Hi, List
Dirk's suggestion of close aerial stereo pairs is the
best suggestion in a while. It would not only permit
measurements of the crater but it would map the
ejecta blanket, the symmetry (or asymmetry) of
which is an important datum.
The impact excavated about 350+ cu. meters of soil and
Another heads-up with regard to the ISS:
A breathtaking image by Jerry Lodriguss in S T, Nov 2007, pp. 14-15:
The ISS passing in front of the sun's disk and close to a sunspot
group at the solar limb. Beautiful, so very beautiful !!!
Bernd
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Hello list
Some of you may be interested in a few auctions I currently have running
on ebay ending in the next few hours.
SAU 001 --75gram individual with lots of fine flowlines
still at about $2
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=320164652565
16 gram block cut of
Listoids
Mini update
http://www.qmig.org just to keep MB happy...
Serendipitous (big word for the day) conversation today - snaffle a bunch of
new small chondrites from Winton next Sunday
Can't help but comment that it is great to get new finds in a less
sensational way than some of the
---note: addresses of sent-to stripped (attached to
bottom of this posting)resending to metlist (was
sent to Peruvian, US, Canadian, and Chilean impact
specialists and metlist (metlist bounce)-SORRY!
Dear DRs., Sterling, and List Members,
I apologize in advance for mailing several of
Dear Charlie,
Thank you for your efforts! Hopefully with some
encouragement they will act soon. It is to the benefit
of the local peoples, Peru, science and the rest of us
that care!
Best Regards, Dirk...Tokyo
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Michael and Michael;
One picture says a thousand words,but this one may say more than one
thousand.Thanks for sharing.
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Hello Everyone,
My apologies if this has been posted before but here is a neat movie of a
coronal mass ejection ripping of the tail of comet Encke.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071003.html
-Walter Branch
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Betreff: [meteorite-list] THE CARANCAS PERU METEOROID IMPACT CALCULATIONS
Hi Sterling,
The north portion of the rim is higher than
I am not a scientist, nor do I pretend to be, I just
know the facts on the ground. EVERY witness said the
meteorite came from the North, and the raised rim at
the crater is on the north side.
mike
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http://www.andina.com.pe/NoticiaDetalle.aspx?id=144595
Below is my translation.
Lima, Oct 7.
In on emonth it will be possible to determine where
the meteorite which fell on the community of Carancas
, in the Puno district, during the middle of
September, came from, estimated the president of
Hi all -
Simply go down into the crater and wade through the
water, (considering the sewage, in hip boots or a
skin divers suit) carrying an underwater metal
detector.
If a main mass or multiple large fragments are buried
underneat, they should show up. THEN drasin the
crater, photograph it,
Hi,
I agree. The trouble is convincing the locals that in the long term it
will not attract that many tourists...especially when the crater
disappears in a few months time. The crater should have been documented
as lots have others have said and then all efforts made to try and
extract
Hi all,
Just found out where Mike, Moritz and Rob should have been looking for
the Carancas pieces. Apparently, after the police spread the story of
the meteorite possibly being dangerous...(or whoever that was) in order
to get pieces given to them by the locals. Most of them got scared
Hi List,
After finally getting home from our trip to Carancas I have had time to work
up all the emails I have received.
I finally also managed to add some new ebay auctions.
- etched partslice of Cape York
- partslice of Dar al Gani 400 (ALUN-A)
- nice fragment with crust of Mocs
- a slice with
In that case you would have to search the streets in that place since I
recall that the streets and backyards and the river bed were mostly being
used as the local dump. Sad to see something like that but it is true.
See here:
http://www.m3t3orites.com/meteorites/img/carancas/carancas01.jpg
Hi, Dirk, List,
It appears from some of the news stories that
the Geophysics Institute of Peru (IGP), whose
name is sometimes given as the Instituto Astrofisica
of Peru, and its president Ronald Woodman, is
competing with INGEMMET to be the agency
to control the investigation and excavate the
little video at the end of the story:
http://spacefiles.blogspot.com/2007/10/carancas-meteorite-peru.html
Stefan
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Mike,
They'd be TINY, one millimeter or less with a
rare 2-3 millimeter one once in a while. You couldn't
really search for them visually unless they had an
odd color (which happens). Take some specimen
jars with you, scoop up a small amount of powder,
ejecta, without digging into the ground
Hi, Jan, List,
I wish email allowed one to scribble little pencil
diagrams with arrows and pointers in the margin!
