Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite in New Hampshire

2007-02-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
in new-iced ponds. But one of them is... Meteorite! My problem is that I can't find any rendition of a meteorite having been found that way. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Gary K. Foote [EMAIL

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite in New Hampshire

2007-02-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Gary K. Foote [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 9:50 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Peruvian meteorite crater - friendly warningtohunters that may be considering...

2007-02-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
a few little secrets of her own. How did josephinite form and why is it on the surface of the Earth instead of in the mantle? It's a mystery to me, and yet, you can buy it on eBay. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Darren

Re: [meteorite-list] Hunting Martian Fossils Best Bet For Locating MarsLife

2007-02-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, List, discovery may involve finding biologically formed structures in old sedimentary deposits... like stromatolites found here on Earth. I say we get up a kitty to send Dave Freeman! Mars is a lot like Wyoming, Dave, only redder. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Info needed

2007-02-24 Thread Sterling K. Webb
on pp. 176-182. The Hammer List Deluxe... Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Michael L Blood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 1:08 PM

Re: [meteorite-list] ill need more

2007-02-24 Thread Sterling K. Webb
real hot rocks is impossible to determine because they're going to be reported as hot whether they were or not. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Michael L Blood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jeffrey Shallit [EMAIL

Re: [meteorite-list] ill need more AGAIN

2007-02-24 Thread Sterling K. Webb
unbelievable accounts, why should a reasonably sober account be dismissed out of hand? Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: MARK BOSTICK [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday

Re: [meteorite-list] Steve's Imilac Trip, slightly off-topic: pisco

2007-02-26 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, All Pisco Fans, For those who cannot find Pisco at their corner store, or who never get to travel to the High Desert but are stuck in the Great Bottoms, there is the Internet Safari to the PiscoMall: http://www.piscomall.com/ They sell 50 different kinds of Pisco. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Enquiry to BIMS

2007-03-01 Thread Sterling K. Webb
and stake a mining claim -- pronto! Unless he was claim-jumping... In that case, he might need that AK-47. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Dave Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: metlist meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent

Re: [meteorite-list] Geologists Find Meteorite on Panama Beach

2007-03-01 Thread Sterling K. Webb
of Mystery Rocks... What ever happened to The New Jersey Iron?! Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, February 28

[meteorite-list] Fw: Last on Adamana for a while (I hope)

2007-03-02 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, but there are many indications that this may be an unusual fragmentation event, in which case all the usual bets could be off. Theory is one thing, but the proof is always on the ground (or in it, sometimes). Keep hunting! Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Peruvian bolide message rehash, ALL

2007-03-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
on Randy Korotev's Meteorwrong site. He suggested that you get some thin sections cut and examined by a petrologist. The expense wouldn't be outrageous and I would guess you'd find some willing talent with experience of meteorite thin sections right here in the List. Did you ever do that? Sterling K

Re: [meteorite-list] Last on Adamana for a while (I hope)

2007-03-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, in which case all the usual bets are off. Theory is one thing, but the proof is always on the ground (or in it, sometimes). Keep hunting! Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: DNAndrews [EMAIL PROTECTED

[meteorite-list] BATCH REPEAT MAILS

2007-03-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
.) Don't quarrel with your Doppelganger. e.) Don't send messages like this, that only re-iterate... Whoops! Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] Sikhote-Alin Impact Pits - Interesting Update

2007-03-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Jeff Kuyken [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 2:45 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Sikhote-Alin Impact Pits

Re: [meteorite-list] Suspected Meteorite Hits Illinois Home

2007-03-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/03/05/news/doc45ec957f7da1f395589287.txt Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 4:34

Re: [meteorite-list] Suspected Meteorite Hits Illinois Home

2007-03-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, I take it all back; it DOESN'T look anything like a meteorite. (Where'd you find the additional pictures?) Very few irons fall pre-rusted... Ignore my prior post. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison

Re: [meteorite-list] The large meteorite of 1859: anyone know if thishas a grain of truth?

2007-03-06 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, perhaps? Maybe they're jealous of the New Concord meteorite in the next county over. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: chris aubeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 2

Re: [meteorite-list] The large meteorite of 1859: anyone know if thishas a grain of truth?

2007-03-06 Thread Sterling K. Webb
by Oswego. But certainly your clipping belongs in the archive of great old time meteor hoaxes. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: chris aubeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc

Re: [meteorite-list] Wind speed, direction, house orientation for Bloomington, IL iron

2007-03-06 Thread Sterling K. Webb
of stone, not sheet metal. It's surrounded by the downtown business district on two sides, and has never flang a pseudometeorite in a vertical arc, to my knowledge. (Occasional dust explosion is fun, though, but not enough to flang.) Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Illinois Meteorite Astronomy Magazine News Blog

2007-03-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, for finding this. Now I can totally forget about the Bloomington Object. Hey! They already HAVE one (real) meteorite. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: MARK BOSTICK [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent

Re: [meteorite-list] Could Venus Watch For Earth-Bound Asteroids?

