[meteorite-list] FW: Re: Greensburg
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: Greensburg Hey Guys, 9:02pm Greensburg Time Guess where Kelsey and I am at? We are at our home in Greensburg after Curfew! There might be only 4 of us residents staying here in the midst of Marshall Law. Our neighbors 3 doors down have never left. So that encouraged us. Kelsey and I were driving around getting last minute still photos (for her 4H project) and we got pulled over by a cop. We thought it was because she was standing up in her seat, head out of the sun roof taking photos without her seat belt on. But it was because we had out of state tags. When they learned we were residents, they told us that we needed to be out of town before 7pm, UNLESS we were staying all night. In that case they told us we had to be on our property by 8pm and we would have to stay their until 8am. Kelsey and I looked at each other and smiled. We went by a charity booth, got a dozen bottles of water, some apples and oranges and headed home. We were told that we would be arrested if we stepped off our property, so we are stuck here until 8 am. I still had a half dozen cans of Bud Light cans in the fridge, not that I would need it because our squatter neighbors gave me a bottle of wine to celebrate our constitutional rights! Our neighbors have a generator, and their old rotary dial phone has worked through it all. Miracles of miracles, Greensburg now has 4, count them 1, 2, 3, 4 bars on the cell phone. Maybe it is because FEMA headquarters are 2 blocks down the road. Great news: Bob and Florence Peck are in GREAT Shape! We saw them at their home. Now, HONESTLY Miracle of Miracles is that their home received only minor damage, when everything around them is wiped out. My sister gave me a $20 bill, and asked me to give it to a needy family. So I handed it to Bob, with the explanation of my promise to my sister to give it to someone. He took it with the condition that he would give it to someone else that needed it a lot more than he did. Who am I to argue with him? So I cheerfully agreed. I have a hundred stories to tell, and only 12 hours to tell them. LOL. Anyway, anyone know how to start a blog? Maybe I should do it. Kelsey and I are sitting out by the curb on card tables, hoping to exchange autographs with the great men and women patrolling the neighborhood tonight. We have police, sheriffs, National Guard and a whole host of other people crisscrossing the streets looking for looters. As soon as Kelsey's episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show is over, she will be going to bed in the dry half of the house. Maybe I can post some photos Kelsey took later. Time for the second glass of wine... More later, Steve Arnold (Mark or Geoff, please repost this to the M-list if it didn't make it from me.) __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Monthly Favourite (April 2007)
Hi all, I've not been able to update my site for several weeks now but am trying to do a bit this week. As the saying goes... better late than never. Here's April below and I'll try and get May up this week some time. ;-) http://www.meteorites.com.au/favourite.html Cheers, Jeff __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Greg Willhite
Greg, Could you please email me again. I received an error message when responding to your Greensburg donation. Maria List, sorry about this. RCPT To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 nightop IS NOT ACCEPTING MAIL FROM THIS SENDER 550 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... User unknown __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Ad: Oriented meteorite auction on ebay
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[meteorite-list] FW: 20% off in my Ebay Store...
From: michael cottingham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 2:17 PM To: 'michael cottingham' Subject: AD: 20% off in my Ebay Store... Hello, Finally! Ebay has presented a feature for us shop keepers. I can now go into my store and mark any items I want with what ever discount I want to choose. All the invoices reflect this and everything is automatic. No more manual invoices I have a 20% off sale until Sunday! Go to: http://stores.ebay.com/Voyage-Botanica-Natural-History Thanks and Best Wishes Michael Cottingham __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] AD: NWA SALE
I havent been doing much with my website lately and my ecommerce site still has some problems. But over the next couple weeks as I try and raise money for Ensisheim and St marie will list some meteorites on my website. See my newest sale here: http://www.meteoriteshop.com/metsale/ws-sale1.html 20% discount today and tomorrow to list members before I list it on my main site Sincerely DEAN www.meteoriteshop.com AMUNRE on ebay TV dinner still cooling? Check out Tonight's Picks on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/ __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] NASA's Next Mars Spacecraft Crosses the Mississippi (Phoenix)
