It won´t work, it simply won´t work! Collectors are individuals, some shy, some
loud, some like to hide in the dark, some prefer to stand in the light, some
like handwritten labels, some like typed labels, some like it hot, some like it
cold etc etc... You know what I mean? You won´t find a
The Jensen Bros. (or Mike Jensen especially) are having another Ebay sale,
which they just announced. Included in their offers is the Jim Schwade
photographic catalog of meteorites, which I have received from a finished
recent Jensen Ebay auction today after only 8 days of delivery US global
maybe I didn't negotiate hard enough, but I think the best I got is free
shipping - at least Fleabay allowed me to grab bargains (like the 30g PV
slice for $175). Just thinking aloud I guess...!
Dave, are you one of the people who think the world ticks (...or better:
has/had usually to tick)
- it was a thought and I am grateful for some of the input I
have been getting.
Thanks
dave
---Original Message---
From: Alexander Seidel
Date: 12/01/06 20:42:01
To: Dave Harris; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] wot we need
Coz we´re living in a parallel universe to Steve´s!!!
Where da good and da brave collecters hide and seek
Hermann Wilhelm Alexander Seidel, Berlin/Stade, Germany!!
Collecting Meteorites since 42/42/1992!!
Steve is always right...
...but we all know it better!
Martin E. Altmann
Crusty the Clown crows:
www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/BoguslavkaCrust1.jpg
Boguslavka!!! Great iron, great Neumann lines (IIAB Hex)! Hey, I´m most
critical regarding irons potentially rusting. But this has been a very stable
one ever since it resides in my collection. In case Chladni´s heirs have
Buckleboo-Martin wrote:
A wise and old collector once said:
In a silent night, you can here your Brahin fart.
As far as I recall it was a somewhat younger, but yet wise man saying
On a quiet day you can hear a Nantan rust! (BR, in the late ninetees..)
Anyway, a true statement from both wise
Feefee! phopho!! foorchtha!!! aggala jeeshee! paloola!!
ooridiminy!!! ... Phopho !! The meteor pulp of him, the seamless
rainbowpeel. Aggala His bellyvoid of nebulose with his neverstop
navel. Paloola !! And his veins shooting melanite phosphor, his
creamtocustard
Due to Bernd years of contributions, I would humbly like to nominate
list contributor Bernd Pauli for the 2007 People's Choice Harvey Award
Count me in on that, an excellent proposal!
Alex
Berlin/Germany
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I concur with Norbert - great video, and a nice story to read in the latest
issue of METEORITE, which I can only recommend to all those who did not already
read it or are not subscribed to the magazine (PS: something you should think
about to do if not yet done! I believe former editor and
We were out for a fine exotic dinner in our favorite Cambodian restaurant in
Berlin and made it into the New Year amidst a one million crowd of people near
the Brandenburger Tor in the heart of the city.
Hi to you people on the other side of the Big Pond who are still in 2006 for
the next few
For the sake of, let´s call it, overall quality I would hope this could be
resolved as sort of a running gag in between the two participants (...both
have remarkable collections, but numbers obviously don´t count that way...)
after all those months and even years. If it is not, as may well be
Dirk and list,
this very, very probably was a decaying rocket stage, as our knowledgeable list
member Dr Marco Langbroek wrote:
...Place, track and time closely coincide with the predicted re-entry of a
stage of the Soyuz rocket (06-063B, #29679) used to launch the French COROT
space
that mention velocity, have you?
Matt
Alexander Seidel wrote:
Necessary correction to my post:
Of course meteors move pretty much faster than decaying satellites,
and not meteorites, as I just wrote...
Sorry for that...
Almeteorites don´t use to move themselves, but are sometimes
Anyway, we aren't all dependent on trusting what the government or TV
tell us!
True, Chris, but with respect to the incident of a spectacular early morning
light show over Denver you can rely on the codes programmed by experts and data
on decaying satellites provided by NORAD. You can prove
Rob just asked me to forward this to the list, so here goes
Alex
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Datum: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 13:34:51 -0800
Von: Matson, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An: \'Alexander Seidel \' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Betreff: My prior message...
Hi again,
As usual, when I'm
I guess some never change
Steve R.Arnold,chicago,Ill,Usa!!
