[meteorite-list] Ice Crashes Through Roof Of House In California

2003-01-23 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/news/1921402/detail.html Ice Crashes Through Roof Of House FAA Says It Could Be Blue Ice Associated Press January 21, 2003 SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- It might have seemed like the sky was falling. A large chunk of ice fell through the roof of a house in Santa

[meteorite-list] FAA Investigates Another Piece Of Mysterious Falling Ice in California

2005-09-09 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4948785/detail.html FAA Investigates Another Piece Of Mysterious Falling Ice Man Believes Ice Fell On His Home From Air Traffic Overhead NBC 4 TV News September 8, 2005 FONTANA, Calif. -- Federal air safety officials are investigating another possible case

[meteorite-list] Huge Chunk of Ice Crashes Through College Gym in Loma Linda, California

2006-04-14 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.cbs47.tv/news/state/story.aspx?content_id=AB9B11CB-870E-4222-A3CE-9A36772CBD62 Huge chunk of ice crashes through SoCal college gym Associated Press April 14, 2006 LOMA LINDA, Calif. (AP) - Somebody call Chicken Little, because the sky is falling in Loma Linda. A two-foot-long chunk

[meteorite-list] Chunks of Ice ... Cometary?

2008-07-12 Thread bernd . pauli
meteorite has ever been recovered. Although a cometary origin should be considered when and if any falling ice of extraterrestrial origin is discovered, we will concentrate on the dusty or rocky portion of comets. Best regards, Bernd __ http

[meteorite-list] Falling Ice chunk in Preston, CT

2005-03-02 Thread ks1u
I just saw a segment on WTNH TV in New Haven, CT which showed a basketball sized chunk of ice that hit and dented a roof in Preston, CT. The piece of ice was predominantly whitish with varying sizes of dirt and gravel embedded. The owner, wisely is preserving the specimen in his freezer

Re: [meteorite-list] Mysterious chunks of ice pelt Iowa town

2007-07-28 Thread Jerry
Mysterious chunks of ice pelt Iowa town Story Highlights One falling chunk of ice reportedly weighed 50 pounds No one on the ground hurt by falling chunks of ice Possible sources of ice: Airplane or a thunderstorm DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) -- Large chunks of ice, one of them reportedly about 50

Re: [meteorite-list] Mysterious chunks of ice pelt Iowa town

2007-07-28 Thread Adam Hupe
://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/27/falling.ice.ap/index.html Mysterious chunks of ice pelt Iowa town Story Highlights One falling chunk of ice reportedly weighed 50 pounds No one on the ground hurt by falling chunks of ice Possible sources of ice: Airplane or a thunderstorm DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP

Re: [meteorite-list] Falling Ice chunk in Preston, CT

2005-03-02 Thread Ron Baalke
I just saw a segment on WTNH TV in New Haven, CT which showed a basketball sized chunk of ice that hit and dented a roof in Preston, CT. The piece of ice was predominantly whitish with varying sizes of dirt and gravel embedded. The owner, wisely is preserving the specimen in his freezer

[meteorite-list] Grapefruit-Size Ice Falls On House in Seattle

2004-11-12 Thread Ron Baalke
she had never heard of the ice falling off and hitting the ground. __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Mysterious chunks of ice pelt Iowa town

2007-07-28 Thread Michael Farmer
/US/07/27/falling.ice.ap/index.html Mysterious chunks of ice pelt Iowa town Story Highlights One falling chunk of ice reportedly weighed 50 pounds No one on the ground hurt by falling chunks of ice Possible sources of ice: Airplane or a thunderstorm DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) -- Large

Re: [meteorite-list] Re Cu meteorite

2008-07-12 Thread lebofsky
Hi again: I forgot the other article in the May, 2006 issue of Meteorite: Ice Meteorites by John Saul which lists 200 years of ice falling from the sky. I am assuming that the most of the early ones do not come from the leaking toilets of planes. My mind remains open on this. Larry On Sat

Re: [meteorite-list] Mysterious chunks of ice pelt Iowa town

2007-07-28 Thread Jerry
of ice pelt Iowa town Story Highlights One falling chunk of ice reportedly weighed 50 pounds No one on the ground hurt by falling chunks of ice Possible sources of ice: Airplane or a thunderstorm DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) -- Large chunks of ice, one of them reportedly about 50 pounds, fell from the sky

[meteorite-list] Mysterious Ice Chunk Smashes Through Roof in California

2007-08-24 Thread Ron Baalke
because of the blue liquid used to flush toilets in planes. The air at the altitude airliners fly can be 50 degrees below zero, Gregor said. When the airplane descends, the ice thaws and sometimes falls off the plane, he said. Falling blue ice from airplanes is reported around the country from time

Re: [meteorite-list] Are Falling Ice Balls A Product of Global Warming?

