[meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - January 13, 2006
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Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Friends' photos
Hi everyone, All Meteorite Friends photos that have been submitted are now up at: http://www.michaelbloodmeteorites.com/MeteoriteFriends.html (this can also be accessed from my main page). Please note you will have to hit Refresh if you have been to the site before. Please keep photos coming - there are a LOT of people I know who haven't sent their's in yet. Also, over the next several days I will be digging around in my computer for old articles such with folks that have been published before - like Art! I GOTTA GET TO BED! Michael -- The thing that sometimes has me hazy is whether it is them or I that's crazy. Albert Einstein -- He is not a lover who does not love forever. - Euripides (485-406BC) __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Video of Steve Arnold's dig and new find
Hi, any idea where to get the video for download? Stefan Is anyone able to download this video? I can´t Ingo __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Stardust's Final Hours
http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news105.html Stardust's Final Hours January 12, 2006 The last few hours of the Stardust mission will be filled with significant milestones. On Jan. 14 at 11:23 pm EST mission controllers will command the spacecraft to begin the computer-controlled sequence that will release the sample return capsule. On Jan. 15 at 12:56 am EST the Stardust spacecraft will complete the sequence by severing the umbilical cables between spacecraft and capsule. One minute later, springs aboard the spacecraft will literally push the capsule away. Fifteen minutes after release - while the sample return capsule continues its trajectory towards the Utah Test and Training Range, the Stardust spacecraft will perform a maneuver to place it in orbit around the Sun. At 4:57 am EST, four hours after being released by the Stardust spacecraft, the capsule will enter Earth's atmosphere at an altitude of 125 kilometers (410,000 feet) over Northern Calif. At this point it will be 20 kilometers (12.43 miles) east of the coast and 22 kilometers (13.67 miles) south of the Oregon-California border. The velocity of the sample return capsule as it enters Earth's atmosphere at 46,440 kilometers per hour (28,860 miles per hour) will be the greatest of any human-made object on record. This will surpass the record set in May 1969 during the return of the Apollo 10 command module. The capsule will release a drogue parachute at an altitude of approximately 32 kilometers (105,000 feet). Once the capsule has descended to an altitude of about 3 kilometers (10,000 feet) at 5:05 a.m. EST, the main parachute will deploy. The capsule is scheduled to land on the salt flats of the Utah Test and Training Range at 5:12 a.m. EST. If weather conditions allow, the recovery team will be flown by helicopter to recover the capsule and fly it to the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, for initial processing. If weather does not allow helicopters to fly, special off-road vehicles will be used to transport the recovery team to retrieve the capsule and return it to Dugway. The collector grid with cometary and interstellar samples will be moved to a special laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, where they will be preserved and studied by scientists. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Stardust Mission Nearly Complete
http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4384900,00.html Stardust mission nearly complete Lockheed Martin spacecraft will land in Utah on Sunday By Jim Erickson Rocky Mountain News January 13, 2006 NASA's Colorado-built Stardust spacecraft was on course and streaking homeward Thursday, heading for a pre-dawn Sunday landing on the Utah salt flats. We are nearing the end of quite a fantastic voyage, said the University of Washington's Don Brownlee, the lead Stardust scientist. Built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Jefferson County, Stardust launched in 1999 and traveled 2.88 billion miles to snatch bits of a comet and return them to Earth. Thursday morning, the spacecraft was 957,000 miles from Earth, cruising at 14,400 mph, according to NASA spokesman D.C. Agle. The probe was performing flawlessly, and team members are confident that the navigators are really precisely going to place us exactly where we need to be, said Tom Duxbury, Stardust project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Stardust is controlled by flight engineers at Lockheed Martin's Waterton Canyon facility, southwest of Denver, and by JPL navigators in Pasadena, Calif. Weather permitting, helicopters will retrieve the capsule once it drifts to the surface at about 10 mph. As of Thursday morning, the weather forecast looked favorable, said Mike McGee, Stardust