So guessed HE, and spoke it out!
Wise words - wise man!
Btw: Good luck all you guys and gals in Tucson!
Alex
Berlin/Germany
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I wonder if there is anyone out there who has collected all those price lists
that David New used to send to his customers via airmail - which happened in
the pre-internet times, of course. I would have to dig in my old files to still
find a few of them, but may be someone out there has a more
proposal of contacting David New for his old lists, which makes it a
public mail again, right?
Best wishes,
Alex
Berlin/Germany
A 19:03 08/01/2007 +0100, Alexander Seidel a écrit :
I wonder if there is anyone out there who has collected all those price
lists that David New used to send
(...and still stable, as Esquel uses to be!). And
another real nice Holbrook half stone, though smaller than the one I purchased
from you, Zelimir, about a decade later..:-)
Have a good night,
Alex
Berlin/Germany
A 19:58 08/01/2007 +0100, Alexander Seidel a écrit :
Hi Alex, all
Uncle Alex,
don't forget to mention, that there is a place, where still today a lot of
those shrouded-in-legend-TSs are available.
At our Grande Dame Anne Black!
Your Nephew Martin
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Alexander
But Dearest Uncle,
My Dear Nephew,
To sell TS would be no good idea. As you should know, 80% of all
TS-collectors prefer strictly TS from the mentioned source and condemn
all other TS who don't carry that brand emblem a priori and without
having seen them as to be of minor quality.
I
I don´t know whether this has already been posted here on the list, but in a
German internet forum about minerals and meteorites I just found a link to Jeff
Kuykens´ Australian site, which hosts a nice old b/w documentary film about the
Sikhote-Alin fall:
Well, I believe calling them slides is a rather informal term, which may be
used by those who know what they are talking about. In fact, I am using this
term when me and my supplier of thin sections email each other, who is a
well-known and respected old time dealer based in the U.S., and he
...that this, our METEORITECENTRAL list, is now slowly approaching it´s tenth
year of existence? Art Jones, where art thou? Is there some truth to my sudden
thought about this very list´s age?
I have been one of the first members, and after my initial subscription here,
often changed my
Great! This adds a new dimension to all the documentation.
Best wishes,
Alex
Berlin, Germany
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Datum: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:05:35 -0500
Von: mccartney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Betreff: [meteorite-list] Video 2 - Tucson 2007
This is correct. You better not carry a nice sea shell, let alone
some good replica of something looking antique (...let alone a
meteorite!!!) in your baggage when leaving Turkey. They are
tough-minded on this, and your are risking draconic fines.
I met with a collector friend in Turkey last
Apart from the few nice videos that McCartney Taylor kindly provided for the
list, there has been very little photo coverage of the Tucson event so far on
this forum - as compared to recent years. I think it would be great fun for us
listees, who had to stay at home, to see some pics taken e.g.
I am also the lucky owner of one of those Venus stone casts from Bob Haag.
Beautiful! And you know why he called this one the Venus stone..?? :-)
This is one very special nice example of a flight-oriented meteorite, where the
rule applies: NEVER EVER cut specimen like these just for the sake of
Now this is what John Blennert wrote in another forum in July 2005, I just
found this via google:
Although Bob Haag won't cut a large enough piece off the Adamana mass to
properly be tested it is classed as an L5 by guess I think . The piece
originated by a rancher who dug up some dirt at the
are related.
Now, how I came to know this, will have to wait until
my next post.
Guten morgen mein Freund,
Bob V.
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:34:30 +0100
From: Alexander Seidel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Larry's Holbrook
Great posts, Doug, muchas gracias! Which makes me (us) wonder whether you will
(hopefully!) also attend the Ensisheim show in June this year, or one of these
years.
It makes quite a difference to the big Tucson show in the U.S., but then again
it´s METEORITES wherever you look, and you will
GORGEOUS picture series - congrats, Thomas! The mosaic
would make a very nice poster, by the way... :-)
Not so lucky with the Berlin weather last night,
Alex
Berlin/Germany
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Datum: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 16:57:10 +0100
Von: Thomas Tuchan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An:
CC:
Folks, another Walter (...namely our very own Walter Zeitschel, aged 76 now, a
man of impressive stature and authority, considered by most of us fellow
countrymen to be the frontierman of modern private meteorite collecting in
Germany, who once upon a time owned one of the biggest private
British humo(u)r striking again (...after that certain Proud T)??
