Re: [meteorite-list] living near a strewfield

2006-10-23 Thread Sterling K. Webb
-plowing tractor (Clunk!) in a single 48,200 gram hunk sometime in 1953. Good place for Steve Arnold (IMB) type metal detector or ground radar. Might be more big hunks. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Joe

Re: [meteorite-list] Chondrule formation mechanism (Info Please)

2006-10-24 Thread Sterling K. Webb
.pair.com/arthur/meteor/archive/archive4/Feb98/temp/msg00213.html The best tests are experimental: Chondrules can be made in the laboratory: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/fiery_rain_000809.html Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message

Re: [meteorite-list] Wow. Look what I just stumbled across!

2006-10-24 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Indicopleustes: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/awiesner/cosmas.html although Dr. Brown leaves out the square corners of the Earth and the pillars that hold up the Heavens (careless of him). Very entertaining piece of Whackology. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] strewnfield map

2006-10-25 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. League Sales mailing address: Astronomical League Sales 9201 Ward Parkway, Suite 100 Kansas City, MO 64114 Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Re: [meteorite-list] strewnfield map NUMBER TWO

2006-10-25 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Bill Peck's address as of 2001: Guide to North American Meteorites B. D. Peck Philmont Route #1, Box 35 Cimarron, NM 87714 USA email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL

Re: [meteorite-list] Rob's Comet's Exciting Explosion Part II

2006-10-26 Thread Sterling K. Webb
will be enough! Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: E.P. Grondine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:08 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Rob's Comet's Exciting Explosion

Re: Re : [meteorite-list] Chondrule formation mechanism (Info Please)

2006-10-27 Thread Sterling K. Webb
of years to go super, or it could happen in 10,000 years, or it could start up tomorrow. That's what makes life so interesting. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Rob McCafferty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pete

Re: [meteorite-list] MUNICH PHOTOS

2006-11-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: dean bessey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 1:07 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] MUNICH PHOTOS I have been to busy to get a show

Re: [meteorite-list] Time for a Met-List Upgrade?

2006-11-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
of switching ISP's (if they're good otherwise), you can just sign up for a free email account with Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, whoever you like, and use it just for The List. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite

[meteorite-list] COMET SWAN (C/2006 M4)

2006-11-06 Thread Sterling K. Webb
view of the sky. (I've had nine straight days of overcast and cloud cover.) Sterling K. Webb - __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo

Re: [meteorite-list] OT -- Mercury Transit

2006-11-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
and somebody got to see it. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Matson, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 2:08 PM Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] OT -- Mercury

Re: [meteorite-list] Wingstars

2006-11-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
of color plates of meteor-wrongs ever made, though. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 9:55 PM Subject

Fw: [meteorite-list] CRE ages of Nakhlites and NWA 998

2006-11-11 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Walter Branch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 2:15 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] CRE ages

Re: [meteorite-list] Alien red rain not in Spain

2006-11-15 Thread Sterling K. Webb
to their unusual construction and composition, persist in water for years (just as these have). End of story. Case complete. Aliens Go Home. This tale is not proof of anything but the human folly of wanting to believe in something so badly that your brain goes dead. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] ad: Beauty and the Beast

2006-11-15 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, Boy, I wish I'd bought your Brahin; it was so much prettier than my Brahin... Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: tett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, November 15

Re: [meteorite-list] Blogger post failed

2006-11-17 Thread Sterling K. Webb
blogger rejections? Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 5:54 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Blogger post failed

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite novels -gifts II

2006-11-25 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'MexicoDoug' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 1:27 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite novels -gifts II

2006-11-26 Thread Sterling K. Webb
to a wet meteorite in a moat surrounded by mocking Frenchmen! Sterling K. Webb -- And Bill just summed it up in three sentences better than either of us, I think

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite novels -gifts II

2006-11-27 Thread Sterling K. Webb
as the paper previously cited (up above this one) which you can get to see (and download). Handing the thread back to you, Doug. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: MexicoDoug [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [meteorite-list] What is this?

