[meteorite-list] New beautiful L3.3 regolith breccia
Hello List, i'm glad to introduce my new chondrite, NWA 2933, a L3.3 regolith breccia. It is loadet with a lot of beautiful chondrules, if you like take a look here: http://www.gi-po.de/ebayfolder/list/3.3list.htm Classification was done by NAU, here are some data of it: TKW: 511 grams Pieces: One Stone Fa25.2 +/_ 15; Cr2O3 in olivine = 0.14 wt % +/- 0.07 Class: L3.3 regolith breccia / S2, W2 It will be in the next bulletin. Thanks for you interest, Cheers! Carsten -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.7/70 - Release Date: 11.08.2005 __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Sikhote-Alin question
Hello List, It was a request yesterday about English subtitles for Sikhote-Alin movie. I decided to play a little bit here. So I created some subtitles for a part of the movie. I cut the end of the movie and kept the only part with field works. I want you not to judge me so much because that was my first experience with this software. I translated sentence by sentence from the voice behind the screen. I also used an online translator from Russian to English. It paid off as long as I wanted to do this job fast to see if I'm able to create something like that. Of course I modified sentences but not all of them and not perfect. Actually I can't modify them perfect as long as my own English is far away from perfect ;-) Also for some reason the software changed the size of the file (and screen resolution) so now the file is about 70Mb (was 56Mb) and instead of actual 320x240 I have 640x480. You can switch your player to 50% view and it will be the same quality as original (I guess ;-)). One more time: that was my first try with this software and correction of video files at all. I played for 9 hours but I can see now that I can do it! That was a fun for me yesterday! If somebody thinks that I should try more and keep translating the rest of the movie (some nice meteorites from great collection of Russian academy of sciences are showing on the end of it without translation) I can find some time later to do this. But I think that first part must be re-done to be more readable. If somebody has an interest to help me with this please send me your thoughts of how subtitles must be written. I will try to get the file back to the original resolution later also. That should reduce the size of the file. The file is in the same format as it was (.wmv). The movie with subtitles is ready for download here: http://sv-meteorites.jodoshared.com/movie/SikhoteAlin_Short.WMV Enjoy! Sergey Sergey Vasiliev U Dalnice 839 Prague 5, 15500 Czech Republic http://www.sv-meteorites.com Protected by Polesoft Lockspam http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.7/70 - Release Date: 8/11/2005 __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Sikhote-Alin question
Serge you are a gentleman. I am sure your english is far better than most of our russian. I am thinking that vodka niet and da is about as far as most of us go. regards from Australia. Peter Dippl - Original Message - From: Sergey Vasiliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 5:07 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Sikhote-Alin question Hello List, It was a request yesterday about English subtitles for Sikhote-Alin movie. I decided to play a little bit here. So I created some subtitles for a part of the movie. I cut the end of the movie and kept the only part with field works. I want you not to judge me so much because that was my first experience with this software. I translated sentence by sentence from the voice behind the screen. I also used an online translator from Russian to English. It paid off as long as I wanted to do this job fast to see if I'm able to create something like that. Of course I modified sentences but not all of them and not perfect. Actually I can't modify them perfect as long as my own English is far away from perfect ;-) Also for some reason the software changed the size of the file (and screen resolution) so now the file is about 70Mb (was 56Mb) and instead of actual 320x240 I have 640x480. You can switch your player to 50% view and it will be the same quality as original (I guess ;-)). One more time: that was my first try with this software and correction of video files at all. I played for 9 hours but I can see now that I can do it! That was a fun for me yesterday! If somebody thinks that I should try more and keep translating the rest of the movie (some nice meteorites from great collection of Russian academy of sciences are showing on the end of it without translation) I can find some time later to do this. But I think that first part must be re-done to be more readable. If somebody has an interest to help me with this please send me your thoughts of how subtitles must be written. I will try to get the file back to the original resolution later also. That should reduce the size of the file. The file is in the same format as it was (.wmv). The movie with subtitles is ready for download here: http://sv-meteorites.jodoshared.com/movie/SikhoteAlin_Short.WMV Enjoy! Sergey Sergey Vasiliev U Dalnice 839 Prague 5, 15500 Czech Republic http://www.sv-meteorites.com Protected by Polesoft Lockspam http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.7/70 - Release Date: 8/11/2005 __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Sikhote-Alin question
a very good work Matteo --- Sergey Vasiliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Hello List, It was a request yesterday about English subtitles for Sikhote-Alin movie. I decided to play a little bit here. So I created some subtitles for a part of the movie. I cut the end of the movie and kept the only part with field works. I want you not to judge me so much because that was my first experience with this software. I translated sentence by sentence from the voice behind the screen. I also used an online translator from Russian to English. It paid off as long as I wanted to do this job fast to see if I'm able to create something like that. Of course I modified sentences but not all of them and not perfect. Actually I can't modify them perfect as long as my own English is far away from perfect ;-) Also for some reason the software changed the size of the file (and screen resolution) so now the file is about 70Mb (was 56Mb) and instead of actual 320x240 I have 640x480. You can switch your player to 50% view and it will be the same quality as original (I guess ;-)). One more time: that was my first try with this software and correction of video files at all. I played for 9 hours but I can see now that I can do it! That was a fun for me yesterday! If somebody thinks that I should try more and keep translating the rest of the movie (some nice meteorites from great collection of Russian academy of sciences are showing on the end of it without translation) I can find some time later to do this. But I think that first part must be re-done to be more readable. If somebody has an interest to help me with this please send me your thoughts of how subtitles must be written. I will try to get the file back to the original resolution later also. That should reduce the size of the file. The file is in the same format as it was (.wmv). The movie with subtitles is ready for download here: http://sv-meteorites.jodoshared.com/movie/SikhoteAlin_Short.WMV Enjoy! Sergey Sergey Vasiliev U Dalnice 839 Prague 5, 15500 Czech Republic http://www.sv-meteorites.com Protected by Polesoft Lockspam http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.7/70 - Release Date: 8/11/2005 __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list M come Meteorite - Matteo Chinellato Via Triestina 126/A - 30030 - TESSERA, VENEZIA, ITALY Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sale Site: http://www.mcomemeteorite.it Collection Site: http://www.mcomemeteorite.info MSN Messanger: spacerocks at hotmail.com EBAY.COM:http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/mcomemeteorite/ ___ Yahoo! Messenger: chiamate gratuite in tutto il mondo http://it.beta.messenger.yahoo.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
RE: [meteorite-list] Sikhote-Alin question
EXCELLENT! I would really like to see the rest translated, if you ever find the time. I'm sure your translated version will be on every meteorite enthusiast's hard drive. If you decide to make it your personal project and perfect it, there was one typo I noticed: carter instead of The whole crater field! at the 3:42 mark. Thanks, Sergey! If we ever meet, I'll buy you a beer! Pete From: Sergey Vasiliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Sikhote-Alin question Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:37:05 +0200 Hello List, It was a request yesterday about English subtitles for Sikhote-Alin movie. I decided to play a little bit here. So I created some subtitles for a part of the movie. I cut the end of the movie and kept the only part with field works. I want you not to judge me so much because that was my first experience with this software. I translated sentence by sentence from the voice behind the screen. I also used an online translator from Russian to English. It paid off as long as I wanted to do this job fast to see if I'm able to create something like that. Of course I modified sentences but not all of them and not perfect. Actually I can't modify them perfect as long as my own English is far away from perfect ;-) Also for some reason the software changed the size of the file (and screen resolution) so now the file is about 70Mb (was 56Mb) and instead of actual 320x240 I have 640x480. You can switch your player to 50% view and it will be the same quality as original (I guess ;-)). One more time: that was my first try with this software and correction of video files at all. I played for 9 hours but I can see now that I can do it! That was a fun for me yesterday! If somebody thinks that I should try more and keep translating the rest of the movie (some nice meteorites from great collection of Russian academy of sciences are showing on the end of it without translation) I can find some time later to do this. But I think that first part must be re-done to be more readable. If somebody has an interest to help me with this please send me your thoughts of how subtitles must be written. I will try to get the file back to the original resolution later also. That should reduce the size of the file. The file is in the same format as it was (.wmv). The movie with subtitles is ready for download here: http://sv-meteorites.jodoshared.com/movie/SikhoteAlin_Short.WMV Enjoy! Sergey Sergey Vasiliev U Dalnice 839 Prague 5, 15500 Czech Republic http://www.sv-meteorites.com Protected by Polesoft Lockspam http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.7/70 - Release Date: 8/11/2005 __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Sikhote-Alin question
Sergey, What a nice early morning present. Thanks for you time and effort. No apology necessary. Nice work! Jerry Flaherty - Original Message - From: Sergey Vasiliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 3:37 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Sikhote-Alin question Hello List, It was a request yesterday about English subtitles for Sikhote-Alin movie. I decided to play a little bit here. So I created some subtitles for a part of the movie. I cut the end of the movie and kept the only part with field works. I want you not to judge me so much because that was my first experience with this software. I translated sentence by sentence from the voice behind the screen. I also used an online translator from Russian to English. It paid off as long as I wanted to do this job fast to see if I'm able to create something like that. Of course I modified sentences but not all of them and not perfect. Actually I can't modify them perfect as long as my own English is far away from perfect ;-) Also for some reason the software changed the size of the file (and screen resolution) so now the file is about 70Mb (was 56Mb) and instead of actual 320x240 I have 640x480. You can switch your player to 50% view and it will be the same quality as original (I guess ;-)). One more time: that was my first try with this software and correction of video files at all. I played for 9 hours but I can see now that I can do it! That was a fun for me yesterday! If somebody thinks that I should try more and keep translating the rest of the movie (some nice meteorites from great collection of Russian academy of sciences are showing on the end of it without translation) I can find some time later to do this. But I think that first part must be re-done to be more readable. If somebody has an interest to help me with this please send me your thoughts of how subtitles must be written. I will try to get the file back to the original resolution later also. That should reduce the size of the file. The file is in the same format as it was (.wmv). The movie with subtitles is ready for download here: http://sv-meteorites.jodoshared.com/movie/SikhoteAlin_Short.WMV Enjoy! Sergey Sergey Vasiliev U Dalnice 839 Prague 5, 15500 Czech Republic http://www.sv-meteorites.com Protected by Polesoft Lockspam http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.7/70 - Release Date: 8/11/2005 __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Meteorite Found in India
