Re: [meteorite-list] An Anthropologist's look at Kansas:Creation, Evolution and Intelligent Design

so easily -- it's Turtles all the way down!!" Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Kansas Legal Debate: Creation,Evolution andIntelligent Design

nstitutional, which is why the Kansas board has to settle for adding other explanations to the curriculum. Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Big Rock in Iowa Creates a Big Mystery

for 15 years, and nobody told him or Taylor about it. “Nobody’s said anything about it,” Taylor said. “Nobody’s claimed it. Nobody’s moved it.” For now, Taylor said, they’ll farm around it. “I can’t lift it,” he said. “We figure, whoever owns it, a contractor or whatever, will come back for it.”.

Re: [meteorite-list] Opportunity Mars Rover Stuck in Sand

ver again on the List, but I'm tired of growing old while watching the human race sit on its butt. Shall I set up a PayPal account to raise funds to send a good geologist from the List to Mars? Nominate somebody; we'll send him. How about Norm Lehrman? Up for a field trip, Norm?

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHING Pictures 101

t like Anne said, for the reason that the underlying algorithms of the camera's electronics are build on that supposition. Sterling K. Webb - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > And I never use a black background, it just drowns out the specimens.

Re: [meteorite-list] 3 Day eBay Auctions

It's not pretty. Buying, like all economic activities, is an art form. Sterling K. Webb -- Dave Schultz wrote: > Sorry Bob. I usually run my auctions for 7 days, > from Sat. to Sat. or Sun. to Sun. on the reasoning > that it is hard for me t

[meteorite-list] OT: Asteroidal and Lunar Materials

an environmental slash wilderness movement to "Save Our Asteroids!" So, study those iron asteroids while you've still got them. Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: Asteroidal and Lunar Materials

orting two to ten million people with the industry, research, education, business activities, and trade that goes with them. Leave the spin on and you have interior gravity equivalent. De-spin it and you have a huge free-fall environment, or any gee-field in-between that you want. Think

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: Asteroidal and Lunar Materials

r "pragmatic" or some other word that begins with "p." Sterling K. Webb > I don't concider this to be the practical you talking, concidering: > > http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1516_1.asp

Re: [meteorite-list] Scientists Excited About Potential Impact CraterSite in Missouri

in a row. Shades of Shoemaker-Levy! So, we in the Mid-West have more craters than you guys in Arizona, but your one is a lot prettier than our eight... Sterling K. Webb -- Ron Baalke wrote: > http://springfield.news-leader.com/news/today/20050522-Sci

Re: [meteorite-list] Scientists Excited About Potential Impact CraterSite in...

the displeasure of my parent! He was wise enough to take me to the quarry's trash pile and let me select a few boxfuls of the most fossiliferous fragments to take home and disassemble if I promised to leave the steps alone, which I did, so my

Re: [meteorite-list] ALDAMA (B)

1985 will henceforth be named Aldama (a)." Sterling K. Webb "Steve Arnold, Chicago!!!" wrote: > Hi again list.I just got my beautiful 159 gram slice of WELLMAN (F) from > McCartney taylor today.Avery nice piece.I also got a

Re: [meteorite-list] Two Questions

arger than 300 m and a mass of at least 840,000 kg. We conclude that this meteorite might be one of the largest meteorites to have been recovered." And there's so much of it, too... Can you tell I had nothing to do this morning but read my email? Sterling K. Webb ---

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteor Theory Gets Rocky Ride From Dinosaur Expert

only mistake she's made. Chicxulub fans, take a look at it if you haven't seen it before. Sterling K. Webb -- Ron Baalke wrote: > http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050523/full/050523-2.html > > Meteor theory gets rocky

[meteorite-list] OT: TITAN MOVIE

ot it dead between the eyes, pardner. My spyware called it a high risk bastid, and that's why I done it, he said, blowing the smoke out of the barrel of his six-shooter... As near as I can tell, the Weather Channel doesn't cover Titan... Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Kind of off topic. Space Probes???

q=http://www.universalshopping.com/nasairspac19.html&ai=BAlD6hzKVQqilB5na4AGts-32D9rx6gGv-PwE5K3zBeDUAxACGAIoBkiKOZABAsgBAegBAQ&num=2> For more spacecraft models, please visit NASA's Spacelink site <http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/scalemodels/> I'll leave the other 923, 9

[meteorite-list] Space Probe Models? Nah, Planet Models!!