2007-03-10 Thread Sterling K. Webb
-2 could fly to and destroy an incoming asteroid, it would be worth $22 billion, or $22 trillion --- name your price. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Impact Origin of Carolina Bays Argued For at 2007AGU Meeting

2007-03-10 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, an oscillation in the warming process caused by the warming itself. Global warming -- ya gotta love it. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday

[meteorite-list] THE SO-CALLED ALERT

2007-03-11 Thread Sterling K. Webb
likely been disabled before I got, but I don't trust that it was. Sterling K. Webb - __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] PLESSITIC OCTAHEDRITE IRON NICKEL METEORITE?

2007-09-21 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, or Slag from the Far Side of Saturn... Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: David Kitt Deyarmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 11:08 PM Subject: [meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] More articles on Peruvian Event and PossiblePicture

2007-09-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
research on impact carried out in a high-tech sandbox: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:7oX3prQ_bsAJ:www.nature.com/physics/highlights/6938-1.html+impact+pit+meteoritehl=enct=clnkcd=31gl=us Sterling K. Webb

[meteorite-list] COMPOSITION OF PERUVIAN METEORITE

2007-09-23 Thread Sterling K. Webb
passed me this link. Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] CARANCAS METEORITE VIDEO

2007-09-23 Thread Sterling K. Webb
: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAoizLPfvik Pretty sure the little flat rocks are local stone blasted out of the crater/pit Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo

[meteorite-list] YOUNGER DRYAS IMPACT THEORY -- ANOTHER PRESS RELEASE

2007-09-24 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, the black mat layer took a long time to deposit, hence could hardly be itself a marker of an impact, which is a sudden event. Well, this press release makes clear that the various ET markers of an event were all found UNDER the black mat layer. That, at least, makes more sense. Sterling K

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

2007-09-25 Thread Sterling K. Webb
to worry about... Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: E.P. Grondine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:28 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Another

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

2007-09-25 Thread Sterling K. Webb
sunlight and Earth temperature, too. Maybe only 3 deg. So, lose 10% of your light, drop 30 degrees? Not a happy notion.) Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: E.P. Grondine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] DAWN LAUNCH VIDEO

2007-09-27 Thread Sterling K. Webb
The NASA video of the Dawn launch is available at YouTube. 10 minutes in length. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncLLVj1qMC8 The video recut with inspirational music is also to be found on YouTube, of course: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtwUdKgZqXs Not bad. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Carnacas smoke-trail photos

2007-10-02 Thread Sterling K. Webb
in hypersonic flight (Mach 5-7). The indication is that there isn't any big one IN the crater. Now, if it HAD been an iron... Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Carnacas smoke-trail photos

2007-10-02 Thread Sterling K. Webb
The name of the village closest to the crater site is CARANCAS, not Carnacas. Under the naming convention, the nearest named human settlement would end up as the name of the meteorite when all the dust settles, no? Let's all practice: CA - RAN - CAS. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Carnacas smoke-trail photos

2007-10-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
the way to the surface. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Chris Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 9:49 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Carnacas

Re: [meteorite-list] Peru's Geological Institute: Crater WhereMeteorite Landed is to Disappear in 2 Months

2007-10-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
divers? Well, in a few months time, the crater will be gone, everybody will stop pestering them, and the Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Institute can go back to its siesta! Or perhaps, he too is a victim of journalistic understanding? Sterling K. Webb

[meteorite-list] Carancas or Titicaca? More data and a thin section of the stone

2007-10-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
% Cromite traces Native Cu traces Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, October 03

[meteorite-list] News and Views in Peru

2007-10-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
that Mike buys and sells them. I wish I knew what cazameteoritos means but the online translator won't translate it (nor the word caza either). Meteorite traders? Meteorite peddlers? Meteorite Con-men? Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites-- they give you wings

2007-10-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Gaos and Gams! Steve's Specialties! Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 4:06 PM Subject

Re: [meteorite-list] News and Views in Peru

2007-10-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
in a language where your knowledge is sketchy (like mine of Spanish). I think that, in Mike's case, Meteorite Chaser is closer to the mark! A lot of hunters sit and wait, something he seems to hardly get a chance to do. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] New Peru article