2003-12-10 Thread Kevin Fly Hill
PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 11:32 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Are Falling Ice Balls A Product of Global Warming? http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03344/249503.stm Are falling ice balls a product of global warming? By Michael Woods Pittsburgh Post-Gazette December 10, 2003

[meteorite-list] Mysterious chunks of ice pelt Iowa town

2007-07-27 Thread Mike Groetz
There are some pretty good pictures on the CNN site. Everyone keep their head down Mike http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/27/falling.ice.ap/index.html Mysterious chunks of ice pelt Iowa town Story Highlights One falling chunk of ice reportedly weighed 50 pounds No one on the ground hurt

[meteorite-list] Tides Control Flow Of Antarctic Ice Streams

2003-08-25 Thread Ron Baalke
to rising and falling of the ocean tides. The ice streams in West Antarctica move large amounts of ice downward from the center of the glacier toward the ocean. Most of the glacier rests upon bedrock and/or rubble on land, but part of the glacier floats above the ocean. The grounding line

[meteorite-list] Ice Falling from Sky Hits House, Woman in Pennsylvania

2008-10-17 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.inyork.com/ci_10677963?source=most_emailed Icy awakening for York Township woman ELIZABETH EVANS The York Dispatch (Pennsylvania) October 9, 2008 Asleep in her bed Wednesday morning, Mary Ann Foster was rudely awakened by a UFO - an unidentified falling object. About 5:30 a.m

Re: [meteorite-list] Re Cu meteorite

2008-07-12 Thread Sterling K. Webb
sites routinely blow off questions about big chunks of ice falling from the sky as urban myths, more UFO fantasies, whacky ignorance... What? Rocks falling from the sky? Nonsense. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message

[meteorite-list] Falling Ice Lands in New Jersey

2006-05-23 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/atlantic/story/6373083p-6229253c.html Falling ice lands in Brigantine By ELAINE ROSE Press of Atlantic City May 21, 2006 BRIGANTINE -- No, it wasn't a snowstorm in May, and not even hail, when a Shipmaster Drive resident saw a block of ice fall

[meteorite-list] Giant Ice Cube Smashes Roof in England

2007-06-14 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2007/06/11/newsstory9839532t0.asp Giant ice cube smashes roof By Liz Fowler The Courier (United Kingdom) June 11, 2007 AN ANGUS couple are recovering from shock after a giant ice cube plummeted from the sky at hundreds of miles an hour and smashed

[meteorite-list] Are Falling Ice Balls A Product of Global Warming?

2003-12-10 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03344/249503.stm Are falling ice balls a product of global warming? By Michael Woods Pittsburgh Post-Gazette December 10, 2003 BARCELONA, Spain -- A Spanish-American scientific team will be scanning the United States this winter for what might be one

[meteorite-list] Mystery Ice Chunk Falls From Sky in Japan

2005-12-22 Thread Ron Baalke
, and are waiting for the ministry's response. There have been several past reports of ice falling in Chiba prefecture (state) near Tokyo's Narita International Airport, Kuwashima said. But there is no airport in Saitama, and the golf course involved on Wednesday is not known to be beneath a flight route, he

Re: [meteorite-list] Chunks of Ice ... Cometary?

2008-07-12 Thread lebofsky
and if any falling ice of extraterrestrial origin is discovered, we will concentrate on the dusty or rocky portion of comets. Best regards, Bernd __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

[meteorite-list] NP Article, 09-1955 La Paz and Ice Meteorites

2003-11-07 Thread MARK BOSTICK
abitually asked observers whether or not piece of ice or drops or water were detected falling from the sky at the time of the observed incident." Some observers have reported drops of water. But another meteoriticist, John Davis Buddhue of Pasadena, Calif., said ice discovered in California which cam

[meteorite-list] Ice Block from Sky Hits Car in UK

2006-03-25 Thread Ron Baalke
. The only way they could describe it was it was like a water balloon falling and exploding on the ground. Stephanie called the nearest airport and Harborough police, who logged the call but said there wasn't a lot they could do. The ice is believed to have fallen from a plane thousands of feet up

