Re: [meteorite-list] Sorry, Martian find raises no chance of whiskey, Dr. Death

2006-12-07 Thread E.P. Grondine
--- doctor death [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We know so little about Mars how do we know that this wasn't wasn't whiskey flowing freely? That's easy. The water in the whiskey would evaporate at Mars pressure-temps, and I think that the alcohol might as well, for that matter. Now if you have a

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireball report from this morning in Utah

2006-12-07 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi all - There's that green color again. last time it was lime green. He probably saw something, but which direction he saw it fall is another question. good hunting, Ed --- Chris Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No reports here. When you are 9 miles south of Mesquite on I15 you are

Re: [meteorite-list] 100 year old meteorite story from Sweden

2006-12-07 Thread chris aubeck
Hi list, I was just wondering whether, more than a year on, anyone had come across this story about a meteorite with fossilized remains inside. I have an ongoing project to collect these stories, and any weirder ones that emerge! Best wishes, Chris

[meteorite-list] Meteorite's mystery puts Bruce between a rock and a hard place.

2006-12-07 Thread chris aubeck
I have no url for this article but I thought I'd share it here just in case it interested anyone. Chris From the Central Northern Burnett Times, 9.11.06 Meteorite's mystery puts Bruce between a rock and a hard place. Bruce Jamieson has brought to the attention of the Central Northern

Re: [meteorite-list] Martian Find Raises Chances of Life

2006-12-07 Thread mark ford
Well, reading between the sensationalist headlines, it could very well be liquid co2 or even just dust, they don't know, - (but as usual people seem to be staring past the other options in favour of 'here's water therefore there's life' ). Not true - water does not mean there is life. Water

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[meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - December 07, 2006

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Re: [meteorite-list] Martian Find Raises Chances of Life

2006-12-07 Thread mark ford
Yes, agreed naturally, and I am not saying there possibly isn't life out there, and we should be interested in Mars absolutley, BUT - caution, a few wet streaks down a hillside is a million miles away from there being alien life forms on mars. I bet there are planets out there in space with

Re: [meteorite-list] Martian Find Raises Chances of Life

2006-12-07 Thread Pete Pete
on earth it took billions of years and a lot of near perfect environmental factors, to even start it Hi, Mark, Actually, it only took life one billion years to sprout, and under very hostile and poisonous conditions! Life seems to be unstoppable!

Re: [meteorite-list] Martian Find Raises Chances of Life

2006-12-07 Thread mark ford
Life seems to be unstoppable! Yes it is unstoppable, but the question is how 'un-startable' is it?! -Original Message- From: Pete Pete [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 December 2006 14:33 To: mark ford; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Martian

Re: [meteorite-list] Martian Find Raises Chances of Life

2006-12-07 Thread Ingo Herkstroeter
Hi List! Mark wrote: Life seems to be unstoppable! Yes it is unstoppable, but the question is how 'un-startable' is it?! A theory says that: Also if the Earth will hit by a big asteroid and tears into pieces/asteroids (forming a new asteroid belt), you still will find life on these asteroids.

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireball report from this morning in Utah

2006-12-07 Thread Chris Peterson
Color perception varies considerably between people (just ask who sees color in stars and who doesn't). About a third of people report no color in fireballs; most of the rest see some variation of green, ranging from pale lime to bluish. This is probably caused by the 558 nm forbidden oxygen

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireball report from this morning in Utah

2006-12-07 Thread E.P. Grondine
HI Chris - --- Chris Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: most of the rest see some variation of green, ranging from pale lime to bluish. This is probably caused by the 558 nm forbidden oxygen emission line, mixed to varying degrees with a white thermal emission. What is this? I remember

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Re: [meteorite-list] Fireball report from this morning in Utah

2006-12-07 Thread Chris Peterson
Ed- Reentering objects are responsible for only a tiny fraction of fireballs- well under 1% based on my empirical data. I think Marco has looked at this, too... he might have better numbers. In any case, while you certainly might have seen space junk, natural meteors are much more likely.

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2006-12-07 Thread Paul Harris
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[meteorite-list] Fusion Crust on Irons

2006-12-07 Thread Mike Fowler
Hi Jason, Thanks for your thorough and I might say persuasive commentary on fusion crusted irons. I did note one possible discordant data. Campo del Cielo is an approximately 5000 year old fall and Nantan is 500 years old. Is the Nantan region so much worse (wetter?) that no fusion

[meteorite-list] Geology Professor Speaks on Meteorites

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Baalke
http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/62267 Geology Professor Speaks on Meteorites By Virginia Stratford BYU News Net (Utah) December 6, 2006 Meteorites are no longer just rocks falling from the sky; they are small morsels of phenomena wedged in Antarctic ice, patiently waiting to be studied by

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 28

2006-12-07 Thread VisualThinker7
In a message dated 12/7/2006 12:02:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Reentering space junk is slow, and is usually reported as green. Chris I'm guessing that 'space junk' is slower because it was in orbit, and as the orbit decayed it entered the atmosphere as a

[meteorite-list] Elsevier Launches New Journal with the National Institute of Polar Research

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authored_newsitem.cws_home/companynews05_00576 Elsevier Launches New Journal with the National Institute of Polar Research December 7, 2006 Amsterdam, - Elsevier, in partnership with the National Institute of Polar Research, proudly announce the 2007 launch of a

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 28

2006-12-07 Thread Chris Peterson
Objects in orbit around the Earth reenter close to Earth's escape velocity, which sets the lower limit for anything entering our atmosphere (the upper limit is set by the escape velocity of the Sun at the Earth- it's unlikely that anything we encounter would be faster than that). And for the

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 28

2006-12-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Visual, Chris, List For the benefit of Listees following the question of how slow a meteoroid can be... The orbital velocity for any body is maximally the escape velocity divided by the square root of 2, or 70.707070707...%. Can we just call that 71%? Escape velocity is 11,263.04

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 28

2006-12-07 Thread Chris Peterson
Comet Tempel-Tuttle, the parent body of the Leonids, is in a low-inclination, retrograde orbit. We encounter the debris at 71 km/s, and our own orbital speed is 29.6 km/s. Subtract that out and you get the orbital speed for Leonid meteoroids: ~41.4 km/s. The solar escape velocity at the Earth

Re: [meteorite-list] Future Dimming for Arecibo Telescope (Asteroid 99942 Apophis)

2006-12-07 Thread Jeff Kuyken
Hi Ron all, Below: The telescope is so prized that astronomers let out a collective shudder in November when a review panel recommended the U.S. cut 25 percent of the observatory's $10.5 million astronomy budget next year and consider eliminating it entirely at the end of the decade. From the

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 28

2006-12-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, All, Chris said: I don't know if anybody has worked out the likelihood of that happening- very, very rare... I called my oddsmaker in Vegas (or was it Vega), and here's what he said... The problem is essentially the same as the likelihood of being smacked by a one-time long period