[meteorite-list] New Theory Explains Reactivity of Martian Soil

2006-08-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Add an electric field sensor to the next Mars Rover... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060802101454.htm Scientists Suggest Solution To 30-Year-Old Martian Mystery Electricity generated in dust storms on Mars may produce reactive chemicals that build up in the Martian

[meteorite-list] NEW EXTRA-SOLAR PLANETARY SYSTEM, WEIRDER STILL

2006-08-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
closely either, but more than 200 AU apart. OK, a multi-planet system without a star... What's next? Sterling K. Webb - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060804084105.htm Baby 'Planemos' Can Be Born As Twins

Re: [meteorite-list] Cosmic Dust in Terrestrial Ice ENDING

2006-08-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
and very complex, yada, yada. But geological history is a grand laboratory notebook of experiments we would never want to perform. Better to just look'em up in the book. So, it's probably true that DHMO is a dangerous greenhouse gas. It's still better than an ice age... Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Cosmic Dust in Terrestrial Ice

2006-08-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, This is one of those odd cases of knowledge being acquired and lost and re-acquired in generational cycles, even in the so-called exact sciences. The authors of this study say: The ratio of 4He in terrestrial dust to the dust concentration itself reveals a marked difference between the

Re: [meteorite-list] Cosmic Dust in Terrestrial Ice MORE

2006-08-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
with global warming and are committed to and exercising real control of CO2, the climate will turn colder. I call it the Principle of Perversity. The one thing you can count on weather and climate doing? Change. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Cosmic Dust in Terrestrial Ice MORE

2006-08-06 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Very nice of them. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Larry Lebofsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com; Mike Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: [meteorite-list] Inventory reference ideas.

2006-08-06 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, there are no limits beyond time, energy, and money (and in that order, I find). The term mania is descriptive, accurate, and precise. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: David Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF CONTROVERSAL ALH84001 CLAIM

2006-08-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
eastronomy/ap_060806_mars_rock.html Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Odd Gibeon Request

2006-08-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, This is probably gratuitous and offensive -- if so, I apologize in advance, but I've got to say it: anybody who thinks Uri Geller bent anything with HIS mind is just not using THEIRS. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From

Re: [meteorite-list] People Doing Stange Things to Meteorites

2006-08-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, that they must be some special kind of rock... Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Dave Carothers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: meteorite list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 8:43 PM

Re: [meteorite-list] A new 676 g meteorite went through storagebuilding in M...

2006-08-10 Thread Sterling K. Webb
the champagne! (Whoops, no champagne in the fridge. How about Ginger Ale? That looks kind of champagnesque, well, if you mix it with 7-Up, it does, then add some Baccardi Gold... Hey! it's a SCIENCE experiment, that's all.) Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Thin Section-- The Motion Picture

2006-08-10 Thread Sterling K. Webb
seen a meteorite before. I mean, I couldn't do it, but it's obviously possible, just like the 3D Corpse... Just sailing down the axis... Windows Media Player (10) played them just fine without having to search for the codec. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Moss meteorite

2006-08-12 Thread Sterling K. Webb
products, it's a varietal, and will be available in Regular and Diet! Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Bjorn Sorheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday

Re: [meteorite-list] conflicting viewpoints

2006-08-14 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. All that has changed is who is now willing to pay for them. One either changes that or lives with it. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent

Re: [meteorite-list] conflicting viewpoints

2006-08-14 Thread Sterling K. Webb
still like to guess, just the same.) The phrase river of meteorites seems justified. And even if it's only 50,000 or 80,000, that's still a boatload of meteorites... List members, what's your estimate? How many meteorites in private hands? Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto's Fate to be Decided by 'Scientific andSimple' Planet Definition

2006-08-15 Thread Sterling K. Webb
was the Greek god of the nether regions, so Plutonian can be taken to mean Outer System planets (assuming it's big enough to be round and orbits the Sun). Even if Ceres gets an upgrade, it would still work, as Ceres seems like to be Plutonian in composition... I have a soft spot for Ceres. Sterling K

[meteorite-list] COMPLETELY METEORITIC IMPACT RELATED

2006-08-15 Thread Sterling K. Webb
exploring, too. Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] conflicting viewpoints

