[meteorite-list] AD: New Egyptian iron - new finest etched full slices
Dear Meteorites collectors and List members, i have prepared some new nice full slices in small and large sizes. Also nice endcuts are available. The 39.4g endcut shows Schreibersite inclusions on the outside and looks very nice. Also the large full slices are realy nice. Here are the link to the sale page. http://www.meteorite-mirko.de/0334af9d8f00fba02/0334af9daf0719c02/index.php By interest please contact me off list. Shipping cost for Germany $6 / Europe $8 and worldwide $12 by registered airmail parcel including tracking number. Greetings to all, Mirko Mirko Graul Meteorite Quittenring.4 16321 Bernau GERMANY Phone: 0049-1724105015 E-Mail: m_gr...@yahoo.de WEB: www.meteorite-mirko.de Member of The Meteoritical Society (International Society for Meteoritics and Planetery Science) IMCA-Member: 2113 (International Meteorite Collectors Association) __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Rosetta Will Encounter Asteroid Lutetia on July 10
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1007/08rosetta/ Rosetta will encounter unseen asteroid Saturday BY STEPHEN CLARK SPACEFLIGHT NOW July 8, 2010 The comet-bound Rosetta spacecraft will use its powerful instruments to see and sniff asteroid Lutetia Saturday, taking advantage of a fortuitous flyby of the perplexing object, which could be a chunk of primordial rock from the ancient solar system. Scientists don't know what to expect from Lutetia, which will be the largest asteroid ever visited by a spacecraft. Lutetia is inside the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The size of Lutetia is even up for debate. The best estimate is the round-shaped asteroid is about 60 miles across, but other data points to an elongated shape with a peak diameter of 83 miles. Scientists also don't know the chemical make-up of Lutetia. The best guess is Lutetia is a C-type asteroid, meaning it has stayed relatively untouched through most of the violent 4.6-billion-year history of the solar system. C-type asteroids are dark and rich in carbon and organic molecules. Scientists believe they are leftover relics from the formation of the solar system. If it does turn out to be a C-type, which we all hope, then we have a large object which is rather pristine showing us what the solar system was like shortly after the planets formed, said Rita Schulz, Rosetta's project scientist at the European Space Agency. But some measurements from telescopes on Earth and in space suggest Lutetia could harbor metals, a signature of an M-type asteroid. Schulz said metallic M-type asteroids formed from rock from the interior of a larger body after massive collisions fractured the parent object. It can't be, at the same time, a C-type and an M-type asteroid because they are so different that it is not possible, Schulz said. This is a riddle that we can solve only by visiting this object because the indications from all the observations we have right now are not conclusive enough that anyone would dare to say this is for sure a C-type asteroid. Rosetta should answer all of these questions Saturday. ESA reports Rosetta is right on course for the flyby, and engineers don't expect to fire the craft's thrusters to correct the trajectory. Built to study a comet, Rosetta will only have about two hours to get the best views of Lutetia as the probe speeds along at a relative velocity of approximately 33,500 mph. Rosetta will approach within 1,965 miles of the asteroid at 1544:56 GMT (11:44 a.m. EDT) Saturday. But the asteroid is 280 million miles from Earth, meaning it will take radio signals more than 25 minutes to travel from Rosetta back to Earth. The flyby will occur at 1610:17 GMT (12:10 p.m. EDT) as observed from Earth. Saturday's encounter is the second asteroid flyby of Rosetta's decade-long sojourn through the solar system. The robotic probe flew past the much smaller asteroid Steins in 2008. Rosetta launched in 2004 on a $1.2 billion mission to explore comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The spacecraft will enter orbit around the periodic comet in the summer of 2014 and stay with Churyumov-Gerasimenko until the end of 2015. The probe also carries a small lander named Philae to drop on the comet's surface. Mission managers assembled a list of possible asteroid flyby opportunities after Rosetta's launch to give researchers bonus science on the way to the craft's ultimate destination. Steins and Lutetia was regarded as the best possible combination and was selected, said Gerhard Schwehm, Rosetta's project manager. Lutetia is actually the prime asteroid target, and therefore Rosetta will achieve a major milestone on Saturday. The asteroid chapter can be closed and we will concentrate on the comet. If everything goes as planned, Rosetta's visible camera will return images of Lutetia to Earth later Saturday night. Schulz plans to present the pictures as early as 2100 GMT (5 p.m. EDT). We will have pictures showing craters, valleys and all kinds of features on the surface, Schulz said. Rosetta's mineral-mapping spectrometers will determine the surface composition of Lutetia, and the probe's gas analyzers will try to detect an exosphere, or ultra-thin atmosphere, around the asteroid. Other sensors will measure the magnetic field around Lutetia and the asteroid's interaction with the solar wind. We hope to find some gases, or maybe ice and water, and we will look at the density of the asteroid, Schulz said in an interview Tuesday. Rosetta's findings should close the book on Lutetia's chemical make-up by observing the asteroid's ratio of metallic and carbon compounds. After the flyby, we will know for sure what class of asteroid this is, Schulz said. This is an accomplishment because asteroid scientists have now started calling it an X-type, meaning we have no clue what it is. Lutetia was discovered in 1852 and named for an ancient Roman city on the site of present-day Paris. If Lutetia is confirmed as a carbon-rich object, it
