Re: [meteorite-list] Question About Vesicle Size/Images

2009-03-13 Thread star-bits
Adam The large hole on the edge of this slice is not a vesicle. It was a depression in the exterior of the stone that was sliced through. Such things are not uncommon on iron slices. As far as the largest vesicle question, I found a hershey's kiss shaped hole in a gao melt that was 1

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2009-03-18 Thread star-bits
Greeting all My first eBay auctions in several months are closing shortly, including Two 16 gram CV3s, 1 is still less than $0.75/gm A couple millbillillie slices one light phase and one dark phase Several really nice oriented pieces, the 20 gram one is only $0.33/gm right now. A Dhofar CR

Re: [meteorite-list] Richard Norton

2009-05-27 Thread star-bits
This is sad news. Richard was one of the true gentlemen in meteorites. I always enjoyed meeting and talking to him at the Tucson show. Rocks from Space was always #1 on my list of books for new collectors to read. He will be greatly missed. -- Eric Olson 610 W. Moore Rd Tucson AZ 85755 htt

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2007-12-10 Thread star-bits
Greetings I have a some auctions closing in a few hours including a 247 gram muonionalusta egg that is currently at only 13 cents per gram, a 153 gram beautiful 99% crusted juancheng that is only at 50 cents per gram, NWA 482 lunar at less than $500 per gram, a gorgeous eucrite with shock

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2008-01-21 Thread star-bits
Greetings I have a number of auctions closing in an hour including a very nice oriented sikhote-alin currently at less than 50 cents per gram, a few other pieces of sikhote-alin shrapnel with craters or holes as well as several tatahouine items, and others.See them all at the following

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2008-02-18 Thread star-bits
Greetings I have some auctions closing in a few hours including several imilac, martian individuals, bassikounou, a great tatahouine, oriented sikhote-alin, very nice unclassified NWA individuals, vigarano fragment and others. See them all and others at the following URL

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2008-03-01 Thread star-bits
Greetings all After processing over a thousand photos in the last week today I dropped my camera and so the rest of the website will have to wait a bit. I have updated and added a number of meteorites to my website. The additions include new Allende individuals Bassikounou Chergach or Er

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2008-03-03 Thread star-bits
Greetings Alll I have a number of auctions closing shortly including Bassikounou (one still less than 18 cents per gram), a crusted shergottite individual (currently still under $250/gm), a muonionalusta sphere under 30 cents per gram, a tatahouine under 50 cents per gram, vaca muerta under

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-related job posting

2008-03-29 Thread star-bits
I would imaging this job is in the clean room in Houston where the the Antartic finds are sampled and prepared. I was allowed to go into the clean room once when someone I knew was pickng out some lunar samples for a research project. Got to see a 467 gram chunk of Allen Hills 84001 unde

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2008-03-31 Thread star-bits
Greetings All I have a number of auctions closing shortly including 2 bassikounou individuals one currently at 46 cents per gram and the other 98% crusted at $0.75/gm. a 112 gram glorieta mountain currently less than 28 cents per gram a couple oriented sikhote-alin one still at 30 cents pe

Re: [meteorite-list] Don't delay, order today! - Suspect Auction-Suspect [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-03-31 Thread star-bits
Mr EMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --= --Ha ha Funny... the Rorschach-Shroom Techinque of meteorite --identification...Down to confirming orange olivine crystals-- in a --mesosiderite no less--and fresh? It is fresh from the slag pile! --I've got petrified frog poop that looks

Re: [meteorite-list] New, long, Carancas article II

2008-04-04 Thread star-bits
It would seem to me that if the stone fragmented in flight and was contained by the shock wave it would still be heated by the plasma and all the fragments would develop crusts. There appear to be some pieces with crust, but enought to match Schultz's theory? "Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL P

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2008-04-07 Thread star-bits
Greetings all I have some auctions closing in a few hours including a 40% crusted martian individual still at $100/gm, a beautiful 172 gram muonionalusta slice still less than the cost of cutting, 2 bassikounou individuals at only $0.60/gram, polymict diogenite at 1/2 the wholesale of uncut

Re: [meteorite-list] Effect of fall of dollar against Euro/ dirham's

2008-04-08 Thread star-bits
Michael L Blood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I mailed out 16 packages today including 7 to europe and 1 to canada w

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2008-04-14 Thread star-bits
Greetings all I have a few auctions closing shortly including a nicely crusted martian individual currently about $100/gm, a beautiful imilac slice at about 1/2 retail, a fresh rich black crusted bassikounou, very fresh jauncheng, 227 gram muonionalusta, a sikhote-alin shrapnel oriented by

Re: [meteorite-list] what is the most primitve meteorite? or do we even know?

