Mike Farmer, Jim Strope, Patrick Hermann, Rob Wesel, Mike Bandli, and I
were in Grimsby, hunting. Farmer found a 69 gramer! That's the 3rd stone
only
for this fall so far. Rob Wesel will post more photos soon.
Roman Jirasek
www.meteoritelabels.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Catterton" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2009 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] That's it! I'm heading for Mars.
Im sure you will be standing in line behind Mike Farmer!
PS... where has he been? have not seen a post from him in some time.
Greg C.
www.wanderingstarmeteorites.com
IMCA 4682
--- On Sun, 10/18/09, Darren Garrison <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Darren Garrison <[email protected]>
Subject: [meteorite-list] That's it! I'm heading for Mars.
To: [email protected]
Date: Sunday, October 18, 2009, 8:46 PM
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/10/18/opportunity-discovers-still-another-meteorite-findit-on-google-mar/
Opportunity must be driving down Meteorite Alley on Mars.
The rover has come
across still another meteorite, the third space rock it has
found the past few
months, and fourth overall since 2005. This one is called
Mackinac, which
continues the "island" theme by which the science team has
dubbed the
meteorites. Block Island was found in July 2009, and
Opportunity came upon
Shelter Island the end of September (around sol 2020 for
the rover). Mackinac
was found on sol 2034 (Oct 13), and it looks very similar
in composition to the
two earlier meteorites. Opportunity analyzed the meteorites
and found they were
made of iron and nickel. The image above was color
calibrated by Stu Atkinson,
who hangs out at UnmannedSpaceflight.com. You can find all
the raw images
Opportunity has sent back to Earth here, and raw images
from Spirit here.
You can also follow Opportunity's travels through Meridiani
Planum on its way to
Endeavour Crater at one of Stu's blogs, Road to Endeavour.
But — and this is
very fun — you can also follow Oppy on Google Mars, and
see where it has found
the meteorites. Tesheiner on UMSF regularly updates a route
map, pinpointing the
spots where the rover stops. Just go to Google Mars
(download Google Earth and
Mars here if you don't have it yet), open up Google Mars,
then click on this
link, download and open, and you'll be transported to
Opportunity's location on
Mars. Extreme, extreme cool.
Now, you'll notice that region of Google Mars doesn't have
high-resolution
imagery yet. They're working on it. In the meantime,
though, if you want to see
a great mosaic of the terrain that Opportunity is traveling
through, check out
this image below created by Ken Kremer, also of UMSF. This
is from Sol 2010
showing Nereus Crater and dunes on the Road to Endeavour,
where Oppy was just
prior to discovering Shelter Island. Ken created this
mosaic from raw images
from the Cornell Pancam raw images, stitching multiple
images together and
calibrating the color.
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