recovery operations manager at Lockheed Martin. If a storm moves in, snowcat-like treaded vehicles will go after the capsule, which has a UHF radio beacon attached to its main parachute. We're looking forward to going out and retrieving this . . . regardless of whatever the conditions may be and whatever's presented to us, McGee said. The main Stardust spacecraft will release the return capsule at 10:57 p.m. MST Saturday. A clean, trouble-free separation is essential, so this will be a nail-biting moment. When the capsule springs free, the mother ship will jostle a bit in response. Lockheed Martin flight engineers will be able to detect that motion, confirming a successful separation. Minutes later, if skies are clear, Air Force trackers expect to catch sight of the separated capsule from a telescope in Hawaii. Using its global network of telescopes and radars, the trackers at Cheyenne Mountain near Colorado Springs expect to see the capsule about three minutes after separation, when the 101-pound cone will be more than 64,000 miles from Earth. If the gods are smiling, it's possible, said Capt. Gil Griffin of the 1st Space Control Squadron at Cheyenne Mountain. That distance is more than a quarter of the way to the moon. A pretty good piece of eyeballing, considering the Stardust capsule is just 32 inches across. The Cheyenne Mountain team will follow the capsule until it slams the top of Earth's atmosphere at 2:57 a.m. MST. That tracking data is vital, because the Stardust team will have no radio contact with the capsule during the entire four-hour free fall. Cheyenne Mountain observations will help the Utah radar team, based at Hill Air Force Base, refine its search for the capsule's re-entry point. Hill radar and infrared sensors can detect the capsule once it's in the atmosphere. We can give them a little bit better idea what it's doing, and it might help Hill point its sensors in the right direction, Griffin said. As it falls, the blunt-nosed capsule will accelerate to 28,860 mph, making it the fastest manmade object ever to return to Earth. The glowing cone will likely appear as a very bright pinpoint of pink-white light for viewers in cloud-free regions of Northern California, the Pacific Northwest, Nevada and Utah. The spectacle will not be visible from Colorado. We come in over Northern California, and we will light up the sky, said Tom Duxbury, Stardust project manager at JPL. Scientists expect the artificial meteor to be as bright as Venus for about 90 seconds, according to Peter Jenniskens, a meteor astronomer from the SETI Institute. Jenniskens helped organize a science team that plans to observe Stardust's streak from a DC-8 airplane. The capsule is scheduled to parachute onto the 2,624-square-mile Utah Test Training Range, southwest of Salt Lake City, at 3:12 a.m. MST Sunday. Snug inside is a sample canister holding thousands of tiny grains from Comet Wild 2. The other big nail-biting moment of the re-entry and landing sequence: parachute deployment. In September 2004, another Lockheed Martin-built return capsule, Genesis, slammed the salt flats at 193 mph after its parachutes failed to open. The problem was traced to the improper installation of four tiny switches, and the error was compounded when the company failed to do a critical test that would have caught the mistake. But the Stardust team is confident its capsule has no such discrepancies, Duxbury said Thursday during a news briefing at Utah's Dugway Proving Grounds. __ Meteorite-list mailing list
[meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: January 9-13, 2006
MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES January 9-13, 2006 o Lava Flows (Released 9 January 2006) http://themis.la.asu.edu/zoom-20060109a o Polar Ridges (Released 10 January 2006) http://themis.la.asu.edu/zoom-20060110a o Sabis Vallis (Released 11 January 2006) http://themis.la.asu.edu/zoom-20060111a o Valley Divide (Released 12 January 2006) http://themis.la.asu.edu/zoom-20060112a o Linear Clouds (Released 13 January 2006) http://themis.la.asu.edu/zoom-20060113a All of the THEMIS images are archived here: http://themis.la.asu.edu/latest.html NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. The Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) was developed by Arizona State University, Tempe, in collaboration with Raytheon Santa Barbara Remote Sensing. The THEMIS investigation is led by Dr. Philip Christensen at Arizona State University. Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, is the prime contractor for the Odyssey project, and developed and built the orbiter. Mission operations are conducted jointly from Lockheed Martin and from JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Samples From Chesapeake Bay Crater To Be Divided
