Re: [meteorite-list] Puturano

2003-11-26 Thread E.J
Timothy Finkle wrote: Hi List, snip Geologicaly speaking was this area volcanic in prehistoric times? To my recollection nothing within 700-900 miles of Dallas is volcanic. Until the quaternary it was under salt water in theGulf of Iowa Ok maybe a wee bit of a kimberlite pipe in Arkansas,

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteor crater?

2003-11-26 Thread Roman Nakonechny
Thanks Ron. I never read any books on Meteor Crater, Az. with any sort of useful, scientifically oriented to meteoritics type information. It's always, Barringer bought it, tried drilling for the mother load of Nickek-Iron, failed, it's 30-50,000yrs. old stuff and that's it. Any ideas where

Re: [meteorite-list] Invasion of the Angry Galaxy Meteorites

2003-11-26 Thread Roman Nakonechny
Unbelievable! That's various colors of dried paint , or different clays I'll bet. I would be wary of even approaching that pissed off looking intergalactic cow-patty thing.(IMCA#0583) - Roman From: Adam Hupe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [meteorite-list]

[meteorite-list] Lunar Real Estate

2003-11-26 Thread Jeff Kuyken
I heard this being advertised on the radio for Christmas presents.Are they for real?!?!?!? http://www.lunarrealty.com.au/ I might buy an acre in a couple of different spots and claim that all the lunar meteorites came from my land. You can send the royalties to.. Shessh, Jeff

[meteorite-list] New Orleans... Pt 2

2003-11-26 Thread Dave Harris
Hi, Can those individuals who expressed an interest in purchasing some New Orleans please email me again? My ISP's DNS server failed yesterday and that also dragged down my POP mail stuff as well so I may not have received emails or ones I had sent were not received!! ntl: you are a wonderful

[meteorite-list] NEW Impact craters IEJSAP`03 symposium

2003-11-26 Thread drtanuki
Dear List, The IEJSAP symposium held in Japan has finished. In a paper presented by James Whitehead, Univ. of New Brunswick, Canada, six new impact craters have been added to their database. They include: Australia- Crawford, Flaxman, Foelsche and Yarrabubba; Finland- Paasselka and Saarijarvi.

[meteorite-list] happy holiday

2003-11-26 Thread Steve Arnold, Chicago!!!
Good morning list.I just want to wish everyone a HAPPY and SAFE THANKSGIVING.I hope everyone also has a safe holiday also.My wife and I leave for KEY WEST, FLORIDA later today so we are looking forward to getting away.We will be back monday.GOOBLE GOOBLE! STEVE

Re: [meteorite-list] Seeking wooden stand for small iron meteorites

2003-11-26 Thread Michael Gallant
Thank you Anne. Looking forward to your new "A to Z" book release... no pressure but hope it's soon :>) I offer several displays but very limited in wooden bases at this time. Please have a look: http://www.migacorp.com/meteorite_display.htm Thanks, Mike Gallant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteor crater?

2003-11-26 Thread Steve Schoner
Roman, Forget searching Meteor Crater... even out to distances of more than 7 miles... Bar-T-Bar (aka Meteor Crater Enterprises)controls all of the land even at that distance. And if you do expect to be harassed, by 1) Being accosted by their "security guards" sometimes dressed like State Park

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteor crater?

2003-11-26 Thread Tom aka James Knudson
Hello List, Just to make it clear, I am the one looking for a LEGAL place to look for CD's! I was wondering if you could find fragments under the flight path of the meteor as it came in. I wanted to see if there was any BLM land under the flight path that could be hunted. I would never hunt

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteor crater?

2003-11-26 Thread Steve Schoner
Steve Schoner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom, and all. Actually, according to State BLM land policy, anyone can apply for a State specimen collecting permit that allows for the collection of 250 lbs of specimens per/yr, rocks and precious metals. But what is interesting is that the State land

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteor crater?

2003-11-26 Thread Steve Schoner
Tom, and all. Actually, according to State BLM land policy, anyone can apply for a State specimen collecting permit that allows for the collection of 250 lbs of specimens per/yr, rocks and precious metals. But what is interesting is that the State land managers will issue it for all rocks

Re: [meteorite-list] Vesta meteorite???

2003-11-26 Thread Ron Baalke
Thanks Ron!!! do you have the information of all this asteroids?? I would like to have this information, thanks a lot like orbit, names, spectra etc I have a couple of references which I'll send along. Here's one: Drake MJ: The eucrite/Vesta story METEORITICS PLANETARY SCIENCE 36

Re: [meteorite-list] Vesta meteorite???

2003-11-26 Thread Ron Baalke
CONTACT: Don Savage NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202-358-1547) Tammy Jones Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (Phone: 301-286-5566) Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute (Phone:

Re: [meteorite-list] Vesta meteorite???