2008-04-15 Thread star-bits
Dark Matter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here is what I wrote on my web page. First let me say that my comments were about relative age and not how primitive vigarano is. As Jeff mentioned that is another matter entirely. Second there are different methods for determining age.

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2008-04-21 Thread star-bits
Greetings All I have a number of auctions closing shortly including molong pallasite bid at $9/gm martian shergottite individual, currently less than $90/gm 2 bassikounou, one is currently $0.20/gm imilac slice, at 1/3 retail Allende, one with a very large CAI still less than $2/gram Millbil

Re: [meteorite-list] Pronouncing Willamette and other meteorite names

2008-04-23 Thread star-bits
You might be a meteorite collector if:You know words in 50 different languages and can't pronounce any of them correctly. Eric Olson 7682 Firethorn Dr Fayetteville, NC 28311 http://www.star-bits.com __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-

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2008-04-28 Thread star-bits
Greetings All I have a few auctions closing in a few hours, including A nicely crusted martian shergottite individual currently at $82/gm Molong pallasite at less than $10/gm an Allende like CV3 NWA 2141 that is NOT paired with NWA 3118 A nice moldavite at less than $0.45/gm very fresh indiv

Re: [meteorite-list] Ordovician Meteorites...was New or maybe oldQUESTION???

2008-05-05 Thread star-bits
"Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Where does this information come from? It does not seem even remotely possible. No tektites are this old.All tektites originated as melted terrestrial material. How do you postulate a "melt date" which precedes a later melting? Yo

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2008-05-05 Thread star-bits
Greetings all I have a few auctions closing shortly including martian shergottite 1.72 gram iindividual currently at less than $80/gm bassikounou individual 95% crusted currently at $0.18/gm molong pallasite at less than $10/gm selma a 31 gram part slice NWA 2924 mesosiderite with metal nod

Re: [meteorite-list] Ordovician Meteorites...was New or maybe oldQUESTION???

2008-05-05 Thread star-bits
"Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Except that I never mentioned or implied K/Ar dating which does reset from shock or melting unlike Rb/Sr. <.) You get two pieces of information from the Rb/Sr isochron. One is an age of igneous formation ("How old are these mountains?"), set

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2008-05-12 Thread star-bits
Greetings all I have a few auctions closing shortly including very fresh individuals of bassikounou, erg chech/chergash, juancheng, and oum dreyga as well as dimmitt, mundrabilla, allende, tatahouine, a crusted martian individual still at $120/gm and others. See them all at

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2008-05-19 Thread star-bits
Greetings all I have a few auctions closing shortly including Mars shergottite individual 0.98 grams currently at only at $72/gm Imilac part slice currently at only $11/gm Bassikounou one less than $0.60/gm Thuathe, one of the best I bought in Lesotho in 2003. Kilabo Still less than $1/gm

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2008-06-02 Thread star-bits
Greetings all I have a number of auctions closing shortly including 2 martian individuals currently both less than $100/gm one less than $33/gm Dhofar 010 impact melt Dhofar 1432 CR Carancas currently 1/2 the cost of the membrane box it comes in. Bassikounou Oum Dreyga individual Oum Rokba

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2008-06-09 Thread star-bits
Greetings all I have a number of auctions closing shortly including Allende Bassikounou 100% crusted still at $1/gm Several oriented Sikhote-alin individuals one still at $0.99 Mars shergottite crusted individuals less than $175/gm diogenite polymict breccia at 10% of what it is worth.