Alex
Berlin/Germany
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Datum: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 17:47:09 +0200
Von: Stefan Brandes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Randall joke on
Olivine Bronzite Chondrite
Peekskill, New York
Type: Becciated H5 or 6
Total Known Weight: 12.3 kg
Fell October 9, 1992
Choice light gray polished partial slice with
rich black fusion crust along the outer edge.
Well, unmistakably the wording of DAVID NEW, the grand
old master of
Ok, ok then it was YOU who got that CR2 from me?
Well, might have been estimated at $250++/g way
back then, or even more, and almost unavailable!
The old pre-NWA times :-). This is why we collectors
benefit from NWA and the other hot deserts today -
no NWA 801 etc around those days...
Alex
I never met Jim in person, but I knew he was a GREAT
meteorite man out there in the West! A long time ago
we had some email conversation, and he gifted me two
small Gold Basins afterwards, which I still have in
the collection, of course.
A good, friendly person has passed away - my hat goes
off
Confirmed here from central Berlin despite city straylight, disturbing beamers
from a nearby hotel and a bright moon: easily visible naked-eye object with an
orange tinge, fuzzy and round without a visible tail, still in the mag +2
range...
Must be a great view from the countryside, w/o all
Among the few recent falls there seems to be a growing confusion among the
Mahgreb sellers. Labels have obviously been accidentally misplaced and
meteorites ended up in the wrong boxes. I can only repeat to encourage
people to take but the geatest care in the assignment of the sample and
Thank you, Svend - interesting and helpful post!
Alex
Berlin/Germany
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Datum: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 13:03:01 +0100
Von: Dr. Svend Buhl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An: Alexander Seidel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Mike wrote:
Only one way to know, cut it, etch it, do a ni test. Otherwise it could
be anything.
Doug writes:
At the moment, I am thinking of doing something like David's sphere
collection: Just dump the whole thing in acid for etching, gently clean
it to look for any markings first,
http://www.rocksfromspace.org/January_27_2008.html
Specimen like these surely have a certain tinge or smell
of history associated with them, while added by all those
stories and documents...
A nice addition to Michael Johnson´s website, and by the
way, Michael - my hat goes off to you for
people in Meteoritics, both
professionals and amateurs, and surely knows a lot about Nininger and his
backgrounds.
Best wishes,
Alex
Berlin/Germany
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Datum: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:45:43 -0700
Von: CHRIS MONRAD [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An: \'Alexander Seidel\' [EMAIL
Hi Ken,
regarding JaH073 I suggest you contact Hanno Strufe from
Germany. I am quite sure he can help you with slice photos and
more info on that meteorite. His mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best regards,
Alex
Berlin/Germany
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Datum: Mon, 28 Jan 2008
The M-List is the biggest and best meteorite discussion group out
there, and I'm quite sure it always will be.
After a fine speech, our dear respected friend and long-time list
member Geoff stepped off the soapbox! I could not agree more...
Thanks also a bunch to Art Jones, the admin of this
No problem about what to get here and there and everywhere...
U.S.:[x] guns and weapons
[ ] high percentage alcohol (..meteorite-related, of course :-))
[ ] pornography
[x] bigotry
[x] death penalty
[x] cheap gas, big fridges, low energy cost
Greg Hupe
The Hupe Collection
NaturesVault (eBay)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.LunarRock.com
IMCA 3163
Click here for my current eBay auctions:
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZnaturesvault
- Original Message -
From: Alexander Seidel
This actually seems to be a more likely scenario, and the meteorite
may have escaped the lake Bodensee as it may have fallen a bit more
to the west. May be one of these days, if ever anything will be found,
we will possibly know it under one of the names Schaffhausen, Winterthur,
Konstanz, Sankt
If money isn´t the most important key factor, I would suggest an ultrathin (!)
slice of Esquel or Imilac, but if money counts, I would rather suggest an
olivine-rich portion of thinly cut Seymchan. All of these are known to be quite
stable against rusting over time. Glorieta could be another
If you are refering to the SL-12 r/b 2003-060F (#28199): this reportedly
decayed on May 13th and nothing decayed since.