Shall I look for action figures next? Sterling K. Webb -- Dave Schultz wrote: > Greetings. Been looking for small models of the > different space probes that are lurking out in deep > space. As in Pioneer, Voyager, Cassini etc. Any help > i

[meteorite-list] AMATEURS HELP DISCOVER EXTRASOLAR PLANET

Hi, The really interesting thing about this planet is that it is 15,000 lightyears away, toward the Galactic Center. It's way downtown! Planets everywhere. Lovely thought. Sterling K. Webb --- <http://SkyandTelescope.

[meteorite-list] OT: SKYSCAPES, OR SKY ART

se, Korean, and Chinese, but thankfully everything is thoroughly subtitled in English, so it's no trouble for the non-ideographic to navigate. Enjoy. Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http:/

Re: [meteorite-list] Comet Put on List of Potential Earth Impactors

nd look what it got them. Sterling K. Webb - Ron Baalke wrote: > http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn7449.html > > Comet put on list of potential Earth impactors > David L Chandler > New Scientist > June 1, 2005

Re: [meteorite-list] OT help, GPS, DOD

hand turn down a cross street with equal precision, on its way somewhere, all with inhuman accuracy. Sterling K. Webb - Tom Knudson wrote: > During desert storm, the DOD often shutdown the GPS satellites at various > times, because Ir

Re: [meteorite-list] How to Watch July 4 Comet Impact

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just imagine how bright Venus is as seen from Mercury when they are in > opposition!) The answer is -6.7, just about the same Earth looks to Venusian > observers on a clear day:), with our Luna being as bright as Jupiter to > treated > Venusians... Doug, As a

Re: [meteorite-list] eBay Scam?

Dave, Suddenly, you remind me exactly of Alan Simpson! You aren't a-gonna run for the Senate, are you? Sterling - Dave Freeman mjwy wrote: > Dear Michael, > I get about two a day from the fake paypal account scammer and about > three a day

Re: [meteorite-list] AD: Video Footage of our trip to Oman

Darren, Steve, List DON'T use a sharpie!! The solvents in conventional markers will damage the disc initially and progressively. There are special DVD markers formulated to be safe, that are available. Like, BestBuy has'em. DVD production costs are paradoxical. Unlike printing, where

Re: [meteorite-list] AD: Video Footage of our trip to Oman

sreel DVD's they set me back $10 each, > but DVD burners weren't common then. > > Rob Wesel > http://www.nakhladogmeteorites.com > -- > We are the music makers... > and we are the dreamers of the dreams. > Willy Wonka, 1971 > > - Origi

Re: [meteorite-list] eBay/paypal phishing

ur toaster (true if you have the right brand). Eventually, every physical object or device in your life will be. Everything will look the same on the surface for a while, but underneath, it's changing in strange ways very fast. Why should crime be any different? Sterling K. Webb -

Re: [meteorite-list] Updated preprint of MB89

Hi, Rob, It's just that we talkers have to talk about something until the real stuff comes along... It's Blab in search of a Thread. Sterling --- "Matson, Robert" wrote: > Interrupting the computer tech-talk and the pros/cons of U.S. labor > unions to let people know that a r

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Hunt Video

ther he wants to sell -- these are arbitrary examples, of course -- 50 copies at $20, or 100 copies at $10, or 33 copies at $30, which those of you with pencils or fingers may have noticed is all pretty much the same thing. If he (or anybody else) wants to charge a lot for a short run DVD

[meteorite-list] Mars Rover On NPR News Today

ivine). Good idea? Bad idea? Jeers? Cheers? Opines? Sterling K. Webb -- Ron Baalke wrote: > Opportunity's next task is to examine the site to provide a > better understanding of what makes that ripple different fro

Re: [meteorite-list] I am home from Tokyo

part of life's variety, I guess. You have to ride the stress like you were surfing, Mike, and not let the wave break over you. Sail on! Sterling K. Webb -- Michael L Blood wrote: > I guess there is no such thing as free enterp

[meteorite-list] OT: Billboards In Space?

ilds the Virgin Orbital Hotel, does this mean it can't have a neon sign? The mind boggles... Sterling K. Webb <http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=8548396> US says no billboards in space Thu May 19, 2005 03:46 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. governme

Re: [meteorite-list] Michael's meteorite market trends

round as Yoda passes, impelled by the power of The Force to lift gently toward those black and brilliant skies from which they came. I think you missed a great opportunity there. Sterling K. Webb --- [EMAIL PROT