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2009-09-09 Thread star-bits
Greetings all This didn't show up in my inbox or the archives so I will send it again. I have a number of auctions closing shortly including 39 gram mundrabilla slice with troilite 100 gram NWA silicated iron complete slice 18.3 gram springwater pallasite from ASU (ninninger) trade. 1

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2009-09-09 Thread star-bits
Greetings all I have a number of auctions closing shortly including 39 gram mundrabilla slice with troilite 100 gram NWA silicated iron complete slice 18.3 gram springwater pallasite from ASU (ninninger) trade. 1.03 gram DAG 400 lunar slice 0.49 gram Vigarano 31 gram Mulga North 11.89 gram ori

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2009-12-14 Thread star-bits
I have a few auctions closing shortly including DAG 400 Lunar unbid at $500/gm, Mundrabilla and silicated iron slices, a 148 gram CV3 unbid at less than $1.70/gm. See them all and more at -- Eric Olson 610 W. Moore Rd Tuc

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2007-02-25 Thread star-bits
Greetings all I have a number of eBay auctions closing later today including a .73 gram Dag 400 lunar with lots of nice inclusions, dhofar 1180 lunar, a tatahouine complete stone (not a fragment), a couple large Muonionalusta spheres currently at pennies per gram, a complete 100% crusted mi

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2007-03-12 Thread star-bits
Greetings I have a number of auctions closing shortly including Martian, Lunar (currently at $2.25), Karoonda, Vigarano, a nice banded Libyan Desert Glass, Tagish Lake and others. Check them out at: -- Eric Olson 768

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2007-03-15 Thread star-bits
I loaded a bunch of new things on ebay last night including a wafer thin Dag 476 martian, a 128 gram allende individual with ASU lable, a couple nice pieces of the springwater pallasite, a 1.3kg huckitta pallasite and others. Check them out at the following URL

Re: [meteorite-list] Gao, Gao & Gao

2007-03-16 Thread star-bits
Zelimir Gabelica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <1) Gao(b) that is a CR (S1), found by Eric Twelker in a parcel full of "normal Gaos" sent to him from Burkina Faso.> I also found one of these stones in a shipment from Burkina Faso. According to my source it came from a small village named Pro

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2007-03-20 Thread star-bits
Greetings I have a number of items closing today including Dhofar 1180 lunar, vigarano, tagish lake, karoonda and others. In addition I have items closing tomorrow also including a 2.19 gram Dag 476 martian as thin as a business card, 2 pieces of springwater pallasite, several esquel p

Re: [meteorite-list] Fusion crusts on stony meteorites

2007-03-23 Thread star-bits
I would say it is likely an impact melt and not a fusion crust. It is not uncommon for impact melts to have unaltered clasts of the original material in them and well as small vugs formed from gasses in the melt. Nice photos John. -- Eric Olson 7682 Firethorn Dr Fayetteville, NC 28311 http:/

[meteorite-list] Walter Branch

2007-03-27 Thread star-bits
Greetings all I drove down to Savannah today and spent a couple hours with Walter.I was the second meteorite person he has ever met, John Sinclair was the other. So he was blown away with the signed poster and accompanying check from a group of casual email acquaintances whom he has

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2007-04-17 Thread star-bits
Greetings all I have a number of auctions closing shortly. If you like holes there is a very nice canyon diablo with a hole and a sikhote-alin with multiple holes. Many others including a couple great looking lunars that are still well below market, a thuathe individual that is half wh

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2007-05-07 Thread star-bits
Greetings All I have a number of auctions closing soon including a really nice allende individual, a couple Sikhote-alin schrapnel with holes and one with multiple craters on it, a nice Mundrabilla and Dalgety Downs from Australia, as well as Tagish Lake, Karoonda, Covert, El Hammami, ori

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2007-05-28 Thread star-bits
Greetings I have a few auctions closing shortly including a nice piece of morasko, allende (barely $1/gm now), a thuathe with slickensides, vigarano at 1/10 what it is worth, and half a dozen others still at one penny. Check them and others out at

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2007-05-31 Thread star-bits
Greetings I have a number of auctions closing shortly. As I write this there are 7 items that are bid all the way up to one penny and another 7 that are unbid on at a penny. In addition to these there are a number of other things such as a CR2 from Dhofar, complete slice and an endcut

Re: [meteorite-list] Global Warming - Scientifically proven or a farce

2007-06-12 Thread star-bits
I am growing weary of this "debate" and since I seem to have the knack of ending threads on the rare occasions when I post on them, lets kill this one right now. Global warming isn't a debate it is two sides talking past each other. Side 1 sees glaciers melting and snowcapped mountains w

