[meteorite-list] AD Kernouvé meteorite (3 h ours left)

2007-09-25 Thread Pelé Pierre-Marie
Hello just to remind that there's only 3 hours left to bid on the Kernouvé meteorite (14 grams) on ebay. Price is the cheapest you'll find for such a rarity ; afterwards, price will be my public price of 700 euros so that's the day to get that meteorite cheaper ! And I pay the registered

[meteorite-list] Ad some special pieces ending on ebay in hours.

2007-09-25 Thread Michael Farmer
Take time to check out the items ending this evening, some nice goodies, many still at or near one cent! What is up with ebay these days? Beautiful large piece of NWA 1941, the Blue Chondrite. http://cgi.ebay.com/_W0QQitemZ170152090815 Gorgeous partslice of DAG 476, MARTIAN meteorite.

[meteorite-list] Bolivian university planetarium reports on Peruvian meteorite impact

2007-09-25 Thread Piper R.W. Hollier
Hello list subscribers around the world, The Max Schreier Planetarium at Mayor San Andres University in La Paz, Bolivia posted a three-page paper (in Spanish) yesterday summarizing what is known to date about the new crater or impact pit at the edge of Carancas, Peru (estimated diameter 13 to

[meteorite-list] Andi's Recrystallized NWA iron

2007-09-25 Thread Mike Fowler
Hello Andi, Mike and List, Those interested in an iron that will be extremely difficult to classify had better hurry because Andi is almost sold out. I am pleased I will soon own #17 and I've been brooding tonight over Andi's pics and Ted Bunch's preliminary description of that one-of-a-kind

[meteorite-list] AD- New Martian Nomenclature and Ebay Auctions Ending!

2007-09-25 Thread Adam Hupe
Dear List Members, I would like to take this opportunity to announce the nomenclature for a new Martian Shergottite. For those who purchased any of this new Martian meteorite from me, the provisional number is NWA 4480. Current owners, please email me your address and I will be happy to send

[meteorite-list] Correction New Martian Nomenclature and Ebay Auctions Ending!

2007-09-25 Thread Adam Hupe
The correct number is NWA 4880 not 4480 as listed a few times in my weekly advertisement. Please note this correction. Dear List Members, I would like to take this opportunity to announce the nomenclature for a new Martian Shergottite. For those who purchased any of this new Martian

[meteorite-list] Another news piece on Holocene Start impacts

2007-09-25 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi Sterling, list - http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-09/nau-rts092407.php This time the black mats are accumulators for the impact debris. I also want to remind everyone here that some of the First peoples accounts of these impacts were given in my own book Man and Impact in the

Re: [meteorite-list] Andi's Recrystallized NWA iron

2007-09-25 Thread bernd . pauli
Mike Fowler wrote: I too bought one of Andi's slices. Slice #13. Sincere congratulations, Mike! Mike: Co content way too low to be a member of the IAB group Here are the %wt values of Co for some typical IAB irons: Campo de Cielo = 0.43 Ocotillo = 0.47 Uruaçu = 0.46 Zapaliname = 0.457 Bulk

[meteorite-list] MERDAT2007

2007-09-25 Thread Kevin Forbes
Hello folks, for anyone that may be interested. I have placed a beta of MERDAT software online at, http://www.qsl.net/vk3ukf/Merdat2007.html Its purpose is for use with the images from the NASA MER rovers. It produces 3D anaglyphs, colour images from various filters and data decoding from

[meteorite-list] Cali Colombia, fourth time's a charm!

2007-09-25 Thread Michael Farmer
Ok, I am in Miami on my way home from Cali Colombia AGAIN! It seems I need a second home down there to be more comfortable. While in Spain I received an email with photos of a Cali piece, a hammerstone which smashed through a rooftop in the barrio of Ciudad Cordoba, the same place where Cali #004

[meteorite-list] Dawn Is 'Go' For Asteroid Belt

2007-09-25 Thread Ron Baalke
09.25.07 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 [EMAIL PROTECTED] George Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 [EMAIL PROTECTED] DC Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-393-9011 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RELEASE: 48-07 NASA SPACECRAFT IS A 'GO' FOR ASTEROID BELT

Re: [meteorite-list] Another news piece on Holocene Start impacts

2007-09-25 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, EP, List, It's this kind of wobble that makes so many people dubious about the various and varying hypotheses advanced by Firestone Co. I put Firestone at the head of the list because he has been the chief driving force behind all this, to his credit. Over twenty years ago, he

Re: [meteorite-list] Another news piece on Holocene Start impacts

2007-09-25 Thread Jerry
...a lot like urban renewal Stupendous analogy as always. Jerry Flaherty - Original Message - From: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: E.P. Grondine [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 6:06 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list]

Re: [meteorite-list] Another news piece on Holocene Start impacts

2007-09-25 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi Sterling - As always, thoughtful comment. My first guess - Your supernova elements (10Be etc.) were likely incorporated into the comet. My next guess - specifically, Comet Encke. My next guess - Comet Encke fractioned while performing a plane change near the Sun shortly before 10,900 BCE.

[meteorite-list] MIT Tether Could Aid Asteroid Missions

2007-09-25 Thread Ron Baalke
MIT tether could aid asteroid missions For Immediate Release TUESDAY, SEP. 25, 2007 Contact: Elizabeth A. Thomson, MIT News Office 1-617-258-5402 [EMAIL PROTECTED] CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-Using a tether system devised by MIT researchers, astronauts could one day stroll across the surface of small

[meteorite-list] Extraterrestrial Impact Likely Source of Sudden Ice Age Extinctions

2007-09-25 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2007-08/07-040.html September 24, 2007 Contact: Wendy Lawton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (401) 863-2476 Extraterrestrial Impact Likely Source of Sudden Ice Age Extinctions What killed the wooly mammoths? An international team of scientists,

Re: [meteorite-list] Another news piece on Holocene Start impacts

2007-09-25 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, The problem is that nobody thinks comets were recently formed. Instead, they are seen as preserving an ancient primordial composition, from long enough ago that supernova isotopes would have long decayed away, no matter how long-lived. A dust density high enough to coat comets with

[meteorite-list] FW: 30% Off and Auctions Ending in less than 24 hours!

2007-09-25 Thread michael cottingham
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