I believe NORAD is fairly reliable with these informations, and then again
most (if not all) of the classified near earth orbit satellites for military
purposes, for which no
http://www.spacerocksinc.com/June_3.html
Gosh, what a little sucker!
Thank you, Michael, for continuing to provide excellent meteorite pics to our
little community.
The pic collection would make a great picture book of meteorites, and I
personally believe, in such a case there would be no
OK, messsage understood. The differences between the anonymous
private collector and the scientist are:
(i) The collector has a big chunck of space rock, the scientist
only microscopic crumbles.
(ii) The collector has a lot of fun with his piece, the scientist
has not.
Ist that the Armanty mass?
http://kuerzer.de/armanti
Buckleboo!
Martin
Here a supplement to Martin´s question:
A large mass of iron was found before before 1900; in 1965 it was transported
to its present location in Urumchi, V.F.Buchwald, Handbook of Iron Meteorites,
1975, 2, p.274; see
Great piece of art, Doug! :-)
Now this somehow resembles the Moon Song which is on an URL
that MarBucklebootin from Munich sent me two years or so ago.
Sir Martin, are you listening? Still have that URL at hands,
for the viewing and listening pleasure of an esteemed audience?
Something like
www.rathergood.com/moon_song
should be the address.
It is, indeed! Party time :-)
But hhht Alex, I'm buzy in After-Ensisheim-Sales.
Imagine, we got in one stone more of the phantastic NWA 2889, that
transitional L/LL3-6. You remember? You took then also a slice. ISn't it
one of
Just another bit, from MetBase 7.1 (c) Joern Koblitz, about Mundrabilla 020:
A single fusion crusted stone of about 60 grams was found by a rabbit hunter
in the same area where the large masses of the Mundrabilla iron were found,
perhaps 15 km N of the railway. The stone is informally known as
Being IMCA member #0042 I bet 4242.42 g, and clearly vote
for a general C-type (an 84.42% guess) with a careful 4.42%
side-guess of it being an early H-type and the rest (11.16%)
of it being something else to be clearly resolved as what
it clearly is some time later by all the esteemed scientists
Bahhh, the market is in ruin. 199.95$/g
..I screama, you screama, we all screama, for icecreama!..
(cit. Roberto Benigni, Down by Law, film by Jim Jarmusch)
Correction: 142.42 $/g sounds better than 84.42 $/g!
May be just because it is too hot here... :-)
Alex
Berlin, Germany
Bernd wrote:
Chladni's Heirs short: SAM
I was just wondering if Uncle SAM is amused about such activities ;-)
Bernd
Then again: qualified competition imo is good and healthy competition!
And rest assured they are even more than simply qualified when it gets down to
knowledge about
In fact, he has failed tests done under laboratory
conditions (PS: conducted by the late famous American
physicist Prof. Richard Feynman, if I remember correctly).
It is said that he never returned to a lab thereafter.
Then again, he may undoubtedly be a brilliant illusionist.
Just ask Rob
Hi Jörn,
first of all sincere congrats to you for winning the Meteoritical Society
Service Prize 2006 - truly deserved for what you have achieved in the field of
meteoritics as one of the few first really dedicated early modern times
[..i.e. pre-internet, since the early Eighties :-)] private
By the way - here are some famous words originating
from quite a distant past, the Ninetees or so:
ON A QUIET DAY YOU CAN HEAR A NANTAN RUST!
Which may be quite possible, but I choose not to prove
it. Now, who was the one who first said this?
In my memory, Blaine Reed works well for the
Dobrý den, Sergey!
Nix pic, well established Neumann lines! Only thing that lacks is
a scale cube or something like that to get an idea of the size
of the slice. Well, then again a scale cube won´t fit well under
a scanner, will it...?? :-)
Looking forward to my own little share of that
Thanks a bunch Andi for showing these pics, and I´m very much looking forward
to receiving your prepared slice, which will be my very own share of
Boguslavka, soon.
Hexahedrites are no easy task for a photographer or a scanner, not even if you
discuss a specimen right in front of you, in
me a view I couldn't get with the slice in my hands.
