[meteorite-list] unnoticed?
Hi, was it just me being my usual unobservant self... but I am surpirsed that the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska Event went by so unnoticed! dave IMCA #0092 Sec.BIMS. www.bimsociety.org __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Just Another Question
Pete, This occurred to me many years ago - I always thought an Earth meteorite would be one of if not THE coolest meteorite Ever. Best wishes, Michael on 5/29/08 9:24 PM, Pete Shugar at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I've given this more than just a passing thought as I think this is a very intreguing question. If an impactor smacks into the moon with enough energy, objects will be dislodged. If they make it to earth intact, we have a luner meteorite. Same goes for Mars and Astroid 4Vesta. So,.suppose we have a very high speed impactor that hits earth, and dislodges material that is now in orbit. If the material crosses Earth's orbit again, and survives to the surface of earth, would it be modified in it's appearance to the extent that it would be seen as a meteorite and not just another rock? Has anything ever been found that might be in this class of material? Would there be anything that would set it apart as a different rock/meteorite? Pete __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Life is short! Break the rules! Forgive quickly! Kiss slowly! Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably.. And never regret anything that made you smile. __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] unnoticed?
Kagarlyk L6 chondrite should get a mention then too, eh? Maybe it flew wingman to the big one. : ) Mike On Jun 1, 2008, at 4:37 AM, Peter Marmet wrote: ...only 29 days to the event ! Cheers, Peter Dave Harris wrote: Hi, was it just me being my usual unobservant self... but I am surpirsed that the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska Event went by so unnoticed! dave IMCA #0092 Sec.BIMS. www.bimsociety.org __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] unnoticed?
...only 29 days to the event ! Cheers, Peter Dave Harris wrote: Hi, was it just me being my usual unobservant self... but I am surpirsed that the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska Event went by so unnoticed! dave IMCA #0092 Sec.BIMS. www.bimsociety.org __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite art presented to Stephen Hawking.
Dear Graham, Congratulations of a higher order! As a collector of old woodblock cuts,fabric stamps, and engravings in general, I can appreciate the technical side of your art--rather a brilliant stroke of insight, I should think. I'd enjoy a link to your work else, feel free to email some images. I await the arrival of your presentation photos as well. Regards, Elton __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Meteorite and Glorieta report
Meteorite! arrived here last week and I wanted to take the opportunity to thank the editors for their continuing efforts to provide high quality infotainment to the meteoritical community. I'd like to recommend to you particularly the articles of Doug Dawn, Robert Woolard and Don McColl on Glorieta, Muonionalusta and tektite bubbles from Australia. The author of the latter article is probably not only the most knowledgeable expert on the field of Australian tektites but also among the finest gentlemen from down under which I had so far the pleasure to correspond with. Thanks for sharing. Svend www.meteorite-recon.com __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - June 1, 2008
http://www.rocksfromspace.org/June_1_2008.html **Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch Cooking with Tyler Florence on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4?NCID=aolfod000302) __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - June 1, 2008
wow! a hall of fame picture of the day. outstanding stuff. great specimen, printing and story. graham, please make a limited edition and would then gladly purchase a print. so excellent. On Jun 1, 2008, at 2:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.rocksfromspace.org/June_1_2008.html **Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch Cooking with Tyler Florence on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4;? NCID=aolfod000302) __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - June 1, 2008
Double ditto. Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darryl Pitt Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 3:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Meteorite Mailing List Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - June 1,2008 wow! a hall of fame picture of the day. outstanding stuff. great specimen, printing and story. graham, please make a limited edition and would then gladly purchase a print. so excellent. On Jun 1, 2008, at 2:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.rocksfromspace.org/June_1_2008.html **Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch Cooking with Tyler Florence on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4;? NCID=aolfod000302) __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] WOW!!!! Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - June 1, 2008
That's the coolest thing I've seen in a long time, a meteorite's fingerprint. Spot-on Graham! Rob Wesel http://www.nakhladogmeteorites.com -- We are the music makers... and we are the dreamers of the dreams. Willy Wonka, 1971 - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 11:51 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - June 1, 2008 http://www.rocksfromspace.org/June_1_2008.html **Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch Cooking with Tyler Florence on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4?NCID=aolfod000302) __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Ad: Ebay Auctions