[meteorite-list] OT: New Smallest, Possibly Earth-like, Extra-Solar Planet Announced

;s the National Science Foundation press release: <http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=104243&org=NSF&from=news> And a somewhat less technical one: <http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1530_1.asp> Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: New Smallest, Possibly Earth-like, Extra-Solar Planet Announced

anticipation of the discovery of a "SuperEarth," and Heck! I didn't even have to wait a year... What next?) Sterling K. Webb -- "Sterling K. Webb" wrote: > Hi, All, > > The "Marcy Team," with 106 detections of

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: New Smallest, Possibly Earth-like, Extra-Solar Plane...

detection attempt has ever found any hint of planets. A closer L Class main sequence star with planets would genuinely be worth looking for! But trying to find a nearby "invisible" star is a truly daunting technical problem concerning which no light bulbs have turned on in my brain.

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: New Smallest, Possibly Earth-like, Extra-Solar Plane...

n equally high eccentricity orbit. Whoops! Someboday already thought of that. See: <http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=15588> All the good ideas get taken quick... I got to get faster! This is what happens, off topic. We just jump from one interesting thing to

Re: [meteorite-list] Extreme melting event defines Earth's early history

giston, an invented imaginary substance, here used to explain why pigs have wings. The only problem is that they don't. Let me see those pigs perched in the tree-tops! Then, I'll believe. Sorry if this seems cranky. Ok, sorry that this IS cranky. Sore spot. Wonderful study!

[meteorite-list] Asteroids and Meteorites (thread was: Extreme Melting...)

at's what the simpler meteorite and earth science websites are trying to get across and who they're talking to. But you can't make all these different worlds out of undifferentiated solar soup minus selected volatiles. Sterling K. Webb ---

[meteorite-list] Pterosaur egg

nt question, "Does anyone want to buy...?". People, we don't know anything. Now, about this 100 kilo lunaite I found in my driveway this morning... Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Terraforming: Human Destiny or Hubris?

ended up with the adjective I used above: remarkable. He's the Tsiolkovsky of our age. Over the years, I've bought and given away seven copies of it, besides the two copies I keep for me, one clean, one for notes. My two cents. Sterling K. Webb --

Re: [meteorite-list] Did I make a mistake?

Hi, Anita, Quick! Get in your Time Machine and go back to the first moment when you won't bump into yourself, and buy them. I say, Quick! because you'll need to beat all the other Time Travelers on the List! Sterling K. Webb -- Anit

Re: [meteorite-list] SNC varification

. Before the List moved to another host a few years ago, there were viral outbreaks from time to time, but things are much more stable now. Is anyone else getting these "empty" messages replying to their own posts and nothing else? I second the poll. Show of hands? Ste

[meteorite-list] SOLAR SAIL LAUNCHES, BUT...

like there's going to a long nervous wait ahead. If successful and if the Sail deploys, the Solar Sail will be easily visible as a bright speck in the sky. Updates at: <http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/050621_cosmos1_launch.html>

Re: [meteorite-list] SOLAR SAIL LAUNCHES, BUT...

was particularly annoyed by the fact that all the major US news sources (which I've popping for updates) referred to Carl Sagan as "the late science fiction writer"! Only the CBC (Canada) correctly identified him as the late "famous astromer." Sort of a sad comm

[meteorite-list] SOLAR SAIL UPDATE, or is it down?

Here's the Planetary Society's page for the latest updates: <http://www.planetary.org/solarsail/latest_update.html> They haven't posted anything since about midnight last night. Sterling K. Webb - "Sterling K. Webb"

Re: [meteorite-list] Earth Trojan asteroids

east for the period 1800-2200 (MPML 02/09/03)." Rob said, "It would be an interesting exercise to compute the maximum size an Earth Trojan could be and still have managed to go undetected." Part of that detection factor is luck and completeness, not completely computable. He w

Re: [meteorite-list] Earth Trojan asteroids: FOOTNOTE

"Sterling K. Webb" wrote: > Sky angle roughly 60 degrees up from the horizon Whoops! With 72 minutes of civil, nautical and astronomical twlight (24 minutes each) needing to past before skies were completely dark, the beginning sky angle for a search would then be 42 degrees

Re: [meteorite-list] Earth Trojan asteroids

"visible" here standing in my front yard wondering behind which dark and glowering cloud bank it was happening. I have a world class collection of photographs of lunar eclipse colors as seen diffusely refracted by thick clouds. Thanks. Sterling K. Webb -