Thanks for the link Ron. This is the same 2.5 KG iron that fell in Rajasthan and was posted earlier last month under the heading Fresh Meteorite fall in India on 26th June. Wishes Manoj --- Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=newsStory_ID=08125 Meteorite found in Rajasthan The Navhind Times (India) August 11, 2005 Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Sikhote-Alin question
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:37:05 +0200, Sergey Vasiliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, It was a request yesterday about English subtitles for Sikhote-Alin movie. I decided to play a little bit here. So I created some subtitles for a part of the movie. Thanks for making the time and effort to provide a translation (which I haven't seen yet because it is still downloading). There is, though, an easier way to make the subtitles available to everyone. There are several formats now for soft or software subtitles, which are stored in a seperate file. Some of the formats are as simple as text files that contain the text plus the time index of when the line that was translated was said. The subtitle file is then saved with the same name as the video file, but with a different extension-- for example, if the movie is call sikhote.avi, the subtitle would be sikhote.srt. Some media players (such as the beyond excellent freeware Media Player Classic) can read these subtitle files directly, and there are various small helper applications to allow other media players to read the file. Using this method, you don't have to re-encode video, and you don't have to have the space and bandwidth to allow people to download translations, and people don't have to have the bandwidth to download new versions of the film. I use these all the time when watching foriegn language movies with no official English translation. Here's a small clip of a random SRT file that I still have on my hard drive (it happens to be from the Japanese move Azumi 2: Death or Love, just for the record). See the syntax-- it is a plain-text file saved with the extension .srt. You number each line, put the time index to start displaying the subtitle, the time index when you stop displaying the subtitle, and then the line to be shown. No special header or footer text needs to be added at the beginning or end. It would probably end up being easier to do than whichever software you are using now. (sample from an SRT file) 1 00:00:11,378 -- 00:00:17,214 Subtitled by FSC www.fantasticsuperclub.org 2 00:00:43,710 -- 00:00:48,238 Ueto Aya 3 00:00:51,584 -- 00:00:55,418 Ishigaki Yuma 4 00:00:58,024 -- 00:01:01,016 Kuriyama Chisaki 5 00:01:03,163 -- 00:01:06,132 Oguri 6 00:01:08,301 -- 00:01:11,600 Kaneko Syusuke 7 00:02:18,371 -- 00:02:19,998 They've increased in number 8 00:02:20,607 -- 00:02:24,168 Five from the west Five from the south 9 00:02:26,946 -- 00:02:29,540 Who the hell are these persistent guys? 10 00:02:29,749 -- 00:02:33,241 We're assassins who've killed many people 11 00:02:33,486 -- 00:02:36,080 It's obvious that we're marked 12 00:02:36,856 -- 00:02:38,346 That's true 13 00:02:38,892 -- 00:02:40,189 Let's go! 14 00:02:50,904 -- 00:02:52,303 They're coming... 15 00:03:16,930 -- 00:03:19,398 You're rats caught in our fangs __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] AD -eBay - rare CCs
I've some nice specimens of rare CCs for sale - last 24 hours...! Tagish Lake - 3 nice good lumps! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=6551640572 Orgueil, no less! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=6551642074 and Cold Bokkefeld - an 1838 South African rareity! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=6551642414 thanks! dave IMCA #0092 __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] NASA's Multipurpose Mars Mission Successfully Launched
Dolores Beasley Headquarters, Washington August 12, 2005 (Phone: 202/358-1753) George Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. (Phone: 321/867-2468) Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. (Phone: 818/354-6278) RELEASE: 05-219 NASA'S MULTIPURPOSE MARS MISSION SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED A seven-month flight to Mars began this morning for NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). It will inspect the red planet in fine detail and assist future landers. An Atlas V launch vehicle, 19 stories tall with the two-ton spacecraft on top, roared away from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 7:43 a.m. EDT. Its powerful first stage consumed about 200 tons of fuel and oxygen in just over four minutes, then dropped away to let the upper stage finish the job of putting the spacecraft on a path toward Mars. This was the first launch of an interplanetary mission on an Atlas V. We have a healthy spacecraft on its way to Mars and a lot of happy people who made this possible, said James Graf, project manager for MRO at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif. MRO established radio contact with controllers 61 minutes after launch and within four minutes of separation from the upper stage. Initial contact came through an antenna at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Uchinoura Space Center in southern Japan. Health and status information about the orbiter's subsystems were received through Uchinoura and the Goldstone, Calif., antenna station of NASA's Deep Space Network. By 14 minutes after separation, the craft's solar panels finished unfolding, enabling the MRO to start recharging batteries and operate as a fully functional spacecraft. The orbiter carries six scientific instruments for examining the surface, atmosphere and subsurface of Mars in unprecedented detail from low orbit. For example, its high-resolution camera will reveal features as small as a dishwasher. NASA expects to get several times more data about Mars from MRO than from all previous Martian missions combined. Researchers will use the instruments to learn more about the history and distribution of Mars' water. That information will