2007-10-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. And it's OK with me if I'm wrong and somebody winches a ton or two of meteorite out of the mud; it would be a great day. But... don't hold your breath. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL

Re: [meteorite-list] New Peru article

2007-10-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
with anything. I'm betting against it. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: mexicodoug [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 1:23 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: Happy Birthday Sputnik...50

2007-10-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
within 100 light years, they would look exactly the same to us. And there isn't any such radio source --- noisy, multi-banded, bright --- anywhere. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Mike Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [meteorite-list] Entry Dynamics in Peru

2007-10-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
altitude, since pressure and density are just two ways of counting the number of molecules in a cube of air. More than you ever wanted to know, right? Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Mike Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [meteorite-list] Entry Dynamics in Peru

2007-10-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Paul, List, I just posted: The air in it weighs 14.7 pounds if you start at sea level, or 1200 grams... Wrong! Grabbing numbers from a column of numbers, in a hurry, whoops! 1033 grams per sq. cm. is sea level atmospheric pressure in metric. The 1200 gram figure is the weight of a cubic

[meteorite-list] Soil at the impact site

2007-10-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
of country stone. I would say that 75% of the crater ejecta is shattered rocky strata. (The Peruvian sources say it is mostly Cenozoic limestone.) Big blocks of stone, and dirt a minority component. This was NOT a wet soil soft landing. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Entry Dynamics in Peru

2007-10-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
the impact site. Some window glasses of the Local Health Center (at 1 km from the site) were broken. An impact that was felt 20 kilometers away does not sound like free fall to me. I really like the graph. May a Lunar fall gently in your back garden. Sterling K. Webb

[meteorite-list] WARNING

2007-10-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
be just about anything, including format your HD. That's what my favorite expert said. And I see RG's posted another with an attachment. I recommend destruction. And block him. Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] WARNING II

2007-10-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
a program, and if your e-mail client opens it, it'll do whatever it was intended to do, which could be just about anything, including format your HD. That's what my favorite expert said. And I see RG's posted another with an attachment. I recommend destruction. And block him. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Post from Randall

2007-10-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Thaddeus, Dollars in their thongs... Is that a scholarly reference? Literary, perhaps? Do you have Polaroids? Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Thaddeus Besedin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday

Re: [meteorite-list] Entry Dynamics in Peru

2007-10-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
in the dark of the moon and dig for the treasure. It'll be like the mysterious Oak Island Treasure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island may a well oriented Venisian grace the mantel above your hearth. I have a hearth and I have a mantel; now all I need is the Rock. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Lake Titicaca meteorite - thin sections

2007-10-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
and unsubscribe yourself. That's the only way to be removed from the List and the only thing you could do that would make anyone believe that's what you want. 6. Bon Voyage! Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Dr. Richard

Re: [meteorite-list] A Shawnee tradition of the Holocene Start Impacts

2007-10-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, E.P., List, E.P. writes: ...After this the Good Mind created the first man and woman at the Buffalo Lick...may be identified with Big (Salt) Lick, just to the south of... Cincinnati, Ohio... This would put the spot where Humanity was created right on the site (or within a very few miles)

Re: [meteorite-list] let me just share this graph

2007-10-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Doug, I am in sort of a rush since today is Monze Day. Are you flying to Monze for Lwiindi or just having your own New World Lwiindi? Whichever, I wish you much rain and bounteous maize! But, aren't we in the wrong axial hemisphere? Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Ground penetrating radar at Carancas?

2007-10-06 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Rats! Plan B? Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Arizona Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com; Piper R.W. Hollier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 3:12 AM Subject: Re

Re: [meteorite-list] Peru INGEMMET contact information for petition ofaerial photos and Carancas crater preservation

2007-10-06 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, and their phone and fax numbers. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: drtanuki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 5:18 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Peru INGEMMET contact

Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas meteorite...glassy spheres.

2007-10-06 Thread Sterling K. Webb
is the kinetic energy of an impact at 6000 meters per second. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: ensoramanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 6:12 PM Subject: Re

[meteorite-list] THE CARANCAS PERU METEOROID IMPACT CALCULATIONS

2007-10-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
the Bell X-1 without wings. All it takes to get any meteoroid to the ground at a high speed is to stop imagining that God made all the billions of little rocks in space perfect spheres to make life easy for physicists. He likes us... But not that much. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Peru INGEMMET contact information forpetitionofaerial photos and Carancas crater preservation

2007-10-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
population. Apparently we can add to the list of factors working against any timely recovery of material from the crater bureaucratic in-fighting, never a rapid process. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: drtanuki [EMAIL

Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas meteorite...glassy spheres.