http://www.thewbalchannel.com/technology/6050015/detail.html Samples From Chesapeake Bay Crater To Be Divided The WBAL Channel January 13, 2006 The U.S. Geological Survey has set a date for a meeting where scientists will divvy up the results of last fall's drill into the Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater. The so-called sampling party will take place the week of March 19. Scientists began drilling back in mid-September and drilled for almost three months -- down more than a mile. Geologists said an asteroid most likely blasted into coastal Virginia more than 35 million years ago, carving the crater. The Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater is the largest of its kind in the U.S. and the seventh-largest in the world. More than 100 scientists from around the world have been invited to the March event. It will take place at the USGS headquarters in Reston, Va., where the samples are housed. Scientists will identify areas of the samples they want to study. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Kuiper Belt Moons Are Starting to Seem Typical
Media Relations Caltech Pasadena, California Contact: Robert Tindol, (626) 395-3631 January 10, 2006 Kuiper Belt Moons Are Starting to Seem Typical WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In the not-too-distant past, the planet Pluto was thought to be an odd bird in the outer reaches of the solar system because it has a moon, Charon, that was formed much like Earth's own moon was formed. But Pluto is getting a lot of company these days. Of the four largest objects in the Kuiper belt, three have one or more moons. We're now beginning to realize that Pluto is one of a small family of similar objects, nearly all of which have moons in orbit around them, says Antonin Bouchez, a California Institute of Technology astronomer. Bouchez discussed his work on the Kuiper belt Tuesday, January 10, at the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). Bouchez says that the puzzle for planetary scientists is that, as a whole, the hundreds of objects now known to inhabit the Kuiper belt beyond the orbit of Neptune have only about an 11 percent chance of possessing their own satellites. But three of the four largest objects now known in the region have satellites, which means that different processes are at work for the large and small bodies. Experts have been fairly confident for a decade or more that Pluto's moon Charon was formed as the result of an impact, but that the planet seemed unique in this. According to computer models, Pluto was hit by an object roughly one-half its own size, vaporizing some of the planet's material. A large piece, however, was cleaved off nearly intact, forming Pluto's moon Charon. Earth's moon is thought to have been formed in a similar way, though our moon most likely formed out of a hot disk of material left in orbit after such a violent impact. Just in the last year, astronomers have discovered two additional moons for Pluto, but the consensus is still that the huge Charon was formed by a glancing blow with another body, and that all three known satellites -- as well as anything else not yet spotted from Earth -- were built up from the debris. As for the other Kuiper belt objects, experts at first thought that the bodies acquired their moons only occasionally by snagging them through gravitational capture. For the smaller bodies, the 11 percent figure would be about right. But the bigger bodies are another story. The biggest of all -- and still awaiting designation as the tenth planet -- is currently nicknamed Xena. Discovered by Caltech's Professor of Planetary Science Mike Brown and his associates, Chad Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory and David Rabinowitz of Yale University, Xena is 25 percent larger than Pluto and is known to have at least one moon. The second-largest Kuiper belt object is Pluto, which has three moons and counting. The third-largest is nicknamed Santa because of the time of its discovery by the Mike Brown team, and is known to have two moons. Santa is an odd one, says Bouchez. You normally would expect moons to form in the same plane because they would have accreted from a disk of material in orbit around the main body. But Santa's moons are 40 degrees apart. We can't explain it yet. The fourth-largest Kuiper belt object is nicknamed Easterbunny -- again, because of the time the Brown team discovered it -- and is not yet known to have a moon. But in April, Bouchez and Brown will again be looking at Easterbunny with the adaptive-optics rig on one of the 10-meter Keck telescopes, and a moon might very well turn up. The search for new planets and other bodies in the Kuiper belt is funded by NASA. For more information on the program, see the Samuel Oschin Telescope's website at http://www.astro.caltech.edu/palomarnew/sot.html For more information on Mike Brown's research, see http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown For more information on the Keck laser-guide-star adaptive optics system, see http://www2.keck.hawaii.edu/optics/lgsao/ __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Deep Impact Finds Complexity in Comet Tempel 1