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2007-06-25 Thread star-bits
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2007-07-02 Thread star-bits
Greetings I have auctions closing in a few hours including, a CV3 with a black inclusion, a 20 gram CV3 slice that is still 1/3 of what it should be, Dhofar 1180 lunar, a 39 gram gao endcut sitting at $1.75, karoonda at a penny, tatahouine and others. See them all at

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2007-07-09 Thread star-bits
Greetings I have a number of eBay actions closing in a few hours and the bidding is about as weak as I have seen it. On eBay currently Allende at $1.47/gm Vigarano at $55/gm, hard to find at $200/gm NWA 2140 with a black clast at $0.64/gm, should be at least

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2007-07-16 Thread star-bits
Greetings I have a number of eBay actions closing shortly including, a sikhote-alin with a crater, Allende, Tagish Lake, Molong pallasite, Bjurbole, and others. Seven are currently bid at only a penny and two others are still unbid at a penny.

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2007-07-30 Thread star-bits
Greetings all I have a number of eBay auctions closing in a few hours. They include a 0.439 gram Dag 476 martian, a sikhote-alin with a crater, a number of tatahouine including a couple 25 gram lots, tagish lake and others. Of note is a stone which was received with a lot of Gao a few yea

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2007-08-08 Thread star-bits
Greetings all I need to sell my metal detector, a White's Goldmaster III. When ever discussions have happened on the list about metal detectors the White's Goldmaster III has always received very favorable comments. I found my first meteorite a 129 gram Goldbasin with this machine afte

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2007-08-13 Thread star-bits
Greetings all I have a number of auctions closing shortly including a 4.9 gram molong pallasite, 0.9 gram dhofar 1180 lunar well below value, a sikhote-alin with a 10mm crater now at $0.76, another sikhote-alin with a fin where an inclusion burned out, a 55.4 milligram Tagish Lake currently

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2007-08-20 Thread star-bits
Greetings all I have some auctions closing shortly including a 112 gram Glorieta Mountain. It is currently only $1.80/gm but 29 people currently have it on their watch list so bid high. Also for sale molong pallasite, a couple Tagish Lake (one still at a penny), karoonda (also at a pen

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2007-08-20 Thread star-bits
Greetings all I have some auctions closing shortly including a 112 gram Glorieta Mountain. It is currently only $1.80/gm but 29 people currently have it on their watch list so bid high. Also for sale molong pallasite, a couple Tagish Lake (one still at a penny), karoonda (also at a pen

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Questions

2007-08-29 Thread star-bits
Walter branch wrote: The small strewnfields are caused not by meteoroid streams, but by an asteroid which is gravitationally clumped rocks and not a solid chunk. Because they are just gravitationally attached to each other the earths gravity probably starts separating them and then the

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2007-09-03 Thread star-bits
Greetings all I have a few auctions closing shortly including a 71mg NWA 482 lunar, several sikhotes with craters or holes, a dark phase millbillillie endcut with great crust on the back side, a small tatahouine that is an individual not a fragment, and others. See them all at

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2007-09-17 Thread star-bits
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Re: [meteorite-list] Monthly Favourite - September 2007

2007-09-17 Thread star-bits
Brend wrote: NWA 2140 was classified and "supposedly" submitted for approval a couple times by Ted Bunch, but as far as I know it was never received by the nomenclature committee. Ted said it was paired with NWA 3118 and you can see some info on it at the following URL

Re: [meteorite-list] Experts Skeptical of Peruvian Meteorite Impact

2007-09-20 Thread star-bits
Sterling wrote: A few years back I put together a web page listing the craters over 10 meters in diameter and whether or not meteorites had been found. A quick check of this page showed 15 craters with associated meteorites, 13 irons, 1 pallasite, and 1 mesosiderite. It may be that stones

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2007-11-19 Thread star-bits
Greetings I have a few auctions closing in a few hours including a 45 gram slice of allende with ASU lable, molong pallasite, Bells a CM2 hammer stone with a total known weight of only 285 grams, a gold basin slice with armored chondrules and others. See them and others at

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2006-09-27 Thread star-bits
Greetings I have a few eBay auctions closing in a few hours, including a 40 gram piece of allende with an ASU lable which is currently less than $2/gm. Also a small lunar and a autographed hardback copy of "Rock from Space". You can see them at:

