Re: [meteorite-list] Could we get back to the science of meteorites, please ?

2010-10-19 Thread Jeff Kuyken
I agree with Steve Bernd! I must say that I also agree with Bernd regarding NWA 5507. It's definitely one of my favourite Type-3 chondrites. Just spectacular! http://www.encyclopedia-of-meteorites.com/meteorite.aspx?id=49207 http://www.meteorites.com.au/favourite/january2010.html Cheers,

Re: [meteorite-list] Could we get back to the science of meteorites, please ?

2010-10-18 Thread Thunder Stone
I Agree Greg S. From: dak_...@live.concordia.ca To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:07:21 + Subject: [meteorite-list] Could we get back to the science of meteorites, please ? Hello all, I usually stay away from

Re: [meteorite-list] Could we get back to the science of meteorites, please ?

2010-10-18 Thread Steve Witt
Second! Steve Witt IMCA #9020 http://imca.cc/ --- On Mon, 10/18/10, Thunder Stone stanleygr...@hotmail.com wrote: From: Thunder Stone stanleygr...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Could we get back to the science of meteorites, please ? To: dak_...@live.concordia.ca, meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] Could we get back to the science of meteorites, please ?

2010-10-18 Thread Jim Strope
Finally the voice of reason! The volume of OT subjects on this METEORITE mailing list is the VERY reason I check the archives instead of receiving emails. A meteorite could have crashed through the White House and not generated the volume of emails this OT subject has generated

Re: [meteorite-list] Could we get back to the science of meteorites, please ?

2010-10-18 Thread e-mail ensoramanda
Hi Bernd/All, Does anyone know any more about the classification of NWA 6260 which is provisionally LL7 metachondrite...Has that been confirmed yet...Met Bulletin still says Unknown? Cheers, Graham, UK On 18 October 2010 21:19, bernd.pa...@paulinet.de wrote: Oops, sorry for the double post!

Re: [meteorite-list] Could we get back to the science of meteorites, please ?

2010-10-18 Thread Thunder Stone
List: Last year I purchased a meteorite at a rock and mineral show a because it just looked a little different from most chondrites I have seen.  The seller did not know where it was found so I got the provisional name NOVA 010.  The exterior almost looked like an Iron or a Stony-Iron and it

Re: [meteorite-list] Could we get back to the science of meteorites, please ?

2010-10-18 Thread Fred Bieler
I fourth, or whatever the correct term would be. I move for the motion to be carried by acclamation. No more grousing . . . oops, I meant to say dowsing. Fred Bieler Astronomics/Christophers, Ltd./Cloudy Nights www.astronomics.com 800.422.7876 -Original Message- From:

Re: [meteorite-list] Could we get back to the science of meteorites, please ?

2010-10-18 Thread Michael Fowler
List, Could someone explain the meaning of the numbers in parenthesis? (n=7) and (n=11) is the analysis below? Thanks in advance. Mike Fowler NOVA 010 W2 S3, olivine Fa 14.4 ±0.5 (n=7); low-Ca pyroxene Fs13.7 ±0.6, Wo0.6 ±0.3 (n=11) List: Last year I purchased a meteorite at

Re: [meteorite-list] Could we get back to the science of meteorites, please ?

2010-10-18 Thread Greg Hupe
Fisher~Gold Bug-2 Darn good metal dowsing unit...Batteries not included! :-) Best Regards, Greg Hupe On Oct 18, 2010, at 2:44 PM, Charley cm...@columbus.rr.com wrote: __ Visit the Archives at

Re: [meteorite-list] Could Dogs be trained to recover meteorites?

2009-08-30 Thread James Baxter
Hi Sonny, I think it was a German shepherd that found the fence buster meteorite at the Park Forest fall. Don't have the details of that story but you may be on to something here. Cheers, Jim Baxter - Original Message - From: wahlpe...@aol.com To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Could Dogs be trained to recover meteorites?

2009-08-30 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:02:36 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: Hi Sonny, I think it was a German shepherd that found the fence buster meteorite at the Park Forest fall. Don't have the details of that story but you may be on to something here. Hm. Maybe some meteorites are actually alien civilizations

Re: [meteorite-list] Could Archaeologist be related to StarchaserMeteorites?