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/custom/space/bal-te.impact13jan13,0,3827781.story Mission to comet finds complexity Scientists report surface water ice, frequent eruptions of gases and vapor By Frank D. Roylance The Baltimore Sun January 13, 2006 WASHINGTON -- Comet Tempel 1, little more than a fuzzy spot of light in astronomers' telescopes, has turned out to be a complex little world whose surface has the consistency of dry powder snow. Scientists poring over data sent back by NASA's Deep Impact last July told colleagues yesterday that the comet is also unexpectedly active, belching clouds of water vapor and carbon dioxide into space as often as once a week. A science team, led by University of Maryland professor Michael A'Hearn, has just begun to plumb the voluminous data sent back by the spacecraft and the 820-pound impactor it dropped into the path of the speeding comet on Independence Day. There's more than enough to keep us busy until well after I retire, said A'hearn, 64, at the 207th meeting of the American Astronomic Society. The $330 million Deep Impact mission was launched from Cape Canaveral a year ago and blasted the comet on July 4. Scientists wanted to study the resulting crater, and the material blown out of it, to learn more about what comets are made of and how they are put together. Astronomers believe comets are made of dust and ice that have changed little since the birth of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago and hold clues to the material and processes that formed the sun and planets. As it approached Tempel 1, Deep Impact's cameras and instruments found that the comet was hurling quick burps of gas into space more often than scientists had seen from Earth. The eruptions lasted 10 to 20 minutes. They seemed to be correlated with the comet's spin, and often with sunrise at the erupting site, A'Hearn said. That suggests they're triggered by solar heating and not by meteorite impacts, as some theorists have proposed. Astronomers knew that comets hold water ice, but Deep Impact imaging revealed it in several patches on the surface. It's the first detection of water ice on the surface of any comet, said Jessica Sunshine, of the Science Applications International Corp. A'Hearn and his team expected the initial impact - with energy equal to 5 tons of TNT - to produce a bright flash as the impactor vaporized itself and part of the comet. That should have been followed by a symmetrical plume of debris. Instead, they saw a subdued and delayed flash and a remarkably asymmetrical plume that flowed downrange from the impact site, said Peter H. Schultz, a planetary scientist and team member from Brown University. That, he said, suggests a highly porous, fine-grained and compressible surface like fluffy snow or perlite, a mineral additive that lightens garden soil. The projectile apparently buried itself and vaporized underground. Afterward, the shock wave moves through the material and almost like a shovel, throwing stuff into space, Sunshine said. The debris was so fine-grained, A'Hearn said - with pieces less than 10 percent the diameter of a human hair - that it created an opaque, fog-like curtain that blocked Deep Impact's view of the crater. It's all consistent with the idea that the solar system condensed from microscopic grains of dust forged in ancient stars and that comets are pristine relics of that time. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] D'orbigny
Dear Listoids, Just wondering: I got myself a fragment of the D'orbigny (Angrite) and while surfing on the well known dealers websites i noticed some massive difference in prices. For example: One offers a 2,67 gram slice for $667 while another sells a 2,2 gram piece (crusted) for over $11.000!!! Is the huge difference in price just for the fusion crust? This is quite a dollar knocker!! Any comments? Best, Jan Holland. www.heavenlybodies.nl Meteorites. Close encounters of the best kind. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] D'orbigny
Just wondering: I got myself a fragment of the D'orbigny (Angrite) and while surfing on the well known dealers websites i noticed some massive difference in prices. For example: One offers a 2,67 gram slice for $667 while another sells a 2,2 gram piece (crusted) for over $11.000!!! Is the huge difference in price just for the fusion crust? This is quite a dollar knocker!! Hi Meteorite price consist of few things. -quality -price of purchase or costs of find -rarity (TKW) -cut loses (if any) or preparation costs -market trends -DEALER CHOICE And I think that the last one is the most importand at all. If one dealer selling D'Orbigny for 250$/g then he is insane or this price is good for him. If another one selling it for 5000$/g then he also have his personal reasons. Maybe he buy it too expensive, or maybe his wife need new BMW, or maybe in fact he don't want to sell this piece ? Maybe for one dealer 250$/g is alot, and for another the same level is 5000$/g? Or maybe the first dealer win in a lottery and now selling his stones for 1/10 to have fun? Or the other dealer have only one purpose: sell this slice for 11000$ and he will be rich for rest of his life. Who knows. And now, becouse You tell everyone how cheap is this one dealer, for sure he will sell his specimens in 10seconds so for You left only specimens for 5000. ;-D Small piece od irony -[ MARCIN CIMALA ]-[ I.M.C.A.