[meteorite-list] Could this be a piece of meteorite from N.Y. State?
(Posted this last night but I don't think it got through. Apologies if it doubles up.) G'day List, I got an email from someone who found this specimen while prospecting in New York State. I've posted it The Meteorite 'Space'. Any opinions? http://www.meteoritesaustralia.com/space/ny.html Thanks, Jeff KuykenI.M.C.A. #3085www.meteoritesaustralia.com
Re: [meteorite-list] NP Article, 06-1949 Russian Fall , Kunashak?
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[meteorite-list] Expert opinions required on NWA 353
Hi list, I recently acquired a 31g piece of NWA 353, and I was thinking that this piece might be an impact-melt breccia similar to the L5 Rio Limay, Argentina on pg 98 of the The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites Fig. 5.18. I think my meteorite is similar because it has 2 distinct fields, in the picture, one with chondrules(lighter area) and the other area lacking chondritic texture(dark area). Any feedback, negative or positive, on my meteorite would be greately appreciated. The photo is located at: http://ca.photos.yahoo.com/bc/cbrooks711/lst?.dir=/meteorites.view=t Thanks, Chris Brooks __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] NASA Should Lead More Focused Program to Reduce Threat from Hazardous Asteroids
http://www.noao.edu/outreach/press/pr03/pr0303.html National Optical Astronomy Observatory FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 4, 2003 RELEASE NO: NOAO 03-03 NASA Should Lead More Focused Program to Reduce Threat from Hazardous Asteroids For More Information: Douglas Isbell Public Information Officer National Optical Astronomy Observatory Phone: 520/318-8214 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NASA should be assigned to lead a new research program to better determine the population and physical diversity of near-Earth objects that may collide with our planet, down to a size of 200 meters, according to the final report of a workshop on the scientific requirements for the mitigation of hazardous comets and asteroids. The workshop's report also recommends that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) work to more rapidly communicate surveillance data on natural airbursts of smaller rocky bodies, and it concludes that governmental policy makers must formulate a chain of responsibility to be better prepared in the event that a threat to Earth becomes known. As our discussions proceeded, it became clear that the prime impediment to further advances in this field is the lack of assigned responsibility to any national or international governmental organization, said planetary scientist Michael Belton, organizer of the September 2002 workshop. Since it is part of NASA's newly stated mission to `understand and protect our home planet,' it seems obvious that this responsibility should reside in NASA. Belton presented the findings of the workshop today in Washington, DC, to officials at NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the Office of Management and Budget, and the report was delivered to the U.S. Congress. About 2,225 near-Earth objects (NEOs) have been detected, primarily by ground-based optical searches, in the size range between 10 meters and 30 kilometers, out of a total estimated population of about one million; some information about the physical size and composition of these NEOs is available for only 300 objects. The total number of objects a kilometer in diameter or larger, a size that could cause global catastrophe upon Earth impact, is now estimated to range between 900 and 1,230. The NASA-led Spaceguard Survey has a congressional mandate to detect 90% of these kilometer-sized objects by 2008, and it is making excellent progress on this goal, the report says. However, a full survey of objects that could cause significant damage on Earth should reach down to NEOs at least as small as 200 meters, the report says, which should be within the capability of proposed ground-based facilities such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and the PanStarrs telescope system. Ground-based radar systems will remain a critical contributor to obtaining the most accurate possible data on the orbits of many hazardous objects, the report says. The workshop report discusses a preliminary roadmap based on five themes: more complete and accurate surveys of the orbits of potentially hazardous objects; improved public education about the risk; characterizing the physical properties of a range of asteroids and comets; more extensive laboratory research; and initial physical experiments toward a realistic plan to intercept and divert a future incoming object. In order to keep maximum annual expenses on the order of a typical spacecraft mission (approximately $300 million), the report estimates that it would take about 25 years to accomplish this roadmap. The Final Report of the NASA Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids, held in Arlington, VA, from September 3-6, 2002, is available on the Internet at: http://www.noao.edu/meetings/mitigation/report.html The workshop was attended by 77 scientists from the United States, Europe and Japan. It was co-sponsored by Ball Aerospace, Science Applications International Corp., Lockheed Martin Corp., the National Optical Astronomy Observatory and the University of Maryland. :: :: :: __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Slice of a CA-meteorite on auction
(Posted this earlier, but I don't think it got through. Apologies if it has been double-posted.) I've never posted an *AD* to this List before... but this is different, it's more of an announcement of a meteorite find from California, so what with CA meteorites being scarcer than hens-teeth I'll make an exception, this time. Besides, what with so many people Tucson bound (myself included) I'll probably get complaints like, Bob! You should have told me! I totally missed the auction! And I don't want to cut this stone again, so here it is, this one time only: Rosamond Dry Lake - new main-mass http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=3239item=2156391070 The main-mass will be at Tucson this weekend. Bob V. __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] ADD: new eucrite 4sale No Reserve !