2007-10-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
apprentices? Somebody's got to do the scut work! If no scientist wants to work them up, put'em on eBay: Carancas Ejecta Blanket Sample, Meteorite Dust and Particles, 50 grams. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Michael

Re: [meteorite-list] THE CARANCAS PERU METEOROID IMPACT CALCULATIONS

2007-10-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
successfully excavates the crater, and I will either be dining on crow for a month (baked crow, crow soup, crow a la King on toast, crow sandwiches and crowburgers...) or will be fatuously satisfied for about five minutes. Sterling K. Webb

[meteorite-list] Thin Sections of Carancas Meteorite

2007-10-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
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Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas Thin sections

2007-10-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
amount of chemically bound iron would not appear so blanco. In some photos the meteorite doesn't appear so white, so perhaps it's an exposure control effect introduced by the photographer. Perfectly in character for an ambiguous event. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas with slickensides?

2007-10-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Back on Oct. 3, Elton (Mr EMan) posted saying that the shock veins in Carancas were not shock veins but slickensides, and cited his reasons for thinking so. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Randall joke on ebay!

2007-10-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, A search of the user name on eBay US site turns up this less than detailed listing: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=3810item=300158570494 Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: ensoramanda

Re: [meteorite-list] Publications of the Carancas event

2007-10-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
by glasses, but to me it says that this rock has had a rough life history, a hot time in the old solar system... Please, Listo-Petrologists, comment! Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: K. Ohtsuka [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [meteorite-list] Publications of the Carancas event ADDITIONAL

2007-10-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
(unlike the Peruvians) got the Universal Time of the event right. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: K. Ohtsuka [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, October 08

Re: [meteorite-list] Headlines: Mike Farmer beats Randall, claims record. - News at 11:00

2007-10-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, This is beneath you... The logical flaw here is that is any beneath beneath the pseudonomynous Randall-of-the-many-names. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Michael L Blood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dr. Richard (Dick

Re: [meteorite-list] temps

2007-10-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
easily reaches and far exceeds these temperatures. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: mckinney trammell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 3:56 PM Subject

Re: [meteorite-list] Publications of the Carancas event ADDITIONAL

2007-10-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
efficiency of kinetic energy conversion in this impact, so these estimates above have a potential 2-fold error in distance.] Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: K. Ohtsuka [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL

Re: [meteorite-list] Publications of the Carancas event ADDITIONAL

2007-10-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
bolides! Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Jan Hattenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 5:20 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Publications of the Carancas event

Re: [meteorite-list] Publications of the Carancas event ADDITIONAL

2007-10-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
... The only thing I can figure is that the sheer romantic lure of a monster meteorite waiting to be discovered and raised from the dark depths of the crater overwhelms the little gray cells of everybody involved. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Publications of the Carancas event ADDITIONAL

2007-10-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
do. It's been almost a month. I wonder how long it will take the Peruvians to mobilize? Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Charlie Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Mysterious Circular Structure Near Chemult, Oregon

2007-10-12 Thread Sterling K. Webb
enough to have one). And, an impact that produced vulcanism would be obliterated by the lavas it released, so proving that is kind of a problem. Good hunting! Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From

Re: [meteorite-list] Mysterious Circular Structure Near Chemult, Oregon

2007-10-12 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. The elevations are complex and hard to interpret. The closer I zoom in, the less like a relict crater it looks to me. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stefan Brandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] Comets are made of antimatter

2007-10-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
or slickenside. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 5:59 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Comets are made

Re: [meteorite-list] Scientific Value of Carancas Crater Research

2007-10-16 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Yes, this IS a crater worthy of study. And with every passing day, that seems less and less likely to happen. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Scientific Value of Carancas Crater Research

2007-10-16 Thread Sterling K. Webb
of tons of precious meteorite buried under the crater. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 4:29 PM Subject

Re: [meteorite-list] Peru Again!! Ubinas, Peru volcanic bomb block crater- Smithsonian Institution-INGEMMETstudy

2007-10-16 Thread Sterling K. Webb
in the Carancas crater. The URL's a picture of a ten-meter crater (OK, pit) with a ten ton impactor sitting in it. Does it look to you like it's hiding? I think we'd have noticed a ten-monster in Carancas... if it was intact! Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas vs. Canyon Diablo?

2007-10-17 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. A crater this size isn't going to produce the flashy stuff that big craters do. And an impact event tends to erase its own history and delete its own data. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: mexicodoug [EMAIL

Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas unprecedented Fame ?