2007-10-31 Thread Darren Garrison
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:16:52 -0700, you wrote: Ok, the story behind this... There's this wacked out guy who digs things out of his backyard and sends the stuff he finds to the Smithsonian Institute, labelling them with scientific names, insisting that they are actual archeological finds. The

Re: [meteorite-list] Could Archaeologist be related to StarchaserMeteorites?

2007-10-31 Thread dean bessey
That letter was never written and is what is called an urban legend. Like the scuba divers in the forest, crapping elephant death and solid rocket powered car in the desert these are among the most popular urban legends. Top overall to urban legend is this one:

Re: [meteorite-list] Could Archaeologist be related to StarchaserMeteorites?

2007-10-31 Thread Erich Kern
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Re: [meteorite-list] Could Archaeologist be related toStarchaserMeteorites?

2007-10-31 Thread Sterling K. Webb
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Re: [meteorite-list] Could Venus Watch For Earth-Bound Asteroids?

2007-03-13 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi Larry, all - I will be reading Don and Lindley's report today. Don has always spent the publics' money wisely, so it will be interesting to see his reasoning for this detector. The Russians proposed telescopes in Earth orbit, one leading the Earth, another following. Asd you point out,

Re: [meteorite-list] Could Venus Watch For Earth-Bound Asteroids?

2007-03-12 Thread lebofsky
Hello List: I have observer a few asteroids in my life and have some problems with this article. I am away from home, so I am going mostly on memory and so these are only estimates; 1. If you are to put a telescope at the orbit of Venus, it would have to be in the same orbit as Venus, but not

Re: [meteorite-list] Could Venus Watch For Earth-Bound Asteroids?

2007-03-10 Thread Martin Altmann
But the space telescope is estimated to cost $1.1 billion for 15 years of operation Hmm, what does cost a F-22 and a B2 Spirit? -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Ron Baalke Gesendet: Freitag, 9. März 2007 22:50 An: Meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] Could Venus Watch For Earth-Bound Asteroids?

2007-03-10 Thread Sterling K. Webb
@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 6:31 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Could Venus Watch For Earth-Bound Asteroids? But the space telescope is estimated to cost $1.1 billion for 15 years of operation Hmm, what does cost a F-22 and a B2 Spirit? -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von

Re: [meteorite-list] could it be?

2007-03-08 Thread Gary K. Foote
Phil, I hate to say this, but it looks like a furnace clinker to me... Here's a pic of an EL3 slice under a scope. http://www.meteorite-dealers.com/images/el3-microscope1.jpg Gary Hello everyone, I found something that could be interesting in a batch of NWAs. I thought it might be an

Re: [meteorite-list] could it be?

2007-03-08 Thread Bill
but they are heavier. I never thought about clinkers as possible wrongs. I can see it. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:26:48 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] could it be? Phil, I hate to say

Re: [meteorite-list] Could it be....

2007-01-25 Thread JKGwilliam
If someone else hasn't mentioned it yet ( I don't read every email in all threads), Frank Stroik was the author of a small spiral bound, and very informative booklet, Meteorites: Fundamental Properties and Process which he published in April of 1999. Too bad he's off the List, he was a great

Re: [meteorite-list] Could it be....

2007-01-25 Thread Walter Branch
-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 6:51 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Could it be If someone else hasn't mentioned it yet ( I don't read every email in all threads), Frank Stroik was the author of a small spiral bound, and very informative booklet, Meteorites

Re: [meteorite-list] Could it be....

2007-01-24 Thread Eric Hutton
My earliest email I have saved is from 10th May 1997, amazing that I am still using the same personal email address!. Within the header of the email it says...archive/latest/325 this number seems to increment on later emails, so is the email I have the 325th posted to the list. It would be

Re: [meteorite-list] Could it be....

2007-01-24 Thread Ron Baalke
Eric Hutton wrote: My earliest email I have saved is from 10th May 1997 Hmmmmy earliest email goes back in the 1980's. the earliest email I've saved from meteoritecentral is dated January 13, 1997 from Frank Stroik - a very valuable contributing member, who unfortunately has left the

Re: [meteorite-list] Could it be....