Dear list I was out of cosmos for a while. I come back with some new meteorites, already analyzed but published in some future. Just have a look at this new Eucrite. Small weight but good material indeed. No reserve, the market will find its price. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2157547289ssPageName=ADM E:B:LC:US:1 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2157546836ssPageName=ADM E:B:LC:US:1 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2157547590ssPageName=ADM E:B:LC:US:1 Good bidding ! More to come Michel FRANCO IMCA 3869 http://caillou-noir.com (say kayunwar) __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Canadian Miner Claims Meteorite Was Stolen - And Wants It Back
For JPL internal use only. http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/02/04/meteorite030204 It came from outer space - and he wants it back CBC News (Canada) February 4, 2003 WHITEHORSE - A Yukon miner has been told to get his paperwork in order if he wants to take the federal government to court over what he says is his missing multi-million dollar meteorite. Dan Saboe claims he found an extremely rare meteorite while working his mining claims near Mayo, central Yukon, about 15 years ago. A few years later Saboe says he noticed something growing on his meteorite. He wanted to know what it was, and sent it to experts at the Geological Survey of Canada. They wanted to cut pieces of the rock for testing but Saboe didn't want them to. Now he claims federal government scientists have removed the stuff that was growing on the rock and sent him a fake in its place. He claims the meteorite is worth more than $12 million. Documents filed with the court say the federal Geological Survey offered him $2,500 for it. Saboe has accumulated a huge pile of documents, photographs and tape-recorded phone calls to back up his claims. However, in court Tuesday Saboe was told the case is factually complex, and he should get legal advice to proceed properly. Saboe has no lawyer and told the court he misunderstood legal requirements needed to proceed with his lawsuit. He has until Friday to get his case together. The defendants in the case - people like the RCMP - say Saboe simply has no case. And they claim even if he did, the space rock is a dud and is essentially worthless. __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Trial For Moon Rock Theft Delayed To April 1
This message was forwarded to me: The Trial for stealing NASA's Lunar and Meteorite Samples has been delayed until April 1, 2003. Today, the Federal Judge in Orlando, Florida accepted the request from the lawyer for Gordon McWhorter to delay the trial until a date in the future. The request was based upon the defendant not being able to receive a fair trial because of all of the NASA publicity regarding the Columbia accident. __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Silent Auction!
Dear List members, The auction in Tucson is presently going on. A total of 54 meteorites many historical pieces. Anyone wanting to place a bid, or needs more information on the silent auction is welcome to call Allan,Greg or Adam at the hotel. If you are not able to attend the Tucson show you can still place a bid. The silent auction will end on Saturday Feb 8,2003 @ 3:45 central time. To obtain existing high bids and to place a bid Please call (Allan,Greg or Adam)at The Best Western Executive Inn, 333 West Drachman 520-791-7551 Room # 130 Best regards Mrs. Langheinrich http://www.nyrockman.com mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] NASA: Columbia's Trail of Debris May Have Begun In California
http://www.spacedaily.com/2003/030204223303.jnyn5zus.html Columbia's trail of debris may have begun in California: NASA AFP February 4, 2003 HOUSTON, Texas - The US space shuttle Columbia may have started disintegrating in flight earlier than previously thought, with suspected debris from the doomed spacecraft spotted in western US states California and Arizona, a senior NASA official said Tuesday. We've had reports there are pieces on the ground in California and Arizona, Michael Kostelnik, an associate administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration told reporters here. He said team of experts had been dispatched to various sites in those states to examine the wreckage but cautioned that it was not clear what the material is at this point. The move follows media reports that a radio-astronomer from the California Institute of Technology saw what appeared to be debris shedding from Columbia as it streaked over the state. The San Francisco Chronicle quoted Anthony Beasley, of Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory, as saying that the shuttle had a sparkle effect as it flew over and that he saw a bright piece separate. The potential discovery is seen as important for establishing a credible timeline of the fiery disintegration last Saturday of Columbia and the deaths of all its seven astronauts, according to space flight experts. Such a timeline could help engineers pinpoint the problem that that has led to a sharp rise in temperatures in the spacecraft's left wing and on the left side of the fuselage and, ultimately, the shuttle's disintegration as it headed for landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It would be important to see the material early in the sequence, Kostelnik said. __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
