planned
dumping/disposal of the $1 million dollars cache of nearly century old Jack
Daniels whiskey just confiscated in Tennessee. It is a total lack of common
sense. Besides, it the IAU's responsibility to fund the
!, the first one is on me :-)
Best Wishes,
Doug
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: mexicodoug [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 8:33 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Rosetta gravity assist flyby
Hello Doug:
I
Hi Darren,
It certainly was an actual screw-up by the IAU. The joke I meant was by
Catalina Sky Survey, no matter what they say. You deserve a medal. Just
tell us you didn't look in the back of the book (or leave a Google crumb
path)! Clyde Tombaugh is is snickering in his grave at the
Someone has a sense of humour, especially the flying couch comment !
So, will closest approach be 20:57, 21:04, 21:13 UT, or undetermined, and
who will get the view? I think Rosetta won't be rising until 21:15 where
I'm at in southern North America, and at close approach will be moving at
Steyaert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Rosetta gravity assist flyby
And the awakening:
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/mpec/K07/K07V70.html
Chris
At 19:35 09/11/2007, mexicodoug
Dear List,
Hmmm. Very meteorite related! Now for a fun post. Great history on the
Scale Cube, Svend, and thanks Mike for the additional information! Given
all the interest in scale cubes, I've compiled a history of the scale cube
prior to the ones developed by the Russians and NASA (it is
Dear Listees,
This is a very timely picture, thanks to most kindly to both Bernd Pauli and
Michael Johnson's Rocks from Space Picture of the Day :-)
Just a click away and an interested person without the materials and
microscope can vicariously participate with Bernd's clear and colorful
The say that nothing is left in the crater, and they are going to spend
$10,000 to protect the crater. Interesting, since the water table will only
rise with the rains, and melt the mud.
Interesting indeed. Let me be optimistic. I would believe the Peruvian
cross-functional team of
Hi Gary, Listees,
Looks like the source of that Mars rock you kindly investigated a while back
:-) Just kidding!!!
You probably mean the sand pit called El Dorado at the foot of Husband
Hill and behind Home Plate, I would guess a number of reasons were
responsible for the borrosity:
1.
Hi, Elton, Steve, Bernd, Darren, Bob, List,
I don't see where Steve claimed that this meteorite had a bulbous nosecone
form that so many stony collectorys envy and hold synonymous with
orientation.
Come on, this attractive IRON (as sculpted irons go) does have some
interesting morphology -
Hello Listees, and desert comet chasers,
The exciting performance of 17P, from within our cloudless, profusely
particulate and sodium vapor laden metropolis, is one of those events that
we couldn't allow to become diluted among our list of memorable astronomical
spectacles left un-notched in
you'll see that any tail (which by default points away
from the Sun) would point away from the Earth at
a very similar angle. The tail would (will) have to be
fairly long before we got our first glimpse of it and...
the coma is in the way, too.
Sterling, this is not true for any tail. Due to
Hi Sterling, Jerry and Listees,
Entertaining treatise Sterling!
Though I think your idea of time won't fly because you are very
over-sexagesimal.
In a perfect future, we would have disposed of the inefficient measure of
time every applied to a decimal world. And hopefully trash all these
: [meteorite-list] Fw: Comet 17P (Holmes) Visible Event !
Hello all,
I have just looked at the superoutburst of 17P/Holmes,
as follows:
2007 Oct. 24.72 UT: m1=2.8, Dia.=, DC=9, by NE
Katsu. OHTSUKA
Tokyo, JAPAN
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From: giovannisostero [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: mexicodoug
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From: mexicodoug [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fw: Comet 17P (Holmes) Visible Event !
Hello List,
This bodes great (in a Titian-Bodean sense) for tonight in Europe and
North America. I put
in the Solar System, even
though their cores are amongst the smallest.
Chris
*
Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
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From: mexicodoug [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Wednesday
Greg wrote:
Remember when Amgala was first named, and then another name also refers to
it (Oum Dreyga). Well, this happened because the material was found in both
of those areas and that is why you will find Amgala/Oum Dreyga and both
names are accepted for that one.
Hi Greg, List,
Oum
Hi Martin,
I guess even when the taxonomic spirit lights a fire under me, I should
endure quietly or go to the alt.religion or alt.lawenforcement lists
instead. In a practical sense I think your answer is accurate. Continuous
improvement? Bah! Who needs it! (can someone say what Mah!
Hello, Anne, Greg, List (old message that didn't post properly, sort of a
'synonym' superceded by my post to Martin),
Anne, I must disagree. A synonym in biology is A scientific name of an
organism or of a taxonomic group that has been superseded by another name at
the same rank.. While you
Hi Anne,
If that was the much, much simpler thought you meant, I definitely agree
with you that synonyms (whatever they are) exist.
How could anyone not:-)?
Greg's question about synonyms was (IMO) specifically whether someone could
provide a published reference in the MB for:
'Amgala' and
be encountered in the
literature.
Hope this helps,
Best Health and Cheers,
Doug
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From: Walter Branch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: mexicodoug [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list
WOW !!!
What a cargo of pure beauty! It appears to even have hips? We heard rumors
of a 300 pounder being found up in there, and finally the wonderful chance
to see it on RFS POD !!! It was also tempting not to post a question to
the list about this, but not to spoil the meteorite
Hi Michael:
1) I have no idea what L.90 is in US $ - a US equivalency
Included would be very helpful to you, I believe. I have seen
Other Brits use this successfully. I don't know what it takes,
Easier done than said, just use links to the main ebay.com if you want the
US equivalent to show
Hello Walter,
Up to and including, one Troy ounce, I prefer saying Mementos.
Medallion sounds like a big medal to me, a $5 word, so size does matter.
Drawing the line, if at all, is subjective to one's own personal reference
set (for me it is either a Spanish Milled Dollar 27.1g, US Silver
. No problem to chew the local
stuff, too, if we need to break an ethereal altitude hangover? ...
¡ Salud ! (Cheers!) ;-)
Doug
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Hi Dough, list,
yes, I understand that the list may have got a rather negative impression of
Peru due to these very ugly experience Mike and his
to stick around too long...
Best wishes,
Doug
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Hi Dough
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