Re: [meteorite-list] NASA May Put Greenhouse on Mars in 2021

NASA's Planetary Protection Officer will have to approve it! -Carl Agee * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax:

Re: [meteorite-list] Prices for SouthWest Dry Lake Finds??? Old Women Meteorite

I think the Old Woman could be in worse hands. Last time I checked the Smithsonian was our county's repository for national treasures -- i.e., it belongs to all Americans. I certainly enjoyed seeing the full slice on my last visit there -- also good to know that the main mass is on display in

Re: [meteorite-list] Prices for SouthWest Dry Lake Finds??? Old Women Meteorite

Hi Jim, Just between you and me -- and everyone else on the internet -- I wish NASA would spend a tiny fraction of their ~$19B annual budget on the recovery, classification, curation, and data analysis on scientifically valuable meteorites originating outside of Antarctica. They spend piles of

Re: [meteorite-list] Met Bulletin Update - Lunars, Martian, HED's, Achondrites

New approvals are exactly that -- meteorites that have been newly classified and approved by the NomCom and entered into the MetBull database. They are not necessarily new finds, in fact we have approved some recently that were found more than a decade ago but were never, until now, submitted for

Re: [meteorite-list] Met Bulletin Update: Sahara 00293

Mike and All: Even poor old L6's can have their 15 minutes of fame! This one has high pressure minerals: dark blue ringwoodite and green wadsleyite. How cool (or should I say hot and shocked?) is that? Carl Agee * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute

Re: [meteorite-list] Re-2: Met Bulletin Update: Sahara 00293

I think we have to save the name Shocking Blue for the first meteorite from Venus-- if one is ever discovered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPEhQugz-Ew Carl Agee * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary

Re: [meteorite-list] Middle school students lobbying Kansas lawmakers to declare official state rock

True, there are more Lone Star meteorites total than any other state, but we were ranking by density of meteorites, and Texas' meteorite density is a paltry 0.00113 per square mile. Carl * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor,

Re: [meteorite-list] Middle school students lobbying Kansas lawmakers to declare official state rock

I count 225 New Mexico meteorites in the MetBull. That is 0.00185 meteorites per square mile. If Kansas has 143 meteorites, then that is 0.00174 meteorites per square mile. I think that puts the Land of Enchantment as the #1 meteorite state :) :) * Carl B.

Re: [meteorite-list] Question about Norites - Lunar and Diogenite

Hi Mike: Norite is a generic petrologic term for an igneous mafic rock that has primarily orthopyroxene + plagioclase and little or no clinopyroxene. Norites occur on Earth, the Moon, and the HED parent body (as you call Vestan). HED norites are in fact a type of diogenite. Geochemically there is

Re: [meteorite-list] Important Announcement form the Nomenclature Committee

Mriera is being re-voted in light of the new data from Albert Jambon. * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax:

Re: [meteorite-list] Important Announcement form the Nomenclature Committee

://pinterest.com/galacticstone - On 2/13/15, Carl Agee via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/MetBullNews.php?id=3 * Carl B. Agee Director

[meteorite-list] Fwd: Important Announcement form the Nomenclature Committee

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Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 8159 in Tucson

That would be Anne -- lol * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577 Email: a...@unm.edu

Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 8159 in Tucson

Hi Ann, I am in midst of preparing a full paper on NWA 8159 for peer-review. In the meantime, here are some conference abstracts that have more info than the MetBull entry: http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2014/pdf/2036.pdf http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2014/pdf/5397.pdf It is a

[meteorite-list] Important Announcement form the Nomenclature Committee

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/MetBullNews.php?id=3 * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577

Re: [meteorite-list] Happy birthday to the Giants

And Norton is still the world's largest achondrite. A miracle that it stayed together in the 1 ton mass, most of the aubrite is very friable, except the nice sized enstatite crystals thoughout. They just don't make falls like the used to! Carl Agee * Carl B.

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Supply and Demand

One more thought and then I'll give it a rest. Regarding the current supply of lunar meteorites (and to a lesser degree martian meteorites), the only place where these are being found right now is NWA. There are virtually no lunars coming out of Antarctica, and only the sporadic martian. There

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Supply and Demand

Here is another measure of current meteorite supply. Angrites seem to be among the most scarce. -Carl Agee MetBull 103 2174 Ordinary chondrites 130 HED achondrites 113 Carbonaceous chondrites 41 Ureilites 27 Lunar meteorites 24 Enstatite chondrites 21 Iron meteorites 15 Primitive

Re: [meteorite-list] Lunar meteorites selling for peanuts

Supply and demand could be part of the story for lunars, maybe not for martians. Here are the numbers for just new NWA lunars since 2010: 2010: 11 2011: 6 2012: 4 2013: 13 2014: 25 Here is the same time frame for NWA Martians: 2010: 11 2011: 6 2012: 4 2013: 10 2014: 12 Of course hidden in