RE: [meteorite-list] The Wreck of the Columbia
Well said mark and I am very sorry for your loss. All the Best, Greg Redfern 2003 NASA Solar System Ambassador http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ambassador/ IMCA #5781 www.meteoritecollectors.org -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Fox Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 10:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [meteorite-list] The Wreck of the Columbia February 3, 2003 Greetings Meteorite Enthusiasts! It looks like I received a lot of responses to my last post, which I felt I should reply to. Please, before I continue, I do not wish to be the seed for any arguments or loud discussions. I only wish the best for all of you, and this will be my last comment on this present discussion. Some of you took only one point and elongated it quite dramatically. It seems now, after reading everything, that my thoughts are painted in the wrong colors, partly due to the previous reason, and partly due to some poor wording on my part. I did not definitely say or mean we should not ever continue space travel. I think we should concentrate more on unmanned space probes rather than manned operations. It was a very sad event, indeed, that seven astronauts met such sudden deaths, leaving behind their families who sorely miss them. That sole reason was behind my original e-mail. In July of 1999, I too, had a tremendous loss. My loving mother went to heaven. It was a totally painful and grievous time, which even now is sad. She did die doing what she loved doing. She died loving all of us, my father, brothers and sisters, and my whole family. She wanted to be the best mom she could be, and as a result, became quite clearly a model of virtue. The loss of the astronauts brings the sadness up again. Once again, please do not let any of this start a fight. I do not want to be rude to anyone. What's more, I am sorry if I did not cover every point that someone else has made regarding my original post. Long strewn fields! Mark Fox Newaygo, MI USA __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] specimens in the Tucson silient auction!
Dear List members, Some of you are interested in the specimens being offered in the silent auction. The following is a list of the items available. Please note that the auction will end on Saturday Feb 8,2003 @ 3:45 central time. SILENT AUCTION! AT THE BEST WESTERN EXECUTIVE INN ROOM 130 1. Allende H103.192 (HUSS)6.9 gr. 2. Bear Creek 0352.11 (NININGER) 4.8 gr. 3. Beenham 414.85(NININGER) 9.95 gr. 4. Bishopville 0.52 gr. 5. Bledsoe H121.140 (HUSS) 3.2 gr. 6. Box Hole H125.37 (HUSS)5.7 gr. 7. Clover Springs 646.102 (NININGER)0.7 gr. 8. Cold Water 23.9 (NININGER) 3.2. gr. 9. Cumberland Falls 0.45 gr. 10. Dar al Gani 431 1.96 gr. 11. Dar al Gani 485 2.0 gr. 12. Dhofar 125 0.57 gr. 13. Dimmitt H9.318(HUSS)60.0 gr. 14. Ehole 1.1 gr. 15. EtterH47.173 (HUSS) 25.8 gr. 16. Fluvanna H331.15 (HUSS) 8.2 gr. 17. Forrest (b) H434.7(HUSS) 27.5 gr. 18. Frankel CityH49.22(HUSS) 33.5 gr. 19. Carichic H438.13 (HUSS) 11.1. gr. 20. Georgia Tektite 7.1 gr. 21. Great Bend H430.63 (HUSS) 11.2 gr. 22. Hamada Al Hamra 237 0.3 gr. 23. Happy (a) H142.20 (HUSS) 23.1 gr. 24. Haviland H328.17 (HUSS)33.5 gr. 25. Henbury H66.186 (HUSS)12.5 gr. 26. Huckitta 56 gr. 27. Hunter H123.70 (HUSS) 2.5 gr. 28. Ibitira 0.5 gr. 29. Juvinas 1.25 gr. 30. MacyH444.8 (HUSS) 75.3 gr. 31. Mills H120.114 (HUSS) 3.9 gr. 32. North West Africa 032 0.058 gr. 33. North West Africa 1110 0.42 gr. 34. North West Africa 1222 0.84 gr. 35. Peekskill ( Kit) 36. Oliver H443.21 (HUSS) 58.8 gr. 37. Owasco H441.74 (HUSS) 36.1 gr. 38. OzonaH449.7 (HUSS) 43.3 gr. 39. Ragland 7.3 gr. 40. Rifle 528.5 (NININGER) 0.7 gr. 41. Seminole (d)H332.34 (HUSS) 5.6 gr. 42. Seagraves (b) H328.18 (HUSS) 22.1 gr. 43. Shields H90.81 (HUSS) 5.0 gr. 44. Suizhou 54.0 gr. 45. Ozona 1.130 gr. 46. Tierra Blanca 0.4 gr. 47. Taiban (b) H327.95 (HUSS)13.5 gr. 48. Tulia(a) H395.27 (HUSS) 37.1 gr. 49. Julesburg H479.92 (HUSS) 30.5 gr. 50. Wellman (c ) H39.452 (HUSS)67.1 gr. 51. Winonia 0.2 gr. 52. Zagami 0.47 gr. 53. Zag (b) 0.155 gr. 54. Vaca Muerta H300.13 (HUSS) 39.5 gr. Please call (Allan,Greg or Adam)at The Best Western Executive Inn, 333 West Drachman 520-791-7551 Room # 130 to place a bid. Best regards Mrs. Langheinrich http://www.nyrockman.com mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Name
Silly queation - but is it Bensour (1 word) or Ben Sour (2 words) for the LL6 fall? Chris. Spratt IMCA #9235 __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Name
