Re: [meteorite-list] Happy Birthdays!

2006-03-21 Thread Alexander Seidel
Happy birthday Dirk Ross **AND** Happy birthday Martin Altmann!!! A good day to be born at the turn of the season. Sunshine is back in Berlin after a long and cold winter, Alex Our man in Far East is bringing the spring! May his countenance stay free of shock veines also for the next 3

[meteorite-list] Stardust Part II: Deep Impact Comet Revisited?

2006-03-21 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn8874-stardust-part-ii-deep-impact-comet-revisited.html Stardust Part II: Deep Impact comet revisited? Maggie McKee New Scientist 21 March 2006 NASA's Stardust spacecraft, which recently returned samples from Comet Wild 2, could be called back into

Re: [meteorite-list] AD - eBay - meteorite card set

2006-03-21 Thread Rex Evans
Yeah, whats up with that #5 card? RexDave Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,Just a word to advertise an eBay ad.http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=6615119486I have managed to cobble together another set of meteorite cards - eitherthrough singles being flogged on eBay or

AW: [meteorite-list] Happy Birthday Dirk Ross!/Happy Birthday Martin Altmann!

2006-03-21 Thread Andreas Gren
Our man in middle Europe (Munich) is passing the spring on. May his countenance stay hard as an Ureilite also for the next three lives. And may he get so much Buckleboo as he can carry. Also best birthday wishes to Mr Dirk Roos . Andi -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [meteorite-list] Earth Rocks Could Have Taken Life to Titan (doubts)

2006-03-21 Thread mark ford
Hi Mike, Well I'm not an escape velocity so take this with a pinch of salt, but when meteorite enters the atmosphere it will have a high 'cosmic velocity' not just the Earth's gravitational attraction speed, so in fact the speed of an incoming meteorite would be significantly faster than just

Re: [meteorite-list] Water fun

2006-03-21 Thread Meteoriteshow
Hi Marcin, Pete and All, Yes Marcin, many thanks for sharing those information. As I already wrote in my previous e-mail about this topic, I have tried it about three years ago and didn't mention it to the List at that time as I did not go any further in this direction... Water jet cutting is

Re: [meteorite-list] Earth Rocks Could Have Taken Life to Titan (doubts)

2006-03-21 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, List, Mike You've put your finger on many of the problems of getting a rock off a planet and launched into space. When it was first determined that Martian meteorites WERE Martian, there were choruses of no way! No impact model anticipates such ejection; none, even today, shows

Re: [meteorite-list] Water fun

2006-03-21 Thread Rob Wesel
I have one of these a few minutes from my house, never tried a thick chondrite but it goes through iron slices like butter and intricate shapes are not a problem, you could carve a gibeon into a spring if you wanted. Had a customer who wanted to trim his Hum-V with Gibeon so he sent the specs