[meteorite-list] Cassini Takes A Closer Look at Daphnis
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-224 A Closer Look at Daphnis Jet Propulsion Laboratory July 06, 2010 NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured the closest images of Saturn's moon Daphnis to date. In these raw images obtained on July 5, 2010, the moon can be seen orbiting in a rift known as the Keeler Gap in one of Saturn's rings. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. JPL designed, developed and assembled the Cassini orbiter. More information about the Cassini-Huygens mission is at: http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov . Jia-Rui C. Cook 818-354-0850 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. jia-rui.c.c...@jpl.nasa.gov 2010-224 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Saturn Propellers Reflect Solar System Origins
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-227 Saturn Propellers Reflect Solar System Origins Jet Propulsion Laboratory July 08, 2010 PASADENA, Calif. - Scientists using NASA's Cassini spacecraft at Saturn have stalked a new class of moons in the rings of Saturn that create distinctive propeller-shaped gaps in ring material. It marks the first time scientists have been able to track the orbits of individual objects in a debris disk. The research gives scientists an opportunity to time-travel back into the history of our solar system to reveal clues about disks around other stars in our universe that are too far away to observe directly. Observing the motions of these disk-embedded objects provides a rare opportunity to gauge how the planets grew from, and interacted with, the disk of material surrounding the early sun, said Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team lead based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo., and a co-author on the paper. It allows us a glimpse into how the solar system ended up looking the way it does. The results are published in a new study in the July 8, 2010, issue of the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters. Cassini scientists first discovered double-armed propeller features in 2006 in an area now known as the propeller belts in the middle of Saturn's outermost dense ring, known as the A ring. The spaces were created by a new class of moonlets - smaller than known moons, but larger than the particles in the rings - that could clear the space immediately around them. Those moonlets, which were estimated to number in the millions, were not large enough to clear out their entire path around Saturn, as do the moons Pan and Daphnis. The new paper, led by Matthew Tiscareno, a Cassini imaging team associate based at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., reports on a new cohort of larger and rarer moons in another part of the A ring farther out from Saturn. With propellers as much as hundreds of times as large as those previously described, these new objects have been tracked for as long as four years. The propeller features are up to several thousand kilometers (miles) long and several kilometers (miles) wide. The moons embedded in the ring appear to kick up ring material as high as 0.5 kilometers (1,600 feet) above and below the ring plane, which is well beyond the typical ring thickness of about 10 meters (30 feet). Cassini is too far away to see the moons amid the swirling ring material around them, but scientists estimate that they are about a kilometer (half a mile) in diameter because of the size of the propellers. Tiscareno and colleagues estimate that there are dozens of these giant propellers, and 11 of them were imaged multiple times between 2005 to 2009. One of them, nicknamed Bleriot after the famous aviator Louis Bleriot, has been a veritable Forrest Gump, showing up in more than 100 separate Cassini images and one ultraviolet imaging spectrograph observation over this time. Scientists have never tracked disk-embedded objects anywhere in the universe before now, Tiscareno said. All the moons and planets we knew about before orbit in empty space. In the propeller belts, we saw a swarm in one image and then had no idea later on if we were seeing the same individual objects. With this new discovery, we can now track disk-embedded moons individually over many years. Over the four years, the giant propellers have shifted their orbits, but scientists are not yet sure what is causing the disturbances in their travels around Saturn. Their path may be upset by bumping into other smaller ring particles, or responding to their gravity, but the gravitational attraction of large moons outside the rings may also be a factor. Scientists will continue monitoring the moons to see if the disk itself is driving the changes, similar to the interactions that occur in young solar systems. If it is, Tiscareno said, this would be the first time such a measurement has been made directly. Propellers give us unexpected insight into the larger objects in the rings, said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Over the next seven years, Cassini will have the opportunity to watch the evolution of these objects and to figure out why their orbits are changing. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. For newly released images and more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit: http://www.nasa.gov/cassini, http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov or http://ciclops.org. Jia-Rui C.