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2006-10-05 Thread star-bits
Greetings I have a few auctions closing today including, an oriented sikhote-alin that has lipping on both sides, a 100% crusted 6.94 gram millbillillie, a fairly large 6.3 gram aouelloul impact glass that is 1/10 of what it should be selling for, and a few others. Check them out. Last

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2006-10-15 Thread star-bits
Greetings I have a number of eBay auctions ending in less than 24 hours. As I write this 5 are bid at $0.01 and 4 are unbid at $0.01. These include gretna, tatahouine, oriented sikhote-alin and taza and a really nice 9.3 gram vaca muerta with eucrite inclusion. In addition to the penny

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2006-10-23 Thread star-bits
Greetings I have a few auctions closing tonight including a nice slice of millbillillie currently at $2.00/gm, as well as a part slice of murchison and others. See them at -- Eric Olson http://www.star-bits.com ___

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2006-10-30 Thread star-bits
Greetings all I have some eBay auctions closing in a few hours including a 3.34 gram tatahouine with crust currently at less than 50 cents per gram. You can see them all at -- Eric Olson http://www.star-bits.com _

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2006-11-15 Thread star-bits
Greetings I have a number of auctions closing in a few hours including several different ancient meteorite coins, martian and lunar meteorites, a very nice 11.94 gram H4 unbid at a penny (listed elsewhere at $4/gm), a number of tatahouine including pieces with some crust, a dark phase end

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2006-11-27 Thread star-bits
Greetings I have a few eBay auctions closing in a few hours including a 25 gram lot (10 fragments) of tatahouine which currently sits at the price for one of the smaller stones. In addition there is another small tatahouine that has shattercone features on one face, a CV3 with a CM2 typ

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2006-12-04 Thread star-bits
Greetings Two things, first off comcast sold my account to another company so my email address is changing. The new account will be automatically forwarding my email to the new address. Already it is amazing how many more emails I am getting at the new address. Should have left comcas

Re: [meteorite-list] Fusion Crust on Irons

2006-12-05 Thread star-bits
I have bought a lot of sikhote-alin shrapnel over the last couple years. My main supplier had shrapnel that ran the gamut from silver through dirty brown to black. I asked for an explanation of what the difference was in the preparation they did with the items. All of them were tumbled, th

Re: [meteorite-list] Fusion Crust on Irons

2006-12-05 Thread star-bits
I have bought a lot of sikhote-alin shrapnel over the last couple years. My main supplier had shrapnel that ran the gamut from silver through dirty brown to black. I asked for an explanation of what the difference was in the preparation they did with the items. All of them were tumbled, th

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2006-12-11 Thread star-bits
Greetings I have a number of auctions closing in a few hours including a 31 gram oriented "black" millbillillie, .5 gram lunar, a 2.8 gram crusted Norton County fragment, CV3s, Tatahouines and others. As I write this there are still 3 items sitting at a penny. Check them out at http

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2006-12-15 Thread star-bits
Greetings I just listed a number of eBay auctions including 2 lunars -.15 and .29 grams, a martian .26, and a 25 gram lot of 2-4 gram tatahouines all for a penny no reserve. Most of the others are listed at a penny as well. They can all be seen at http://members.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d

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2006-12-18 Thread star-bits
Greetings all and Merry Christmas I have a number of eBay auctions including 2 lunars -.15 and .29 grams, a martian 0.26 grams closing today. One lunar and the martian are less than $125/gm at this point, the other lunar NWA482 with a bit of crust is still only $500/gm. A 25 gram

[meteorite-list] Holiday greetings

2006-12-24 Thread star-bits
Merry Christmas everyone. Have a happy new year and fall nearby in the coming 12 months. -- Eric Olson 7682 Firethorn Dr Fayetteville, NC 28311 http://www.star-bits.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pair

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2007-01-03 Thread star-bits
Greetings I hope everyone had a good holiday season. As part of my holiday I got to pick through several kilograms of millbillie individuals. I have 16 millbillillie individuals closing on eBay in a few hours, all 100% crusted except for 2 which are 95+% crusted. Two of the larger mil

Re: [meteorite-list] NJ OH BOY

2007-01-05 Thread star-bits
Jeremy Delaney does research on meteorites and has published a number of meteorite related papers. However extensive petrology work does not necessarily mean knowledge in identification of hand specimens. Despite his background I remain doubtful it is a meteorite and look forward to an act

Re: [meteorite-list] AD: Amazing impact-melt Eucrite!