Bensour, one word. People are making it into a French word which it is not. Mike Farmer - Original Message - From: cspratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 8:24 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Name Silly queation - but is it Bensour (1 word) or Ben Sour (2 words) for the LL6 fall? Chris. Spratt IMCA #9235 __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Need a Piece of Zagami
Hello Everyone, Does anyone have a nice slice of Zagami for sale? I have a small micromount piece in my collection but I am looking for a nicer piece for a display I am creating for schools and the local library. Preferably a thin piece with good surface to weight ratio. Thanks. -Walter Walter Branch, Ph.D. 322 Stephenson Ave., Suite B Savannah, GA 31405 www.branchmeteorites.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Name
The location is Ben Sour.we tend to call the meteorite Bensour. The official name will be (or has been?) voted on by the nom. commity. Mark - Original Message - From: cspratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 9:24 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Name Silly queation - but is it Bensour (1 word) or Ben Sour (2 words) for the LL6 fall? Chris. Spratt IMCA #9235 __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] NP Article, 03-1964 Tektites and O'Keefe
Paper: The Marion Star City: Marion, Oh Date: Saturday, March 28, 1964 Page: 5 Not So Silvery Moon By Earl Ubell If you wander across certain fields in Southern Australia, you may stub your toe on a clump of of the moon. In picking up the offending stone, you'll find it a glassy, black piece f matter that looks like a carved botton off a woman's coat. Scientists call such stones tektites, from the Greek, Tektos - meaning molten, because they appear once to have been liquid stone. You can find similar buttons in Martha's Vineyard, Georgia, Texas, Africa, Czechoslovakia and throughout Southeast Asia. There must be tons of the stuff scattered over the earth. Measurements of their radioactivity reveal that those in Southeast Asia are between 600,000 and 700,000 years old. According to Dr. John A. O' Keefe - a physicists and this nation's unofficial warden of the tektite situation - they all came from the moon; evidence supporting this thesis piles up daily. Dr. O'Keefe, who works at the Goddard Space Flight Center of the National Aeronautics Space Administration, summarized this evidence in the Febuary issue of the Scientific American. Simultaneously Dr. Dean R. Chapman, of NASA's Ames Research Center, announced his successful efforts to create artificial tektites in a high speed wind tunnel. Not all scientists believe that the button-shaped black rocks came from the moon. Some think that huge meteorites - chunks of matter from the solar system - splashed into the earth and created the tektites. But Dr. O'Keefe rejects the idea. If the tektites did come from the moon, then Dr. O'Keefe draws several conclusions: The moon must be a chunj that was torn loose from the earth 5 billion years ago or else it is a twin of the earth formed at about the same time. It cannot be a stray planetoid that was captured by the earth's gravity. DR. O'KEEFE'S case rest on a chain of circumstanital evidence that may be verified when we get a piece of the moon stuff from the hand of an astronaut returning from out natural satellite. First, analysus of the tektites show that the minerals came from meteoritic materials; i.e. they came from beyound the earth. Second, although tektites contain radiactive elements, they do not contain aluminum-26, which other meteorites have. Aluminum-26 is found in ordinary meteorites as they wander for millions of years in the solar system and are bombarded by cosmic rays. Tektites can only have wandered for 10,000 years or so at the most but the clues say they came directly from the moon. Even so, the clues could suggest a terrestrial origin. Here is where Dr. Chapman and his wind tunnel come in. Dr. Chapman put together the same materials as is found in a tektite and exposed them to a high speed wind tunnel with heated air. The stream of air carved the same ridges as the scientists find in natural tektites. From this it was possible to determine the speeds at whcih the tektites enter the earth's atmosphere; 4 to 7 miles a second. Such speeds are most likely extra-terrestrial. HOW DO such things arrive from the moon; how do they get those enormous velocities? Explanations; Meteorites smash into the moon hourly just as they do on earth. But the moon has no atmosphere to slow them down; they hit with full speed - from 1 to 10 miles a second. When that happens, the impact is an explosion which scoops out some moon matter and sends it flying in all directions. Some fo this matter than reaches even greater speeds than the impacting meteorites and at velocities which tear it from the moon's gravitational forces. Caluclations by NASA scientists show that more material leaves the moon as a result of meteor impact than arrives. That means the moon is shrinking. (All of this raises a side issue for future moon landing astronauts. Impact from the meteorites must create large showers of high-speed projectiles at great distances along the moon's surface. This creates a danger for our moon men something like being exposed to the hail of machine gun bullets.) Dr. O'Keefe believes that when the tektites approach the earth, they go into orbit and slowly enter the earth's atmosphere just as John Glenn's capsule did. The heat of re-entry creates the carved surface of the tektites and distributes them like the wreckage of a spent rocket. Finally, because of the material in the tektite bears such a great resemblance to earthy minerals - except for the meteoritic character - Dr. O'Keefe suggests that the mon matter is like earth matter. Well, in a few years we'll find out for sure. __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Newspaper Articles and Tucson