improve understanding of planetary climate change and will help guide the quest to answer whether Mars ever supported life. The orbiter will also evaluate potential landing sites for future missions. MRO will use its high-data-rate communications system to relay information between Mars surface missions and Earth. Mars is 72 million miles from Earth today, but the spacecraft will travel more than four times that distance on its outbound-arc trajectory to intercept the red planet on March 10, 2006. The cruise period will be busy with checkups, calibrations and trajectory adjustments. On arrival day, the spacecraft will fire its engines and slow itself enough for Martian gravity to capture it into a very elongated orbit. The spacecraft will spend half a year gradually shrinking and shaping its orbit by aerobraking, a technique using the friction of carefully calculated dips into the upper atmosphere to slow the vehicle. The mission's main science phase is scheduled to begin in November 2006. The launch was originally scheduled for August 10, but was delayed first due to a gyroscope issue on a different Atlas V, and the next day because of a software glitch. The mission is managed by JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, for the NASA Science Mission Directorate. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, prime contractor for the project, built both the spacecraft and the launch vehicle. NASA's Launch Services Program at the Kennedy Space Center is responsible for government engineering oversight of the Atlas V, spacecraft/launch vehicle integration and launch day countdown management. For more information about MRO on the Web, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mro For information about NASA and other agency programs on the Web, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html -end- __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] My dreams .....
Hello all First of all, it is nice to be back :-) Many things can happen in ones life, but still if one is realy realy interested in a subject, that interest will keep comming back. I happen to be very interested in meteorites, so I guess that I have got the bug. and I will be for ever trapped ... :-) However, what can change is ones financial situation. Therefore I have desided, that I want to make a 3 meteorite collection Silly.. ??? maybe. But realistic :-) What I want is a stone, maybe NWA 869, and a real good one like the one I sold (a 700 gram end piece, polished perfectly) I also want an iron - would love Sikhote, but will be too expensive - so I guess I will setle for a good size thumbprinted Campo. Last I would like to have a charcoale meteorite again... :-) Allende I think... not too big, but good size. That will be my dream collection, and the one I will work on making. Life has got a different perspective, but my interest remains. All the best Lars __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Powerful Mineral Mapper Headed to Mars
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Office of Communications and Public Affairs Laurel, Maryland Media contact: Michael Buckley (240) 228 7536 or (443) 778 7536 [EMAIL PROTECTED] August 12, 2005 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE POWERFUL MINERAL MAPPER HEADED TO MARS APL-Built Spectrometer on NASA's Latest Mission to the Red Planet With today's launch of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars -- or CRISM -- joins the set of high-tech detectives seeking traces of water on the red planet. Built by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., CRISM is the first visible-infrared spectrometer to fly on a NASA Mars mission. Its primary job: look for the residue of minerals that form in the presence of water, the fingerprints left by evaporated hot springs, thermal vents, lakes or ponds on Mars when water could have existed on the surface. With unprecedented clarity, CRISM will map areas on the Martian surface down to house-sized scales -- as small as 60 feet (about 18 meters) across -- when the spacecraft is in its average orbit altitude of about 190 miles (more than 300 kilometers). CRISM plays a very important role in Mars exploration, says APL's Dr. Scott Murchie, the instrument's principal investigator. Our data will identify sites most likely to have contained water, and which would make the best potential landing sites for future missions seeking fossils or even traces of life on Mars. Though certain landforms provide evidence that water may once have flowed on Mars, Murchie says scientists have little evidence of sites containing mineral deposits created by long-term interaction between water and rock. The NASA Rover Opportunity found evidence for liquid water in Meridian Planum -- a large plain near Mars' equator -- but that is only one of many hundreds of sites where future spacecraft could land. Peering through a telescope with a 4-inch (10-centimeter) aperture, and with a greater capability to map spectral variations than any similar instrument sent to another planet, CRISM will read 544 colors in reflected sunlight to detect minerals in the surface. Its highest resolution is about 20 times sharper than any previous look at Mars in infrared wavelengths. At infrared wavelengths, rocks that look absolutely the same to human eyes become very different, Murchie says. CRISM has the capability to take images in which different rocks will 'light up' in different colors. CRISM is mounted on a gimbal, allowing it to follow targets on the surface as the orbiter passes overhead. CRISM will spend the first half of a two-year orbit mission mapping Mars at 650-foot (200-meter) scales, searching for potential study areas. Several thousand promising sites will then be measured in detail at CRISM's highest spatial and spectral resolution. CRISM will also monitor seasonal variations in dust and ice particles in the atmosphere, supplementing data gathered by the orbiter's other instruments and providing new clues about the Martian climate. CRISM will improve significantly on the mapping technology currently orbiting Mars, says CRISM Project Manager Peter Bedini of APL. We'll not only look for future landing sites, but we'll be able to provide details on information the Mars Exploration Rovers are gathering now. There is a lot more to learn, and after CRISM and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter there will still be more to learn. But with this mission we're taking a big