[meteorite-list] AD:Specomens on ebay including Antarctic ALH 76009
Hi all, Hope everyone had a great day yesterday and are planning on having a relaxing day today to recover! Here are a few auctions that i have on ebay at the moment including a fragment of the Antarctic ALH 76009 amonsgt others, see links below: ALH 76009 Rare pre treaty antarctic meteorite fragment (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=250746909509ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT) Pallasovka pallasite chunky slice weighing 61.1g (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=250746910262ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT) Full set 20 Nestle cereal meteorite cards (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=250740813213ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT) Full set 12 Nestle cards titled 'meteors meteorites' (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=250741284124ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT) 3.51g fragment of Tatahouine meteorite (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=250746768292ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT) Please take a look if interested. Cheers Martin -- Martin Goff IMCA #3387 __ 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] Specomens?!
Not entirely sure what a specomen is but ignore my last past as i have none for sale so to all who enquired about my available 'specomens' then i am sorry to have to dissapoint you! :-) Cheers Martin -- Martin Goff www.msg-meteorites.co.uk IMCA #3387 __ 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] Holiday
?May the Spirit of the Holiday pervade and infuse every corner of our everyday lives always and forever __ 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] Barwell, the Christmas Eve Meteorite
...and i have a very nice 15+g piece w/ thick fusion crust for sale or trade. --- On Thu, 12/23/10, bernd.pa...@paulinet.de bernd.pa...@paulinet.de wrote: From: bernd.pa...@paulinet.de bernd.pa...@paulinet.de Subject: [meteorite-list] Barwell, the Christmas Eve Meteorite To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Thursday, December 23, 2010, 6:25 PM Happy Birthday, Barwell! Bernd (in Germany at 00.35 local time ;-) -- On December 24, 1965, a Christmas present of sorts fell to the ground around 16:20 hrs, when a brilliant fireball swept across southern England from a south -southwesterly direction and landed in Barwell accompanied by a tremendous explosion caused by the exploding meteorite that went down in history as the Christmas Eve meteorite. The bolide must have been extremely bright. Some eyewitnesses say it was brighter than the sun, others say it was almost twice as bright as Venus. There are also reports of color changes during atmospheric descent. Local residents noted a large explosion, the sky suddenly lit up, a whizzing noise was heard, there was a loud roar, a low rumbling noise, a screaming sound from a low-flying object directly overhead, a loud rustling noise after the explosion, a sudden thud as something hit the ground, a terrible crack, and also electrophonic phenomena. When one local picked up a strange-looking stone about as big as his hand, he immediately threw it down again because it felt warm. This stone had even left a small crater in the asphalt road. Another Barwell resident found a dent in the hood of his automobile and a white stone on the ground weighing between six and seven pounds. News of the actual fall was slow to spread but when it did, hell broke loose because the British Museum had promised financial rewards for each and every find. Several larger fragments and innumerable small stones were located by field parties and local residents. While initial disruption occurred at an altitude of about 25 miles, final disruption probably occurred at a very low altitude above Barwell. The Barwell L5 chondrite has a gray interior, numerous FeNi specks and grayish chondrules that give it a mottled look. Interestingly, some of the fragments at Barwell came in from slightly different directions - maybe due to strong winds high up in the atmosphere because a distinct smoke trail rapidly disappeared. A 17-pounder made a perfectly vertical hole in sandy loam soil to a depth of 27 inches. A 14 ½ ounce fragment penetrated the roof of a local factory. A 7-pound piece lay in an 18-inch hole. A 6-pound chunk was found in a factory backyard partly buried in a cinder heap! Reference: Lancaster Brown P. (1966) The Barwell Meteorite (Sky Telescope, July 1966, pp. 7-11). __ 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] POP QUIZ ANSWER AND WINNER