2007-01-06 Thread star-bits
I remember when NWA 2910 first came back from cutting. I went over to Mike's to paw through all the slices. I have always been partial to impact melts and this is a real beauty. I had a hard time picking out which slice I wanted, they were all pretty amazing. At the time it still wa

Re: [meteorite-list] AD: Amazing impact-melt Eucrite!

2007-01-06 Thread star-bits
Yes Matteo, but they don't look like this one either. Different people collect different things. I like shock melts. I paid $200/gm for this in 2005 and don't regret it a bit. Yes it would have been nice if there were hundreds of kilos and the price was $10/gm, but in 18 months I haven

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2007-01-25 Thread star-bits
Greetings I have a number of eBay auctions closing in a few hours including several lunars, tatahouine, vigarano, and several CV3s with the CM2 type inclusions. They can all be seen at the following URL. Bid high I need the money for Tucson ;-)

Re: [meteorite-list] Moving to North Carolina--NWA 1929

2006-04-10 Thread star-bits
Mike Fowler wrote: It is not 1929 that is being reclassified, just the stone I have on my web page. I bought it as 1929 but when I showed it to Ted Bunch he said he had not seen the light/dark mix on any of the many 1929 samples he had seen. So I gave him a sample and asked him to cla

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2006-04-10 Thread star-bits
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Re: [meteorite-list] ...advice please!

2006-04-12 Thread star-bits
In my auctions that closed monday I had some Gao-Guenie (B) carbonaceous CR cut fragments, 1.1 grams that sold for one penny, and a 6.5 gram tatahouine that sold for less than $5/gm. Not what I was looking for in either case, but both lots are on their way to their new owners. If your s

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2006-04-17 Thread star-bits
Hopefully this will be posted before the auctions close. Auctions closing this evening with a couple still at a penny and a tatahouine with some crust still at less than $3/gm as well as others. See at -- Eric Olson EL

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2006-04-24 Thread star-bits
Greetings all I have some auctions closing tonight. That includes a piece of allende that I received in a collection that somebody ground and polished into a rounded point. It could easily be made into a piece of jewelry. All lots can be seen at

Re: [meteorite-list] Canada laws

2006-04-26 Thread star-bits
Armando Afonso Wrote: Hardly as easy as going to the supermarket. It required the expenditure of several thousand dollars with no guarantee of getting anything when he arrived. A career in piracy??? Maybe you ought to go to a dictionary and read a defination of the word. Pirates

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2006-06-18 Thread star-bits
Greeting I have a few items on eBay closing monday night. Several are still at $0.01 bid and there is a 0.144 gram lunar that is still less than $50. You can see them at -- Eric Olson http://www.star-bits.com

[meteorite-list] Sikhote-alin question

2006-06-27 Thread star-bits
Greetings Last night I listed a bunch of auctions one of which was a Sikhote-alin with a 2.5x2 cm circular feature in it. It is kind of like what you would expect of a large troilite except the surface (about 1-2mm lower than the surrounding surface) appears to be solid metal like the sc

Re: [meteorite-list] Sikhote-Alin Question

2006-06-27 Thread star-bits
Excellent Bernd!! That sounds just like what it is. There is no obvious troilite showing so maybe it was part of the half that split off this piece. Thanks for your always informative posts. -- Eric Olson http://www.star-bits.com http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=323

RE: [meteorite-list] Dealers and their duty

2006-06-29 Thread star-bits
Hey I'll fess up, I am the dealer in question. I find feedbacks to be a pain in the butt, a waste of time and in the grand scheme of things virtually worthless. As a result I do feedbacks in a big batch every 2-3 months (sometimes longer). When I am buying it doesn't matter to me

RE: [meteorite-list] Morocco Meteorite Meeting

2006-06-29 Thread star-bits
Dean Here is a URL for info on the meeting. -- Eric Olson http://www.star-bits.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-

[meteorite-list] Ad ebay auctions closing

2006-07-03 Thread star-bits
Greetings, I have a bunch of ebay auctions closing tonight including that 1 kg sikhote-alin with the circular feature. You can see that along with a lunar and tathouine at the following URL -- Eric Olson http://www.st

[meteorite-list] Ad - eBay auctions closing tonight + norway fall vote.

