, it would get to be a habit...
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with a diameter in excess of 13,000
kilometers! (Bigger than the Earth.)
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on you, you
might not want to vacation someplace
where there's a world hanging in the
sky, obviously ready to drop...
I guess the 76-mile one is the
world and the 70-mile one is the
moon.
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was heavy in density,
dark in colour, and without obvious texture or
inclusions.
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Sent
Doug!
You're Hired!
As Head of Advertising
and Creative Visioneering
for TwoWorlds Resorts
(formerly Patroclus Properties, Ltd.,
but now a whole-owned susidiary
of Solar Disney, S.A.)
PowerPoint Presentation
for the Board of Directors
on Monday?
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spontaneous
mob somewhere in a Muslim country less
well-tyranized than Greater Syria. Someone
could get hurt. Of course, you can take comfort
in the fact that ALL the Muslim countries
seem to be thoroughly tyrannized...
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,
SDO's ---
Argh! Stop! Stop! How is that making things better?
We all know what IAU will do.
Nothing.
Smart guys.
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enough. Of course, it may
be only the residual of many undiscovered
bodies, but the Universe could still have
a surprise or two up its sleeves.
There's LOTS of elbow room out there.
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From
, SURGATION, the process of surging?
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Hi,
I seem to recall his posting to the List
that he was getting out of selling meteorites
and micromounts of same. I remember it
because I hadn't finished shopping my wish
list at the time...
If I'm in memory error here, somebody
correct me... I could have flipped a bit.
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on an Earth-influenced path and probably
ramp up to a lot more than escape velocity...
So, you see, stranger, thar ain't no way to get thar from here...
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it's DOA, just like all the
other tektite theories.
They're a paradox. They're a problem.
They're like the jigsaw that seems to going
so well until somebody holds up a piece
you'd forgotten about and innocently says,
Where's this go?
Sterling K. Webb
on Illinois
backroads, but never a dead emu, so no
chance of picking up a nice australite that way...
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of the clips...
But you can watch them, at least.
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Tektite Exhibition Hall, we enter the spacious
Semi-Extra-Terrestrial Pavilion.
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validity of various tektite origin theories:
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is a lot more do-able than
looking at 17,129 planets, I guess.
Break out the Big Ears. Break out the Big Eyes.
Howdy, neighbor...
Sterling K. Webb
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article346547.ece
Scientist earmarks planets most likely
, which is Hydrochloric Acid. I used
it in a very stubborn drain once and it really solved
the problem... No more drain! Liquid Fire ate it away
completely, steel pipes and all!
Sterling K. Webb
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the odds.
I hope McLean takes these Opportunists back to the lab and gives them a
good home. Make a little sign for their petrie dish that says, Bacterial
Astronaut Retirement Home.
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in the head cold department; a cosmic ray flipped
a bit in some brain cell...
Tell the waiter I like my crow well done...
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Hi,
Liquid Drano contains sodium hypochlorite
as well as sodium hydroxide, so there are plenty
of chlorine ions in this solution, and soaking in it
is likely to increase the chlorine ions in the iron
rather than leach them out.
Sterling K. Webb
but very few tektite producing ones; why?
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, to fall with a
sizzle into the still water below? First, everything floods
and we have to move up into these stinking FEMA
treehouses, and now there's hot glass falling from the
sky... The world is going to hell.
Doug, did I answer your question?
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was
at the time the First Lord of the Admiralty and Cook's superior officer.
During the late 19th century, the name fell into disuse. The Sandwich
Islands should not be confused with the South Sandwich Islands, an
uninhabited British dependency in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
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.
I'm quiting. It's late enough that I could go out
and wave at that comet myself.
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the event.
But after envisioning clouds of rock vapor
and repeated fiery rains of molten droplets
over hundreds of miles, I wonder if we ought
to worry more than we do. Or at least,
figure out what they are...
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reasons for suspecting a comet-
tektite connection, but I'm saving it for another post
to the List.
Stay tuned.
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Cc
.
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through
the solar system to account for the
numbers intercepted by Earth and
detected on Amor radars, and while
I can't remember the figure, it
was not inconsiderable.
The Galaxy leaks...
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slaughter bats in
large numbers for sport.
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?
A warehouse fire might be hot enough, but where would
the mineral salts come from? The box on the shelf above?
Since it has to happen when the tektite is hot, semi-molten,
the least-effort explanation that it fell originally on ground
which had some naturally occuring mineral salt.
Sterling K. Webb
Hi,
Just heard (on NPR) that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
has arrived safely at Mars, insertion went fine, and contact
has been recovered from it in orbit (sound of much cheering).
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there are more obvious
explanations for these features than the energetic expression
of a rock from space.
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) that the search in, say, GoogleEarth,
would be arduous. They're great little craters, though, and
are pretty unmistakable when seen at ground level. And
the shattercone photo is one of the best photos
of shattercones in place that I've ever seen.
Sterling K. Webb
...
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answer to your question as to how big
a crater has to get to become a complex crater is:
Well, that all depends...
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, things will get back to normal, and we can
vacation in the rain forests of Antarctica once again,
but that day is not now, and it is not tomorrow.