step in exploring and understanding Mars. As the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter cruises to its destination, the CRISM operations team continues to fine-tune the software and systems it will use to command the instrument and receive, read, process, and store a wealth of data from orbit -- more than 10 terabytes when processed back on Earth, enough to fill more than 15,000 compact discs. The spacecraft is set to reach Mars next March, use aerobraking to circularize its orbit, and settle into its science orbit by November 2006. APL, which has built more than 150 spacecraft instruments over the past four decades, led the effort to develop, integrate and test CRISM. CRISM's co-investigators are top planetary scientists from Brown University, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Northwestern University, Space Science Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Paris, the Applied Coherent Technology Corporation, and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Ames Research Center and Johnson Space Center. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. For more information on CRISM and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, including instrument images, visit: http://crism.jhuapl.edu ### The
[meteorite-list] UA Team Cheers Launch of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, HiRISE
http://uanews.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/UANews.woa/8/wa/SciDetails?ArticleID=11437 UA Team Cheers Launch of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, HiRISE By Lori Stiles August 08, 2005 NASA launched a new orbiter called Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) today (Aug. 12) as the next step in its ambitious Mars exploration program. MRO will return more data about the red planet than all previous Mars missions combined, according to the U.S. space agency. More than 40 University of Arizona researchers, family members and friends are at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to cheer the launch. The soon-to-fly orbiter payload includes UA's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) -- the largest-diameter telescopic camera ever sent to another planet. HiRISE is going to both resolve old mysteries and raise new questions about Mars, said HiRISE principal investigator Alfred S. McEwen of UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. It's also going to address specific questions related to future Mars exploration. HiRISE, two other cameras, a spectrometer, a radar instrument and a radiometer aboard MRO will examine Mars from the top of its atmosphere to its underground layers. Scientists will use MRO to study the history and distribution of martian water, characterize landing sites for future missions -- including UA's 2007 Phoenix Mission to Mars -- and provide a high-data-rate communications relay between Mars lander missions and Earth. Professor McEwen and his team will plan HiRISE observations, upload commands, monitor instrument performance, retrieve, process and analyze image data at the HiRISE Operations Center, called HiROC, located in the Lunar and Planetary Lab's Sonett Building on the UA campus in Tucson. The HiRISE team is more than excited to see the successful launch of MRO, HiRISE co-investigator and HiROC manager Eric Eliason said. We've invested a lot of hard work to ensure HiRISE is the best possible camera for this mission. We've been practicing and rehearsing how to command our instrument. We've been developing software to process and analyze returned images and now we're looking forward to finally having some real images of Mars. The 145-pound (65 kg) HiRISE camera - the largest instrument on the MRO payload - features a 20-inch (half-meter) primary mirror - the largest on any telescope ever sent beyond Earth orbit. HiRISE will take ultra-sharp photographs over 3.5-mile (6 kilometer) swaths of the martian landscape, resolving rocks and other geologic features as small as 40 inches (one meter) across. It will take pictures in stereo and color, too, while it zooms along at more than 7,800 mph (3 and 1/2 km per second) about 190 miles (300 km) above Mars' surface. HiRISE is capable of getting such views over any selected region of Mars, providing a bridge between orbital remote sensing and landed missions, McEwen said. MRO's planned orbit is more than 20 percent lower than the average for any of the three current Mars orbiters, which are NASA's Mars Odyssey and Mars Global Surveyor, and the European Space Agency's Mars Express. Low orbit is an advantage when it comes to seeing Mars at higher resolution than ever before. The orbiter will reach Mars in March 2006. The spacecraft will gradually adjust its elliptical orbit to a circular orbit by aerobraking, a technique that creates drag using the friction of careful dips into the planet's upper atmosphere. MRO's 25-month primary science phase begins in November 2006. HiROC researchers say they expect to process 1,000 gigantic high-resolution images and 9,000 smaller high-resolution images during the science phase of the MRO mission. These are huge images, and we've been developing techniques to deal with images as large as 20,000 pixels wide and 60,000 pixels long, McEwen said. It would take 1,200 typical computer screens to display all of a large HiRISE image at full resolution. HiROC will acquire a large-format printer for making photographs up to five feet wide and 10-to-15 feet long, McEwen added. The HiRISE team has also been developing HiWeb, an Internet site that expert Mars scientists and the general public worldwide can use to suggest HiRISE imaging targets. HiRISE is called the people's camera because anyone can suggest places on Mars for HiRISE to photograph and because the images will be made publicly available as soon as possible. Operations staff member Ingrid Daubar and senior software developer Christian Schaller suggested a people-friendly metaphor for what they will do at HiROC. Basically, you can think of what we do as aiming and focusing the HiRISE camera, pushing the button to take a picture, downloading the pictures to our computers and then processing the pictures, Daubar said. Of course, it's really much more complicated than that. The first milestone after launch will be when McEwen and the HiRISE team make their first observations of actual targets in the solar system on Sept. 8, 2005. They have targeted Earth's
[meteorite-list] Lodranites in stony-iron ???