[meteorite-list] Ice Chunk Falls on Illinois Home

2006-03-01 Thread Ron Baalke
of him. All of the sudden, I felt all of this stuff falling on me, McGreevy said. Then, after I freaked out for a minute, I got up and there was this big cube somewhere in the front room, and a bunch of other stuff, little ice cubes. The house is located in the 13200 block of South Exchange Avenue

[meteorite-list] Large Ice Slab Lands in Oakland, California

2006-04-10 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.insidebayarea.com/timesstar/localnews/ci_3691061 Large ice slab drops on Oakland Frozen two-foot chunk from the sky digs three-foot hole in Bushrod Park By William Brand and Ian Hoffman Inside Bay Area April 9, 2006 OAKLAND - Did it come from outer space? Was it a transport vehicle

Re: [meteorite-list] 'Meteor' drop-tests, have been done?

2003-06-15 Thread Pekka Savolainen
h to break the ice. Bjurbole made a hole 4,25 meters x 3,5 meters. Think this can be also quite simply calculated and simulated, but Im not a mathematician... If you know the thickness and the structure of the ice, mass / size / angle of the falling specimen, this should not be a problem for a pr

Re: [meteorite-list] A question about Antarctica vs Alaska meteorite hunting.

2008-07-24 Thread Ruben Garcia
combination of bedrock, ice and wind to expose the meteorite fields in Antarctica. Meteorites falling into the main flow are likely lost forever.  But if it falls along the edge of the field in a side lobe-- not in the main glacial flow--there is a chance it can be exposed again.  Sometimes

[meteorite-list] Scientists Puzzle Over Ice From Sky in New Zealand

2004-01-30 Thread Ron Baalke
was unique to Spain. But they have accumulated evidence that megacryometeors are a global event and have documented ice balls falling from cloudless skies everywhere from China to the United States. They believe the 50 confirmed falls are a fraction of the actual number - most may hit unoccupied

Re: [meteorite-list] Backyard Crater in Rhode Island Spawns Questions (correc...

2005-07-13 Thread MexicoDoug
and 5-feet deep, Davidson, 57, said he doesn't believe it was caused by animals, lightning, or blue ice falling from an airplane. ...is that Davidson himself is 2-feet across and 5-feet tall, though he doesn't look that broad nor that short. Maybe they got confused with Buddy Cianci

Re: [meteorite-list] Backyard Crater in Rhode Island Spawns Questions (correc...

2005-07-13 Thread MexicoDoug
and 5-feet deep, Davidson, 57, said he doesn't believe it was caused by animals, lightning, or blue ice falling from an airplane. ...is that Davidson himself is 2-feet across and 5-feet tall, though he doesn't look that broad nor that short. Maybe they got confused with Buddy Cianci

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites, Ice and Antartica

2005-06-20 Thread Darren Garrison
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 19:15:08 -0400, Walter Branch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everyone, Has anyone read Meteorites, Ice and Antartica: A Personal Account by William Cassidy? Any personal reviews on this book? I have, and I think that everyone with an interst in meteorites should have

Re: [meteorite-list] Ice Chunk Falls on Illinois Home

2006-03-01 Thread Rob Wesel
watching a movie when a piece of the sky fell -- right on top of him. All of the sudden, I felt all of this stuff falling on me, McGreevy said. Then, after I freaked out for a minute, I got up and there was this big cube somewhere in the front room, and a bunch of other stuff, little ice cubes

Re: [meteorite-list] 'Meteor' drop-tests, have been done?

2003-06-16 Thread Bjørn Sørheim
, but I´m not a mathematician... Seems to be a bit removed from what you might see on a frozen lake some winter day.. Especially taking into account how easy it would be to do a drop-experiment. If you know the thickness and the structure of the ice, mass / size / angle of the falling specimen

[meteorite-list] Scientists Find New Evidence of 'Snowball Earth'

2005-04-07 Thread Ron Baalke
falling on a so-called Snowball Earth would have accumulated on ice sheets worldwide, including areas near the equator. When the ice melted, the iridium would have been carried by water into riverbeds and oceans, leaving unusually high concentrations of the element. Earlier estimates for the length

[meteorite-list] AI Rap about meteorites

2023-02-08 Thread Paul Gessler via Meteorite-list
eally rock the block From outer space they come, with fire and a blaze Meteorites they're called, they leave us in a daze Doja Cat: But don't you worry, they won't hit your house Most burn up in the air, before they hit the ground They're made of stone and ice, and sometimes metal too Falling to