That was the point.
Best regards,
Sergey
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Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 5:55 PM
To: Andreas Gren; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: meteorite-list
Perfect photography! This is how it should be done, in case
you don´t have a studio where you use artificial light!
Alex
Berlin/Germany
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Datum: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 14:43:30 +0200 (CEST)
Von: Jan Bartels [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
I did not order many meteorites from e.g. the United States lately, but
whenever I did in the more remote past within the last two years or so,
delivery was very very very slow - most probably due to German customs, as
others have already stated here. It is even likely to happen to be a slow
Rob Matson´s baby C/2006 M4 (SWAN) may now also be tracked
with a little help from www.heavens-above.com, where they
finally provide a link to an update stellar finder chart.
You can register there for free or just log-on with your
coordinates or nearest city. Amazing site by the way...
Alex
Martin wrote:
My linguistic prognosis is, that within 30 years the second component,
the speck will have been disappeared and that we then will say only:
A Bessey.
1 Bsy = 0.001 g [CGS] or 0.000 001 kg [SI] respectively ???
Such a mass unit would not do justice to a man of our dear
Dean´s
Hi Fred and List,
as far as I know even Nininger made a trip to Ensisheim in
Alsace/France to have a look at that GREAT meteorite. I saw Bob Haag
there on at least one of the recent shows, and other well-known US
dealers and/or collectors over the past years.
By contrast: I wonder why there
unofficial. A few abstracts in this
conference reference unapproved meteorites. Next year, firm guidelines
will be in place that we hope will prevent this from happening any more.
jeff
At 08:18 PM 8/10/2003 +0200, Alexander Seidel wrote:
This meteorite is also missing in the very latest update
This meteorite is also missing in the very latest update of MetBase,
version 6.0, just a few days ago released by it´s author Joern
Koblitz, who is one of the members of the NomCom of the Meteoritical
Society. In fact, there is a gap in the NWA datasets counting from NWA
780 to NWA 816, and there
Thanks, Bernd, for your interesting answer. So both the papers by
Russell and Greshake tell us of a chondritic grouplet called CB, while
on the other hand the very latest version of MetBase (V6.0, issued
this summer) still has the CH-BEN type classification, and not CB.
Now, what makes me wonder
If you search for Lexington, U.S.A., you will find a whole list of
places to be able to live in, but if you go for Lexington, Kentucky,
you will find that at N 38.0 and W 84.5 degrees, quite close to a
famous meteorite fall, which is Bath Furnace (L6, fell on Nov 15,
1902, with 86 kg preserved, on
:
http://www.rasny.org/V4P193-2.HTM
Alex
Berlin, Germany
Alexander Seidel wrote:
If you search for Lexington, U.S.A., you will find a whole list of
places to be able to live in, but if you go for Lexington, Kentucky,
you will find that at N 38.0 and W 84.5 degrees, quite close to a
famous
, Germany
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Hi Walter and list,
no, this certainly belongs to the realm of myths and legends.
The largest stone meteorite ever recovered in Germany is Benthullen
(17.25 kg), and in terms of total mass recovered, the largest iron is
Steinbach with approximately 98 kg (not a single individual), followed
by
,
and last but not least in the name of entertainment...
Let´s relax and have some popcorn. And btw: I am still favoring Kevin´s
point of view, though I can´t be sure of that... :-)
Alex
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to be able to identify the minerals and then secondly
work on understanding the 'history' of the minerals.
thanks for that!
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Got a BENSOUR on my table,
freshly fallen, pretty stable.
What a beauty with black crust,
W0 state, no stains of rust
What now would be really nice
were a little BENSOUR slice.
Cut with alc, and dried with care
Where´s the expert to prepare?
Fate and luck please let it be:
Hi list,
it is still a bit early, but in my long-term planning I think about
travelling the US Southwest again early next year, and while being
there, attending the 2003 Tucson show for two or three days as a
visitor.
Is anyone out there who has the exact timeline of next year´s Tucson
show as
I recently received a D'Orbigny thin section. Which I have placed
several photographs of on my web site at the following web page.
http://www.meteoritearticles.com/coldorbigneyts.html
One the best thin sections I have.