2006-08-15 Thread Sterling K. Webb
advantages murkiness can't access. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 5:32 AM Subject: Re

Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto's Fate to be Decided by 'Scientific andSimp

2006-08-15 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Finding them with a 12 scope would take you a century or two... Loan me such a Venus/Earth-sized plutonian, and I'll stash it at 242 AU somewhere in the K-belt, and we'll see just how it takes to find it! But watch me; I'm tricky. I might give it a high inclination orbit. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] 'Plutons' Push Planet Total Up To 12

2006-08-15 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Ron and List Just WHAT are those Scotsmen drinking?!! The other plutons are Charon, currently described as a moon of Pluto... Please tell me the IAU is not going to name a satellite as a planet!! Chaos! Confusion! Heresy! It's just a shame that the bottle got to The Scotsman

Re: [meteorite-list] US Regulations Governing Antarctic Meteorites

2006-08-15 Thread Sterling K. Webb
and the scientists, not an end-run around them... Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:16 AM Subject

Re: [meteorite-list] 'Plutons' Push Planet Total Up To 12

2006-08-15 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Ron, List The Sydney Morning Herald says: Quote A planet, they [the Committee] decreed, is any star-orbiting object so large that its own gravity pulls in its rough edges, producing a near-perfect sphere. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] 'Plutons' Push Planet Total Up To 12

2006-08-15 Thread Sterling K. Webb
add Xena (2003 UB313) and Ceres to the current census of planets -- with room for additions as future discoveries warrant. No moons... Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List

Re: [meteorite-list] 'Plutons' Push Planet Total Up To 12

2006-08-16 Thread Sterling K. Webb
up there are, well, Loonie... Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent

Re: [meteorite-list] 'Plutons' Push Planet Total Up To 12

2006-08-16 Thread Sterling K. Webb
have a mild equatorial bulge and I'm not spinning at all. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, August

Re: [meteorite-list] 'Plutons' Push Planet Total Up To 12

2006-08-16 Thread Sterling K. Webb
that the diameter of Charon is just slightly great than 50% of the diameter of Pluto, so perhaps that's the guideline for defining a double planet... Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [meteorite-list] 'Plutons' Push Planet Total Up To 12

2006-08-16 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Darren, List Check out the Boston Globe article: http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2006/08/16/nine_no_longer_panel_declares_12_planets/ They're having a contest for a new mnemonic! Sterling K. Webb - Original

Re: [meteorite-list] 'Plutons' Push Planet Total Up To 12

2006-08-16 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Webb -- - Original Message - From: David Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:41 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] 'Plutons' Push Planet Total Up To 12

2006-08-16 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Mission and a new and strange and fascinating world unfolds, everybody will be talking about the planet Ceres. I think of it as Dangerfield's World. It don't get no respect. But that'll change. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original

[meteorite-list] PLANET CERES AND THE 22ND CONSTELLATION OF THE ZODIAC

2006-08-16 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Dear List, Our old correspondent MexicoDoug ask me to forward this message to the meteorite-list as he is not subscribed but obviously still reading! (I wondered where Doug had gotten to.) Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] 'Plutons' Push Planet Total Up To 12-- MikeBrown's view

2006-08-16 Thread Sterling K. Webb
! Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 4:53 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] 'Plutons' Push

Re: [meteorite-list] 'Plutons' Push Planet Total Up To 12

2006-08-16 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, an asteroid that goes all the way out to Oortville with an aphelion of over 1000 AU. They're everywhere. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: E.P. Grondine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Larry Lebofsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: meteorite

[meteorite-list] THE NEW SOLAR SYSTEM

2006-08-17 Thread Sterling K. Webb
/1155766127506.jpg Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Double List Postings

2006-08-17 Thread Sterling K. Webb
The best part of double list postings is seeing the double list postings about double list postings. I love recursion, up to a . Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing

[meteorite-list] THE PLANETARY VOTE

2006-08-17 Thread Sterling K. Webb
as worthless junk, a miserable rockpile, asteroidal po' icewhite trash. Here's the URL and Space.com's text just as they ran it. Well, I corected their spelling errors, but that's all: Sterling K. Webb http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060817_planet_support.html Astronomers