Hello to the List, I'm reading a document published by the NIPR (Antarctic meteorites japanese research center) and I'm surprised to look at their classification page. Lodranites and Siderophyres (?) are considered as stony-iron meteorites. Can someone tell me what are Siderophyres and why are the Lodranites in stony-irons (I always thought they were achondrites) ? Best regards, Pierre-Marie PELE www.meteor-center.com ___ Appel audio GRATUIT partout dans le monde avec le nouveau Yahoo! Messenger Téléchargez cette version sur http://fr.messenger.yahoo.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] RE: Lodranites in stony-iron ???
Hi Pierre, They (the NIPR) are obviously holding on to an older classification scheme. The lodranites were originally grouped with the stony-irons before their close relationship to the acapulcoites and the PACs were revealed through modern research (such as O-isotopic studies, etc.). The siderophyres do represent a somewhat anachronistic class of meteorites that consisted of just one single member, Steinbach. Today, Steinbach is grouped with the IVA iron meteorites, and it is considered as an anomalous silicated member of this group. Nevertheless, it's tempting to compare Steinbach with the pallasites, and to consider it as a true stony-iron ;-) I hope this helps. Best, Norbert -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Hello to the List, I'm reading a document published by the NIPR (Antarctic meteorites japanese research center) and I'm surprised to look at their classification page. Lodranites and Siderophyres (?) are considered as stony-iron meteorites. Can someone tell me what are Siderophyres and why are the Lodranites in stony-irons (I always thought they were achondrites) ? Best regards, Pierre-Marie PELE www.meteor-center.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Lodranites in stony-irons ??
Thanks a lot Norbert for this very fine explanation. Best regards, Pierre ___ Appel audio GRATUIT partout dans le monde avec le nouveau Yahoo! Messenger Téléchargez cette version sur http://fr.messenger.yahoo.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] RE: Lodranites in stony-iron ???
Hello Confrère Pierre, Norbert, and List, MASON B. (1962) Meteorites, p. 125: The single siderophyre is the Steinbach meteorite (also known as Breitenbach or Rittersgrün), which has been known since 1724. It consists of a network of nickel-iron which encloses granular aggregates of orhopyroxene and minor tridymite, the nickel-iron and silicate being present in approximately equal amounts. Accessory minerals are schreibersite (in the nickel-iron), chromite, and troilite. The nickel-iron contains about 10% Ni and shows the Widman- stätten structure. The orthopyroxene contains about 20 mole per cent FeSiO3, and is therefore on the boundary between bronzite and hypersthene. BTW: A siderite used to be a meteorite consisting almost entirely of metallic minerals - sideros being the Greek word for iron. The syllable phyre usually says something contains coarse crystals, as phenocrysts, in a finer- grained groundmass. Best Perseid wishes, Bernd __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Lodranites in stony-iron ???
Me again :-) Lodran and Hainholz were mesosiderites for Tschermak ! Bernd __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list]Sun was Shining when Solar System formed
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/mcmeteorite.asp August 11, 2005 UCSD Discovery Suggests 'Protosun' Was Shining During Formation Of First Matter In Solar System By Kim McDonald From chemical fingerprints preserved in primitive meteorites, scientists at UCSD have determined that the collapsing gas cloud that eventually became our sun was glowing brightly during the formation of the first material in the solar system more than 4.5 billion years ago. Their discovery, detailed in a paper that appears in the August 12 issue of Science, provides the first conclusive evidence that this protosun played a major role in chemically shaping the solar system by emitting enough ultraviolet energy to catalyze the formation of organic compounds, water and other compounds necessary for the evolution of life on Earth. Protosun at the center of the solar nebula Credit: NASA Scientists have long argued whether the chemical compounds created in the early solar system were produced with the help of the energy of the early sun or were formed by other means. The basic question was, Was the sun on or was it off? says Mark H. Thiemens, Dean of UCSDs Division of Physical Sciences and chemistry professor who headed the research team that conducted the study. There is nothing in the geological record before 4.55 billion years ago that could answer this. Vinai Rai, a postdoctoral fellow working in Thiemens lab, came up with a solution, developing an extremely sensitive measurement that could answer the question. He searched for chemical fingerprints of the high-energy wind that emanated from the protosun and became trapped in the isotopes, or forms, of sulfide found in four primitive groups of meteorites, the oldest remnants of the early solar system. Astronomers believe this wind blew matter from the core of the rotating solar nebula into its pancake-like accretion disk, the region in which meteorites, asteroids and planets later formed. Applying a technique Thiemens developed five years ago to reveal details about the Earths early atmosphere from variations in the oxygen and sulfur isotopes embedded in ancient rocks, the UCSD chemists were able to infer from sulfides in the meteorites the intensity of the solar wind and, hence, the intensity of the protosun. They conclude in their paper that the slight excess of one isotope of sulfur, ³³S, in the meteorites indicated the presence of photochemical reactions in the early solar nebula, meaning that the protosun was shining strongly enough to drive chemical reactions. This measurement tells us for the first time that the sun was on, that there was enough ultraviolet light to do photochemistry, says Thiemens. Knowing that this was the case is a huge help in understanding the processes that formed compounds in the early solar system. Astronomers believe the solar nebula began to form about 5 