Very beautiful, indeed! To complement Mark´s photos I would like to
On the subject of D'Orbigny TS's for sale, I only know of two sources.
Marvin Killgore, who has some beautiful TS's, for around $1000 and Steve
Arnold, Arkansas, who a person should e-mail if interested for details.
I got mine (indirectly, via another European collector) from David New
Steve Arnold from ARKANSAS, meteoritebroker, of course...!! :-)
Alex
---I wrote:---
I got mine (indirectly, via another European collector) from David New and
his slidemaker, for much less than $1000, but my source is sold out on this
special one. Whoever may be interested - I would suggest you
MarBucklebootin from Munich wrote:
I've a question concerning the Quinn Canyon-iron, the 1st meteorite of
Nevada, found 1908.
The Catalogue says, that it is possibly part of the Nevada meteor of
1894 (February 1, 22:00hrs).
Has anybody closer informations whether this could be true?
This
Hi again list.I just got my beautiful 159 gram slice of WELLMAN (F) from
McCartney taylor today.Avery nice piece.I also got as a small surprise,a
0.3 gram piece of ALDAMA (B).I never heard of this.Can someone shed some
light on this one for me.
Steve, Steve, Steve, if you never *HEARD* of
Svend Buhl
Norbert Classen
Thomas Dehner
The Egers
Olaf Gabel
Alexander Gehler
Carsten GiesslerCornelia Poloczek
Siggi Haberer
Dieter Heinlein
Peter Jaeger
Peter Kuemmel
AchimMoritz Karl, - Sergej Vassiliev:
Gregor Pacer
Peter Pittmann
Stefan Ralew
Hanno Strufe
and a certain
This being, I fully agree with Jörn not to blame the dealer, at least for
Brahin the Ruster.
The best thing a dealer could (and should) do is to provide his (her)
customer with all the proper information about his (her) material, be that
as it may, to the best of his (her) knowledge. If this
The annual Ensisheim (Alsace/France) show in mid-June, this one having been
the 6th of it´s kind since the inauguration at the turn of the century in
2000, has gradually evolved into *THE* top event for all European
meteorite-lovers, which means that, from a meteorite-related viewpoint, it
even
There are various people that are acitively hunting the strewn field.
This is done mostly at night with ATV's and metal detectors.
Is this for sure? :-)
John G. noted: There is also the possibility that some meteorite hunters
are still working in the strewn field even though it is now
Yes, there is a problem with a self ego ( look at
me) attitude that we all get tired of. But ALL of the
responses, both positive and negative, only go to FEED
THAT EGO as a means of getting attention. And isn't
that what he is after?
You hit the point, Mike! In newsgroups on the internet
Hi Steve (the undisputed #1),
I remember STUART ATKINSON from a small town in the northern coastal part of
Great Britain (was it in Scotland?), as having been one of the very engaged
contributors to this list, especially regarding the education of young
pupils, a few years ago. [Hi Stu, still out
Martin wrote:
Not at all, it helps to understand, how garish the decision was to name
that object after a TV-Show: Xena.
Guess the next KBOs will be called: Hulk, Buck, Blob, (Larry, Moe and
Curly), Fuzzy Lassie.
Scotty! :-)
OK, sorry, back to meteorites...
Alex
Well said, Marco! There is a saying here in Germany that wer im Glashaus
sitzt, sollte nicht mit Steinen werfen, translating to whoever is sitting
in a glass house should not throw stones, which is well applicable in this
case. This goes out to Matteo and all the the people who try to benefit or
A bit more reading about the five pointed star:
http://www.symbols.com/encyclopedia/28/2825.html
Did not any of us learn to draw an 8-pointed star
with 8 straight lines in early childhood..?? Like
the famous house with 8 straight lines without
lifting the pen?
Alex
Hi All,
In case anyone
I absolutely concur! And hats off to Geoff for excellently managing this at
your side of the big pond!
May I humbly suggest da same procedure for our one and only Martin Altmann
from Munich, who deserves this as well. Martin, to me, besides being a
knowledgeable, honest and IMHO much underrated
Since a few days we found out we can make it to the Munich show. This is
why we missed some earlier details about what's going on and where.
Anyone can give us some locations (adresses) where the show is held and
ESPECIALY where to get the beer on friday evening
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