Re: [meteorite-list] Re Cu meteorite

2008-07-12 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Meteorites by John Saul which lists 200 years of ice falling from the sky. I am assuming that the most of the early ones do not come from the leaking toilets of planes. My mind remains open on this. Larry On Sat, July 12, 2008 11:36 am, Sterling K. Webb wrote: Hi, Darren, List, Good for you; you've

Re: [meteorite-list] Mystery Sighting

2002-09-24 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, OK, I'll bite and assume it's not a practical joke. First of all, there are centuries of observations of ice falling to earth, often a contentious matter scientifically, recently often explained as frozen toilet droppings from airliners or super hailstones. But there is also

[meteorite-list] Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Observations Point to 'Dry Ice' Snowfall on Mars

2012-09-11 Thread Ron Baalke
, Calif. -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) data have given scientists the clearest evidence yet of carbon dioxide snowfalls on Mars. This reveals the only known example of carbon dioxide snow falling anywhere in our solar system. Frozen carbon dioxide, better known as dry ice, requires

Re: [meteorite-list] Hilly billy vs flat land jokes-glacial

2006-05-07 Thread Elton Jones
is that any non-iron meteorite would not have survived on the surface. The ice sheet most recent was 500-1200 ft thick over New England up towards the end, so those meteorites falling onto the ice would have not likely have reached the ground for several thousand years. Any concentrating mechanism

Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk Meteorite Falling in Dark Flight

2014-04-04 Thread Bob King
definitely not show the falling meteorite because the direction does not fit to the location of the impact hole in the ice of the lake. It's probably a bird. Graham, I've analysed the footage and could not see the mass fall. Martin Gesendet: Freitag, 04. April 2014 um 17:40 Uhr Von

[meteorite-list] Fireball Lights Up Skies Over Northern Italy, France, Switzerland

2016-02-18 Thread Ron Baalke via Meteorite-list
http://www.thelocal.it/20160218/falling-meteorite-lights-up-northern-italian-sky Falling meteorite lights up skies over northern Italy The Local 18 Feb 2016 A streaking fireball brighter than the full moon lit up skies over northern Italy on Wednesday evening. The fireball left a trail

[meteorite-list] NPA 03-1977 Meteorites Reveal Clues

2003-12-27 Thread MARK BOSTICK
new scientific information, in part because the pace rocks appear to have plunged to earth at different times. The National Science Foundation said Monday that American and Japanese scientists found the meteorites, including one of the largest on record, on patches of old, blue ice in the Trans

Re: [meteorite-list] A question about Antarctica vs Alaska meteorite hunting.

2008-07-25 Thread Rob McCafferty
makes the recovery in Antarctica is a combination of rare processes and not just glaciers catching up meteorites.   It takes a rare combination of bedrock, ice and wind to expose the meteorite fields in Antarctica. Meteorites falling into the main flow are likely lost forever

[meteorite-list] Visitor from Space?

2008-01-20 Thread Pete Pete
. Astronomer Martin Beech said he wouldn't rule out the possibility of a falling meteorite, but the marks perplexed him. To punch through ice nearly half a metre thick, the meteor would have to be huge and would look like a bright burning ball with an associated sonic boom, said Beech, who teaches

[meteorite-list] Megatherium hit by a meteorite ?

2006-11-03 Thread Pelé Pierre-Marie
did happen. This prehistoric entry involved a stony-iron meteorite and a Megatherium, an extinct giant South American sloth. The broken skeleton of this Ice Age giant was found lying on the meteorite. Although the meteorite could have fallen ages before, it would have been an amazing coincidence

[meteorite-list] Backyard Crater in Rhode Island Spawns Questions

2005-07-13 Thread Michael Fowler
? Hola Mark, List, nice catch... Based on the photo, the only interpretation that appears sensible: Investigating the hole, measuring roughly 2-feet across and 5-feet deep, Davidson, 57, said he doesn't believe it was caused by animals, lightning, or blue ice falling from an airplane

[meteorite-list] Meteorite books in PDF format from the internet :)

2013-01-19 Thread Shawn Alan
Hello Listers I have some Meteorite Books in PDF format that I found on the Internet. Here are some of the books I have in my Drop Box The Tucson Meteorite Stones from the Stars Thundrstones and Shooting Stars Find a Falling Star Meteorite, Ice, and Antarctica To name a few. The total is 20

Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk Meteorite Falling in Dark Flight

2014-04-04 Thread karmaka
Dear list members, the moving dark spot in the footage does definitely not show the falling meteorite because the direction does not fit to the location of the impact hole in the ice of the lake. It's probably a bird. Graham, I've analysed the footage and could not see the mass fall. Martin