billion years ago when a cloud of interstellar gas and dust was disturbed, possibly by the shock wave of a large exploding star, and collapsed under its own gravity. As the nebulas spinning pancake-like disk grew thinner and thinner, whirlpools of clumps began to form and grow larger, eventually forming the planets, moons and asteroids. The protosun, meanwhile, continued to contract under its own gravity and grew hotter, developing into a young star. That star, our sun, emanated a hot wind of electrically charged atoms that blew most of the gas and dust that remained from the nebula out of the solar system. Planets, moons and many asteroids have been heated and had their material reprocessed since the formation of the solar nebula. As a result, they have had little to offer scientists seeking clues about the development of the solar nebula into the solar system. However, some primitive meteorites contain material that has remained unchanged since the protosun spewed this material from the center of the solar nebula more than 4.5 billion years ago. Thiemens says the technique his team used to determine that the protosun was glowing brightly also can be applied to estimate when and where various compounds originated in the hot wind spewed out by the protosun. That will be the next goal, he says. We can look mineral by mineral and perhaps say heres what happened step by step. The UCSD teams study was financed by a grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] RE: Lodranites in stony-iron ??? - Steinbach pictures
Bernd quoted: MASON B. (1962) Meteorites, p. 125: The single siderophyre is the Steinbach meteorite (also known as Breitenbach or Rittersgrün), which has been known since 1724. It consists of a network of nickel-iron which encloses granular aggregates of orhopyroxene and minor tridymite, the nickel-iron and silicate being present in approximately equal. snip Hi Bernd, Pierre, and All, For those of you who prefer something visual, here are some photos of a 4.1g Steinbach slice that resides in my collection since some years now: http://www.timewarp.de/list/Steinbach01.jpg http://www.timewarp.de/list/Steinbach02.jpg http://www.timewarp.de/list/Steinbach03.jpg The last picture shows a collection number painted on one edge of the specimen. Does anyone of you know of similar numbers? Any idea as to the original collection? The number is ST0041, the ST possibly standing for Steinbach? Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks. All the best, Norbert __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] RE: Lodranites in stony-iron ??? - Steinbach pictures
My guess is a private collection and the number is not a catalogue number but its weight. 4.1 grams. Cheers, tett - Original Message - From: Norbert Classen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 5:24 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] RE: Lodranites in stony-iron ??? - Steinbach pictures Bernd quoted: MASON B. (1962) Meteorites, p. 125: The single siderophyre is the Steinbach meteorite (also known as Breitenbach or Rittersgrün), which has been known since 1724. It consists of a network of nickel-iron which encloses granular aggregates of orhopyroxene and minor tridymite, the nickel-iron and silicate being present in approximately equal. snip Hi Bernd, Pierre, and All, For those of you who prefer something visual, here are some photos of a 4.1g Steinbach slice that resides in my collection since some years now: http://www.timewarp.de/list/Steinbach01.jpg http://www.timewarp.de/list/Steinbach02.jpg http://www.timewarp.de/list/Steinbach03.jpg The last picture shows a collection number painted on one edge of the specimen. Does anyone of you know of similar numbers? Any idea as to the original collection? The number is ST0041, the ST possibly standing for Steinbach? Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks. All the best, Norbert __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] PLANET 2003 UB313 News, or WHOOPS!
Hi, Planet Fans, I quote a bulleting received from Sky Telescope magazine concerning the SIZE of 2003 UB313, a crucial issue in determining whether it is a PLANET or just a numbered object, blah, blah: http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1567_1.asp Due to a Spitzer Space Telescope pointing error, the infrared observatory didn't actually observe 2003 UB313 as had been previously reported. Astronomers had used the nondetection to establish an upper size limit on the largest known Kuiper Belt object. If Spitzer sees the body in follow-up observations scheduled for late August, it could mean that 2003 UB313 is much larger than the original limit of around 3,400 kilometers (2,100 miles). Hubble Space Telescope observations are also in the works. How big did you say? Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Sikhote-Alin question
Thanks, Sergey - great work! For years I had admired this fall I even bought the terrific painting by Jerry Armstrong, SIKHOTE-ALIN: GROUND ZERO and put it atop my on line catalog. After all these years it is great to see the actual site and the original search conducted there. Seeing is certainly a different experience from reading about it. Thanks! Michael on 8/12/05 12:37 AM, Sergey Vasiliev at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, It was a request yesterday about English subtitles for Sikhote-Alin movie. I decided to play a little bit here. So I created some subtitles for a part of the movie. I cut the end of the movie and kept the only part with field works. I want you not to judge me so much because that was my first experience with this software. I translated sentence by sentence from the voice behind the screen. I also used an online translator from Russian to English. It paid off as long as I wanted to do this job fast to see if I'm able to create something like that. Of course I modified sentences but not all of them and not perfect. Actually I can't modify them perfect as long as my own English is far away from perfect ;-) Also for some reason the software changed the size of the file (and screen resolution) so now the file is about 70Mb (was 56Mb) and instead of actual 320x240 I have 640x480. You can switch your player to 50% view and it will be