[meteorite-list] There IS an Earth Trojan Asteroid (probably)!

an candidates: <http://www.astro.uwo.ca/~wiegert/etrojans/etrojans.html> 3753 Cruithne and several other asteroids share the Earth's orbit but are not Trojans, but complicated "horseshoes": <http://www.astro.uwo.ca/~wiegert/3753/3753.html> There's no

Re: [meteorite-list] There IS an Earth Trojan Asteroid (probably)!

ed orbit, either. It is a helocentric orbit that oscillates back and forth in a 385 year pattern, and that oscillation is dominated by the Earth's gravity. Thus, in this very special way, it is "tied" to the Earth. OK? Sterling K. Webb -

Re: [meteorite-list] Earth Trojan asteroids

folks come up another 1765 Trojan names? Third soldier from the left in the last row in the Battle in Book Ten? Just make'em up? Greekify your children's names? Just leave it to some gentlemen in Paris at IAU to do it? Give'em numbers? Buy one of those "5000 Names for Your C

[meteorite-list] Trojan And Other Asteroids, Part Two

ere are a small handful of XIXth century anomalous daytime transiting object reports, reported by "ordinary" people, not astronomers, all seen in a single narrow locality but nowhere else, lasting for a few

[meteorite-list] TEST -- DELETE

NON POSTING TEST. PLEASE DELETE. ONE FINGER -- POW! GONE! __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Trojan And Other Asteroids, Part One

were tables of magnitude to luminosity conversion in fine print by the 0.1 magnitude step, with little rows off to the side to interpolate the 0.01 steps, just like there were for regular logarithms. That was in the era when a simple four function calculator like you can buy for 99 cents in the Dol

[meteorite-list] POSTING ABOUT POSTING TO THE LIST

nth or so! It's like the server has Alzheimer's... But it works, if you give it a nudge. Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] 2MASS ALL SKY SURVEY (APOD)

on't know how many billion lightyears it goes out, but for those who like the BIG PICTURE, it's quite a sight! Definitely worth a glance. Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Earth Trojan asteroids

Hi, Like old age, capture, at least orbital capture, is better than the other most likely alternative, they being, respectively, death and impact! Sterling Francis Graham wrote: < Sterling and list, if it was real, it was a near < miss closer

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: Problems with the Met.Bulls

Google works, so get ready to switch over to MediocreSearch someday. Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] NEA ASTEROIDS, ALBEDOS, AND ORIGINS

h we know so little, as if you could explain one mystery by assigning it to another mystery. Where did Chicxulub come from? Musta been a comet. Why is there no crater at Tunguska? Musta been a comet. Why does the Earth have so much water? Musta been comets. (They couldn

Re: [meteorite-list] fire flies or flying fires

Rings! Even if they are imaginary... Sterling K. Webb Chris Peterson wrote: > I doubt there is a stable solution for a ring system in a binary planet > system like the Earth/Moon, unless possibly they are very close to the > Earth. Bu

Re: [meteorite-list] fire flies or flying fires

razy, anyway. I'm a lot more certain about the predominance of near side ancient basins, though. We're doomed to disagree, Chris, you (CalTech) and me (MIT). Sterling K. Webb - Chris Peterson wrote: > Hi Sterling- > >

Re: [meteorite-list] There IS an Earth Trojan Asteroid (probably)!

te my vocabulary. You can stomp all over me for my own words, but it wasn't me, buddy! It was the other guy! He done it, officer! Sterling K. Webb Ron Baalke wrote: > > > > Hi, Ron, List, > > > > I chose the single word

[meteorite-list] Smithsonian FolkLife Festival, NOT OT

Only one nation each year is featured. This year that nation is OMAN. Oh, and there WILL be camels... Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] fire flies or flying fires

close orbit around Venus, so it can start spinning up the planet, a dry moon for a dry world. I make a note to myself for the next time I feel like cranking up the Act Of God machine, "Do something about Venus." Yup! Definitely got to do something about Venus... Sterling K

Re: [meteorite-list] Canyon Diablo Hunting and Laws?