[meteorite-list] NOT PLANETS, PLANEMOS

2006-08-17 Thread Sterling K. Webb
? Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Re:New Impact Crater

2006-08-17 Thread Sterling K. Webb
but arid region. The trees are restricted to the water source; the ground shows the characteristic wrinkle of frozen taiga -- at least, that's how I read the image he provided. One supposes the proof of cometary origin is that the pond is filled with rare cometary material... WATER. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Re:New Impact Crater

2006-08-17 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, but I could be off by a factor of two if the trees are bigger. The wrinkles could be wind wrinkles or frost heave. It's got to be the least promising site I've seen in a while. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL

[meteorite-list] NEW PLANETARY NAMES

2006-08-17 Thread Sterling K. Webb
or check an idea for a name, I recommend The Godchecker, with 2850 listed gods: http://www.godchecker.com/ Sterling K. Webb (list follows) - [edit]Anglo-Saxon Eostre, goddess of spring Fríge, counterpart to the Norse Frigg. Friday

Re: [meteorite-list] Solar System in Perspective

2006-08-18 Thread Sterling K. Webb
... Santa is in the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_EL61 Here's a big image, er, artist's conception: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2003EL61art.jpg In fact, the Wikipedia has very good entries on all the KBO crowd... Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Get Demoted After All

2006-08-18 Thread Sterling K. Webb
and look for short circuits... Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: MexicoDoug [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 4:01 PM

Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Get Demoted After All

2006-08-18 Thread Sterling K. Webb
of my own petty biases... Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: E.P. Grondine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 8:18 PM Subject: Re

Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto May Get Demoted After All

2006-08-19 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, during which Committee-paced time, more will become clear. Committees will help people settle their minds, adjust, get right with the world... Committees are wonderful things. And this may really be one of those times when we need them, for just the reasons we usually don't like them. Sterling K

[meteorite-list] THE ALTERNATIVE DEFINITION OF PLANET

2006-08-19 Thread Sterling K. Webb
asserted (for a decade or so) could not exist because Their Theory cannot account for them. Oh, this'll fix it... OK, I'll let them talk now. Sterling K. Webb (text follows) --- New proposal for Resolution 5: Definition of a Planet (1

[meteorite-list] EVEN THE N. Y. TIMES HAS AN OPINION ON PLANETS

2006-08-19 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, The New York published an editorial on the planet question. Does that settle it? Hardly. But it does demonstrate that the driving force of the Eight Planet Gang is largely emotional and prejudicial. Sterling K. Webb

[meteorite-list] MORE STUFF ABOUT THE PLANET DEBATE

2006-08-19 Thread Sterling K. Webb
bodies takes a heap of 'splaining... Enough for now. Sterling K. Webb -- __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo

Re: [meteorite-list] Planet Meteorite Mailing List

2006-08-20 Thread Sterling K. Webb
collection and you just don't know it. So, What meteorite type or group do you think is likely to be proved as coming from Ceres once we get the data from Dawn? Gee, would probably be carbonaceous... When's the last time one of THOSE fell? METEORITE list... Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Devil's advocate

2006-08-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, which according to Julio were supposed to be a narrow band of low mass trash, and turn out increasingly not to be. He's trying to define his problem away. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Rob McCafferty [EMAIL

Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomers Lean Toward Eight Planets

2006-08-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
be the jawbreaker CRYOSILICATE object. It would apply to Pluto, Xena, and Company, to the large satellites (Ganymede, Europa, Callisto, Triton, Titan), and to the PLANET Ceres. Io and 2003EL61 would be altered Cryosilicate worlds that have lost their volatiles by heating. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Devil's advocate

2006-08-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Compared to Jupiter, the WHOLE solar system is nothing but debris. Why not ONE planet? Easy definition, short list to memorize... Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rob

Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto Seems Poised to Lose Its Planet Status

2006-08-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
were all caused by volcanoes, so none of them ever imagined any other planet would have many if any craters... It's a long list. They weren't stupid, just deprived of data we regard as common now. Are we moderns deprived of data? Compared to the future, we're impoverished. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Norway again?