Re: [meteorite-list] AI Rap about meteorites

2023-02-09 Thread bill kies via Meteorite-list
ore they hit the ground They're made of stone and ice, and sometimes metal too Falling to the earth, with a trail of light that's true Chorus: Meteorites, they're falling from the sky Bringing us the wonders, of the universe high They're falling all around, don't be afraid Just watch and enjoy, the

Re: [meteorite-list] NWA is Far Better Than Antarctica

2003-10-16 Thread Rafael B. Torres
in the same place with the very same material, though not all meteorites had the fortune to fall in a white place covered by ice, what I meant is that not all meteorites had the fortune of falling in a place where only scientists would fully uncover their secrets. Meteorites didnt have the choice

Re: [meteorite-list] More Than Meteorites Fall from the Sky

2016-07-30 Thread Rick Montgomery via Meteorite-list
Wait for it..All sales of blue ice falling from the sky and sky high prices are hereby suspended until -Original Message- From: MexicoDoug via Meteorite-list Sent: Friday, July 29, 2016 11:29 AM To: valpar...@aol.com ; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject

[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

[meteorite-list] Phoenix Mars Lander Does Not Phone Home, New Image Shows Damage

2010-05-24 Thread Ron Baalke
patches of the widespread deposits of underground water ice detected by Odyssey and identified a mineral called calcium carbonate that suggested occasional presence of thawed water. The lander also found soil chemistry with significant implications for life and observed falling snow

[meteorite-list] Falling stars: NEAF and meteorites

2010-03-30 Thread Greg Stanley
Looks like lots of fun and a great time for the kids. Greg S. http://cs.astronomy.com/asycs/blogs/astronomy/2010/03/30/falling-stars-neaf-and-meteorites.aspx Falling stars: NEAF and meteorites Posted 03-30-2010 by Mike Reynolds In 2009, Contributing Editor Mike Reynolds conducted a series

[meteorite-list] Falling stars: NEAF and meteorites

2010-03-30 Thread Michael Groetz
Falling stars: NEAF and meteorites http://cs.astronomy.com/asycs/blogs/astronomy/2010/03/30/falling-stars-neaf-and-meteorites.aspx Falling stars: NEAF and meteorites Posted 03-30-2010 by Mike Reynolds On April 17 and 18, the North East Astronomy Forum (NEAF) will take place at Rockland College

[meteorite-list] Save ANSMET!

2011-12-04 Thread Benjamin P. Sun
- or four-day process” that will begin Wednesday or Thursday. Scientists say meteorites bombard the Earth from all directions, falling everywhere in roughly equal proportions. But geologic forces concentrate them at the foot of Antarctica’s mountains. Giant ice sheets push against these peaks, churning

Re: [meteorite-list] NWA is Far Better Than Antarctica

2003-10-16 Thread Mark Ferguson
the fortune to fall in a white place covered by ice, what I meant is that not all meteorites had the fortune of falling in a place where only scientists would fully uncover their secrets. Meteorites didnt have the choice of choosing where to fall, nor humans as picking the house to be borned...does

Re: [meteorite-list] hot vs. cold meteorite falls

2021-03-23 Thread Steinar Midtskogen via Meteorite-list
without an atmosphere, but has a much higher albedo than the typical meteoroid. Obviously, 10 seconds or less of heating in the atmosphere will not change the core temperature much. And a couple of minutes of falling in temperatures well below freezing will cool down the melted crust. In some cases

[meteorite-list] Backyard Crater in Rhode Island Spawns Questions

2005-07-13 Thread Ron Baalke
South Woody Hill Road home's backyard. Investigating the hole, measuring roughly 2-feet across and 5-feet deep, Davidson, 57, said he doesn't believe it was caused by animals, lightning, or blue ice falling from an airplane. Citing reports of a meteor shower that night, he said he believes a golf ball

[meteorite-list] Tunguska Meteorite Fragments Must Be in a Different Place

2002-10-31 Thread Ron Baalke
. Calculations have revealed that total amount of heat necessary to turn 1 kg of meteorite ice into decomposition products (warming of ice, ice melting, water heating, water evaporation, heating of the steam, and decomposition of water vapor) is about 30.000 kilojoule per one kilogram. The quantity

[meteorite-list] Utah Bowled Over By Meteor Plan

2003-01-26 Thread Ron Baalke
a new environmental threat: bowling balls from outer space. In a milestone of scientific eccentricity, local astronomers have announced that they want to simulate the behaviour of falling meteorites by dropping bowling balls from aircraft - though the plan has gone down like a lead spaceship