[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - July 7, 2010
MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES July 7, 2010 o Bouldery Deposit on Crater Floor http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_013249_1270 o (Almost) Silent Rolling Stones in Kasei Valles http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_001640_2125 o Light Outcrop on Crater Floor http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_001860_1685 o Gullies on Gorgonum Chaos Mesas http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_001948_1425 o Sand Dune Field in Richardson Crater http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_002542_1080 o South Polar Layered Deposits and Residual Cap http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_002856_0875 All of the HiRISE images are archived here: http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ Information about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is online at http://www.nasa.gov/mro. The mission is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, of Denver, is the prime contractor and built the spacecraft. HiRISE is operated by the University of Arizona. Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., of Boulder, Colo., built the HiRISE instrument. __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Wold Cottage specimens originating from before sale to the British Museum
Hi all, I wonder if anyone could answer the following question. Are there any specimens of Wold Cottage that people know of that originated from the main mass PRIOR to it being sold by James Sowerby's sons to the British museum in 1837? The Wold Cottage meteorite fell in 1795 and was sold to James Sowerby in 1805 and there are numerous references to specimens being removed and passed on to various people between those times and prior to its arrival at the BM. I would be really interested to see if anyone has knowledge of any of these specimens that are around today. Cheers folks, in anticipation. Martin __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] AD some great Meteorites started @ .99 with free shipping ending in 1 hour and tomorrow!!
Good Day! Meteorite auctions ending in 1 hour! Also more tomorrow night! http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?LH_Auction=1_ipg=_sc=1_sop=1_ssn=meteoritehunting_trksid=p3911.c0.m301 Thank You for your time, and Have a Great Day! John Higgins IMCA#9822 www.outerspacerocks.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] AD some great Meteorites started @ .99 with free shipping ending in 1 hour and tomorrow!!
You're own of my favorite sellers...as you can see, I'm paying attention. I would like you to email be privately on your technique of polishing. I have worked on wood and am very good at it, I would like some feedback on how you clean the outside and your procedure for polishing. I say this on the list because the rocks I've gotten from you in the past have been skillfully cleaned and polished... Thanks..as always, Barry On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:44 PM, John higgins geohigg...@yahoo.com wrote: Good Day! Meteorite auctions ending in 1 hour! Also more tomorrow night! http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?LH_Auction=1_ipg=_sc=1_sop=1_ssn=meteoritehunting_trksid=p3911.c0.m301 Thank You for your time, and Have a Great Day! John Higgins IMCA#9822 www.outerspacerocks.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] New York goes extra-terrestrial ....