2006-08-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
? It's been 41days. I'm slipping. I was off by six days and missed the daylight by few hours. They're going to take my fortune-telling license away if I keep this up. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL

Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomers Lean Toward Eight Planets

2006-08-23 Thread Sterling K. Webb
? If a body is 70%+ rock, why keep calling it an iceball? Wassup with that? Because it's cold? Calling Pluto an iceball is like calling the Earth a dirtball. I look at Earth's surface and it's mostly dirt, so the planet Earth is mostly made of dirt, right? Please, enough with the iceball! Sterling K

[meteorite-list] THE IAU VOTE -- LIVE VIDEO

2006-08-23 Thread Sterling K. Webb
from now.) The vote is a straight yes or no. If the vote is no, there is no definition. Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] THE IAU PLANET DEFINITION -- IT'S MULTIPLE CHOICE!

2006-08-24 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Despite the IAU declaration that there would be a single Proposal and a single yes/no, guess what? It's a multiple-choice quiz! From The IAU GA - (Dissetatio Cum Nuncio Sidereo III, Page 8 http://astro.cas.cz/nuncius/nsiii_09.pdf Retrieved 08/24/2006 2AM CDT It has also just been

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites on the moon

2006-08-31 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, the Copernicus Chronicle... Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Chris Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:06 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites on the moon

2006-09-01 Thread Sterling K. Webb
on the Earth, though. As a result, we have no firm figure to multiply by 0.85. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Rob McCafferty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday

Re: [meteorite-list] NEW TIME! How To Observe SMART-1's Impact on the Moon

2006-09-02 Thread Sterling K. Webb
CDT which is 11:43 PM SAT SEPT 2 PDT which is 09:43 PM SAT SEPT 2 HAWAII This will also shift the areas from which it can be viewed to the West. Where I am, the Moon will be below the horizon then. Good luck if you're trying to get a look at it! Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] NEW TIME! How To Observe SMART-1's Impact on theMoon

2006-09-02 Thread Sterling K. Webb
:43 PM SAT SEPT 2 PDT 08:43 PM SAT SEPT 2 HAWAII The latest items I Googled gave impact times with minutes ranging from H:41 to H:45, so there must be some uncertainty. I went with the median. Or, put it this way, 40 minutes to go until impact. Sterling K. Webb

[meteorite-list] Re: SMART-1's impact

2006-09-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
for the earlier time): http://media.skytonight.com/images/SMART-1+VMA_L.jpg J. Herschel is the ring just above and left of the green word MARE in Mare Frigoris. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Matson, Robert [EMAIL

[meteorite-list] SMART-1 SMASHES

2006-09-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
the 6-10 meter crater, I'll be surprised. Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] SMART-1 SMASHES

2006-09-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
at the location (because there won't be one), so that's a kind of test of the notion. It's also likely that the debris trail would stretch for some distance; SMART-1 was traveling at 1930 meters per second at impact. Any other explanations of a square impact flash? Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Nice meteor video from the Russian site

2006-09-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
... Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 6:24 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Nice meteor video from

Re: [meteorite-list] SMART-1 SMASHES

2006-09-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
-saturated). That helped to fool me, but it was greatly aided by making too many quick assumptions, speculating too easily and facilely, and -- oh, yeah -- forgetting that it was kilometers instead of meters. Just let me be a bad example for everybody... Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Nice meteor video from the Russian site

2006-09-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
... Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 8:04 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Nice meteor video from

[meteorite-list] CATCHING THE SMART-1 CRASH FLASH

2006-09-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
will finally arrive. Happy Laborless Day! Sterling K. Webb -- http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/060904_smart-1_results.html Moon Crash Stirs Up Ideas For The Future By Leonard David Senior Space Writer posted: 04 September

Re: [meteorite-list] SMART-1 impact

2006-09-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
/index.cfm?fobjectid=39863 The reason Rob finds things? He looks for them! Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Matson, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday

Re: [meteorite-list] Another Meteorite Fall in India

2006-09-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, All, So much for the locals falling down and worshipping the visitor from the heavens: They beat the meteorite with lathis and dragged it some distance, before immersing it in water... Die, Alien, Die! Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Moon debris dust cloud [SMART 1]