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-054 NASA's Next Mars Spacecraft Crosses the Mississippi Jet Propulsion Laboratory May 08, 2007 A U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo aircraft carried NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft Monday, May 7, from Colorado to Florida, where Phoenix will start a much longer trip in August. After launch, Phoenix will land on a Martian arctic plain next spring. It will use a robotic digging arm and other instruments to determine whether the soil environment just beneath the surface could have been a favorable habitat for microbial life. Studies from orbit suggest that within arm's reach of the surface, the soil holds frozen water. This is a critical milestone for our mission, said Peter Smith of the University of Arizona, Tucson, principal investigator for Phoenix. Our expert engineering team has completed assembly and testing of the spacecraft. The testing shows our instruments are capable of meeting the high-level requirements for the mission. Workers have been assembling and testing the spacecraft for more than a year in Denver. We're excited to be going back to Mars, said Ed Sedivy, Phoenix program manager at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., Denver. Assembly, integration and testing of the spacecraft have gone very well. We delivered Phoenix stowed inside its back shell and it will stay in that configuration until it lands softly on Mars. A Delta II launch vehicle will start Phoenix on its longer trip from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The earliest possible launch time will be Aug. 3, at 5:35 a.m. EDT. Opportunities for energy-efficient launches to Mars come about every two years. Orbital geometries of Mars and Earth make this year particularly favorable for sending a lander to far-northern Mars to arrive when sunshine is at a maximum there. The arctic plains are the right place for the next step in Mars exploration, and this is the right time to go there, said Leslie Tamppari, Phoenix project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. We expect to touch Martian ice for the first time, a real leap in NASA's follow-the-water strategy. The lander needs solar energy, and we will arrive for a three-month prime mission right at the end of northern Mars' spring. Phoenix will be prepared for launch in a payload processing facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The first checkout activity will be a spin-balance test May 10 and 11. This will be followed on May 15 by installation of the heat shield and then a separation test. The next major milestones, during the third week of May, will be a landing radar integration test and launch system verification test. The last week of May will include an entry, descent and landing system verification test, followed by a guidance navigation and control test. The rocket that will launch Phoenix is a Delta II 7925, manufactured by United Launch Alliance, Denver. The first stage is scheduled to be hoisted into the launcher of Pad 17-A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station the third week of June. Nine strap-on solid rocket boosters will then be raised and attached. The second stage, which burns hypergolic propellants, will be hoisted atop the first stage the first week of July. The fairing, which surrounds the spacecraft, will then be hoisted into the clean room of the mobile service tower. Next, engineers will perform several tests of the Delta II. In mid-July, as a leak check, the first stage will be loaded with liquid oxygen during a simulated countdown. The next day, a simulated flight test will be performed, simulating the vehicles post-liftoff flight events without fuel aboard. The electrical and mechanical systems of the entire Delta II will be exercised during this test. Once the Phoenix payload is placed atop the launch vehicle in the third week of July, a major test will be conducted: an integrated test of the Delta II and Phoenix working together. This will be a combined minus count and plus count, simulating all events as they will take place on launch day, but without propellants aboard the vehicle. Finally, one week before launch, the Delta II payload fairing will be installed around the Phoenix lander. The NASA Launch Services Program at the Kennedy Space Center and the United Launch Alliance are responsible for the launch of the Delta II. Phoenix is the first mission of NASA's Mars Scout Program of competitively proposed, relatively low-cost missions to Mars. Selected in 2003, Phoenix saves expense by using a lander structure and some other components originally built for a 2001 mission that was canceled while in development. Smith of the University of Arizona leads the Phoenix mission, with project management at JPL and development partnership at Lockheed Martin. International contributions are provided by the Canadian Space Agency, the University of Neuchatel (Switzerland), the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), the Max Planck Institute (Germany) and the Finnish
[meteorite-list] Rover Spirit Finds Evidence of Early Martian Volcanic Activity - And Further Hints of a Watery Past
Chronicle Online e-News Rover Spirit finds evidence of early Martian volcanic activity at Home Plate plateau -- and further hints of a watery past http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May07/squyres.pyroclastic.html May 8, 2007 By Lauren Gold Cornell University [EMAIL PROTECTED] A plateau on Mars known as Home Plate shows evidence of long-past explosive volcanic activity, say scientists on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. And data collected during the rover Spirit's initial pass across the 90-meter (295 feet) wide plateau also supports earlier findings indicating that water once existed at or beneath the planet's surface. The research appeared in the May 4 issue of the journal Science. Home Plate's finely layered appearance made it one of the most tantalizing targets within Spirit's reach in Gusev Crater, said Steve Squyres, the mission's principal investigator and the Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy at Cornell. The rover captured its first panoramic image of Home Plate in August 2005 from the summit of Husband Hill and reached the plateau in the Columbia Hills' inner basin in February 2006. It quickly sent