Re: [meteorite-list] Russian Scientists Find Crater inMeteorite-Hit Lake

2013-03-22 Thread Steve Dunklee
Duh? As I have been saying all along the impact from behind of a second object caused the detonation and also deflected the main mass causing it to fall 10 meters or 16.5 degrees away from its expected trajectory. Meteorites unless deflected will land falling nearly perpendicular to the earths

Re: [meteorite-list] Nininger Moment (Nininger questions)

2003-12-15 Thread Dan Wray
Doug, Kevin and all, Allende fellFebruary 8,1969 and Nininger's book "Find a Falling Star" was published in 1972. I find no reference to Allende in the index. The book may have been finished by the time of the fall or at a stage with the publisher that precluded any changes.

[meteorite-list] Researchers Find Possible Precursors To Early Life On Earth In Tagish Lake Meteorite

2002-12-12 Thread Ron Baalke
, this type of meteorite has been falling onto Earth throughout its entire history, then the Earth was provided with these hydrocarbon globules at the same time life was first forming here, Zolensky said. We were exceedingly fortunate that this particular meteorite was so large that some pieces survived

Re: [meteorite-list] Velocity a meteorite hits the ground?

2009-04-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, The speed at which an object reaches the ground depends on the distance it has fallen, balanced by the retardation of air resistance. A smooth, pointed projectile falling from 42,000 feet will achieve a terminal velocity of about 900 mph, while an irregular floppy object like a man without

[meteorite-list] Astronomers spot meteor streaking across central Ontario sky

2008-03-07 Thread Darren Garrison
office in London, Ont. We have something like 800 (or) 900 meteors in our database. This is certainly the largest we've seen so far. In that sense, it's very rare. Meteors, often called shooting stars or falling stars, appear when particles or chunks of metallic or stony matter enter Earth's

Re: [meteorite-list] Russian Scientists Find Crater inMeteorite-Hit Lake

2013-03-22 Thread Steve Dunklee
oops almost forgot! If the frontal pressure exceeds tensile strength it causes the entire object to vaporise. meaning there would be nothing less than dust left of the meteorite. and nothing left to make a hole in the ice. Cheers Steve --- On Fri, 3/22/13, Steve Dunklee steve.dunk...@yahoo.com

[meteorite-list] NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander to Begin Rasping Frozen Layer

2008-07-15 Thread Ron Baalke
in gathering sample shavings of ice. The lander has used its arm in recent days to clear away loose soil from a subsurface layer of hard-frozen material and create a large enough area to use the motorized rasp in a trench informally named Snow White. The Phoenix team prepared commands early Tuesday

Re: [meteorite-list] Submerged Meteorites - Methods of Retrieval

2010-02-15 Thread Meteorites USA
a trawler that found a rather large chondrite meteorite in their net. The cool thing was that it was in great shape. Deterioration of meteorites in salt water may happen slower than most people think. From what I've read about Antarctica meteorites have been falling into the ocean as the glaciers

Re: [meteorite-list] NEOs, Tsunami, Meteors, Comets, Astronomy, ice falling ......and insanity

2006-11-06 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi Dirk - Oh yeah. Eric Julien. Popular delusions and the madness of crowds. He claimed a vision of an impact, thus appealing to the late night radio psychic phenomenon crowd. He claimed that next aliens came to visit him, appealing to late night radio the alien vistation crowd. He claimed

Re: [meteorite-list] Backyard Crater in Rhode Island Spawns Questions(correc...

2005-07-13 Thread Walter Branch
? Hola Mark, List, nice catch... Based on the photo, the only interpretation that appears sensible: Investigating the hole, measuring roughly 2-feet across and 5-feet deep, Davidson, 57, said he doesn't believe it was caused by animals, lightning, or blue ice falling from an airplane

[meteorite-list] More on the lights and damage in UK

2009-01-08 Thread ensoramanda
possible theories to explain the unique incident. These included lightning, ice falling from an aircraft and material fatigue. Dorothy Willows, who lives near the town of Louth where the incident took place, told the Sun: The lights were moving across the sky towards the wind farm. Then I saw

Re: [meteorite-list] More on the lights and damage in UK

2009-01-08 Thread al mitterling
theories to explain the unique incident. These included lightning, ice falling from an aircraft and material fatigue. Dorothy Willows, who lives near the town of Louth where the incident took place, told the Sun: The lights were moving across the sky towards the wind farm. Then I saw a low