Ron wrote: I really appreciate you finding these articles. Keep up the good work! Bernd wrote: So do I and many other list members. Thank you Mark - two thumbs up !! And I am adding :-) Thank you Ron, Bernd and other list members for your kind words. I now have about 500 articles archived on my computer. Not bad for about 7-8 months of research. Many of the later articles I also have PDF copies of so any list member would like to see the real copy of any of later or future ones I posted/will post, e-mail me and I will send it to you.Caution, they are rather big at about 500kb each. I fly to Tucson tomorrow and am looking forward to the break and events. I am unsure how much net time I will have the next week so please keep that in mind. Mark Bostick __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] NASA Provides Update About Columbia Investigation
Glenn Mahone/Robert N. Mirelson Headquarters, WashingtonFeb. 4, 2003 (Phone: 202/358-1600) Eileen Hawley Johnson Space Center (Phone: 281/483-5111) RELEASE: 03-051 NASA PROVIDES UPDATE ABOUT COLUMBIA INVESTIGATION As NASA paused to pay tribute to Columbia's astronauts, the agency reported making considerable progress in recovering debris from the Space Shuttle and analyzing data in the search for clues to what caused the orbiter to breakup 16 minutes before its landing last Saturday. President and Mrs. Bush joined NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe in honoring astronauts Rick Husband, William McCool, Dave Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Mike Anderson, Laurel Clark and Ilan Ramon in a ceremony at the Johnson Space Center, Houston. President Bush said the nation was blessed to have such men and women serving the space program, and although NASA is being tested at this time, America's space program will go on. In an afternoon briefing, Michael Kostelnik, NASA's Associate Administrator for International Space Station and Space Shuttle said several engineering teams continue to work round-the-clock to reconstruct the timeline of the final minutes of Columbia's flight from extensive data that is being analyzed. Kostelnik said the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, chaired by retired U.S. Navy Admiral Harold W. Gehman, Jr., is on scene at Barksdale Air Force Base, La. where the recovery of debris and human remains is being coordinated. Kostelnik reported that larger and denser pieces of debris have been found in Louisiana, possibly including parts of Columbia's main engines. He said recovery teams have been dispatched to California and Arizona, where debris has been reported. Kostelnik indicated debris recovered from areas farthest to the west would be critical, possibly providing information about the early stages of Columbia's breakup. Earlier today, a Russian Progress resupply ship successfully docked to the International Space Station at 9:49 a.m. EST, delivering a ton of food, fuel and supplies to Expedition 6 Commander Ken Bowersox, Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin and NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit. Progress has given the Station resident crew a solid supply of consumables, enough to sustain operations through at least late June, according to Kostelnik. Bowersox, Budarin and Pettit opened the hatches between the ISS and the Progress today, and they will begin unloading its supplies on Wednesday. Asked about contingency planning for the Station for the rest of the year, Kostelnik said all options to sustain a human presence on board in the temporary absence of Shuttle flights are being explored. The next Shuttle flight aboard Atlantis in March was to have brought the Expedition 7 crew to the ISS and returned to Earth the current resident crew. Two STS-107 update briefings will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 5. They will be broadcast on NASA Television with multi-center question and answer capability for reporters at NASA centers. The first briefing, with NASA Associate Administrator for Space Flight Bill Readdy, is from NASA Headquarters in Washington at 11:30 a.m. EST. The second, with Space Shuttle Program Manager Ron Dittemore, from the Johnson Space Center, is at 4:30 p.m. EST. NASA TV is on AMC-2, Transponder 9C, vertical polarization at 85 degrees west longitude, 3880 MHz, with audio at 6.8 MHz. -end- __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