2006-11-27 Thread Sterling K. Webb
in a gully about ten miles down from where the face of the glacier that sat on Illinois was. This gully wasn't any Mississippi, but I bet it was cut through the limestone in an hour or a day, like a Scablands channel. Or, maybe, it's a Thunderbird egg... Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite novels -gifts II

2006-11-28 Thread Sterling K. Webb
as the paper previously cited (up above this one) which you can get to see (and download). Handing the thread back to you, Doug. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: MexicoDoug [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [meteorite-list] Was: Meteorite novels -gifts II New Topicstitle- Meteorites and Archaeology

2006-11-28 Thread Sterling K. Webb
%3A50%3C199%3ATWAFOM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3 No URL, Doug, just the referrence: MONNIG O.E. (1939): HOW THE CASAS GRANDES, CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO, METEORITE GOT TO WASHINGTON D.C., Popular Astron. 47, pp. 152-154. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] BRight Green Fireball..North GA.

2006-11-29 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Astronomers believe a 10-mile-wide meteor that hit Mexico caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, Byrd said. Corley said he saw the event from his home. To quote the ancient SCTV parody show, Them dinosaurs blowed up GOOD! Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect?

2006-11-30 Thread Sterling K. Webb
that?) Having just read Bill's recent post, all I can ask is: where were you when I was selling antiques? You sound like a one-man customer base! At one time or another, I have sold every item on that list of yours. 5.) Meteorites and tektites, of course... Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Lunar Leonid Strikes

2006-12-01 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, the rate would be about 125,000.) One more chunk of evidence to a picture that all adds up to a greater space rock flux for Earth than is generally believed. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke

Re: [meteorite-list] Info needed

2006-12-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Le Lion The first item on your list is ADMIRE, a pallasite (a mass of 12 to 15lb [5.4 to 6.8kg] was ploughed up in 1881, and other masses later) in LYON COUNTY, KANSAS in 1881. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message

Re: [meteorite-list] Ferro Meteorico Lionle Co Kansas L. 70

2006-12-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
scientific description even for the 1890's! Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 12:58 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Ferro Meteorico

Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 2140 smells like gum?

2006-12-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Bob Haag reported that one fresh Murchison kept in a mason jar from immediately after the fall smelled very strongly and aromatically like fresh bubble gum! (This was, I believe, only a week or two after the fall.) Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 2140 smells like gum?

2006-12-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Perhaps it was Orgueil (The Sweet Smell of Orgueil, Meteorite, Feb. '03). Google has failed. We'll probably have to rely on Bernd to solve this one, too. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Walter Branch [EMAIL

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 28

2006-12-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
are better than little ones. A meteorite in the hand is better than 1000 in freefall. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Chris Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 28

2006-12-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. At lesser angles, it's somewhat less but still hefty. Nice that they're mostly just pea gravel and sand sized bits; very pretty and they don't leave marks. Sterling K. Webb --- http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997neo..conf...67W

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 28

2006-12-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Sterling K. Webb -- Text of Micromegas: http://wondersmith.com/scifi/micro.htm -- - Original Message - From: E.P. Grondine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Week-Long Meteor Shower to Dazzle (Geminids)

2006-12-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
). The asteroid 3200 Phaethon was discovered as an asteroid, confirmed, plotted, and published, before Fred (Mr. Comet) Whipple pointed out that its orbit was identical with that of the Geminids. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original

Re: [meteorite-list] Future Dimming for Arecibo Telescope (Asteroid99942 Apophis)

2006-12-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Jeff, List, This Week's Award for the Best Did-Anyone-Remember-To-Close- The-Hatch-On-The-Spacecraft-Before- We-Took-Off? post goes to Jeff. Good work. I can only repeat: Well, said Micromegas, perhaps the beings who inhabit it do not possess good sense. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Effects of travel through space on comets?

