[meteorite-list] test...delete

2006-08-18 Thread MexicoDoug
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Re: [meteorite-list] NEW PLANETARY NAMES

2006-08-18 Thread MexicoDoug
Hi Tracy, Now that frindles are sadly feeling a little passé, our English teacher fave the Dangerous Grangerous is ever on the ball pointing out to you with great pride, her pringles tapping away at the frinboard, http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cruton Best, St. Nick Tracy wrote:

Re: [meteorite-list] AD- ebay auction Lamb shape meteorite from theoutback of Kazakstan

2006-08-18 Thread Arriere Ban
Yes, it looks like a chunk of iron slag. And I put it in a haste, as it was time to go home and not to stare at computer. But I see this lot attracts attention. Thank you very much! ))What material have you from KZ, if any? --- Paul Barford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lamb shape meteorite from

[meteorite-list] The goddess COLUMBIA

2006-08-18 Thread MexicoDoug
Hola friends and listees, Dave's got a great point here, so I wanted to get my 2¢ in on a selection for a name of a new planet. I love that simplicity of Bob, the first potentially palindromic planet. But my mind is in a different world: I think we aren't yet ready for a planet that reminds me

Re: Re: [meteorite-list] NEW PLANETARY NAMES

2006-08-18 Thread Larry Lebofsky
Hi all: This is why there is an IAU nomenclature committee. It prevents chaos when naming asteroids, comets, satellites, and now planets, I guess. Larry, asteroid 3439 Lebofsky Quoting Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:59:55 -0400, you wrote: Oh... Why name the

[meteorite-list] Thanks Chris

2006-08-18 Thread Meteorite Game
Thanks Chris for the ideas on the shape of the meteor.It seems one could spend a lifetime learning about meteors and thier entries etc. Cordially.Rick Do you Yahoo!? Next-gen email? Have it all with the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta.__

RE: [meteorite-list] Micro/Macromount Availability- Where did they Go?

2006-08-18 Thread joseph_town
Hi all, Priority shipping and combining purchases is a simple tool to motivate customers to buy more in order to offset shipping costs. The frugal buyer feels more comfortable with the shipping cost even though they may be buying material they really didn't care much about. I'm sure all micro

[meteorite-list] Moss/Comet

2006-08-18 Thread Meteorite Game
Is the Moss meteorite from a comet?Cordially.Rick Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta.__ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

[meteorite-list] Trip to Morocco

2006-08-18 Thread Pelé Pierre-Marie
Hello !I wish to make a trip to Morocco to find meteorite at local dealers or villages. I know there are dealers in Rissani, Erfoud or M'Hamid but are there other villages or towns where I could buy meteorites, near Marrakech ?Best regards,Pierre-Marie

[meteorite-list] Some mistakes in Met.Bulletin database coordinates

2006-08-18 Thread M come Meteorite Meteorites
some examples with google earth: Messina Meteorite 38° 11'N, 15° 34'E and are in the sea Henbury crater 24° 34'S, 133° 8'E and are a river in the australian desert and many others... Matteo M come Meteorite - Matteo Chinellato Via Triestina 126/A - 30030 - TESSERA, VENEZIA, ITALY Email:

Re: [meteorite-list] Task force to monitor asteroid threats

2006-08-18 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi all - It is truly depressing to see Morrison obtaining the chair of the new task force. While Morrison is to be applauded for his early work taking on Velikovsky, and for his early work with Shoemaker, since then he has not done very well. It is not his backing of Muller, which resulted in

[meteorite-list] Spectacular Meteor Shower Possible for 2007

2006-08-18 Thread Jim Strope
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060817/sc_space/spacecomexclusivespectacularmeteorshowerpossiblefor2007 http://www.space.com/spacewatch/060817_meteor_shower.html Jim Strope 421 Fourth Street Glen Dale, WV 26038 http://www.catchafallingstar.com __

Re: [meteorite-list] NEW PLANETARY NAMES

2006-08-18 Thread almitt
Greetings All, Thought I would jump in all this. For those in favor of changing the status of Pluto (as if we have any voice in the matter), I would recommend reading Clyde's book Out of the Darkness the Planet Pluto Today's generation seems to like to try and change history and what went on

Re: [meteorite-list] Moss/Comet

2006-08-18 Thread Michael Farmer
It is a primitive meteorite, a carbonaceous chondrite, not from a comet, but basically stardust! Virtually unchanged for over 4 BILLION years! Michael Farmer --- Meteorite Game [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the Moss meteorite from a comet? Cordially. Rick

Re: [meteorite-list] NEW PLANETARY NAMES

2006-08-18 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:16:51 -0400, you wrote: I am in favor of letting the scientific bodies decide this as long as they are fairly unanimous about it. Clyde was a very nice man and this was his claim to fame. I know he would be sad if this major discovery of that time were to be taken from