Hello Listers, I hope everyone had a great Christmas :) I sure did, ate too much good food but it was worth it. Its good the gyms are open today for me to work off the extra calories. I would like to announce the winner from yesterdays Christmas special POP QUIZ and congratulate Chris Spratt being the 10th lister to email me the correct answer. Thank you all and have a good new year and let hope for a fall cause I think we all need one :) Shawn Alan IMCA 1633 eBaystore http://shop.ebay.com/photophlow/m.html [meteorite-list] Holiday Christmas POP QUIZ Special Shawn Alan photophlow at yahoo.com Sat Dec 25 12:25:09 EST 2010 Previous message: [meteorite-list] Merry Christmas Next message: [meteorite-list] Some Holiday Cheer... Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Greetings Listers, I hope everyone is having a great Christmas and a great holiday season. And for all the POP QUIZERS out there, I would like to thank you as well. Today is a Christmas POP QUIZ special Please tell me what meteorite fall is associated with Christmas. Be the 10th lister to email me the correct answer and you will receive a 50mg Tagish Lake meteorite fragment LOT in a glass bottle for free. Have a great Christmas :) and good luck Shawn Alan IMCA 1633 eBaystore http://shop.ebay.com/photophlow/m.html Previous message: [meteorite-list] Merry Christmas Next message: [meteorite-list] Some Holiday Cheer... Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] More information about the Meteorite-list mailing 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] AD: MERRY METEORITES - Ebay Listing Ending in few hours - Sikhote Alin Slice, Mundrabilla End Cut, other cool stuff
Merry Christmas and Happy Hunting Meteorites and Meteorite Holiday Dealings Everybody~ Hi all. I hope you all have had a good holiday time, and you are all fat with Turkey and other good food (like me)! I can't believe how soon until the Gem show, not much longer ! WEE!!! Like a month eh?!?! I can't wait! Anyway, I have been majorly slacking due to eating too much food and sleeping too much, but I do have two really cool things ending in a couple of hours, and then Thursday I will be listing some more really rare stuff that I am selling for a friend of mine, but I will post an ad for that then. But more signed Nininger stuff! Tonight I have a really cool cut and polished and etched end cut of Mundrabilla meteorite here: http://cgi.ebay.com/Mundrabilla-Iron-Meteorite-ETCHED-SLICE-WIDMANSTATTEN-/260709219687?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0hash=item3cb37afd67 And then a gorgeous polished slice of Sikhote Alin, which is pretty rare, you usually don't see people cutting up SA's normally, but Slava hooked me up with a few that he did, and they are really really gorgeous! Take a look here: http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-Sikhote-Alin-Iron-Meteorite-Polished-Slice-RUSSIA-/250743932372?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0hash=item3a6180c5d4 and then not really meteorite related, but astronomy related, I have some cure charms and pendants for sale in a lot,, with an astronomy theme, with planets and stars and shooting stars, that you guys might like, here: http://cgi.ebay.com/Shooting-Star-Planet-Pendant-Silver-Copper-Astronomy-NR-/250745109360?pt=Vintage_Costume_Jewelryhash=item3a6192bb70 And there are other gems and minerals for sell as well here: http://shop.ebay.com/callistodesigns/m.html?_trkparms=65%253A1%257C66%253A2%257C39%253A1rt=nc_ipg=200_trksid=p3911.c0.m14.l1514 I hope you guys are all going to be coming to Tucson in a month or so, and if so, I can't wait to see and hug lots of you. I love meteorite people. And once again, I really hope you all had a good holiday time. Take care, Leigh Anne DelRay IMCA # 7446 www.callistoimages.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
[meteorite-list] ANSMET Daily Update Site
List- This is pretty neat. I just found it. http://humanedgetech.com/expedition/ansmet1011/ It is 20 degrees F warmer at McMurdo than it is here in Ohio! Mike __ 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] Need to sell some meteorites