2003-11-26 Thread Ron Baalke
Here's a look at Vesta's orbit: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db_shm?des=vesta Ron Baalke __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Mars Global Surveyor Images - November 20-26, 2003

2003-11-26 Thread Ron Baalke
MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES November 20-26, 2003 The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now available: o Rocks Exposed on Slope in Aram Chaos (Released 20 November 2003)

[meteorite-list] nantan

2003-11-26 Thread Tim Gingell
Please correct me if I am wrong but is this not just a tektite. Tim http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2206201663category=3239

Re: [meteorite-list] nantan

2003-11-26 Thread Sharkkb8
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please correct me if I am wrong but is this not just a tektite. Definitely a tektite. Even withdifficult photos, it's a tektite. Gregory

Re: [meteorite-list] nantan

2003-11-26 Thread DNAndrews
My guess? Indochiniteand a very expensive one at that! ;-) Tim Gingell wrote: Please correct me if I am wrong but is this not just a tektite. Tim http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2206201663category=3239

[meteorite-list] nantan

2003-11-26 Thread Tim Gingell
How can it be allowed to be sold off as something else considering it's not what it's listed as? Tim

Re: [meteorite-list] nantan

2003-11-26 Thread Roman Nakonechny
Yeseree, it's a teardrop shape INDOCHINITE. You can make out the flow lines and regmaglypts and the bright light yellow-brown color is right. I have a bunch of the different tektite shape. But $200.00 is nuts for a small one like that. The most I've ever paid for a really nice one of that size

Re: [meteorite-list] Invasion of the Angry Galaxy Meteorites

2003-11-26 Thread Deborah Martin
I took a look at the first page of his feedback; many are from the same buyer , often a few minutes apart. Andre At 09:41 PM 25/11/2003 -0800, you wrote: It looks like man made meteorites are all the rage on eBay these days, this nut has over a dozen listed with a few that even have bids on

Re: [meteorite-list] Invasion of the Angry Galaxy Meteorites

2003-11-26 Thread Marcia Swanson
Dear Adam, and List, I am not a geologist, but I have seen samples of rainbow pyrite. Looking at the close-ups of some of the Galaxy Meteorites, thats what it looks like is crumbs or cross-cuts of rainbow pyrite, which is light in weight, with darker metal mix. But he mentions the weight of his,

[meteorite-list] Moon Laser Base Proposed for Asteroid-Comet Hazard

2003-11-26 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html Moon Laser Base Proposed for Asteroid-Comet Hazard Leonard David space.com November 25, 2003 A lunar facility to mitigate the asteroid-comet hazard for the Earth has been proposed by Russian scientist, Viacheslav Ivashkin of the M.V. Keldysh

[meteorite-list] Happy Thanksgiving!

2003-11-26 Thread MARK BOSTICK
Me and my family would like to wish you are yours ahappy Thanksgiving. Thank you Art for the list. Thank you gravity for meteorites. Mark Bostick Wichita, Kansas www.metoritearticles.com

[meteorite-list] Cutting Meteorites

2003-11-26 Thread Tim Gingell
I have a few individuals that I would like to cut and I'm wondering if there are any blades that will suit Dremell drills as they are small pieces or is there anywhere in the UK that does this. Thanks Tim

[meteorite-list] Possible poisonous Lead Alert!

2003-11-26 Thread Marcia Swanson
Dear List, Upon further reflection after writtting an answer Wed. Nov.26,2003 ,post to Adam, on-list, about my suspicions that Galaxy Meteorites need to be tested for lead content and how I came to this conclusion, I'd ike to add a warning and take it a step further..hopefully, but doubtfully,

Re: [meteorite-list] nantan

2003-11-26 Thread j . divelbiss
Roman and others, This guy has it backwards. Selling a tektite as a Nantan makes no sense. You should always sell true tektites with a descriptive type name like Indochinites, and on occasion sell the Nantans as tektites...not the other way around. Selling a Nantan as a Nantan is a real

[meteorite-list] Workshop on Chondrites and the Protoplanetary Disk

2003-11-26 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/chondrites2004/ Chondrites and the Protoplanetary Disk November 8-11, 2004 Kauai, Hawaii MEETING LOCATION AND DATE The Workshop on Chondrites and the Protoplanetary Disk will be held November 8-11, 2004, at the Radisson Kaua`i Beach

Re: [meteorite-list] Moon Laser Base Proposed for Asteroid-Comet Hazard

2003-11-26 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, I would suggest to Dr. Ivashkin that more than international cooperation is necessary before some nation or nations build a laser powerful enough to destroy a small planetoid and place it on the Moon only 400,000 kilometers away, with full access to the entire surface of the Earth and

Re: [meteorite-list] Invasion of the Angry Galaxy Meteorites

2003-11-26 Thread Marcia Swanson
Dear List, Rainbow Pyrite Drusy Freeform Cabochons, general pyrite chemical formula: FeS2- making it magnetic, and lead would stick. Often used in jewlery (pendant?) making. Go to : http://www.bernardine.com/gemstones/drusy.htm Look familiar!? Good example of what Rainbow pyrrite looks like. Also