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[meteorite-list] [AD] Major Site Update + Ebay Tonight + A Tucson Moment
Dear Listees: Greetings all, from hot and sunny Tucson. Summer is well upon us here. We've already had a couple of 100+ F days. Pretty different from when you are here visiting during the gem show. The snakes and scorpions are up and about and I've seen a few of each. A Tucson moment I would like to share with you: I was out walking the other evening and came across a very large bull snake curled up in the road. He was taking a nap and wasn't pleased when I woke him up. I said: Come on buddy, you can't sleep here. Some redneck will come along in a truck any minute and run you over. He didn't want to move and started hissing at me. I was clapping and jumping up and down and trying to get him out of harm's way when an elderly miner 49er-type guy with long white beard suddenly appeared -- as if from nowhere -- out of the brush next to the road, with a tin mug in his hand. Whatcha doing feller? Well, I'm trying to get this snake out of the road before he gets hurt. Yep! He can't sleep there or some redneck'll come along and squish him fer sure. So, between us, we eventually manage to coax the big snake back into the brush and then the old miner guy disappeared himself into a thicket of mesquite trees after assuring me that we would have good karma for helping the snake. Only in Tucson. And before that, I took an uncharacteristically long and very overdue vacation, so if anyone's been trying to reach me, sorry about that. Even I don't work *all* the time, and the laptop wasn't faring too well on the road : ) Back to business: On Friday we completed the largest-ever single update to Aerolite.org. New additions include Gibeon, Toluca, Henbury, Mundrabilla, Chinga, Sikhote-Alin, Canyon Diablo, really nice pre-NWA Labenne Sahara stones with hand painted field numbers, oriented Millbillillies with 100% crust and tons of flow lines, complete crusted NWA stones, Libyan Desert Glass including some super-rare green specimens, excellent moldavites, historic Odessas found by Captain Draeger in the 1940s -- a U.S. Navy officer who was a friend and close associate of Nininger's -- and even some Darwin Glass. Our main sale catalogue directory is here: http://www.aerolite.org/meteorites-for-sale.htm Or you can view all new additions on one easy-to-use page here: http://www.aerolite.org/new.htm You'll notice that a few pieces are already reserved. They were snapped up by friends and colleagues on my preferred customer mailing list. My personal list members always get advance notice of interesting new material. If you'd like to be part of that list just send me an email. No cost, no obligation, no spam, and you can unsub at any time. Most of the Draeger Odessas went really fast. I have a few more, not yet photographed, so let me know if you want one and we'll take some shots for you. Every Draeger Odessa comes with an exclusive vintage photo reproduction of Cpt. Draeger and one of his large Odessa finds, taken in 1947. My News Adventures page has also been updated with info about our Nat Geo show, and some Tucson 2008 photos: http://www.aerolite.org/news.htm Thank you to everyone who supported Dr. Art Ehlmann of TCU and myself by ordering copies of the Oscar E. Monnig Meteorite Collection Catalog, which Art authored, and I designed and published. We had a few problems along the way -- delay with the slipcase manufacture; damage to many of the slipcases; and numerous copies, especially going overseas, were lost in the mail. I believe we have replaced all lost copies at our expense. If anyone ordered a copy from us and didn't yet receive it (apart from last week's orders) please let me know and we'll make good on it. Anyone who thinks publishing museum catalogs is a good way to make money, think again : ) I still have a few of the Deluxe Editions, limited to 100 copies, signed and numbered by Dr. Ehlmann, with slipcase and an exclusive custom portrait photo of Oscar Monnig, courtesy of Oscar's god daughter. If you want one, please let me know soon. Regular and Slipcase editions, we still have a good supply. Details: http://www.aerolite.org/monnig-catalog.htm And finally, a few eBay auctions ending in about an hour, including Carancas, Darwin Glass, 100% crusted Bassikounou, Vaca Muerta, and a Jim Kriegh / Twink Monrad Gold Basin. All lots with no reserve: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZaerolitemeteorites Thanks for listening and kind regards from the Wild West, Geoff N. www.aerolite.org www.campometeorites.com __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - June 1, 2008
Hi Darryl, Dave, Rob, Matt, All, I have had so many replys complimenting me on the meteorite print. Thanks so much. Many of you were asking about the possibilities of doing an edition and acquiring one of the prints. The prints and observations I am doing were not really intended as works in themselves at first, but as starting points for other pieces that are more complex Working drawings and prints really. Once printed I usually hand finish each piece to enhance and bring out the details I'm interested in...thus the reason it was marked as a proof. I am still experimenting with several variations in techniques at the moment. The proof trial was slotted in between other projects I am working on in order to meet the deadline for Professor Stephen Hawkings visit. I will however be doing further work on meteorite prints as soon as I find time, later this summer, and I will endeavour to produce a series or an edition. I will gladly let those interested know if or when there are any available. Many thanks for your interest. Regards, Graham Ensor __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Name Change?????