2006-09-06 Thread Sterling K. Webb
light image. Many digital device CCD's are have very good IR response. Nikon even had to modify one of its high- end cameras because of its disconcerting ability to see through some loose cool clothing to the warmer (brighter in IR) body of the person inside that clothing. Whoops! Sterling K

Re: [meteorite-list] Study: Earthlike planets may be common

2006-09-10 Thread Sterling K. Webb
the iron cores of planetesimals and large asteroids, you have to use a still BIGGER hammer to do it with. Interestingly, there are very few irons with CRE ages in the last 100 million years, so, yeah, things have been pretty calm lately. Sterling K. Webb

[meteorite-list] DON'T NEED METEORITES TO TRANSFER LIFE TO OTHER WORLDS

2006-09-10 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, All, We're all familiar with the notion that the transfer of material from one planet to another, like meteorites from Mars landing on Earth or meteorites from Earth landing on Mars, could possibly transfer microbial life between worlds. It's called panspermia. There have been lots of

[meteorite-list] Another Study: Earth-like Planets May NOT Be Common...

2006-09-10 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Of course, 7% of a lot of stars is a lot of planets. The paper hasn't been published yet, but here's the preprint: http://arxiv.org/ftp/astro-ph/papers/0603/0603200.pdf Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Study: Earthlike planets may be common

2006-09-10 Thread Sterling K. Webb
simply wouldn't be here? Didn't we know that already? Sterling K. Webb - If this is a repeat post, I apologize. The first one seems to have never showed up as far as I can tell

Re: [meteorite-list] #2 Study: Earthlike planets may be common

2006-09-10 Thread Sterling K. Webb
planets. However nice it is to pin these things down, do we really need a big computer to tell us if Jupiter orbited the Sun at, say, the distance of Ceres, our planet Earth simply wouldn't be here? Didn't we know that already? Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto is Now Just a Number: 134340

2006-09-12 Thread Sterling K. Webb
planets... Sterling K. Webb For the space lawyers among us, here's the text of the IAU resolutions: Resolution 5A The IAU therefore resolves that planets and other bodies in our Solar System be defined into three distinct

Re: [meteorite-list] Pluto is Now Just a Number: 134340

2006-09-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
their intentions. What I can't understand is why the group that wanted Just Eight Planets on the one hand and Little Junk on the other hand think that this Resolution gave that to them, because it didn't. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] New Zealand Police Have 'Meteorite' Fragment

2006-09-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
What?! Not radioactive? Next thing you know, they'll be telling us it wasn't hot when it landed and that it didn't set fire to any sheep, grass or bushes... Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [meteorite-list] Smoke Trail

2006-09-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
could produce a fireball shadow, I suppose. It's just that fireballs are a lot rarer than jets! Even a 737 or 747 is hardly visible as an object at eight miles high (12 miles away at an angle); military jets are even smaller (and higher and faster). Sterling K. Webb

[meteorite-list] IT'S OFFICIAL -- A NUMBER AND A NAME

2006-09-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
to plough and plant and put his house in good order; and neighbour vies with his neighbour as he hurries after wealth. This Strife is wholesome for men. And potter is angry with potter, and craftsman with craftsman, and beggar is jealous of beggar, and minstrel of minstrel. Sterling K. Webb

[meteorite-list] 2003 UB313 IS ERIS

2006-09-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Nuf Ced - Original Message - From: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Cc: Larry Lebofsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 8:10 PM Subject: NEW PLANETARY NAMES There is one glaringly obvious classical

Re: [meteorite-list] re: All Hail Eris and Dysnomia (2003 UB313)

2006-09-14 Thread Sterling K. Webb
making his announcement, but denied any wrongdoing. He concedes that it was Brown's team that had discovered the object. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Marco Langbroek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite list

[meteorite-list] METEORITE MARKET DISCUSSED ON PUBLIC RADIO

2006-09-14 Thread Sterling K. Webb
billions and billions of dollars. The program Marketplace is public radio's stock market, corporate news, and big business news segment. Worth a listen, meteorite fans, if for no other reason than to hear meteorites make the financial news. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] re: All Hail Eris and Dysnomia (2003 UB313)