I want to thank everyone who has had interest in buying the meteorites and has had concern for my grandmother. Since I vented on the list, I thought I'd give a little update. (Stick around for the end.) Friday night, the 24th, when I had to take her to the hospital, she had suddenly had a major change in her mental clarity-- she had been reasonably lucid before (but with short-term memory issues) but over the course of maybe half an hour that night she dropped away to sentence fragments and gibberish. I thought that she was dying at that very moment. By the time I got her to the hospital, she was fully unresponsive-- still ALIVE, but no reactions to anything-- speech, noises, movement, no flinches when being stuck with needles-- nothing. She remained that way all that night (I stayed in the room) and all the next day-- no movements or speech whatsoever in reaction to anything, even loud clapping in front of her face (except of some groans when being lifted and moved around, which might have been reflexive.) The doctors diagnosed problems-- pneumonia, possibly a kidney infection-- but they gave no indication that they thought she would ever regain conciousness, and what they were advising me on was signing a DNR and possible ways to keep her comfortable and not treatments (although the were pumping heavy-duty antibiotics into her.) So I go in this morning, ready to sign the DNR the doctor was scheduled to talk to me about again, and as I came near the room I saw a nurse had positioned her workstation in the doorway to my grandmother's room, and I figured that she was soon to be gone. The nurse and I talked for a couple of minutes, she told me that she was watching because she was worried about her breathing (heavy, somewhat phlegmy) said that he hadn't reacted to anything while I was gone other than a groan when moved, and left. Then I saw that my grandmother had her hand against her face insted of lying down-- and I thought I saw it move. I asked her if she was awake, and she was able to answer me. She knew who she was, who I was, she was able to ask questions and answer them (even if you have to repeat the question to her a couple of times, and if she would ask the same question again 5 minutes later.) She is far from clear headed, and not even as lucid as she was before 2 days ago, but she seems to have improved throughout the day, and before this morning I had absolutely no expectation of her ever being concious again. The same doctor I spoke with yesterday didn't mention the DRN again today and instead was asking me to think about future healthcare (while reminding me that she still is a long way from being out of the woods.) So I don't know how much she will recover or IF she'll recover or if this is a short anomaly, but I don't think that anyone at the hospital expected even this degree of recovery. So I'm not jumping to any conclusions yet, but there is at least the possibility of my not losing my current job yet with the immediacy that I was thinking of when I vented last night. (Even so, I still want to sell the meteorites I mentioned.) __ 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] Team Extends Stardust's Fuel Mileage For Comet Mission
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1012/23stardustnext/ Team extends Stardust's fuel mileage for comet mission BY STEPHEN CLARK SPACEFLIGHT NOW December 23, 2010 DENVER -- A lean team of Lockheed Martin engineers is taking fuel efficiency to new heights. Flight controllers here are meticulously managing what little fuel is left inside the Stardust spacecraft speeding toward a Valentine's Day rendezvous with Tempel 1, a ball of ice and rock bombarded by a manmade impactor five years ago. NASA and Lockheed Martin officials are confident Stardust has just enough fuel to pull off the flyby, which is scheduled around 11:30 p.m. Eastern time on Feb. 14. Stardust still has positive margin in its single hydrazine fuel tank. That's space terminology for having plenty of gas, even after journeying nearly 4 billion miles since launch. We're riding above empty, but we're managing that, said Allan Cheuvront, Stardust's program manager and senior engineer at Lockheed Martin Corp. Right now, we have unallocated fuel. As long as we have unallocated fuel, we're happy. DC Agle, a spokesperson at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, pegged the remaining fuel aboard Stardust at about 3.5 kilograms, or 7.7 pounds. Stardust was loaded with about 187 pounds of hydrazine fuel before launch in early 1999. Even planning for unlikely trajectory burns and other contingencies, Stardust still has enough of a fuel budget to accomplish the precision flyby in a tight corridor just 120 miles from Tempel 1. We're going to finish up the mission a little on the plus side, Cheuvront said in an interview. Engineers have turned to three different fuel accounting methods