2007-10-17 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Bob, List, Mike Farmer wrote here on the List (10-09-07): I interviewed many people, most saw the fall, saw a bright flash, a small mushroom cloud of steam/dust that came up and lingered for some time. Everyone felt the grond shake, and heard huge explosion. As the meteorite came

Re: [meteorite-list] INTERVIEW WITH CARANCAS LOCALS

2007-10-18 Thread Sterling K. Webb
to 8 milligrams (0.008 grams) of dust per square centimeter, an amount so tiny you'd hardly notice it, except near the rim, where people did notice and collect it. Is it a clever meteorite, hiding in plain sight? Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] INTERVIEW WITH CARANCAS LOCALS

2007-10-19 Thread Sterling K. Webb
will come to you. Tell me: What in the world were you smuggling?! Nasrudin replied, Donkeys. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: mexicodoug [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jan Hattenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [meteorite-list] INTERVIEW WITH CARANCAS LOCALS

2007-10-19 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hola, Doug, Ai! I forgot the most important part --- The Piscos!! Does this mean I owe you a Pisco Sour? Sterling -- - Original Message - From: mexicodoug [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

[meteorite-list] INTERVIEW WITH CARANCAS LOCALS

2007-10-18 Thread Sterling K. Webb
difference). If anyone wants a copy of the Aymara-Spanish document, contact me and I can email it to you. Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http

Re: [meteorite-list] INTERVIEW WITH CARANCAS LOCALS

2007-10-19 Thread Sterling K. Webb
the universe works: Can another such thing suddenly fall down? Another? It's their cosmic 9-11. Sterling K. Webb Footnote: It wouldn't hurt us to worry more about Apophis and similar such rocks, spend a little

Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas: Impact crater vs. impact hole

2007-10-20 Thread Sterling K. Webb
-hum, another boring H4/5. My, are we spoiled, or what? Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 11:40 AM Subject: [meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] Chondrule photos update

2007-10-20 Thread Sterling K. Webb
get a commission.) Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 12:29 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Chondrule photos

[meteorite-list] TROILITE VAPORIZATION IN CARANCAS

2007-10-21 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, but if there are, they haven't been found. If anyone (else) finds any more errors, let me know; I still have some nicely chilled left-over crow sandwiches in the refrigerator. Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Microscope focus software

2007-10-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
http://www.heliconsoft.com/heliconfocus.html Helicon Focus Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 3:14 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] ...Mali or Algeria...

2007-10-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, a different geographic feature (e.g., a stream) should be selected, if available (if not, ยง3.3 applies). Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Chauncey Walden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Fw: Comet 17P (Holmes) Visible Event !

2007-10-24 Thread Sterling K. Webb
-comet-holmes-02.jpgcap=Comet+Holmes%27+location+as+of+Oct.+24th+at+8+p.m.+local+time+from+midnorthern+latitudes.+ Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Walter Branch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Fw: Comet 17P (Holmes) Visible Event !

2007-10-24 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, the large bright Comet Biela broke apart into TWO Comet Bielas, then eventually NO Comet Bielas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D/Biela] Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Chris Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [meteorite-list] Comet Holmes

2007-10-24 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Don, That is the correct location. There can't be two of them. In some locations (like mine), that is the sky coordinates of the Great Cloudy Nebula, as Walter called it. And, of course, the sky to the southwest is clear, where it doesn't matter. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] comet holmes

2007-10-24 Thread Sterling K. Webb
... Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 10:50 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] comet holmes What's the time interval

Re: [meteorite-list] comet holmes

2007-10-25 Thread Sterling K. Webb
has a future! It's either that, or a new common-use unit like the kilometer: the gigameter. So, a lightminute is 18 gigameters. But because the gigameter doesn't tie to time (and communication) like the lightminute, I think the lightminute will be the winner. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Holmes [17P], continued

2007-10-25 Thread Sterling K. Webb
emeritus of the Minor Planet Center, which tracks known comets and asteroids. And since it doesn't have a tail right now, some observers have confused it with a nova. We've had at least two reports of a new star. Go, Holmes! Sterling K. Webb

[meteorite-list] MORE COMET HOLMES

2007-10-25 Thread Sterling K. Webb
of it and... the coma is in the way, too. Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] MORE COMET HOLMES #2

2007-10-25 Thread Sterling K. Webb
According to Chris, the coma is about 3.3 arc minutes across, or 230,000 kilometers. The very brightest part is about 2.8 arc minutes or 196,000 km across. Chris has a light curve on his website (URL below. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] MORE COMET HOLMES #3

2007-10-26 Thread Sterling K. Webb
--- keep going, Holmesie! May you get big and bright enough that ordinary people look up and say, What The H*** is THAT Thing? Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Chris Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED

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