2006-12-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
to the interplanetary dust cloud from asteroid collisions and cometary activity. That 1 hydrogen atom per cubic meter is the figure for normal interstellar space, outside the solar system. You just can't get a decent vacuum anywhere these days. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Turkish Scientists in Search for 14th CenturyMeteorite

2006-12-18 Thread Sterling K. Webb
List members, harder to explain than the meteorite shrines in our museums... Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 1:06 PM

Re: [meteorite-list] Tagish Lake

2006-12-21 Thread Sterling K. Webb
looking through. The incoming object was about 200,000 kilograms, 5 feet in diameter (if spherical), and it fragmented in a burst equal to 2000 to 3000 tons of TNT. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: David Weir

Re: [meteorite-list] 2007 Peoples Choice Harvey Award Nominee

2006-12-21 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Bernd, Jahvol! Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: MARK BOSTICK [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 4:53 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] 2007 Peoples

Re: [meteorite-list] Got a pair of Grover Cleveland's to blow?

2006-12-21 Thread Sterling K. Webb
; it was the latter usage that prompted President Richard Nixon to issue an executive order in 1969 halting their use. You don't want Richard Nixon after you, do you? Or Lucca Brassi? Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Martin Horejsi

Re: [meteorite-list] Weird pic...Apollo 14?

2006-12-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Lunar UFO squadron were so careless as to engage their anti-proton afterburners within the sight of the Earthlings. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: kevin decker To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: Festivus

2006-12-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
shows that most national Festivus celebrations are SALES sponsored by groups of merchants or individual businesses, 40% off, two days only... Ya can't get more Seinfeld than that. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message

Re: [meteorite-list] Weird pic...Apollo 14

2006-12-23 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, and let me know if you discover signs of a town of cryoarthropods on the banks of a methane river on Titan. Just kidding about those cryoarthropods... mostly. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: kevin decker To: Meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] Weird pic...Apollo 14

2006-12-28 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, with a 500-600 degree working range? Raise your hands... anybody? How about seals? Gaskets? Anybody? Or do we expect them to magically appear when we need them? (Bitch, bitch, bitch...) Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message

Re: [meteorite-list] Metal Object Crashes Through New Jersey Home

2007-01-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
it for radioactivity? I wonder when and how the urban myth of checking meteorites for radioactivity got started? Call the cops! And tell'em to bring a geiger counter! Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL

Re: [meteorite-list] Dave Shiflett-- no fan of the brenham

2007-01-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Editors? What editors? TV has only producers, not editors. Kudos to Steve and Geoff for their successful ju-jitsu in getting as much of the reality into the piece as they did. It's a performance skill, and they performed the job very well. Encore, encore. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] (no subject) Darryl Pitt...Coloradoand NewJersey events

2007-01-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
to host their alien spawn. I believe there's a joke about Vikings whose punchline illustrates this principle: No, no, FIRST you rape, THEN you pillage, THEN you burn... Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Chris

[meteorite-list] Bright New Comet Could Become Brilliant

2007-01-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, List, Everybody loves a bright comet... http://www.space.com/spacewatch/070104_comet_mcnaught.html A newfound comet is about to loop around the Sun and might offer skywatchers a rare and fantastic view. But comets are unpredictable, and this one has a wide range of possible outcomes,

Re: [meteorite-list] NJO - Votes

2007-01-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
test, give it a close squint, and so forth? Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Matson, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, January

Re: [meteorite-list] Fossil, Relict, or Paleo- was Fossil NWA 2828

2007-01-06 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, not for billions of years). Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Mr EMan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Greg Hupe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, January 06

Re: [meteorite-list] Nogata Meteorite

2007-01-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
the darkness of the stone in the photo. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael L Blood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday

Re: [meteorite-list] Strangest link between life on earth and mars yet!

2007-01-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
to wait 15 years to get his Nobel for relativity, from 1905 until 1919, when there was finally an experimental proof.) The answers, whatever they are, will probably take decades to turn up. Sterling K. Webb - Mayo Clinic

Re: [meteorite-list] Strangest link between life on earth and mars yet!