#3667 ]- http://www.Meteoryt.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.PolandMET.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.Gao-Guenie.com GSM +48(607)535 195 [ Member of Polish Meteoritical Society ] __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] D'orbigny
...And now, becouse You tell everyone how cheap is this one dealer, for sure he will sell his specimens in 10seconds so for You left only specimens for 5000. ;-D Small piece od irony -[ MARCIN CIMALA ]-[ I.M.C.A.#3667 ]- http://www.Meteoryt.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.PolandMET.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.Gao-Guenie.com GSM +48(607)535 195 [ Member of Polish Meteoritical Society ] If i tell here how cheap one dealer is.this means i'm the only one who's doing his homework? Just my other two cents.. Jan __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] D'orbigny
Well, everybody who has a look at eBay from time to time must have noticed it after at least 20 weeks in a row where D'Orbigny is sold now ... Peter Jan Bartels wrote: ...And now, becouse You tell everyone how cheap is this one dealer, for sure he will sell his specimens in 10seconds so for You left only specimens for 5000. ;-D Small piece od irony -[ MARCIN CIMALA ]-[ I.M.C.A.#3667 ]- http://www.Meteoryt.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.PolandMET.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.Gao-Guenie.com GSM +48(607)535 195 [ Member of Polish Meteoritical Society ] If i tell here how cheap one dealer is.this means i'm the only one who's doing his homework? Just my other two cents.. Jan __ 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] Stardust Webcams
Hi, I've installed two Stardust webcams and they are now available for viewing: http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/webcam.html The first camera shows a live view from JPL operations building. The Stardust operations navigation team are in there right now preparing for tonight's maneuver, TCM-19. And of course, they'll be there for tomorrow night's release of the capsule, the divert maneuver the landing of the capsule in Utah. The second camera shows the cleanroom at Johnson Space Center. The capsule will arrive there on January 17, and this is where the capsule will be opened for the first time and the aerogel collector grid will be removed. Ron Baalke __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Lunar/Meteorite Samples Stolen from Car in Virginia
http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=4360855nav=23ii Lunar Rock Samples Stolen from Car in Virginia Beach wavy.com January 13, 2006 Samples of lunar rocks were stolen from a car in Virginia Beach Tuesday, and police need your help in locating them. Police say around 3:24 p.m., they responded to a call in the 300 block of Garcia Drive. When they arrived, the victim told them a projector, and a silver briefcase containing a sample of rare lunar rocks had been stolen from his car. The lunar rocks are entrusted to contracted instructors by NASA for educational purposes. They are sealed within two clear plastic disks, as you see pictured on the right. The disks are labeled in the center with the words meteorite samples and lunar samples. The samples pose no risk to the public. Anyone with information regarding this crime is encouraged to call Virginia Beach Crime Solvers at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
RE: [meteorite-list] Lunar/Meteorite Samples Stolen from Car in Virginia
Idiot! I wouldn't leave my unclassifieds in my car! Likely tossed in a garbage bin somewhere, worthless gravel to the typical pea-brained criminal thinking he scored a laptop. From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com (Meteorite Mailing List) Subject: [meteorite-list] Lunar/Meteorite Samples Stolen from Car in Virginia Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:33:29 -0800 (PST) http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=4360855nav=23ii Lunar Rock Samples Stolen from Car in Virginia Beach wavy.com January 13, 2006 Samples of lunar rocks were stolen from a car in Virginia Beach Tuesday, and police need your help in locating them. Police say around 3:24 p.m., they responded to a call in the 300 block of Garcia Drive. When they arrived, the victim told them a projector, and a silver briefcase containing a sample of rare lunar rocks had been stolen from his car. The lunar rocks are entrusted to contracted instructors by NASA for educational purposes. They are sealed within two clear plastic disks, as you see pictured on the right. The disks are labeled in the center with the words meteorite samples and lunar samples. The samples pose no risk to the public. Anyone with information regarding this crime is encouraged to call Virginia Beach Crime Solvers at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP. __ 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] Lunar/Meteorite Samples Stolen from Car inVirginia