List- This would be amazing to attend. Maybe some of you will be there. Mike New York goes extra-terrestrial as meteorite experts descend on the city in July http://www.physorg.com/wire-news/40042519/new-york-goes-extra-terrestrial-as-meteorite-experts-descend-on.html How old is our solar system? Where do the organic molecules found in extraterrestrial materials come from, and how does a planet become habitable? And how often do large meteoroids -- the dust particles to boulder-size debris in the solar system -- hit planets like Earth? These are some of the topics that will be discussed at the largest gathering of the Meteoritical Society, the international organization for meteoritics and planetary science, in its nearly 80-year history. More than 500 experts from all over the world will convene for five days of presentations and poster sessions at the Park Central Hotel in New York City beginning July 26. A pre-conference workshop linking theoretical simulations of the physical development of proto-planetary disks to observations of far-away disks and to evidence found in extraterrestrial rocks will be held at the American Museum of Natural History. The conference reception will be held in the Museum's Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites. The American Museum of Natural History hosts the conference's Barringer Invitational Lecture. This year's speaker is Sean Solomon, the principle investigator of the MESSENGER mission. Solomon will present new discoveries this spacecraft has already made, and will find when in orbit around Mercury, the puzzlingly high-density innermost planet. This program, which is free and open to the public, will take place on the evening of July 26. After many decades of great science, the international members of the Society are looking forward to coming to New York for the second time to hear about interesting new research and discoveries in extraterrestrial materials, says Hiroko Nagahara, professor at the University of Tokyo and president of the Meteoritical Society. I am also looking forward to awarding the highest honors from our Society. Among the awards presented this year is the prestigious Leonard medal which will go to Hiroshi Takeda of Japan's Chiba University for his analysis of meteorites as pieces of Mars. It's wonderful that so many international scientists can come to New York to share their research and discoveries, says Denton Ebel, curator in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the American Museum of Natural History and chair of the Meteoritical Society's Local Organizing Committee. The city provides the perfect cosmopolitan environment to stimulate discussion, collaboration, and new ideas. Vice-chairs of the conference's Local Organizing Committee are Michael Weisberg and Harold Connolly of City University of New York. Jon Friedrich of Fordham University chairs the Scientific Organizing Committee. The Meteoritical Society is an academic organization founded in 1933 to promote the study of extraterrestrial materials. This year, for its 73rd annual meeting, interesting symposium topics and some representative papers include: The age of the solar system and of Earth: Arizona State University's Audrey Bouvier and colleagues will present evidence from calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions in the Vigarano meteorite of a solar system age of 4569.3 million years. The problem of the missing mantles of iron meteorites: University of Hawaii's Edward Scott and colleagues will present a radical new explanation: that iron meteorites form when two protoplanets graze each other during a collision. The information meteorites yield about asteroids and comets: Johns Hopkins University's Andrew Rivkin will present observations of ice on main belt asteroids. The rate at which large meteoroids hit Earth: Southwest Research Institute's Clark Chapman and colleagues will look at new information from MESSENGER flybys about impact craters on Mercury. The origin of the organic matter found in extraterrestrial material: Carnegie Institution's Conel Alexander and colleagues have determined that the water found in chondrites (stony meteorites that have not melted since their formation) is not from ice at the outer reaches of the solar system. The development of habitable planets: University of Chicago's Fred Ciesla will present a new technique for calculating the transport and chemical evolution of water ice in pre-planetary disks. The 73rd annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society will take place at the Park Central Hotel on 7th Avenue at 56th Street in Manhattan starting at 8:30am on Monday, July 26. Symposium sessions generally run until 5 pm, and two poster sessions will be held on the evenings of June 27 and 29. For the full list of papers and presentations, visit www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2010. The Barringer Invitational Lecture on MESSENGER and Mercury by Sean Solomon will be held at 7 pm on June 26 at the American Museum of Natural History. The event
[meteorite-list] AD: 50% Off Sale Ends In A Few Hours. Last Sale For A while. Last Call...
Hello, Last Call. 50% Sale Ends In a few hours. I went ahead and used my ad space for the month this week. I will not be having another sale for awhile. SEE ALL ITEMS ON SALE IN MY STORE! http://stores.ebay.com/voyage-botanica-natural-history Best Wishes Michael _ The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendarocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_5 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
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[meteorite-list] Meteorite Diamonds from Meteor Crater on eBay
Hi List, #1, I wonder if the bidders have any idea that these are NOT meteorite diamonds. Well, obviously not or they wouldn't be bidding. #2, even if they are as described, if they were gathered any time recently, it was done so illegally. http://cgi.ebay.com/Meteorite-Diamonds-Meteor-Crater-Area-10ct-clear-rose-/270601740592 Buyer beware. MikeG -- Mike Gilmer - Galactic Stone Ironworks Meteorites http://www.galactic-stone.com http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] AD- Awesome Fukang Slices, Faceted Admire Meteorite Crystals, Gibeon Slices, Canyon Diablo Meteorites and more!