Then this would be so much easier!
A heightened rim on one side can result from two
different situations. One would be if the impactor
came in a low angle from the south,
The INGEMMET report at:
http://www.ingemmet.gob.pe/paginas/pl01_quienes_somos.aspx?opcion=320
contains photos of four of the meteorites and
three thin section photos, two of them polarized.
Text in English. People who understand thin
sections (not me) are invited to comment in
reply, please.
This is a reminder for those interested and positioned at around 40deg. N
lat and 70deg. W long
Jerry Flaherty
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 5:10 PM
Subject: International Spacestation Flyover
Oct 6, 2007 : Space
Sterling wrote:
People who understand thin sections are invited to comment in reply
Hi Sterling and List,
Unfortunately these thin section pics are very low-resolution so it is hard
to judge from these low-quality pictures. But let's try and others, like John
Kashuba, are invited to chime in.
Thanks, Bernd,
The video in the link Stefan Brandes supplied:
http://spacefiles.blogspot.com/2007/10/carancas-meteorite-peru.html
shows a local resident holding a meteorite' under a
magnifying glass -- a perfect grey metal sphere like
a ball bearing -- so we know it contained free metal
in
Hello again,
Please, take a close look (and enlarge if possible) Mike Farmer's picture
(page 3, first picture) of the pieces he collected or acquired. Right below
the largest fragment that weighs approximately 38 grams (according to
Mike's own comment), there are three relatively large pieces in
On 07 Oct 2007 21:47:22 UT, you wrote:
Hello again,
Please, take a close look (and enlarge if possible) Mike Farmer's picture
(page 3, first picture) of the pieces he collected or acquired. Right below
the largest fragment that weighs approximately 38 grams (according to
Mike's own comment),
If you mean this one:
http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/peruspeck.jpg
I've already asked Mike about it, and he says that it
is the metallic nodule that he found (and not for sale).
Yes, this one! Thanks for the info, Darren!
Bernd
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Back on Oct. 3, Elton (Mr EMan) posted
saying that the shock veins in Carancas
were not shock veins but slickensides, and
cited his reasons for thinking so.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Dear Sirs:
I am forwarding this message that I posted on the
meteorite list and would like to ask you who to
contact in Peru to help document (with aerial
photographs) and preserve the Carancas crater.
Thank
you in advance.
Sincerely, Dirk Ross...Tokyo
--- drtanuki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear DRs., Sterling, and List Members,
I apologize in advance for mailing several of you
DRs. a message in a public forum, but this is the most
feasible means to expediently accomplish this request
(some of you may be unaware of the context of this
post; we are trying to document the recent
If a large meteorite is spinning fast, having large ruff surface area, Can
this cause the meteor to curve, when coming in contact with the atmosphere,
like a curve ball in Baseball.
Can a spinning meteor explain the difference in the Carancas meteorite
original trajectory and impact
Ok...who is the one with the sense of humour after the carancas fragment
on ebay...bidding here :-)
Made me laugh anyway.
http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidsitem=180167268481
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Although I could be wrong...member since Feb...but with no activity
whatsoever!!!
ensoramanda wrote:
Ok...who is the one with the sense of humour after the carancas
fragment on ebay...bidding here :-)
Made me laugh anyway.
http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidsitem=180167268481
Hi,
A search of the user name on eBay US
site turns up this less than detailed listing:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=3810item=300158570494
Sterling K. Webb
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From: ensoramanda
Dear Friends,
It would be fun to collect all of the pictures of the Peruvian
meteorite crater, which have been published and apply the
Photosynth photoanalysis software to them.
More about Photosynth can be found at:
http://labs.live.com/photosynth/
It stated:
Our software takes a large
Hi Sterling and List,
The INGEMMET report at:
http://www.ingemmet.gob.pe/paginas/pl01_quienes_somos.aspx?opcion=320
contains photos of four of the meteorites and
three thin section photos, two of them polarized.
Text in English. People who understand thin
sections (not me) are invited to
As to what Rob has raised--I did see several
chondrules in the photos. This looks much like the
friable L;s we have seen and contains slickensides
which would tend to make it a monomyct breccia.
However these large metal blebs are intriguing and
might make this an anomalous stone. I didn't see
Yes, it was a disgusting open sewer behind our hotel.
Any meteorite thrown in there can stay there.
Mike Farmer
--- Moritz Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In that case you would have to search the streets in
that place since I
recall that the streets and backyards and the river
bed were mostly
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