It's one small step for manone giant leap to Ebay !! Just a matter of time...if they are stupid enough!! Greets, Jan Holland From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com (Meteorite Mailing List) Subject: [meteorite-list] Lunar/Meteorite Samples Stolen from Car in Virginia Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:33:29 -0800 (PST) http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=4360855nav=23ii Lunar Rock Samples Stolen from Car in Virginia Beach wavy.com January 13, 2006 Samples of lunar rocks were stolen from a car in Virginia Beach Tuesday, and police need your help in locating them. Police say around 3:24 p.m., they responded to a call in the 300 block of Garcia Drive. When they arrived, the victim told them a projector, and a silver briefcase containing a sample of rare lunar rocks had been stolen from his car. The lunar rocks are entrusted to contracted instructors by NASA for educational purposes. They are sealed within two clear plastic disks, as you see pictured on the right. The disks are labeled in the center with the words meteorite samples and lunar samples. The samples pose no risk to the public. Anyone with information regarding this crime is encouraged to call Virginia Beach Crime Solvers at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP. __ 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 mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] RE: Lunar/Meteorite Samples Stolen from Car in Virginia
Hmm..probably the same kind of disk that I had the privelege of viewing in grade school. I remember my teacher carrying it through the hallways in it's case, never beyond her reach, then immediately to a safety deposit box at the bank after school. Very cool stuff... one of the first things that got me interested in space exploration and meteorites. Ryan -Original Message- From: Pete Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jan 13, 2006 7:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Lunar/Meteorite Samples Stolen from Car in Virginia Idiot! I wouldn't leave my unclassifieds in my car! Likely tossed in a garbage bin somewhere, worthless gravel to the typical pea-brained criminal thinking he scored a laptop. From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com (Meteorite Mailing List) Subject: [meteorite-list] Lunar/Meteorite Samples Stolen from Car in Virginia Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:33:29 -0800 (PST) http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=4360855nav=23ii Lunar Rock Samples Stolen from Car in Virginia Beach wavy.com January 13, 2006 Samples of lunar rocks were stolen from a car in Virginia Beach Tuesday, and police need your help in locating them. Police say around 3:24 p.m., they responded to a call in the 300 block of Garcia Drive. When they arrived, the victim told them a projector, and a silver briefcase containing a sample of rare lunar rocks had been stolen from his car. The lunar rocks are entrusted to contracted instructors by NASA for educational purposes. They are sealed within two clear plastic disks, as you see pictured on the right. The disks are labeled in the center with the words meteorite samples and lunar samples. The samples pose no risk to the public. Anyone with information regarding this crime is encouraged to call Virginia Beach Crime Solvers at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP. __ 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 mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
RE: [meteorite-list] Stardust Webcams
Very cool! Thanks, Ron - It doesn't get any more relevant to the List than this! From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com (Meteorite Mailing List) Subject: [meteorite-list] Stardust Webcams Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:30:44 -0800 (PST) Hi, I've installed two Stardust webcams and they are now available for viewing: http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/webcam.html The first camera shows a live view from JPL operations building. The Stardust operations navigation team are in there right now preparing for tonight's maneuver, TCM-19. And of course, they'll be there for tomorrow night's release of the capsule, the divert maneuver the landing of the capsule in Utah. The second camera shows the cleanroom at Johnson Space Center. The capsule will arrive there on January 17, and this is where the capsule will be opened for the first time and the aerogel collector grid will be removed. Ron Baalke __ 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] Lunar/Meteorite Samples Stolen from Car in Virginia