2006-07-17 Thread star-bits
Greeting   I have a few eBay auctions closing soon including a 1+kg sikhote-alin schrapnel piece that is still a $0.10/gm.   You can view them all at         As far as the Norway fall I put in a vote for L6.    --Eric O

[meteorite-list] Ad - eBay items ending tonight.

2006-07-28 Thread star-bits
Greetings I have a number of items including martian, lunar and an exceptional El Sampal slide ending tonight. You can see them at the following URL -- Eric Olson http://www.star-bits.com _

Re: [meteorite-list] re: Upcoming "meteorite hunt" based movie

2006-07-30 Thread star-bits
It is a fantasy novel (and movie) and not quite realistic as > to what goes into finding a meteorite after seeing a bolide (for instance, in > the movie, the meteorite looks like this > http://images.43things.com/profile/00/01/b9/113094xl.jpg) Marco Langbroek Wrote: Well(assuming you were n

[meteorite-list] Ad - eBay auctions ending

2006-08-07 Thread star-bits
Greetings I have a few eBay auctions closing tonight, including an autographed hardback book "Rocks from Space", a nice tatahouine still at less than $5/gm and a piece of ghubara currently unbid on with only a penny to open. Check them out at the following URL.

[meteorite-list] Ad - eBay auctions closing tonight.

2006-08-14 Thread star-bits
Greetings everyone. I have a few auctions closing tonight. You can check them out at -- Eric Olson http://www.star-bits.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@met

Re: [meteorite-list] NYT story

2011-04-05 Thread star-bits
I was driving home on Friday when a guy called and identified himself as a reporter from the NY Times. He said he talked to this scientist (I didn't catch the name) who thought collectors were bad for meteorite studies and then he said he talked to Anne Black and she said that was B*** S***!

Re: [meteorite-list] NYT Story

2011-04-06 Thread star-bits
Two things, first I put a rebuttal link on my web page so anybody who uses the link in the article to go to my web page will find a link to comments posted on the metlist by Dr Agee, Mike Farmer, and Martin Altmann. All comments used with permission. Second Adam Hupe wrote What I said to th

Re: [meteorite-list] A New Nearby Oddball Planet

2011-05-02 Thread star-bits
Sterling wrote: Those densities are for items sitting on your desk. The iron core of earth has a density of almost 13gm/cm^3 out to 1000km. Over the next 2000km the density drops to around 11gm/cm^3. I would imagine if this planet is 1.6 times the diameter of earth the 11+gm/cm^3 would ex

Re: [meteorite-list] Clay meteorites?

2010-10-15 Thread star-bits
As I recall Tim Swindle (U of AZ) did noble gas studies of Lafayette carbonate clays. I doubt you are going to find a big chunk of clay, it will be a minor portion of the overall stone and may not be decernable by the naked eye. -- Eric Olson 610 W. Moore Rd Tucson AZ 85755 http://www.star-bit

[meteorite-list] Ad - eBay auctions closing shortly

2008-06-16 Thread star-bits
Greetings all I have afew auctions closing shortly including tagish lakd currently around $400/gm Mars shergottite individuals currently around $200/gm polymict diogenite currently less than 25% of what it s sell for. Oriented sikhote-alins bassikounou vigarano, carancas, allende, an LL3 and

[meteorite-list] Portales Valley

2008-06-16 Thread star-bits
Portales Valley was my first hunt for a fresh fall. Mike Farmer called to tell me about the fall. I wasn't able to get away immediately, but I borrowed a bunch of cash and a couple days later met Mike and Jack and Devon Shrader in southern New Mexico and followed Mike back to the fall s

[meteorite-list] Moving and Ad - eBay auctions closing shortly

2008-06-23 Thread star-bits
Greetings All I am moving back to Tucson and am suffering through the joys of packing. My web site is closed for the next month until I get set up again and this is my last eBay auction for a while too. So bid high and bid often because the movers are charging a fortune.Included a

Re: [meteorite-list] Help With Gary Foote's Recovery!

2008-07-09 Thread star-bits
Greetings all I just added a few meteorites to ebay including a 0.40 gram martian shergottite for which the sales price will go to the Foote's paypal account. You can find it by searching "meteorite foote" on ebay. It closes next monday. Bid high and bid often. -- Eric Olson 610 W

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