back an image Squyres called one of the neatest pictures we've taken with the rovers. The image shows a small (4 centimeter) rock fragment nestled within a downward deflection in otherwise ruler-straight lines of layering -- a feature likely to be what geologists call a bomb sag. These usually form when a rock fragment (the bomb) is thrown upward in an explosion; then lands in deformable material, causing the material to sag beneath it. Chemical analysis shows the rock is made of the same material (basalt) as volcanic rocks around it, indicating the explosion was not the result of an impact by an exotic source (such as a meteorite). The rock also shows tiny spherical particles that look like accretionary lapilli -- coagulated bits of ash that typically rain down after a volcanic explosion. Any volcanic activity at Home Plate probably happened billions of years ago -- but part of what makes it intriguing, said Squyres, is its similarity to regions on other parts of the planet. There are lots and lots of places on Mars where, from orbit, you see layered deposits locally that kind of look like this, said Squyres, and so it really raises the possibility that a lot of these things all over the planet could be explosive volcanic deposits. That the rocks at Home Plate are basalt -- not a material normally associated with explosions -- also hints that water was involved. When basalt erupts, it often does so as very fluid lava, rather than erupting explosively, Squyres said. But a notable exception comes when hot basalt meets water to cause a steam-driven explosion. The bomb sag -- now dry, but shaped as if the rock sitting in it landed with a splat instead of a thud -- is a second hint that the surface was once wet. A third is the material's high chlorine content, which may point to past exposure to a briny fluid. Home Plate may be the site of an early impact crater that was later filled in by volcanic debris, according to stereo images that show the layered rocks around its edge all sloping in toward the plateau's center. Billions of years of erosion could have stripped away the surrounding material but left the debris protected by the crater's rim -- resulting in the current plateau. The Science paper is based on data collected during a frenetic few months in 2006, as Spirit was chugging down the Columbia Hills toward a safe place to ride out the Martian winter. The route to safety included a path across Home Plate -- leaving Spirit's drivers on Earth with a dilemma. There was all this fabulous science around us, Squyres said. But with winter approaching, the team had the harrying task of getting Spirit to its destination in time, while gathering as much data as possible along the way. We got an amazing amount of science done, all things considered, he said. But there's more work to be done here. Spirit is now back at Home Plate, continuing exploration there. Another sol, another discovery ... (and no one's yawning) A year after Spirit first reached Home Plate plateau, the rover and its twin Opportunity are still healthy and plugging away. Spirit, having made it through the winter, is back for a second pass at Home Plate (now driving ably on five wheels after its right front wheel died last year). And the baseball theme for names at Home Plate continues: Last year, rocks in the area were named to honor players from the Negro Leagues of the early 20th century; discoveries this year celebrate women from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League of the 1940s and '50s. Meanwhile, Opportunity, on Meridiani Planum on the opposite side of the planet, has been exploring the rim of Victoria Crater and is now heading back to an alcove called Duck Bay. From there, it will look for a place to start the tricky descent into
[meteorite-list] canyon diablo
Hi list.Does anyone have any really nicely sculpted pieces of canyon diablo? Steve R.Arnold,chicago,Ill,Usa!! Collecting Meteorites since 06/19/1999!! www.chicagometeorites.net.Specializing in Gao Meteorites! Ebay I.D. Illinoismeteorites __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] canyon diablo
Yes, many of us have them. Howard Steffic From: steve arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] canyon diablo Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 18:00:20 -0700 (PDT) Hi list.Does anyone have any really nicely sculpted pieces of canyon diablo? Steve R.Arnold,chicago,Ill,Usa!! Collecting Meteorites since 06/19/1999!! www.chicagometeorites.net.Specializing in Gao Meteorites! Ebay I.D. Illinoismeteorites __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list _ Now you can see trouble before he arrives http://newlivehotmail.com/?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_viral_protection_0507 __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] canyon diablo forsale
Hello again list.I should have made it clear.I do not care if you have any,I want to know if anyone has any canyon diablo forsale?I am sorry for the mistake. Steve R.Arnold,chicago,Ill,Usa!! Collecting Meteorites since 06/19/1999!! www.chicagometeorites.net.Specializing in Gao Meteorites! Ebay I.D. Illinoismeteorites Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail QA for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=listsid=396546091 __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Wanted - Elbert King Meteorite Specimens and Books
I am looking for Elbert King meteorite specimens with his personal notations, labels, or provenance. Please contact me privately if you have any available. I am also looking for a reasonably priced copy of 'Chondrules and Their Origins.' Cheers, Mike Bandli __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