Hi, Giver the present technological abilities and easily affordable state of a variety of night vision equipment, I would definitely NOT assume that no one was watching you at night. Sterling K. Webb Alexander Seidel wrote: > Don´t t

Re: [meteorite-list] Nebraska Man Says He Was Nearly Hit By Meteorite

pread out, people! Wait for the meteorites to fall in your lap (or 130 foot circle)! Sterling K. Webb --- __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] extrasolar planet with ginormous rocky core

me! What creates oddball planet systems in spherical shells with radii that are multiples of 55 lightyears? Huh? Anybody? Sterling K. Webb -- Darren Garrison wrote: > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8424348/ > > Strange new world unlike any other > Large sol

Re: [meteorite-list] Nebraska Man Says...

about 10 or 12 million people dead. that's almost as bad as what we have already done to each other... Sterling K. Webb - "Jerry A. Wallace" wrote: > Hi Sterling and List, > > Sterling cited: > > >Park Fores

Re: [meteorite-list] Nebraska Man Says He Was Nearly Hit By Meteorite

t after dusk on a perfect midwestern summer night, two boys are standing talking in the front yard in the new hush of evening, when... WHIRRR! If you like REALLY BIZARRE coincidences, notice that the man in Nebraska is named "Brad Kinzie" while the boy in Indiana decades ago is named

Re: [meteorite-list] Nebraska Man Says...

Ninninger did newspaper searches, too, looking for new falls. Then, there's Mark! Sterling K. Webb --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sterling wrote: > > >While most incidents are of a meteorite strike to a single person, > >there are ac

Re: [meteorite-list] rock on the noggin story

7;t a small handful of the immense number of tiny HOLBROOK's show a flattened facet, as if they were still malleable on impact? I think saw some pictures of that. Any one know?) The rare patch of "glassy" crust is another indicator of a more rapid cooling as well, I would think. Ste

Re: [meteorite-list] rock on the noggin story

od for a theoretical model, if you ask me. Since this frost doesn't always happen, those stones are by definition odd in some way. Nature LIKES variation. And maybe those frosty rocksicles are in a July Illinois cornfield where it's 90 F with 90% humidity.

Re: [meteorite-list] Deep Impact, Impact

e arriving at perihelion days late. That's why comet orbits are not strictly predictable within a certain range, making the future close approach of a cometary body (like in 2086 AD) an incalculable danger. Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-lis

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites - warm or hot to the touch?

ic stones (as low as 600 m/sec) much less than in well consolidated Earth rocks. Some are cool, some are warm, but not very cold and not very warm. Sterling K. Webb -- Chris Peterson wrote: > Hi Elton- > > I'm curious about the basis of you

[meteorite-list] DEEP IMPACT HITS!

SEE DONE GOOD! SKW __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] DEEP IMPACT HITS! WITH TEXT

just prior to impact, on the southern end of the comet's nucleus. What appears to be craters are visible. The camera is functioning well. Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Deep Impact, Impact

e fracturing of king pins, rolling, tumbling, the bursting into flames, the last SQUAWK from the CB... Man, I wouldn't want to be in that 18-wheeler when it got hit with 31 gnats ALL AT ONCE, would you? Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sterling Said: > "It'

Re: [meteorite-list] Comet Show Leaves NASA Speechless

able lander for Venus since the last try burned up decades ago? Is anybosy even studying missions like the ones above? Not complaining, just wishing. I know the obstacles. But I'm tired of We Go Back To _ stories. I want to see We're Here To Stay At __ stories! Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Help Hunting the Winslow Crater

'm here to HUNT!" Bad strategy. That's my tip. Unless, of course, you're a former CIA black operator with extraction expertise. Sterling K. Webb -- Bob Evans wrote: > Hello, > > I'll be hunting the meteor

Re: [meteorite-list] OT - Major Terrorist Attack on London...

hat so much history involves the death of innocents because of somebody else's insane dreams. Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] FIREBALL -- 1972

d some encounter was possible." Orbital elements are a quarrel, but it could be back. Sterling K. Webb -- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > These are all interesting post and the kind of thing we all like to read &g

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Rain in Rajastan

tan is due to more eyes (44,000,000 people, or 128 per km^2), better understanding and awareness (better education), the clearing in development of more land area, and perhaps just plain good luck! Sterling K. Webb Ron Baalke wrote: > http://www.indi

Re: [meteorite-list] NASA Awards Moon Rock to Former AstronautStafford

e to have your extra-terrestrial materials delivered by rocket and not just tossed down onto the planet at random. Sterling K. Webb --- Tom Knudson wrote: > "The awards remain the property of NASA; however, each lunar sample will be on > long-term loan

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: NASA Awards Moon Rock......