2007-01-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
body cells is on average, about 10,000 nm across and weighs, on average, about one nanogram, less if you're skinny. And, me, I'm about 1,775,000,000 nm tall. Does that put things in perspective? Sterling K. Webb

[meteorite-list] Pluto's Demotion Tapped as 2006 Word of the Year

2007-01-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
scholars. In conducting the vote, members do so for fun and not in any official capacity of inducting words into the English language. Sterling K. Webb PS: If only the IAU operated the same way... __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Brightest Comet in 30 Years: Comet C/2006 P1(McNaught)

2007-01-10 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, and it's headed AWAY from eBay. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:15 PM Subject

[meteorite-list] Comet McNaught Is Now A DAYLUGHT COMET!

2007-01-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
wooly mass for two days of perpetual twilight. If the Sun went supernova, I wouldn't have been able to see it... Somewhere the Sun is shining, somewhere the comet's flying, but there is no joy in Mugville; the Visible Universe has struck out. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Comet McNaught report from the Rhein-Main Area

2007-01-14 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, half of Arizona, parts of Florida, and the mountains of North Carolina. (They're only 2000 kilometers away from me.) Thus, I expect few US observers will have much luck with the daylight comet. Anyone fortunate enough to have clear skies should give it a try. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] eaten meteorite

2007-01-16 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Rob, The heck with the chondrules! Didn't Novo Urei have (very small, shock-formed) diamonds in it? And remember, don't swallow that bite until you've chewed it thoroughly, little Sasha... Sterling K. Webb --- - Original

Re: [meteorite-list] Novo-Urei eaten - reference?

2007-01-16 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars), ate a piece of Zagami after he mailed the final manuscript to his publisher, while sitting on his roof, then wrote a poem about Eating Mars. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Trace [EMAIL

Re: [meteorite-list] Namibia: So Much Potential But Not Enough Funds (Hoba Meteorite)

2007-01-18 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Coast that puts people off, don't you think? Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Dave Freeman mjwy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] NASA Spacecraft En Route to Pluto Prepares forJupiter Encounter

2007-01-18 Thread Sterling K. Webb
orbit that skims the edge of that unhealthy Earth atmosphere. and do your big burn there. Hello, Mars, Venus, wherever you want to go! I'll be selling lunar condos in the lobby afterward, and LunaPort construction bonds, too... Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] eBay no longer a community

2007-01-21 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Nick, List It is coming, and eBay won't be there... Well, they do have that 3+ billion dollar a year head start... Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Nicholas Gessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Honolulu

2007-01-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
into the ocean by the cleaning crew, only about 1 kg are preserved. No sound was heard accompanying the fall, but during car loading it was very noisy. Keep that cleaning crew away from meteorites. Send'em over to my house. Sterling K. Webb

[meteorite-list] HAMMER STONE LIST

2007-01-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
one hammer stone that isn't on that list: TSUKUBA (JAPAN) H5-6 1996 After a luminous meteor and violent detonations, 23 stones totalling ~800 g (largest, 177.5g) were recovered, including one that penetrated a roof. (Catalogue of Meteorites, Grady et al., 2000) Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireball on the east coast

2007-01-25 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, ... thus dashing our hopes for a NEW good video of a bolide. Since TV News became mere entertainment, it's hopeless. Get me a picture of this train wreck! Chief, we don't have any pictures of this train wreck. Doesn't matter. Get me any picture of any train wreck. Train wrecks

Re: [meteorite-list] Average size of craters across the solar system?

2007-01-28 Thread Sterling K. Webb
true, that is). Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 9:08 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Average size

Re: [meteorite-list] Anyone visit the NJO today?

2007-01-28 Thread Sterling K. Webb
into the Meteorite Club, by the press anyway. If it's real, how did it get these surface features? Anyone have any iron similar in its sculpture? Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [meteorite-list] Refrigerator-Sized Chunk of Ice Crushes Car inFlorida

2007-01-29 Thread Sterling K. Webb
report says it weighed 100 pounds. Why do we even listen to these people? Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday

Re: [meteorite-list] Refrigerator-Sized Chunk of Ice Crushes Carin Florida

2007-01-29 Thread Sterling K. Webb
) surmised that he had stowed away in a nosewheel well, asphixiated at altitude, frozen quite solid, and had been released when the landing wheel was lowered. The frequency of such incidents is increasing. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Average size of craters across the solarsystem?