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:48:56 -0500, Pete Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Likely tossed in a garbage bin somewhere, worthless gravel to the typical pea-brained criminal thinking he scored a laptop. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. If I were in Virginia Beach, I'd be doing some serious dumpster diving! I found it odd that they had to add the line The samples pose no risk to the public. Did the writer have to have it explained to him that meteorites/lunar samples aren't made from friggin' plutonium, and decided he needed to pass that reassurance along? __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Met Friends Photo Page
Hi All, After another day, 9 more people are up and countless spelling, typo even name assignment errors have been corrected. Awards are as follows: -- - Youngest collector: Rebekah Branch - Most beautiful photo: Twink Monrad - Most professional photo: McCartney Taylor -- Keep them photos comin' - I keep seeing names on the list and no photo up Best wishes, Michael -- The thing that sometimes has me hazy is whether it is them or I that's crazy. Albert Einstein -- He is not a lover who does not love forever. - Euripides (485-406BC) __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] D'orbigny
no its the ruin market. Matteo --- Jan Bartels [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Dear Listoids, Just wondering: I got myself a fragment of the D'orbigny (Angrite) and while surfing on the well known dealers websites i noticed some massive difference in prices. For example: One offers a 2,67 gram slice for $667 while another sells a 2,2 gram piece (crusted) for over $11.000!!! Is the huge difference in price just for the fusion crust? This is quite a dollar knocker!! Any comments? Best, Jan Holland. www.heavenlybodies.nl Meteorites. Close encounters of the best kind. __ 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! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] D'orbigny
Matteo, you had your chance to correct your price. You did not! Why? History, you buy at $1000.+ Today you can buy at 150./g or less... Why not buy now to off-set your expensive purchases in the past? Roman Jirasek www.meteoritelabels.com - Original Message - From: M come Meteorite Meteorites [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 1:17 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] D'orbigny no its the ruin market. Matteo --- Jan Bartels [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Dear Listoids, Just wondering: I got myself a fragment of the D'orbigny (Angrite) and while surfing on the well known dealers websites i noticed some massive difference in prices. For example: One offers a 2,67 gram slice for $667 while another sells a 2,2 gram piece (crusted) for over $11.000!!! Is the huge difference in price just for the fusion crust? This is quite a dollar knocker!! Any comments? Best, Jan Holland. www.heavenlybodies.nl Meteorites. Close encounters of the best kind. __ 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! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it __ 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] D'orbigny
I have give, I have sold a 0.3 gr. fragment of D'Orbigny buy from Carion when its arrive in the market for $1000/gr. not like to me lose money on meteorites I have pay the right price, in the time when I have buy the piece. Matteo --- Roman Jirasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Matteo, you had your chance to correct your price. You did not! Why? History, you buy at $1000.+ Today you can buy at 150./g or less... Why not buy now to off-set your expensive purchases in the past? Roman Jirasek www.meteoritelabels.com - Original Message - From: M come Meteorite Meteorites [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 1:17 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] D'orbigny no its the ruin market. Matteo --- Jan Bartels [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Dear Listoids, Just wondering: I got myself a fragment of the D'orbigny (Angrite) and while surfing on the well known dealers websites i noticed some massive difference in prices. For example: One offers a 2,67 gram slice for $667 while another sells a 2,2 gram piece (crusted) for over $11.000!!! Is the huge difference in price just for the fusion crust? This is quite a dollar knocker!! Any comments? Best, Jan Holland. www.heavenlybodies.nl Meteorites. Close encounters of the best kind. __ 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! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it __ 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! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