Re: [meteorite-list] NASA NEO funding /Impact Energy.. was comet fragment impact

2009-01-12 Thread Mr EMan
I fear that the Religion of Man-made-Global-Warming-Al-Gore-Sky-is-Falling-Truth(sic) and its failures to even get the direction of change right, has made enough of Joe Public deer-in-the-headlight skeptical regarding estimates for soft specifics. That unknown could be the unknown

[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - May 22, 2013

2013-05-23 Thread Ron Baalke
MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES May 22, 2013 o Ice in a Chlorite-Bearing Escarpment in Northwest Hellas http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_027758_1530 The image was captured at the beginning of southern spring, at a time period when south-facing escarpments still retain

[meteorite-list] Attempts to Retrieve Meteorite Pieces from Lake Chebarkul

2013-08-14 Thread Ron Baalke
, of the geography department of Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University, said: 'We have established jointly with researchers from the Charles University in Prague that after falling into the lake the meteorite struck against the ice from below and only then sank. 'It is not ruled out that it might have

[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images: July 11, 2012

2012-07-12 Thread Ron Baalke
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_027378_2540 These dunes, known as barchan dunes, usually form where there is a moderate supply of sand and a prevailing wind direction. o Polar Cliffs and Falling Blocks http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_027451_2635 There is an ice sheet

[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - October 17, 2012

2012-10-17 Thread Ron Baalke
an impact crater on the northeast rim of Hellas basin, with excellent exposures of bedrock layers. o Lobate Flow Features East of Hellas Region http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_029035_1455 These features are considered to be a depositional sink for water ice-rich deposits falling from

[meteorite-list] Hole in Red Rock Lounge Roof Still a Mystery

2010-01-04 Thread Michael Groetz
http://www.krdo.com/Global/story.asp?S=11755241 Hole in Red Rock Lounge Roof Still a Mystery By: Stacey Kaiser s.kai...@krdotv.com Follow me on Twitter at www.twitter.com/staceykaiser COLORADO SPRINGS - Was it lightning, some sort of space rock, or ice from a plane? Fire investigators cannot

Re: [meteorite-list] Hamburg H4 organics?

2020-10-30 Thread Michael Gilmer via Meteorite-list
Hi Kevin, Bernd, and List, How common is it for ordinary chondrites to contain high levels of organic compounds? Best regards, MikeG -- --- Galactic Stone & Ironworks : www.galactic-stone.com Meteorites, Ice Age Fos

[meteorite-list] Phoenix Mars Lander Sees Falling Snow, Soil Data Suggest Liquid Past

2008-09-29 Thread Ron Baalke
] RELEASE: 08-246 NASA MARS LANDER SEES FALLING SNOW, SOIL DATA SUGGEST LIQUID PAST WASHINGTON -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds. Spacecraft soil tests experiments also have provided evidence of past interaction between minerals and liquid water

[meteorite-list] Liquid Saltwater is Likely Present on Mars, New Analysis Shows (Phoenix)

2009-03-17 Thread Ron Baalke
. This discovery has important implications to many areas of planetary exploration, including the habitability of Mars. Renno will present these findings March 23 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston. Previously, scientists believed that water existed on Mars only as ice or water vapor

[meteorite-list] Ice Diary 1: Shooting Stars On Ice

2003-02-19 Thread Ron Baalke
chunks of falling glacial ice. At one point, Jaime disappeared into the crevasse on purpose, forcing his team to orchestrate a rescue. I couldn't stop laughing because he looked so funny going over the edge. It was getting pretty late, but it was such a nice evening (and the sun never sets during

Re: [meteorite-list] Nininger Moment (Nininger questions)

2003-12-15 Thread MexicoDoug
Pasamonte falling on film), but not the photo itself...One kind listmember pointed out to me it was apparently in a later editionm of the book... Thanks...and the questions are still open! Saludos Doug Dawn Mexico En un mensaje con fecha 12/15/2003 10:03:02 AM Mexico Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Minerals Hint at Earth Extinctions, Climate Change

2013-09-14 Thread Ron Baalke
the geological evidence needed to show how rocks falling from the sky often changed the course of life's evolution on Earth. A huge asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may not have been the only cosmic event to cause mass extinctions or change Earth's climate. Tiny minerals leftover from many smaller

[meteorite-list] A Meteor's Protective Bubbles? (Tagish Lake Meteorite)

2003-03-03 Thread Ron Baalke
the early solar system. The largest piece recovered weighed about a half a pound (200 grams) and a total of 2 pounds have been recovered (~1 kg). If, as we suspect, this type of meteorite has been falling onto Earth throughout its entire history, then the Earth was provided with these hydrocarbon