2007-01-29 Thread Sterling K. Webb
pretty much the same for the last 1.4 billion years. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 11:25 PM Subject

Re: [meteorite-list] interesting speculation Pacific Basin origin

2007-01-29 Thread Sterling K. Webb
geologist. Clearly, it was a winner. Wegener was also a meteorologist. He was the first to describe the process (now called the Wegener-Bergeron- Findeisen procedure) by which most raindrops form. A good read on Wegener: http://pangaea.org/wegener.htm Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Dig Deeply to Seek Life on Mars

2007-01-29 Thread Sterling K. Webb
and nobody living the Good Aquiferian Life for four billion years. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, January 29

[meteorite-list] THE TUCSON LULL

2007-01-31 Thread Sterling K. Webb
at the new site.) Watch the future, now. Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Etching Iron Meteorites

2007-01-31 Thread Sterling K. Webb
formed along certain crystallographic planes. What's the likelihood of fake meteorites being made that way? Sterling K. Webb - Original Message - From: Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent

Re: [meteorite-list] The New Jersey Object

2007-02-01 Thread Sterling K. Webb
adjacent sets of grooves met at right angles to each other. There's one double groove that makes an angled turn! The Universe is surprising, but for this to be a real meteorite is too much of a surprise to ask for. Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] The New Jersey Object

2007-02-01 Thread Sterling K. Webb
K. Webb - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 5:13 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] The New Jersey Object On Thu, 01 Feb

Re: [meteorite-list] Dwarf Planet 'Becoming A Comet' (2003 EL61)

2007-02-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
orbit (1%) and the earliest prediscovery photo is 1955 (18% of an orbit ago), just how accurate are those orbital determinations and the resultant calculations? Inquiring minds want to know... My considered scientific opinion? 'Tain't happenin', dude! Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] CORRECTIONS TO Dwarf Planet 'Becoming A Comet'

2007-02-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
with a range of volatiles that is not as wide as we thought. Comets are rockier; asteroids are wetter, than believed. The difference may be between hot and cold asteroids, rather than asteroids and comets. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original

Re: [meteorite-list] Space station moves to avoid debris

2007-02-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
in the trade as the Chop Suey Special. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Rob McCafferty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gerald Flaherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 2:16 PM

[meteorite-list] PUBLIC RADIO AT GEM AND MINERAL SHOW

2007-02-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
consciousness. You can listen to the program at: http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/programs/2007/02/03/life_of_a_dealer.html Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo

Re: [meteorite-list] Dwarf Planet 'Becoming A Comet' (2003 EL61)

2007-02-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
-3 years of its 285 year orbit (1%) and the earliest prediscovery photo is 1955 (18% of an orbit ago), just how accurate are those orbital determinations and the resultant calculations? Inquiring minds want to know... My considered scientific opinion? 'Tain't happenin', dude! Sterling K

Re: [meteorite-list] Space station moves to avoid debris

2007-02-04 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, into the old atom free-for-all extremely dissociated state of plasma. It's whether you reach that phase transition that distinguishes the two kinds of events. Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [meteorite-list] Bright Light Spotted in Missouri Sky

2007-02-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, It was widely seen: Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin. No indication or mention of direction so far. Sterling K. Webb --- http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=6037565 MILWAUKEE (AP) - From southeastern Wisconsin to as far as Des Moines, Iowa

Re: [meteorite-list] fireball over midwest

2007-02-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
of the Illinois River valley. Tonight is expected to be the coldest night of the year, and one or more inches of snow is predicted. Not exactly the ideal recovery zone... The Nininger tactic of advertising in a multitude of small town papers comes to mind Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] fireball over midwest

2007-02-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
that it is Fox News, who have most things backwards... Below is another news report. Sterling K. Webb - http://www.kcci.com/news/10933402/detail.html MILWAUKEE -- Balls of fire streaking across the sky Sunday night from Wisconsin