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in Earth's oceans
look pretty alien to me, like benthic fishes. Excuse me, but...
you're not from around here, are you?
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Stop suffering...
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and heating, and so forth, nothing to
indicate a violent mechanism of ejection, so there must
be a more effective and less stressful mechanism than
raw blasting power.
Anyone else want to design a conveyor?
Sterling K. Webb
years ago, which is silly, since it was
described scientifically in 1850 and has been known
since paleolithic times. You can listen to the segment at:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5297311
Click the Listen button.
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rez image (page two of the article) has
98 inches to the pixel. When the orbit is lowered
and circularized, the resolution will be 11 inches
to the pixel. And, yes, Mars' surface looks different
when the pictures are sharper and more detailed.
Nothing like more detail...
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for those fish fins, of course).
I love a Mystery.
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(no trees!). I suppose you could
easily hypothesize any behavior, since Pleistocene
beavers are extinct and can hardly object to our
speculations!
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winningly, so youse can see I
din't have nuttin' ta do wid it!
Convince you?
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and leaves a crater twice the
size of Arizona's Meteor Crater and 1500 feet deep.
I'm really glad they've identified all the chunks
bigger than 500 meters (10,000 megatons and a
five-mile crater), but how many nasty little pieces
do you suppose there are?
Sterling K. Webb
of Mercurian planetary sample material. All you will have to do
is separate it from the other 9,999 grams.
If I didn't charge at least $1000 per gram for Mercurian
material, why, then the market would be in ruin!
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the smell of a paradigm shift in the morning...
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to 1kg in weight were found associated with
a crater 10 metres in diameter 15.4kg collected .
And so forth. It's not well-documented.
Try Googling Um-Hadid.
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of
lidocaine...
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for a world to die, though.
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raft image I've ever seen.
Take a look; these are
remarkable pictures.
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coefficients still. No explanation as to why that
should be. Maybe there is something hiding
under the Titus-Bode regularity that will
become blindingly obvious once we figure
out everything else.
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is why their origin is
a concealed mystery and a quarrel).
Certainly, tektites contain metals and the chemical
compounds of metals, but if by metal tektite you
mean something similiar to the way an iron meteorite
is a metal meteorite, the answer would be no.
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chemical analysis, to be the completely melted remains
of an aircraft engine bearing (always check your oil before
you take off).
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, unfortunately. Nobody's perfect. We will
know for sure if we hear cries from ALL the Atlantic Coasts:
Surf's Up! About 200 meters... Knarly, dude.
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w.Decker.
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Anomolous Aluminum Object's..
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:58:33 -0500
Hi, Kevin,
Now that you tell me that they are composed
Hi, Kevin,
Now that you tell me that they are composed of
aluminum particles and since I looked up Zephyrhills
on a map, I suggest that they are from the solid rocket
boosters for the Shuttle.
From NASA's web site:
The propellant mixture in each SRB motor consists of an ammonium
.
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Long-Destroyed Fifth Planet May Have Caused
Lunar Cataclysm, Researchers Say
By Leonard David, Senior Space Writer
posted: 03:00 pm ET, 18 March
and buy them a drink in the hope that they
will tell me their life story...
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about whether or not it's crazy
enough to be true!
No big objects in the outer Solar System!?
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because it's a tri-axial
oblate spheroid. (Anybody got the area formula for that?)
It'll be worth waiting for!
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it
in the odd corner of my drive. I never throw anything away.
(You should see my bookshelves...)
At the risk of sounding like an old Eastern Bloc movie,
Long Live The List!
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think the Richat is a crater, but a domed,
layered structure sliced off flat to reveal its layers. His less
probable structure looks more like a crater in the tilted view,
but it is too battered to tell much. The Sahara is not kind,
even to rocks...
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of that story...
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there? There's definitely a lot to be learned
from this fragment!
And lastly, there's no doubt what would be the most
expensive L chondrite of all time, though. Morokwong.
Be a while before we see it on eBay...
Sterling K. Webb
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identified as an L chondrite:
www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/impact2000/pdf/3048.pdf
Hopefully, a comparison of the found fragment with the
impact melt composition anomalies will rule it in or out. If
it WAS a coincidence, I'm still on the beam with the
leprechauns, right?
Sterling K. Webb
we
could count on lots and lots of nice public parks in the form of
meadows, a boom in hay boutique ristorantes replacing Starbucks, and
crowds of rich gambling Palaminoes and Arabians at human foot races!
It could be worse.
Sterling K. Webb
to wear on the way to the bar?
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Aloha, all!
My husband is in the middle of what amounts to a 'bar bet'. He is trying to
find out annual meteorite fall rates, and whether
Hi, Mark,
The method was simply this. First, imagine that we could find and count
every meteorite that falls on the entire planet. We just wait a year and then
count them BUT, we really can't do that, so... We scrape off a square mile and
cover it with white paper and wait 10,000 years, then
Hi, All,
The people who publish WWW are like all the other checkout tabloid
publishers, cynical Brits who rightly believe that there is no limit to
how rich you can become by underestimating the intelligence of the
average American. The really strange people are the ones who READ the
Weekly
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Hi,
Well, that explains the passage of 20-odd hours without a single post to
the List! Plain text, like gravity, isn't just a good idea; it's the law,
apparently.