2007-01-24 Thread Razvan Andrei
Bernd Pauli wrote: The earliest email I have saved is from Thu, 20 Mar 1997 and it was written by no less a person than Frank ... Frank Stroik for those who still remember him. Hi list, My earliest mail saved is from Sun, May 11, 1997, also written by Frank Stroik on vesicles and vugs

Re: [meteorite-list] Could it be.... Frank's Article Dated 20 Mar 1997

2007-01-24 Thread Moni Waiblinger-Seabridge
Hello Bernd and All, thank you very much for the article. I have read some articles on classification, but this one written by Frank Stroik is easily understood. I do have a better idea of how classifying a meteorite is done now. I can see also how mistakes are made, also given the time one

Re: [meteorite-list] Could it be....

2007-01-24 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Frank at that time was at U of Wyoming and was in the process of cataloguing an abandon pile of miss labeled meteorites that didn't fit in with the museum dedicated to dinosaurs.m I miss Frank! Dave F. Frank and earnest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Hutton wrote: My earliest

Re: [meteorite-list] Could A Meteorite or Comet Cause All The Fires of1871?

2004-08-24 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Paul, The phrase all the fires comes from the newspaper, not me. My comments address only the Peshtigo fire, those small towns near Peshtigo, and the Chicago fire. Of course, there is a natural background rate of forest and grass fires after a long dry summer, and some of the October

Re: [meteorite-list] Could A Meteorite or Comet Cause All The Fires of1871?

2004-08-24 Thread David Freeman
Dear Believers and non Believers; So, in all of his, does anyone actually have a genuine measured temperature, genuine measured relative humidity, wind speed (actually monitored not just guessed), and wind direction for ANY OF THESE LOCATIONS? Having said that, it is October, food is

Re: [meteorite-list] Could A Meteorite or Comet Cause All The Firesof1871?

2004-08-24 Thread David Freeman
Dear Ken, List; Very interesting historical account. I note the historical account left out any report of meteorites or comets, or earthquakes, or atomic blasts by UFOs. My great, great, great grandpa Schaffer was living in the Sherman area when the fires took place. He passed the story down

Re: [meteorite-list] Could A Meteorite or Comet Cause All The Fires of 1871?

2004-08-23 Thread David Freeman
Dear Ron, and List; I am originally from the Cadillac, MI area, graduated HS there. Lived in Sherman for three years, tiny town and former county seat (and the 1880's civil riot that moved the courthouse to Cadillac). I have seen many thousands of burned white pine and red pine stumps from the

Re: [meteorite-list] Could A Meteorite or Comet Cause All The Fires of

2004-08-23 Thread Mark Langenfeld
Anyone who has researched the history of these fires knows how spurious this theory likely is (at least as to the north woods blazes). There were small slash fires burning throughout the north woods most of that summer and early fall. The protracted drought and an intense weather system with

Re: [meteorite-list] Could A Meteorite or Comet Cause All The Fires of

2004-08-23 Thread David Freeman
Dear All; I have just gotten off the telephone with Mr. Killingbeck from the Cadillac Evening News and he was a delight to speak with. He will be contacting me in a couple of weeks for an interview for another/follow up story on meteorites and the connection, or in this case, the lack of it,

Re: [meteorite-list] Could A Meteorite or Comet Cause All The Fires of 1871?

2004-08-23 Thread ken newton
He said he's been contacted by relatives of survivors of the Peshtigo fire who shared stories from their ancestors about seeing fire falling from the sky. Mr. Wood has joined the ranks of Micro-Mike (Frass Meteorite). The promoting of fact-less theory is less than amusing. The reports of fire

Re: [meteorite-list] Could A Meteorite or Comet Cause All The Fires of1871?

2004-08-23 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Everybody! So many people have joined in the general pooh-poohing that I can't copy you all! The Web site mentioned in the article is complete trash and the crater is imaginary, as was pointed out years ago on this very List (not by me). Ken Rieli is a complete crackpot, and Mr. Wood