Hello, To everyone! We wanted to let you know that we have just added some killer Fukang slices, both etched and polished to our site. You can go directly to them by clicking here: http://kdmeteorites.com/FukangPallasiteMeteoritesForSale.html We also have some new Gibeon slices that etched really nice and have a great shape, they are here: http://kdmeteorites.com/GibeonMeteoritesForSale.html Something totally new for us is the arrival of some faceted Admire Pallasite Meteorite crystals. These have been quite an adventure not only in finding them but processing them, and we are definately not gemstone folks but we think these faceted stones, which we call Admirite, are really cool and a must addition to anyone who collects meteorites! http://kdmeteorites.com/AdmireGemstonesforSale.html Another great new item for us is the Gibeon Meteorite Knife - this pictures are awesome and they do not do justice to how it looks. http://kdmeteorites.com/MeteoriteKnives.html And finally, we have added a few Canyon Diablo meteorites, both polished and natural to our site. You can see them here: http://kdmeteorites.com/canyon-diablo-iron-meteorites-for-sale-individuals.html Thank you for taking a look and we hope everyone is enjoying their summer! Cheers Dana -- KD Meteorites kdmeteorites.com admiremeteorites.com Keith and Dana Jenkerson 4596 N. Vickie Lane Kingman, AZ., 86409 928-399-0140 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Diamonds from Meteor Crater on eBay
This seller should be reported to eBay. This is a first-class fraud. I did write him and gave him the scoop on the off-chance he is just dumb!. Maybe everyone else here should as well. Ron - Original Message - From: Galactic Stone Ironworks meteoritem...@gmail.com To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 7:04 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Diamonds from Meteor Crater on eBay Hi List, #1, I wonder if the bidders have any idea that these are NOT meteorite diamonds. Well, obviously not or they wouldn't be bidding. #2, even if they are as described, if they were gathered any time recently, it was done so illegally. http://cgi.ebay.com/Meteorite-Diamonds-Meteor-Crater-Area-10ct-clear-rose-/270601740592 Buyer beware. MikeG -- Mike Gilmer - Galactic Stone Ironworks Meteorites http://www.galactic-stone.com http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] July Issue of Meteorite-Times Now Up
Dear List, The July issue of Meteorite-Times is now up. http://www.meteorite-times.com/meteorite_frame.htm Enjoy, Paul and Jim __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Holy Smoldering Chunks of Rock Batman!
Meteorite punches hole in driveway http://www.wcmessenger.com/news/content/EkZlVEAuupiEdryHWm.php __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] POP QUIZ
Hello Listers, Pop quiz tonight The name of the game: The 5th Lister to email me off the list with the correct answers will receive a Tagish Lake meteorite sample. Question: What year was the first chemical analysis of a fallen meteorite done in, by whom, and what is the name of the meteorite. Tomorrow ill post the answer to the pop quiz and the name of the winner Have fun Shawn Alan IMCA 1633 eBaystore http://shop.ebay.com/photophlow/m.html?_nkw=_armrs=1_from=_ipg=_trksid=p4340 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Holy Smoldering Chunks of Rock Batman!
Hello All, ...Or not. http://www.wcmessenger.com/update/?p=2566 The whole story is fishy, though. If a stony meteorite hit a cement driveway, it would likely shatter, and would almost certainly not remain embedded at the bottom of the hole/chip it made. An iron, might be strong enough to withstand such an impact. But this fellow was looking at stony material in the bottom of the hole - and his comment was that it was too soft and not magnetic? First-off, based on his comments, it could easily be an achondrite. This seems unlikely, though, because it would probably be a fairly soft meteorite if that were the case, and would be more likely to simply shatter upon impact. After seeing a larger photo of the hole...there's no way an achondrite did that. http://www.wcmessenger.com/update/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/DSC_00043.jpg Looks a little more like someone drilled that hole than anything else. Weird stuff. I doubt an iron would even have enough kinetic energy to punch a hole clean through a slab of cement - at least not an iron that small. Regards, Jason On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Meteorites USA e...@meteoritesusa.com wrote: Meteorite punches hole in driveway http://www.wcmessenger.com/news/content/EkZlVEAuupiEdryHWm.php __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