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Hi, Mark, List,
EBay is the market itself, not the cop in the market.
A major story in the St. Louis area this weekend is the arrest of the
owner of a commercial cleaning service who's been (alleged to be) robbing
his customers blind and disposing of the stolen goods, not through a fence,
of this immense crater field as the source of
the Australasian tektite strewn field, the worse it gets. It strongly
suggests that almost everything we think we know about tektites is wrong.
Oh, no, how could that be? And us so smart and all...
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crackpot comes along with an
inferior crackpot theory, particularly when he stole his theory from a crazy
dead Congressman! It makes all us crackpots look bad!
On the other hand, isn't a story like Citizen Steals From Congressman! a
little like the classic Man Bites Dog!?
Sterling K. Webb
starting point lies.
Sterling
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Paul H wrote:
In Could A Meteorite or Comet Cause All The Fires of
1871?
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2004-August/143245.html
Sterling K. Webb wrote:
These strange fires were
between 2-1/2 and 3 Earth masses is the point where the median
ocean depths equal the height of the highest possible mountain.
Glub, glub!
Sterling K. Webb
Footnote: David Brin has suggested that most Earth-like
worlds are bigger
Hi,
The Catalogue of Meteorites lists only three irons for
Indiana:
KOKOMO 1862 Find IVB Ataxite
LA PORTE 1900 Find IIIAB
PLYMOUTH 1893 Find IIIAB
and nothing for VERMILLION
Gee, anybody got any HANGMAN'S CROSSING?
What a great name...
Sterling Webb
Of
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Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 10:41 PM
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Hi,
The Catalogue of Meteorites lists only three irons for
Indiana:
KOKOMO 1862 Find IVB Ataxite
LA PORTE 1900 Find IIIAB
PLYMOUTH
is the driver's side and midnight is the
passenger side.
The sunset terminator is the trunk latch, of course.
If you think about what happens to those bugs you meet head-on, you can see why an
early
morning meteor is much more likely to splat into the atmosphere and pop!
Sterling K. Webb
with an truly incredible volume of early 20th century
machine junk, scrap iron, and slags. A searcher's nightmare. Leave your detector
at home.
Sterling K. Webb
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Since the List is very quiet tonight
the atmosphere at
far less than the Earth's escape velocity.
This is about the only possible explanation of a slow moving retrograde
entry observation.
Sterling K. Webb
E. L. Jones wrote:
Any de-orbit/decay expected tonight Sep 30, 2004 over
to two to produce four, but it was in the early-mid-eighties, before
Luis Alvarez's death in 1988.
For a really nice link to a Chicxulub page (Alan Hildebrand's) with great
pictures, try:
http://miac.uqac.ca/MIAC/chicxulub.htm
Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Martin,
That kind of talk is perfectly acceptable if you are
running for national political office, like a senator or
congressman, but we'd appreciate it if you'd tone it
down a little for us.
Sterling K. Webb
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at speeds of up to 5000 mph creates a
sonic boom that carries for many hundreds of miles and whose extent and
persistence
is very hard to predict accurately.
If only every sonic boom was a meteor about to deposit a fresh fall... But
it ain't necessarily so.
Sterling K. Webb
on the horizon, I'm going to go toss some more carbon-laden fuel into my
personal CO2 generator and toast my feet by its waste heat while thumbing
through my well-worn copy of the works of Milutin Milankovich.
Keep warm!
Sterling K. Webb
the long s. Some folks just don't like to
change.
But English can do without a system in which the word selfless comes out
looking a lot like felfleff!
Sterling K. Webb
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Hi again Martin (Bernard, Bernd
or the planet Mercury, or
on a smaller scale, a stoney-iron meteorite!
On the other hand, one should never accept a reporter's word on math
or meteorites at face value.
Sterling K. Webb
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Hello Rob and All
), proposed to be a
time-blurred bug, does not look anything like what an actual long exposure image
of a flying insect looks like. Check out the flying rods and marvel at the
gullibility of the poor humans.
I still don't know what this is.
Sterling K. Webb
before dawn to
catch objects that have just crossed the Earth's orbit.
Yet Aten class Earth crossers --- whose numbers are not well known
nor even well-estimated --- are vastly more dangerous than the better
cataloged Apollos and Amors, for just that reason.
Sterling K. Webb
, if the very best data could only refine things to where the
ellipsoid of paths overlapped only part of the Earth circle, and that was the
best data we would ever have from this current approach, the outcome could
remain
uncertain for years.
Wait and see.
Sterling K. Webb
. It would achieve runup
heights of about 200 feet even 1000-2000 kilometers
away.
So it's a really good thing that 2004 MN4 is going
to miss us in 2029. Thanks to those pre-discovery
plates, Herbert can get his sleep, none of us have to
start building arks or move to mountain tops!
Sterling K
it as it came.
What about other mail programs?
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