the same quality as original (I guess ;-)). One more time: that was my first try with this software and correction of video files at all. I played for 9 hours but I can see now that I can do it! That was a fun for me yesterday! If somebody thinks that I should try more and keep translating the rest of the movie (some nice meteorites from great collection of Russian academy of sciences are showing on the end of it without translation) I can find some time later to do this. But I think that first part must be re-done to be more readable. If somebody has an interest to help me with this please send me your thoughts of how subtitles must be written. I will try to get the file back to the original resolution later also. That should reduce the size of the file. The file is in the same format as it was (.wmv). The movie with subtitles is ready for download here: http://sv-meteorites.jodoshared.com/movie/SikhoteAlin_Short.WMV Enjoy! Sergey Sergey Vasiliev U Dalnice 839 Prague 5, 15500 Czech Republic http://www.sv-meteorites.com Protected by Polesoft Lockspam http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.7/70 - Release Date: 8/11/2005 __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list -- http://costofwar.com/index-world-hunger.html __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] IAU SPEAKS OUT ON 2003 UB313 PLANET STATUS
Hi, The IAU has made an official announcement on the question of whether or not 2003 UB313 IS or IS NOT a planet: http://www.iau.org/IAU/FAQ/2003_UB313.html Wise beaurocrats, they have decided NOT to decide FOR NOW. The discovery of 2003 UB313 has precipitated the need for such a definition in order to decide whether 2003 UB313 is to be classified as a planet or not. Until then the object will not be given an official name by the IAU. Discover Brown's web site says: We have recently discussed the status of the object and of the name with members of the IAU who decide such things. As far as we can determine several activities are taking place: A special committee of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)is trying to decide precisely what to classify this as. Another committee of the IAU which vets names for asteroids and Kuiper belt objects is mulling over the name that we suggested upon discovery. Yet another committee of the IAU which approves names for features on major planets and satellites has suggested that if the object is declared a major planet the naming falls strictly to them, and they have suggested that the name should continue the Greco-Roman tradition of the previous planets. We have a couple of interesting choices in mind in that case. All things in time... Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] IAU SPEAKS OUT ON 2003 UB313 PLANET STATUS
Greetings, Wasn't Pluto given dual status a few years back when it was facing demotion. I thought in addition to the 9th planet it was assigned KBO 1000...right? wrong? partially right? Elton Sterling K. Webb wrote: Hi, The IAU has made an official announcement on the question of whether or not 2003 UB313 IS or IS NOT a planet: http://www.iau.org/IAU/FAQ/2003_UB313.html Wise beaurocrats, they have decided NOT to decide FOR NOW. The discovery of 2003 UB313 has precipitated the need for such a definition in order to decide whether 2003 UB313 is to be classified as a planet or not. Until then the object will not be given an official name by the IAU. Discover Brown's web site says: We have recently discussed the status of the object and of the name with members of the IAU who decide such things. As far as we can determine several activities are taking place: A special committee of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)is trying to decide precisely what to classify this as. Another committee of the IAU which vets names for asteroids and Kuiper belt objects is mulling over the name that we suggested upon discovery. Yet another committee of the IAU which approves names for features on major planets and satellites has suggested that if the object is declared a major planet the naming falls strictly to them, and they have suggested that the name should continue the Greco-Roman tradition of the previous planets. We have a couple of interesting choices in mind in that case. All things in time... Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] IAU SPEAKS OUT ON 2003 UB313 PLANET STATUS
Elton, List It was suggested that Pluto be given Minor Planet Number 100,000 by the those who wished to demote yet honor Pluto. The IAU rejected the suggestion in favor of not doing anything, always a wise decision for a beaurocracy, and one the IAU is especially good at. Sterling Webb E. L. Jones wrote: Greetings, Wasn't Pluto given dual status a few years back when it was facing demotion. I thought in addition to the 9th planet it was assigned KBO 1000...right? wrong? partially right? Elton Sterling K. Webb wrote: Hi, The IAU has made an official announcement on the question of whether or not 2003 UB313 IS or IS NOT a planet: http://www.iau.org/IAU/FAQ/2003_UB313.html Wise beaurocrats, they have decided NOT to decide FOR NOW. The discovery of 2003 UB313 has precipitated the need for such a definition in order to decide whether 2003 UB313 is to be classified as a planet or not. Until then the object will not be given an official name by the IAU. Discover Brown's web site says: We have recently discussed the status of the object and of the name with members of the IAU who decide such things. As far as we can determine several activities are taking place: A special committee of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)is trying to decide precisely what to classify this as. Another committee of the IAU which vets names for asteroids and Kuiper belt objects is mulling over the name that we suggested upon discovery. Yet another committee of the IAU which approves names for features on major planets and satellites has suggested that if the object is declared a major planet the naming falls strictly to them, and they have suggested that the name should continue the Greco-Roman tradition of the previous planets. We have a couple of interesting choices in mind in that case. All things in time... Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