2006-09-14 Thread Sterling K. Webb
also married a goddess named Sigyn who bore him two sons: Narfi and Vali, which makes naming the two moons easy. Oh, yeah, one other thing: Loki is the God of Thieves! Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From

Re: [meteorite-list] METEORITE MARKET DISCUSSED ON PUBLIC RADIO

2006-09-14 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, the most on Robert Pearlmen. They suggested meteorites were as good an investment as your 401(k), because the market is in ruin but meteorites will soon dry up, making them priceless. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From

[meteorite-list] ODD PLANET

2006-09-15 Thread Sterling K. Webb
up a planet like breakfast food? Sterling K. Webb Read more: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060914135220.htm http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn10075-puffedup-planet-puzzles-astronomers.html http

Re: [meteorite-list] re: All Hail Eris and Dysnomia (2003 UB313)

2006-09-16 Thread Sterling K. Webb
- Original Message - From: Marco Langbroek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 10:48 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] re: All Hail Eris and Dysnomia (2003 UB313) Sigh. I am getting

Re: [meteorite-list] re: All Hail Eris and Dysnomia (2003 UB313)

2006-09-16 Thread Sterling K. Webb
sentence him by saying I don't know the truth? This is not logical of you. I said a cloud hangs over the discovery story; that is a purely descriptive statement of a state of affairs that does exist. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Unbelievably late package

2006-09-17 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, I make it an average speed of roughly 12 feet a minute. That's a little fast for a snail, but a little too slow for a pony. Floundering about for the optimal solution, I believe that TURTLES provide the best fit to the data... Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] re: All Hail Eris and Dysnomia (2003 UB313)

2006-09-17 Thread Sterling K. Webb
- Original Message - From: Marco Langbroek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 6:22 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] re: All Hail Eris and Dysnomia (2003 UB313) Sterling, to quote

Re: [meteorite-list] Unbelievably late package

2006-09-18 Thread Sterling K. Webb
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[meteorite-list] 2003 EL61, IN PERSON

2006-09-18 Thread Sterling K. Webb
(that we can find). She's content to let everybody watch Eris and 2003 EL61 (Elly?); she's really very shy. Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http

Re: [meteorite-list] 2003 EL61, IN PERSON

2006-09-19 Thread Sterling K. Webb
of this situation is that the Theory Machines all get their throttles cranked up to Hyper Overdrive and a lot of Theory Juice gets splattered all over the place. What we actually need is to let the Theory Machines cool down and collect more Reality Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] 2003 EL61, IN PERSON

2006-09-20 Thread Sterling K. Webb
! Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Larry Lebofsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com; E.P. Grondine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 19

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: Awesome solar transit image of Atlantis and ISS

2006-09-20 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Matson, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 1:57 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] OT: Awesome solar transit

[meteorite-list] NEW PICTURES OF VENUS' SURFACE

2006-09-20 Thread Sterling K. Webb
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Re: [meteorite-list] 2003 EL61, IN PERSON

2006-09-20 Thread Sterling K. Webb
30-50 species, or so it seems to us, but then perhaps we don't like beetles as much as God does. I bet He likes planets, too. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: MexicoDoug [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] COMETS AND CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITES

2006-09-21 Thread Sterling K. Webb
group. C ungrouped chondrites (C UNGRs) fall outside the other groups and probably represent other parent bodies of carbonaceous chondrites or source regions of the primordial solar nebula. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: E.P

Re: [meteorite-list] COMETS AND CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITES

2006-09-21 Thread Sterling K. Webb
(amphibole), Martians (Nakhlites) have a wide variety of hydrated minerals. E-class asteroids have a spectral feature that has been interpreted as hydrated minerals. And to modify the old saying, Where there's clay, there's water... Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] 2003 EL61, IN PERSON

2006-09-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
be performed by, at most, only 30-50 species, or so it seems to us, but then perhaps we don't like beetles as much as God does. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: MexicoDoug [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] COMETS AND CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITES

2006-09-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Whoops! I should have said fell-to-Earth samples. Of course, if it won't fall to Earth, then we just have to go get it! Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list

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