to make triple-sure the probe has enough gas to guide itself on a razor-thin trajectory toward the comet. Like many interplanetary spacecraft, there is no fuel gauge aboard Stardust. It would be really nice to have a gauge, Cheuvront said. There are a couple of ways to do it. We do a bookkeeping method, where we know every thruster pulse, we know we started with, and we know the 'on' time of the thrusters. Each pulse is about 15 milliseconds of firing. Using the bookkeeping method, engineers simply add up the amount of fuel the spacecraft should have burned, then subtract that number from the level loaded before launch. Controllers also monitor pressure gauges inside the fuel tank, which give markers indicating about how much propellant is inside. A more exotic way to estimate fuel is by warming the tank to a predetermined temperature, then logging the vessel's thermal response as it cools, according to Cheuvront. The methods result in slightly different fuel levels, but Cheuvront said all three estimates indicate Stardust can make it to Tempel 1 and beyond. Managers have penciled in three trajectory correction maneuvers between now and the Feb. 14 flyby. The thruster firings will fine-tune Stardust's approach to Tempel 1, ensuring it hits an aimpoint 120 miles from the comet's nucleus at a relative speed of 6.77 miles per second, or more than 24,300 mph. Stardust, which is about the size of an office desk, has a modest propulsion system. Its largest thrusters produce just 1 pound of thrust. Engineers instituted new measures to more carefully limit propellant usage. According to Cheuvront, Stardust now burns up to 40 percent less fuel than it did early in its prime mission. The spacecraft is already snapping pictures of Tempel 1 to help navigators on Earth develop accurate guidance solutions. The first optical navigation imagery was downlinked to the ground last week, and Stardust captured another set of pictures Tuesday, according to Joseph Veverka, principal investigator for the Stardust-NExT mission. Based on where the stars are in the window (with the comet), we can determine how we're doing with navigation, Cheuvront said. Stardust will continue taking optical navigation images about twice a week through Jan. 4, when the craft will step up its picture-taking to a rate of once every two hours for scientific purposes. The camera will snap images at a rapid minute-by-minute pace as the probe makes its closest approach to Tempel 1. The mission's primary camera is a wide-angle unit left over from the development of NASA's Voyager program in the 1970s, but with updated component designs from the more recent Galileo, Cassini and Deep Space 1 missions. Scientists hope Stardust will yield a crucial second data point on Tempel 1 after NASA dispatched the first-of-a-kind Deep Impact mission to the comet in 2005. Tempel 1 was intentionally struck by a 820-pound copper-plated spacecraft in July 2005, blasting a hole in the comet to give scientists an unprecedented peek inside. A mothership behind the impactor captured riveting imagery of the high-energy collision as it flew about 300 miles away from the comet. Deep Impact's best views of the comet lasted only a matter of minutes, giving researchers just a single snapshot into the comet's history stretching
[meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey THEMIS: December 20-24, 2010
MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES December 20-24, 2010 o Sand Dunes (20 December 2010) http://themis.asu.edu/node/5534 o Collapse Features (21 December 2010) http://themis.asu.edu/node/5535 o Doublet Crater (22 December 2010) http://themis.asu.edu/node/5536 o South Polar Spots (23 December 2010) http://themis.asu.edu/node/5537 o Sand Dunes (24 December 2010) http://themis.asu.edu/node/5538 All of the THEMIS images are archived here: http://themis.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 co.oration 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. __ 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 eBay and Millbillillie 203g
Dear List Members, I have few eBay auction (great Tamdakht 293 g piece, lot of 24kg NWA 869 and cool almost 10kg chondrite), one ending soon (Millbillillie 45g): http://shop.ebay.com/meteoritepoland/m.html also Millbillillie 203 grams with great black crust, beauty specimen : http://picasaweb.google.com/illaenus/Millbillillie203g# All question send to illae...@gmail.com Happy New Year to All! All the best Tomek Jakubowski IMCA #2321 __ 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