[meteorite-list] Pluto May Get Demoted After All

2006-08-18 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060818_planet_newprop.html Pluto May Get Demoted After All By Robert Roy Britt space.com 18 August 2006 The effort to define the term planet took a fresh twist today as two competing proposals were put forth at a meeting of astronomers in Prague. In one

[meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: August 14-18, 2006

2006-08-18 Thread Ron Baalke
MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES August 14-18, 2006 o Feature of the Week: Polar Cap Edge http://themis.asu.edu/feature o Channel Dunes (Released 14 August 2006) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20060814a o Olympus Mons (Released 15 August 2006) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20060815a o Crater Fill

Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Get Demoted After All

2006-08-18 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:53:11 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: For example, brown dwarfs are low-mass stars that fail to produce the thermonuclear fusion that powers real stars. Interesting side note on this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5260008.stm __

Re: [meteorite-list] Planets Galore

2006-08-18 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi Mike, list - So let's look at this as process - Whatever this current committee does, as very many more new KBOs and Oort cloud objects are discovered which fit their new definition for planet, and as memory of Clyde's discovery fades, along with the passing of many of his colleagues,

Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Get Demoted After All

2006-08-18 Thread MexicoDoug
and the Charon aspect specifically for going too far in essentially recasting too many small round objects as full-fledged planets. Eventually, with new discoveries, there would likely be hundreds. Hello Again, The Charon and the rotating around center of mass outside the larger body (Pluto in

Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Get Demoted After All

2006-08-18 Thread Larry Lebofsky
Hi Doug: I am not an expert on dynamics, but the center of mass is the center of mass. If you have two objects in orbit (revolve, not rotate) around the center of mass, if one were larger, its orbit would have to be elliptical in order for the center of mass to go outside to inside of it. We

Re: Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Get Demoted After All

2006-08-18 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:53:50 -0500, you wrote: P.P.D. Pluto was actually named after the Disney Dog character by a British child Not only that, but a British child with precognition! (How else could she know that the dog would be named Pluto in the future?) Pluto is also the name of the Roman

[meteorite-list] Solar System in Perspective

2006-08-18 Thread Pete Pete
Apologies, if this link was posted previously. Some nice, high resolution graphics and a video fly-by, relative to the on-going debate/discussion... http://www.iau2006.org/mirror/www.iau.org/iau0601/iau0601_release.html http://www.iau2006.org/mirror/www.iau.org/iau0601/iau0601_release.html

Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Get Demoted After All

2006-08-18 Thread MexicoDoug
Hello Larry and Darren, OK, I checked your facts and I'll stuff the idea about the Disney character where the Sun don't shine and it belongs. And further I trust you. If you happen to have the British girl's email address sure I'll send a message to further vindicate you and Darren. As for the

Re: [meteorite-list] Solar System in Perspective

2006-08-18 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:36:14 -0400, you wrote: Apologies, if this link was posted previously. Some nice, high resolution graphics and a video fly-by, relative to the on-going debate/discussion... http://www.iau2006.org/mirror/www.iau.org/iau0601/iau0601_release.html Thanks for supplying

[meteorite-list] Test Delete

2006-08-18 Thread Bob Evans
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Re: [meteorite-list] Solar System in Perspective

2006-08-18 Thread Larry Lebofsky
I think EL 61 rotates fairly rapidly and it is thought that this shape was frozen in when it was formed. This is where the actual defining of a planet gets a little fuzzy and where I start having problems with, if not the definition, how do you determine what is and what is not a planet. The

[meteorite-list] Mars Exploration Rovers Update - August 18, 2006

2006-08-18 Thread Ron Baalke
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html SPIRIT UPDATE: Spirit Checking 'Korolev' - sol 929-932, August 18, 2006: Spirit is healthy and continues to make progress on its winter science campaign. Spirit is finishing the McMurdo mega-panorama by acquiring touch-up images (dubbed grout

[meteorite-list] SMART-1 On The Trail Of The Moon's Beginnings

2006-08-18 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM1RHBUQPE_index_0.html SMART-1 on the trail of the Moon's beginnings European Space Agency 18 August 2006 The D-CIXS instrument on ESA's Moon mission SMART-1 has produced the first detection from orbit of calcium on the lunar surface. By doing this, the instrument

Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Get Demoted After All

2006-08-18 Thread MexicoDoug
Hi Sterling, you really don't have to disagree with me because you have edited an old message of mine to the point of completely changing its meaning - with a new meaning I disagree with as well.. Here's what I said: The IAU Committee has utterly failed by not including a committee member of the