[meteorite-list] Spiky Probe on Phoenix Raises Vapor Quandary

2008-09-04 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-171 Spiky Probe on NASA Mars Lander Raises Vapor Quandary Jet Propulsion Laboratory September 04, 2008 TUCSON, Ariz. -- A fork-like conductivity probe has sensed humidity rising and falling beside NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, but when stuck

RE: [meteorite-list] Backyard Crater in Rhode Island Spawns Questions

2005-07-14 Thread harlan trammell
could be the impact of a meteorite - in his South WoodyHill Road home's backyard.Investigating the hole, measuring roughly 2-feet across and 5-feet deep,Davidson, 57, said he doesn't believe it was caused by animals,lightning, or "blue ice" falling from an airplane.Citing reports of a met

RE: [meteorite-list] Backyard Crater X

2005-07-14 Thread harlan trammell
could be the impact of a meteorite - in his South WoodyHill Road home's backyard.Investigating the hole, measuring roughly 2-feet across and 5-feet deep,Davidson, 57, said he doesn't believe it was caused by animals,lightning, or "blue ice" falling from an airplane.Citing reports of a met

Re: [meteorite-list] PF fall duration

2003-06-06 Thread Pekka Savolainen
snow just after the bolide, and the potential strewn-field was mainly on ice, so it was quite hopeless to find anything, but this was a very interresting case, and think we are next time much wiser...;- Some translations; - korkeus = altitude - aika = time - tuulen suunta = wind The graphics may

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Hits 14 Year Old Girl? Boy?

2009-06-11 Thread Meteorites USA
--- Another site reports: SPACE ATTACK Girl hit by stone from sky SPACE ATTACK. The girl shows the spot where the stone fell. A girl from Essen, Germany has been hit by a stone falling from the sky. The 14-year old said: “I was on my way to school. I saw

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Hits 14 Year Old Girl? Boy?

2009-06-11 Thread Meteorites USA
--- Another site reports: SPACE ATTACK Girl hit by stone from sky SPACE ATTACK. The girl shows the spot where the stone fell. A girl from Essen, Germany has been hit by a stone falling from the sky. The 14-year old said: “I was on my way to school. I saw a white

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Hits 14 Year Old Girl? Boy?

2009-06-11 Thread Michael Fowler
--- Another site reports: SPACE ATTACK Girl hit by stone from sky SPACE ATTACK. The girl shows the spot where the stone fell. A girl from Essen, Germany has been hit by a stone falling from the sky. The 14-year old said: “I was on my way to school. I

Re: [meteorite-list] Cali chondrite fell extremely cold!

2007-07-29 Thread Robert Woolard
Mike, Al, etc., With the assumed-evidence of frost forming on some freshly observed falls, and the seemingly logical assumption behind the physics of heat-transfer-rates vs the relatively short time a falling meteor travels at hyper velocity, I tend to believe that meteorites are probably cold

AW: AW: Re-3: [meteorite-list] Moss Meteorite From A Comet?

2006-08-22 Thread Martin Altmann
carbon, and the Chiemgau-Celts felt the urge to eat up the divine matter falling from sky; btw not an uncommon behaviour remember the people of Novo-Urei or Thuathe and they stirred the crumbly matter into the beer, then it became dark.  (The light-coloured beer came into vogue not before

[meteorite-list] Five Martian Meteorites Identified

2002-01-29 Thread Ron Baalke
in a bare ice field near Antarctica's Yamato Mountains in late November 2000. A few days later, they found a second 1.3-kg (2.8-lb) meteorite - Y000749 - nearby. Both have a greenish interior and an outer (fusion) crust blackened while falling through Earth's atmosphere. Two other meteorites were

Re: [meteorite-list] Falling stars: NEAF and meteorites

2010-03-30 Thread Galactic Stone Ironworks
...@hotmail.com wrote: Looks like lots of fun and a great time for the kids. Greg S. http://cs.astronomy.com/asycs/blogs/astronomy/2010/03/30/falling-stars-neaf-and-meteorites.aspx Falling stars: NEAF and meteorites Posted 03-30-2010 by Mike Reynolds In 2009, Contributing Editor Mike

[meteorite-list] Comets Get A Snowball's Chance

2002-02-07 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,645982,00.html Comets get a snowball's chance A stream of comets is falling into the sun, writes Duncan Steel By Duncan Steel The Guardian (United Kingdom) February 7, 2002 Theory and observation go hand in hand in science. Until recently we

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