Morning Sky Watchers
Check the date of this - a bit close to 1st April for my liking
Peter Davidson
Senior Curator of Mineralogy
Natural Sciences Department
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
TEL: 0131 247 4283
E-mail: p.david...@nms.ac.uk
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Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Henbury
Contributed by: Anne Black
http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=08/13/2015
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Generally speaking, I am *extremely* suspicious about the claims of people
being hit by meteorites. That story about a man in Sweden losing an arm over it
is suspiciously similar to a Chinese woman suffering a similar fate in 1915. A
man supposedly died from one in Barbotan in 1790. Another
Research Biologist Coins Term 'Kilo-Author' For Scientific
Journal Articles. all Things Considered, August 12, 2015
http://www.npr.org/2015/08/12/431959428/research-biologist-coins-term-kilo-author-for-scientific-journal-articles
How Many Scientists Does It Take to Write a Paper?
Apparently,
At 23:50:39UTC 2015-08-12 a bright bolide appeared in Scandinavia. Not
a Perseid, but observed by many Perseid observers. It lasted 9 seconds,
bright as the full moon for about 6 seconds and peaked around -14 at 100
km distance.
It fragmented into two groups and faded in a spray. Green and
Every day is April 1, at The Onion! ;^)
Linton
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From: Peter Davidson via Meteorite-list
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 2:35 AM
To: Meteorite List (meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com)
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Geologists Unearth Fully Intact Rock
Morning Sky
NWA 780 LL6. I have 6 g; the TKW is 182 g. I need 14 grams.
NWA 781 LL6. I have 7 g; the TKW is 447 g. I need 13 grams.
NWA 782 R4. I have 4 g; the TKW is 1000 g. I need 16 grams.
NWA 784 LL5. I have 14 g; the TKW is 370 g. I need 6 grams.
NWA 786 L3.8. I have 13 g; the TKW is 374 g. I
MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
August 12, 2015
o Light-Toned Layers in Tithonium Chasma
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_041886_1755'
Approximately 800 kilometers long, Tithonium Chasma is part
of the massive Valles Marineris canyon system.
o Ridge and Talus in
August 11, 2015
MEDIA ADVISORY M15-121
Space Station Cargo Ship Departure to Air on NASA TV
NASA Television will broadcast live the departure of an unpiloted Russian
cargo spacecraft from the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, Aug.
14.
ISS Progress 58 arrived at the orbiting
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4689
Cassini to Make Last Close Flyby of Saturn Moon Dione
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
August 13, 2015
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will zip past Saturn's moon Dione on Monday,
Aug. 17 -- the final close flyby of this icy satellite during the
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4687
Rosetta Comet Outburst Captured
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
August 11, 2015
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft has been witnessing growing
activity from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as the comet approaches
perihelion (its
http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/08/11/scientists-plan-for-new-horizons-probes-second-act/
Scientists plan for New Horizons probe's second act
by Stephen Clark
Spaceflight Now
August 11, 2015
Scientists are about to decide where to send NASA's New Horizons spacecraft
next, and it is down to
Dear List Members,
I promised an update on the Giant Meteorite hunt in Northern Nevada last
June. I took thousands of images so it was hard to pick out just a few.
Most new Team LunarRock members did not want their images posted to the
internet so many great shots had to be left out. This
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