When I first found the web pages and then the list, I was very pleased with what was represented by the members and the list. Their knowledge and expertise was and still is legeondary. I am nothing more than a collector who enjoys showing my collection to anyone and everyone. I most especially like to show to a child a planitary meteorite and when I open the case up and they touch it, you get THE LOOK OF WONDER that comes over their face and it is is just priceless. They realize they are holding a piece of another planet right in their hands. When asked where I get my meteorites from I tell them from other members of The International Meteorite Collectors Association of which I am a member. I say this with pride. If it ain't broke, don't muck with it. Keep your chicken plucking cotton picking fingers outa the pie and leave it alone. Pete IMCA 1733 __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Name Change?????
On Sat, 31 May 2008 21:17:51 -0500, you wrote: they are holding a piece of another planet right in their hands. When asked where I get my meteorites from I tell them from other members of The International Meteorite Collectors Association of which I am a member. I say this with pride. If it ain't broke, don't muck with it. Keep your chicken plucking cotton picking fingers outa the pie and leave it alone. First-- Unless I missed something, nobody has been advocating renaming something on the list. Second-- when I see the letters IMCA it makes me think of YMCA, and I get the song stuck in my head. So I always associate the IMCA with cosplaying homosexuals from the 1970s (not that there is anything wrong with that). __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] NASA'S Phoenix Lander Robotic Arm Camera Sees Possible Ice
so.. is the next new, bitch'n backcounty ski area and terraine park gonna be on mars? if so, what are lift tix prices and it is ski-in/ ski-out ot do you gotta ride the shuttle? where will be the best apre' hang out after the lifts close? heard the airfare's kinda steep, and the rover is slow and can only take to people @ time to top of backcountry bowl. i may opt for potillo, instead. 93F but jonesing...hmt --- Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-090 NASA'S Phoenix Lander Robotic Arm Camera Sees Possible Ice Jet Propulsion Laboratory May 30, 2008 TUCSON, Ariz.-- Scientists have discovered what may be ice that was exposed when soil was blown away as NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed on Mars last Sunday, May 25. The possible ice appears in an image the robotic arm camera took underneath the lander, near a footpad. We could very well be seeing rock, or we could be seeing exposed ice in the retrorocket blast zone, said Ray Arvidson of Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., co-investigator for the robotic arm. We'll test the two ideas by getting more data, including color data, from the robotic arm camera. We think that if the hard features are ice, they will become brighter because atmospheric water vapor will collect as new frost on the ice. Full confirmation of what we're seeing will come when we excavate and analyze layers in the nearby workspace, Arvidson said. Testing last night of a Phoenix instrument that bakes and sniffs samples to identify ingredients identified a possible short circuit. This prompted commands for diagnostic steps to be developed and sent to the lander in the next few days. The instrument is the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer. It includes a calorimeter that tracks how much heat is needed to melt or vaporize substances in a sample, plus a mass spectrometer to examine vapors driven off by the heat. The Thursday, May 29, tests recorded electrical behavior consistent with an intermittent short circuit in the spectrometer portion. We have developed a strategy to gain a better understanding of this behavior, and we have identified workarounds for some of the possibilities, said William Boynton of the University of Arizona, Tucson, lead scientist for the instrument. The latest data from the Canadian Space Agency's weather station shows another sunny day at the Phoenix landing site with temperatures holding at minus 30 degrees Celsius (minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit) as the sol's high, and a low of minus 80 degrees Celsius (minus 112 degrees Fahrenheit). The lidar instrument was activated for a 15-minute period just before noon local Mars time, and showed increasing dust in