Re: [meteorite-list] fireball over midwest NUMBER THREE

2007-02-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
a possibility: one of the 500-odd large fragments of a certain Chinese polar satellite which would indeed have a shallow trajectory and a low entry velocity. Assuming we're tracking those chunks, we may know before long, or not. Sterling K. Webb (story follows

Re: [meteorite-list] fireball over midwest

2007-02-05 Thread Sterling K. Webb
an extinct constellation. Chris * Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com - Original Message - From: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chris Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday

[meteorite-list] MISSOURI, ILLINOIS FIREBALL ALSO SEEN IN KANSAS, MINNESOTA

2007-02-06 Thread Sterling K. Webb
.) the distraction of the Superbowl! Yet, there seem to be no shortages of reports. It was even called a flood of reports in the St. Louis area. Sterling K. Webb http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/16630902.htm Aerial sight was a meteor One mystery remains . where did the falling object

Re: [meteorite-list] MISSOURI, ILLINOIS FIREBALL ALSO SEEN IN KANSAS, MINNESOTA

2007-02-06 Thread Sterling K. Webb
was THAT? But the REALLY big news is that a reporter got a quote right! Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 12

Re: [meteorite-list] NASA TV Commercial

2007-02-06 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Greg, List, it was a stunt farmer they used :-) Now there's something you don't see on every resume: Occupation: Stunt Farmer I like that... It's something you could toss into casual conversation: I used to be a Stunt Farmer, until I injured my pitchfork hand... Sterling K

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite kills two nomads in India

2007-02-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. Doesn't mean it's a meteorite, though... Unlikely, but not impossible, I suppose. To check the location just go to Google Maps and enter Bundi Rajasthan India and you're there. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite kills two nomads in India

2007-02-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, List, I think Svend has hit on the most likely explanation for this incident. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: Dr. Svend Buhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Cc: Sterling K. Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] www.venusmeteorite.com - what are your opinions on this claim

2007-02-12 Thread Sterling K. Webb
odd SNC meteorites were from Mars: their unique noble gas ratios matched the Viking data. I guarantee one thing: the noble gas ratios of a real Venus rock will be WEIRD, whatever the details. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original

Re: [meteorite-list] Ebay auction question

2007-02-12 Thread Sterling K. Webb
stones. Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 7:16 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Ebay auction question Was there an 80

[meteorite-list] Eyewitness Account of the Holbrook Fall

2007-02-12 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Nice eyewitness account of the Holbrook fall. Sterling K. Webb TEMPE RESIDENT REMEMBERS METEOR'S PLUNGE 86 YEARS AGO 30 May 1998 MESA, Ariz. (AP) _ Pauline McCleve of Tempe doesn't need to go

Re: [meteorite-list] Larry's Holbrook Holy Grail Find

2007-02-12 Thread Sterling K. Webb
on the surface of the ground. Perhaps the really BIG Holbrooks are still down there? Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: DNAndrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, February 12

Re: [meteorite-list] real men meteorites

2007-02-20 Thread Sterling K. Webb
AHNIGHITO The Tent (as well as The Dog and The Woman. Now, THAT'S a piece of heavy lifting! Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, February 20

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Exploration Rovers Update - February 16, 2007

2007-02-20 Thread Sterling K. Webb
of power needed to light a 100-watt bulb for one hour) Either that, or teach me the calculation so I can persuade my local power utility that their bills are 100 times too high... Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Ron

Re: [meteorite-list] Dwarf Planet 'Becoming A Comet' (2003 EL61)

2007-02-21 Thread Sterling K. Webb
before. After 4+ billion years in the same orbit, I think it's pretty unlikely too. That's a good thing... Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: Rob McCafferty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jason Utas [EMAIL PROTECTED

[meteorite-list] SPACE JUNK

2007-02-21 Thread Sterling K. Webb
(02-22-07): http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] SPACE JUNK

2007-02-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
(02-22-07): http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

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