Re: [meteorite-list] Solar System in Perspective

2006-08-18 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Pete, I second those thanks! These are new pages for the IAU site. They weren't there in the wee morning hours before last when I was trying to find a mention of Proposal V on the website -- there weren't NONE! About 2003EL61, Darren. Despite the iceball myth about KBO's,

Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Get Demoted After All

2006-08-18 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Doug, List I apologize. I did not take your meaning correctly. I mis-read it to suggest the absence of historians when you were characterizing them as members and suggesting the addition of another relevant field. Excuse me now, while I remove the upper cover seals from my brain case

Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Get Demoted After All

2006-08-18 Thread MexicoDoug
Darren wrote: BBC interview with the woman/former girl who named Pluto that I ran across. Doug had written: further I trust you. If you happen to have the British girl's email address sure I'll send a message to further vindicate you and Darren. Hi Darren, if the woman formerly known as the

[meteorite-list] Thanks Mike

2006-08-18 Thread Meteorite Game
Thanks Mike for your comment and adventures:)Cordially,Rick __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list

[meteorite-list] The Denver Show

2006-08-18 Thread Impactika
Hello everybody, I finally got it done! The Denver Show is less than a month away, and I finally posted a page about it on my website, go look: http://www.impactika.com/shownews.htm There are several links on that page, they will take you to additional pages with maps and details

[meteorite-list] Re: The Denver Show

2006-08-18 Thread Notkin
Anne posted: The Denver Show is less than a month away Dear Anne: Are you going to beat up the manager of La Loma restaurant again this year? That was definitely the highlight of the 2005 show : ) Geoff N. www.aerolite.org __ Meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Get Demoted After All

2006-08-18 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi all - Sterling, I want to arise in defense of Rob Roy Britt. --- Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second: you'll notice that much of the coverage of the planet definition controversy is coming out of Space.com. In searching up articles, I have become aware that Space.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: The Denver Show

2006-08-18 Thread Impactika
In a message dated 8/18/2006 7:06:12 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anne posted: The Denver Show is less than a month away Dear Anne: Are you going to beat up the manager of La Loma restaurant again this year? That was definitely the highlight of the 2005 show :

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: The Denver Show

2006-08-18 Thread batkol
it was fun to watch . . . : ) susan - Original Message - From: Notkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 8:05 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Re: The Denver Show Anne posted: The Denver Show is less than a month

[meteorite-list] Re: The Denver Show

2006-08-18 Thread Notkin
Anne posted: Will you help?:-) Well, I think Fred Hall and Mike Jensen had to hold me back during the '05 show : ) I had a nice conversation with him, and he promised that everything would perfect, that we could have anything we wanted. That's what he said last year! For

[meteorite-list] Micromounts; craters; SL9 impact movie

2006-08-18 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi all - I few thoughts in the night. On micromounts, I seem to rememeber that several years ago someone had assembled a box set, with a wide assortment of meteorites (about $400 at the time)... I also remembered that Nininger produced a book which had a canyon diablo in a plastic bubble... I

Re: [meteorite-list] Micromounts.

2006-08-18 Thread Kirk Jenks
Hi All, I agreeI like putting together smaller pieces of the rare meteorites.because they look nice all together on display.and simply because its hard for me to afford the larger pieces. This way.I get a variety of many different types.some being extremely rare, like

Re: [meteorite-list] Micromounts; craters; SL9 impact movie

2006-08-18 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:04:01 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: Second,would someone put together an internet list of craters with with Google Earth/ and or Microsoft Earth links? add age, and leave a column for impactor type, which you can fill in with unknown for most of them right now. Here's a start:

Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Get Demoted After All

2006-08-18 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, E.P. I can go with lively! It is a very real controversy. Ah hah - we get to the root of the problem - you're JEALOUS of Britt! Yes, I threw in that remark to expose my own baser motives. Since I've talking about everybody else's ulterior motives, it's only fair I print an expose

Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Get Demoted After All

2006-08-18 Thread Larry Lebofsky
As long as Rob Britt quotes me correctly and not out of context, I am happy to be worked by him. By the way, there are a good number of real astronomers who are making very strong comments about this resolution. I am not sure that I have ever seen so many egos coming out (I trust me and thee

Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Get Demoted After All

2006-08-18 Thread Larry Lebofsky
Hi Doug: I never thought that I would admit to agreeing completely with Sterling (just kidding), but I am. I have googled Kripke's credentials and I do not see how he would add anything to the committee. As I said before and I will say again, a lot of thought went into the formation of this

Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Get Demoted After All

2006-08-18 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:37:34 -0700, you wrote: history community. These are people who know the issues, who know the science (the words and concepts are far from arbitrary), I realized something tonight that I knew but for some reason, it hadn't stuck me before: the word pluton already has a