the atmosphere. This is the first time lidar technology has been used on the surface of another planet, said the meteorological station's chief engineer, Mike Daly, from MDA in Brampton, Canada. The team is elated that we are getting such interesting data about the dust dynamics in the atmosphere. The mission passed a safe to proceed review on Thursday evening, meeting criteria to proceed with evaluating and using the science instruments. We have evaluated the performance of the spacecraft on the surface and found we're ready to move forward. While we are still investigating instrument performance such as the anomaly on TEGA [Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer], the spacecraft's infrastructure has passed its tests and gets a clean bill of health, said David Spencer of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., deputy project manager for Phoenix. We're still in the process of checking out our instruments, Phoenix project scientist Leslie Tamppari of JPL said. The process is designed to be very flexible, to respond to discoveries and issues that come up every day. We're in the process of taking images and getting color information that will help us understand soil properties. This will help us understand where best to first touch the soil and then where and how best to dig. The Phoenix mission is led by Peter Smith at the University of Arizona with project management at JPL and development partnership at Lockheed Martin, Denver. International contributions come from the Canadian Space Agency; the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland; the universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus, Denmark; Max Planck Institute, Germany; and the Finnish Meteorological Institute. For more about Phoenix, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/phoenix and http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu. Media contacts: Guy Webster 818-354-5011 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dwayne Brown 202-358-1726 NASA Headquarters, Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sara Hammond 520-626-1974 University of Arizona, Tucson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-090
[meteorite-list] unnoticed
Hi all - Well, if you're waiting for a NASA press release, you might as well forget it. When told by the Congress, that is to say Republicans and Democrats, Senators and Representatives in both Houses to come up with a plan and execute it to find c**p from space before it hits and kills a lot of people, the current NASA Administrator told them that he didn't want to do the job. The Administrator has also put into development a manned vehicle dependent on one launch vehicle, which launch vehicle by the way is not working. Amazingly, the Adminstrator has not had his ass fired and handed to him, which is surely a sign of how much money Thiokol is making with the war in Iraq right now. Great job, Mickey. And BTW, s**w you too, Dave. $100 billion to fly a few men to Mars? I don't think so. (Please note that I did not say Jesus!, Christ! or Jesus Christ! once in that message.) good hunting, E.P. Grondine Man and Impact in the Americas __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] unnoticed
Who the hell are you talking about? This post is offensive to me, because I cant figure out who you are bitching about. Clarify please, there are a lot of mike's and Dave's on this list. Michael Farmer --- E.P. Grondine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all - Well, if you're waiting for a NASA press release, you might as well forget it. When told by the Congress, that is to say Republicans and Democrats, Senators and Representatives in both Houses to come up with a plan and execute it to find c**p from space before it hits and kills a lot of people, the current NASA Administrator told them that he didn't want to do the job. The Administrator has also put into development a manned vehicle dependent on one launch vehicle, which launch vehicle by the way is not working. Amazingly, the Adminstrator has not had his ass fired and handed to him, which is surely a sign of how much money Thiokol is making with the war in Iraq right now. Great job, Mickey. And BTW, s**w you too, Dave. $100 billion to fly a few men to Mars? I don't think so. (Please note that I did not say Jesus!, Christ! or Jesus Christ! once in that message.) good hunting, E.P. Grondine Man and Impact in the Americas __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
