[meteorite-list] A Super Success Story

2004-02-01 Thread MexicoDoug
Hi esteemed fellow Space Rock Hounds ! This article was picked up from TUCSON on space.com a couple of days ago, and it appears to have fell though the cracks of the list. Can't have that. With all the incredible science going on at Mars, Stardust, Cassini, and beyond the heliopause... But

[meteorite-list] A Super Success Story (2)

2004-02-01 Thread MexicoDoug
"His discovery weighs 25 to 50 million kilograms. A metric ton is more than the weight of an original Volkswagen Beetle, but less than VW's "New Beetle". Lots of BIG rocks out there, eh ?" Somehow the sentence "That's 25,000 to 50,000 metric tonnes of space rock." was eaten between my email