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > <<...like the Declaration of Liberty>> > Did I sleep through a history lesson back in grade school? > I assume you meant the "Declaration of Independence" ?? I feel just like Homer Simpson, and all I can say is what he does: DOH! Sterling Webb ___

Re: [meteorite-list]OT: Interesting page

ame title. Check Amazon. I can't remember it well enough to tell if these images are the same or a re-doing, but it's the idea and the experience that sticks in your head. It still does. Sterling K. Webb - moni waiblinger-seabridge wrot

Re: [meteorite-list] Trinary system with planet

te of the wait! Really beautifully done. Sterling K. Webb - Darren Garrison wrote: > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8567313/ > > Newly discovered planet has 3 suns > Scientists puzzled at how such a planet could form > >

Re: [meteorite-list] Moon To Explode Within Six Months

ies of no value. You won't be able to give them away. So, to any dealers stuck with these soon-to-be worthless lunar meteorites, I freely offer to buy out their entire stock at $1.00 per gram! I would pay much more for samples of the lunar black monolithium, though... Sterl

[meteorite-list] OT: Happy Bastille Day

soon as I figure out what Guy Fauwkes Day and Boxing Day ARE, I'll be ready to do the same for them... Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - July 15, 2005

basement? Probably a costly problem. But how about a lucite-roofed pagoda over it, to keep the rain off? I wonder if they've coated it in any way? It looks pretty durable right where it is, I guess. What's another century or so of exposure to a meteorite that size? Sterli

Re: [meteorite-list] FW: Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: July 11-15, 2005

er is elevated to a peak at the far side. Binaries, no doubt. Sterling K. Webb - Marc Fries wrote: > I didn't see what everyone else said, but to me it has to be the result of > the simultaneous impact of two impactors. The ma

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars rover pollution

universe, Entropy Dave, would have been the winner. And winner takes all in this game. My attitude, and I misquote William Faulkner here, is that life "will not only endure; it will prevail." We win. Go, Life! Hip, Hip, Hoorah, Life! Sterling K. Webb

[meteorite-list] Mars Rovers And All...

Hi, Mars fans. Last week, PBS re-ran their earlier NOVA science program about getting the Rovers TO Mars. This week, they will debut a new NOVA program about what the Rovers found when they GOT there. Tuesday 9/8 Central in my area, but may vary. Should definitely be worth watching. Sterl

[meteorite-list] THE ODDS OF LIFE

ssil record for the 4 billion years before then, and confusion abounds before the great leap forward to that highly advanced metazoan ancestor of us all, the sponge. If the odds against any Life at all anywhere are so... astronomical, then to find any indisputable evidence of life anywhere else

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: New Concord Meteorite, Hot and Cold Again

ide, it's to be expected that there would be many reports of hot or at least warm meteorites. Warm is probably a compromise made between the "knowledge" that they are hot and the strange fact that you can't feel any heat! UFO's? Sterling K. Webb --

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: New Concord Meteorite, Hot and Cold Again

poses for evaluating witness reports from the past.. Sterling K. Webb Michael L Blood wrote: > Regardless of endless research on the color of lightning, there > are many credible DOCUMENTED cases of hot

Re: [meteorite-list] TWO new Kuiper belt objects today?

at is, NOBODY LOOKING in the right place (like I'm always harping about in the case of intra-Earth orbit asteroids, etc. Don't look and you won't find. I'm sure Planet 15 will have a high inclination, too. And 16, and 17, and... Sterling K. Webb ---

Re: [meteorite-list] NEW POST: TWO new Kuiper belt objects today?

nnounce first 3. 2005 FY9 @ ?? AU "less than" the diameter of Pluto but not by too much Orbit inclined at ?? degrees Period ??? years Also pretty bright for a KBO Discoverer: Brown Sterling K. Webb --

Re: [meteorite-list] TWO new Kuiper belt objects today?

Hi, Ron, List, Brown's website is already giving Ortiz credit for 2003 EL61, in the official discoverer sense. Ortiz announced first; end of story. Besides, Brown has a bunch of "planets" of his own AND all those bottles of champagne to drink... Sterling Webb ---

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Three new Kuiper Belt Objects

Yup! My bad. See: Sterling -- Chris Peterson wrote: > Shouldn't #2 be 2003 EL61? > > Chris > > * > Chris L Peterson > Cloudbait Observatory >

[meteorite-list] WHAT IS A PLANET?

Plenty is very PC, I'm sure, and I like SEDNA myself, but there are lots of unused names in the traditional lexicon of mythology, especially for figures of the nether regions. Persephone ("Per-SEF-fon-ee"), the Queen of Hades, is the most obvious example. But save Her for that Earth

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