Re: [meteorite-list] Lunar meteorites selling for peanuts

Sorry here is correct list, somehow the first three entries for lunars got duplicated in the martians. Here are the numbers for just new NWA lunars since 2010: 2010: 11 2011: 6 2012: 4 2013: 13 2014: 25 Here is the same time frame for NWA Martians: 2010: 2 2011: 8 2012: 8 2013: 10 2014: 12

Re: [meteorite-list] UNM Meteorite Museum re-opening

e an amazing job at UNM. You inspire so many of us with > your knowledge and enthusiasm for meteoritics. > > Keep it up! > > > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Carl Agee via Meteorite-list > <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> wrote: >> http://news.unm.edu/news/unm-s

[meteorite-list] UNM Meteorite Museum re-opening

http://news.unm.edu/news/unm-s-meteorite-museum-reopens-with-futuristic-design https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBiM4f9Eajs * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico

Re: [meteorite-list] Kalahari Lunars

According to the MetBull there are 20 gram samples and thin sections of both 008 and 009 at Universität Münster, Münster, Germany. There has been science done on Kalahari 008 and 009. Aside from microprobe, they have radiometric ages, oxygen isotopes, as well as cosmic ray exposure. As Randy

Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 5000 Goes Ivy League - NEW Display at Yale!

There are some abstracts on Kalahari 008 and 009. Randy Korotev and the Lunar Meteorite Compendium show some data. http://meteorites.wustl.edu/lunar/stones/kalahari008.htm http://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/antmet/lmc/M5%20Kalahari.pdf Carl * Carl B. Agee

Re: [meteorite-list] Lake Eyre meteorite 'Crown property', researchers required to hand findings over

Not to bore everyone, but I'll repost thisexcerpt from Lincoln LaPaz's (founder of IOM) "Space Nomads: Meteorites in Sky, Field, and Laboratory". It is as true today as it was when the IOM was founded in 1944! Also relevant to this discussion I believe... "Meteorite hunting, unlike pure

Re: [meteorite-list] Confessions of a Meteorite Hunter

FYI - Nina Lanza is an alumna of IOM/UNM, receiving her Ph.D. in 2011. * Carl B. Agee President, Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences (COMPRES) Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03

Re: [meteorite-list] Article : 21st Century Meteorite Falls, Part Two

Always an interesting topic! A couple of things come to mind: Morocco has 8 falls in the 21st century, which you suggest has to do with the meteorite-savvy population and desert terrain. California has a very similar area and population density -- also a west facing coast line, a fair amount of

Re: [meteorite-list] Testing meteoric gemstones

Distinguishing between terrestrial olivine and pallasite olivine probably isn't quick and easy. Electron microprobe would show the difference in the Fe/Mn which is diagnostic. I've never used one, but a handheld XRF might be able to do this too. If you don't mind vaporizing the stone with a laser

Re: [meteorite-list] RES: Quartz on meteorites

Abdelfattah: The quartz grains stuck in the sample I assume are terrestrial, of course the H6 is meteorite! Best regards, Carl * Carl B. Agee President, Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences (COMPRES) Director, Institute of Meteoritics

Re: [meteorite-list] Quartz on meteorites

Hi Alan, Perhaps you missed our talks at MetSoc: https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2017/pdf/6129.pdf https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2017/pdf/6268.pdf NWA 9 has more than 20% silica polymorphs (mix of tridymite and cristobalite). Best regards, Carl

Re: [meteorite-list] interstellar meteorite anyone?

It is regrettable that Earthlings are not technologically advanced enough to intercept and sample interstellar objects like `Oumuamua which entered our solar system on a hyperbolic orbit and is now gone forever. What a missed opportunity! Carl * Carl B. Agee

[meteorite-list] Institute of Meteoritics celebrates 75th anniversary

SAVE THE DATE!! The Institute of Meteoritics, founded at UNM in 1944 as one of the first institutions in the world devoted to the study of meteorites, will be celebrating its 75th anniversary during UNM’s homecoming week on Thursday and Friday, October 24th and 25th, 2019. One of the highlights

Re: [meteorite-list] Strange Meteorites Found Across Earth Revealed as Fragments of The Same Baby Planet

The lead photo is of our Techado IIE which they measured in this study. I don't know about Mont Dieu, Wasson classified it as a IIE, but it was changed in 2006, no explanation for the reclassification given in the MetBull. * Carl B. Agee President, Consortium

Re: [meteorite-list] Met Bulletin Update : 51 new approvals, including many old early-NWA's, rare iron IIF, and more.

They are all paired with NWA 13250. * Carl B. Agee President, Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences (COMPRES) Director, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteoritical Bulletin Main Mass photos

I have started to add photos and sometimes graphs or figures for exceptional samples to MetBull classifications. I agree that photos of garden variety equilibrated OCs might not be that interesting, but sometimes they are. For me it is no extra work to post photos since I always have microprobe

[meteorite-list] Regarding Pakepake 005 (Lunar Fragmental Breccia)

I classified this 44 gram meteorite and it is still in my possession; 9 grams of it is now in the IOM repository and the remaining mass of 35 grams will be shipped back to the owner. If you look at the classification in the MetBull you will see that I determined it to be a lunar fragmental breccia