Hello list.
What is the largest intact stony meteorite ever found (whether an entire stone
or a piece off of it), to date?
- Mel (those who know me - please welcome me to the list... I just joined a few
days ago :-) )
IMCA #2975
Mike and List,
Mike and the others still working on this potential meteorite fall, great
job! I appreciate your taking time and great expense to recover a meteorite
from the Pennsylvania meteor. Best of luck in finding a meteorite. Dirk
Ross...Tokyo
--- On Mon, 9/14/09, Mike Hankey
Hello Melanie,
The few largest stony meteorites yet found are:
1) The Jilin meteorite from China. It weighs 1,770 kg.
2) Norton County, from New Mexico, USA, which weighs 1,073 kg.
After these two, the list gets a little confused with large stones
that were found fragmented, etc. I'd have added
Dear Melanie,
Welcome to the meteorite list. Perhaps the largest stone meteorite in one
piece was an H5 chondrite, Jilin, China on March 8, 1978, 1770kgs, with a TKW
of 4,000 kg.
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2009/07/china-meteorite-news-jilin-meteorite.html
Another large
Hello fellow Meteorite Collectors,
I hope you're having a great weekend!
I listed a few meteorites on ebay and there are a few ending within the next
11 hours, on Monday afternoon. A few end over the next two days. Please have
a look.
Please have a look at my ebay seller's page by clicking
Hi Melanie,
Welcome to the list. As some others have said Jilin is the one. I always wanted
to have a piece of it and recently managed to acquire a 1650g fragment, funnily
enough only a couple of days after returning from a trip to China. You will
find some great photos on the web of the huge
Kevin, Greg, Sterling and others
As a Scot, who speaks Scots (or Lallans as it is sometimes referred to) I am
aware of the debate surrounding the status of Scots vis-à-vis English. Is it a
dialect of English, a variety of English or a separate language? As is normal
in this sort of
Welcome Mel,
Glad to see you here.
Carl
- Mel (those who know me - please welcome me to the list... I just joined a
few
days ago :-) )
IMCA #2975
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Hi Folks,
There was a mix-up with my PayPal account (involving debit card
authorizations) and now my PayPal account has a NEGATIVE balance.
This has never happened before and it is jeopardizing the status of my
PayPal account. I need to pull this account out of the negatives
fast. So, I am
Hi, Graham, Melanie, List,
Actually the photo is of the excavation of the largest
Jilin fragment. Back during the Carancas discussion of
whether the hole there was a crater or an impact pit,
I looked up all the landings of heavy pieces for some
comparisons, including Jilin. The Jilin hole is
Dear List,
Something occurred to me this afternoon after answering Melanie`s question.
The Jilin and Norton County were both from this past century. Just think about
the potential of all of the big rock still laying out in rural areas waiting
to be found. Anyone have funds? Dirk
It seems that not only do comets impact Jupiter,
they may also become moons, temporary or
permanent, of the planet.
Wonder what it would take to get a comet moon
for the Earth?
Sterling K. Webb
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Hi all -
http://www.georgehoward.net/clovis_comet_at_fall_2009_agu.htm
Would Bolden and Graver fire Weiler and Morrison gently, quietly, and politely
now, or do we have to wait longer and have it be far more brutal?
E.P. Grondine
Man and Impact in the Americas
Sterling,
it is all but impossible for the earth to acquire a comet moon due to the
orbital energies involved. Earth's gravity is much too small for this to occur.
An asteroidal moon is much more probable and has actually happened. You may
remember a few years ago when my colleague, Eric
You may remember a few years ago when my colleague, Eric Christensen
discovered 6R10DB9, which was Earth's first know Second Moon. albeit a
temporary one.
Dear Richard,
how did this turn out in the end? Did you/they find out it might have a
cross-sectional profile that, via the observed
Alexander,
there were a number of observations made, including photometry, that showed the
object was too dense to be a man-made object. I am not sure if spectral
analysis was made, but it was clear this was a natural object and not a
spacecraft or booster.
An abstract from the American
Cheers Richard, Sterling, List,
Impossible and its near variants seem less and less meaningful these
days... IMO Sterling's original question is a good one better
understood by the relative probabilities of a comet impact on Earth vs.
the comet going into orbit, rather than just considering
As I said in a previous message, wait for the qualifier!
Thanks Doug.
--
Richard Kowalski
http://fullmoonphotography.net
IMCA #1081
--- On Mon, 9/14/09, Mexicodoug mexicod...@aim.com wrote:
From: Mexicodoug mexicod...@aim.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Catch A Comet?
To:
Dear List and Katsuhito,
Great Work Congrats!!http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/
Jupiter Turned Comet Into Moon for 12 Years
National Geographic
... comet 147P/Kushida-Muramatsu and held it in orbit until 1961, according to
an international team led by Katsuhito Ohtsuka
It got a Minor Planet number 2006 RH120,
but so did J002E3, which seems to be a Saturn
booster...
That fount of all knowledge, the Wikipedia, says:
However, later analysis shows the body is not affected
by the pressures of solar radiation and must be a
dense rocky body or at least
Thanks for doing the extra research Sterling. Agreed that a rock of a more
substantial size would be more satisfying, but it is still the first second
moon known.
That was an interesting period for CSS. I picked up another close approacher
that was later shown to probably be man-made and Eric
Greetings List,
I received this a few days ago... and it's the first article I've read out of
popular newspaper (Laguna Beach, CA) where the reporter got the facts
reasonably correct.
Agree...or disagree?
http://members.cox.net/countdeiro/Crystal%20Image%20Meteorite%20Story.pdf
Count Deiro
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/details.php?id=128
MESSENGER Mission News
August 20, 2009
Upcoming Mercury Encounter Presents New Opportunities for Magnetometer
On September 29, the MESSENGER spacecraft will pass by Mercury for the
third time, flying 141.7 miles above the planet's rocky
Dear List,
I have 20 ebay auctions ending tomorrow in less than 24 hours. All of them
are still well below market value.
Those auctions include rarities like Bells, L'Aigle, Messina, Cape York,
Zaragoza and many more.
See them all here:
http://stores.shop.ebay.com/mos-meteorites__W0QQ_armrsZ1
Hi Dirk -
In 2005 the Congress instructed former NASA Administrator Griffin to establish
a detection program down to 150 meters. JPL prepared the report, as instructed.
Griffin then refused to supply it to the Congress. (Essentially it was the same
as the NRC report released about a month
Dear List Members,
I would like to take this opportunity to announce
a new meteorite referred to as The Enigma Stone. The provisional name is NWA
5743. I have no idea what the Nom Com will call this fantastic meteorite since
it contains portions
of at least 3 different achondrites,
Hi all,
I have auctions up that will be ending on Sunday night.
I have a lovely oriented Sikhote-Alin with a Sikhote-Alin Stamp - unused - mint:
Dirk Ross wrote:
Dear List and Katsuhito,
Great Work Congrats!! http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/
Jupiter Turned Comet Into Moon for 12 Years
National Geographic
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/090914-jupiter-moon-comet.html
The paper about it is:
Ohtsuka,
Hi Jason.
Well, one reason is that (being Canadian) I want to eventually collect (and
from which to take off slices or fragments for resell) most of the Canadian
meteorites (new, historic and rare). At the moment, I only have a PS of Abee
and a frag of Tagish Lake.. Also, I was put in touch
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