This subject has been mentioned so many times. Is there a single classified particle from this method of collection?
Bill > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:42:54 -0400 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [email protected] > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Magnetite/Glass Meteorite Balls > > >>....somebody here on the list recounted > their successful retrieval of micrometeoroidal dust from their > gutters this way... > > > Hi, all, > > I suggest you don't attempt to gather celestial dust near a building - a > lot > of asphalt shingles have granules with magnetic qualities. > I attempted this recently, and collected what was obviously from my own > rooftop. > > Cheers, > Pete > > From: "Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Chris Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"Meteorite List" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Magnetite/Glass Meteorite Balls > Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:52:22 -0500 > > Hi, Chris, List, > > http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20030813/Feature1.asp > (Scroll down past the Stardust Mission...) > > True, micron stuff from "shower" meteors takes > a long time to drop, which is why it's falling all the time. > The much larger, heavier, and vastly rarer low altitude > meteor ablation product falls much more rapidly, but > you have to have a meteor burn along overhead! > The eBay stuff, collected from a mountain stream, > is a cumulate record of 100's (1000's?) of years (depending > on how fast the sand is flushed). Collected pond muck, > or the goop in the bottom of your gutters, can be harvested > of meteoritic dust by mixing it with clean water and stirring > with a magnet. > Years and years ago, somebody here on the list recounted > their successful retrieval of micrometeoroidal dust from their > gutters this way but I can't remember who it was. And another > list member told of leaving a water collector out during "shower > times" as a kid and collecting residue, but you're quite right -- > it couldn't have been contemporaneous dust! > > > Sterling K. Webb > ----------------------------------------------------------- > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Meteorite List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 9:41 PM > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Magnetite/Glass Meteorite Balls > > > > Meteoritic dust or cosmic dust: put a flat white > > plastic pan or small "splash pool" of water out away > > from the trees on the peak night of a meteor shower, > > and in the morning you will be rewarded with a black > > dust on the bottom of the pool... > > Have you actually done this? Because the sort of micron-scale dust > produced by meteors has an atmospheric lifetime measured in months. > While there's certainly meteor dust falling all the time, you won't find > any in the morning from the previous night's shower. > > Chris > > ***************************************** > Chris L Peterson > Cloudbait Observatory > http://www.cloudbait.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Mike Groetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Meteorite List" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 8:23 PM > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Magnetite/Glass Meteorite Balls > > > > Hi, Mike, List, > > > > The Seller believes this material to be "Jurassic" > > in origin because he finds it in sand produced from > > Jurassic strata, but while he's wrong about that, he > > may be right about it being meteoritic! > > > > When a meteorite ablates in the atmosphere, the > > majority of its mass is turned into a dust of tiny fused > > droplets. Eventually, that meteoritic dust will fall to > > earth; some will land on water, sink to the stream and > > lake bottoms and become incorporated in the sand > > (or mud). > > > > Meteoritic dust or cosmic dust: put a flat white > > plastic pan or small "splash pool" of water out away > > from the trees on the peak night of a meteor shower, > > and in the morning you will be rewarded with a black > > dust on the bottom of the pool, that could well be > > interpreted as: > > "Meteorite balls, glass balls, zircons, garnet, magnetite > > and some other minerals... The balls are magnetite balls. > > Somethimes with the white transparents glass balls you > > can find some green balls that look like moldavite or > > olivina fused samples..." > > > > Much more fun to collect your own than to > > buy it on eBay, though. > > > > > > Sterling K. 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