[meteorite-list] AD: Ebay auctions. CD spheroids, French iron Mont Dieu and Campo endcut
Hi all,https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#drafts/130ac9a92fc1716d A few items on ebay at the moment, details below: Canyon Diablo spheroids with copy of Nininger AML label (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=250840974925ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT) 31.85g part slice of Mont Dieu Iron from France (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=250842041260ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT) Campo del Cielo endcut weighing 188.5g (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=250842044110ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT) Please take a look if interested. 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
[meteorite-list] FOR SALE: On Ebay REDUCED PRICE on (5) nice Meteorites--Bassi, Wadi Mellene, 42 g. Unc. etc
Hi All, I have (5) different meteorites packaged in a nice lot, including a very nice 42 gram Unclassified and a burly 22 gram nice thick slice of Wadi Mellene, and a very nice 6 plus gram piece of Bassi w/some fusion crust and two others, including a Howardite. Please see here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=120739094875ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT. *Please Note: If someone from the Met list buys this set of (5) Meteorites using the BUY IT NOW, just mention that you are a list member and I will ship them to you FREE---as long as you live in the USA.* Thanks for taking another look. I really would appreciate it. Best Always, Kirk..:-) __ 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] wanted: Campo Del Cielo
Hello, i am running low on Campo Del Cielo crystals if you can supply over 5 kilos please email me off the list with your prices danfur...@gmail.com I will only make western union payments and bank deposits if i know you, otherwise payment will be made with paypal no exceptions. Just want to make this clear in advance to not waste anybodies time. Daniel Furlan collector and dealer __ 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 - Alfianello auction end at 1 day
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[meteorite-list] NASA Hosts Briefing To Preview Dawn Spacecraft Visit of Vesta
June 20, 2011 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.br...@nasa.gov Jia-Rui Cook/Priscilla Vega Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0850/1357 jcc...@jpl.nasa.gov/priscilla.r.v...@jpl.nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-126 NASA HOSTS BRIEFING TO PREVIEW SPACECRAFT VISIT OF LARGE ASTEROID WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news briefing at 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, June 23, to discuss the Dawn spacecraft's year-long visit to the large asteroid Vesta. The mission expects to go into orbit around Vesta on July 16 and begin gathering science data in early August. The briefing will be held in the NASA Headquarters auditorium located at 300 E St. SW, in Washington. NASA Television and the agency's website will broadcast the event. Dawn's visit to Vesta will be the first prolonged encounter to a main belt asteroid and the first trip to a protoplanet, or large body that almost became a planet. Observations will help understand the earliest chapter of our solar system's history. The briefing panelists are: -- W. James Adams, deputy director, Planetary Science Directorate, NASA Headquarters -- Robert Mase, Dawn project manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif. -- Christopher Russell, Dawn principal investigator, UCLA -- Carol Raymond, Dawn deputy principal investigator, JPL Reporters may attend the event, ask questions from participating NASA locations or join by phone. To obtain dial-in information, journalists must e-mail Dwayne Brown at dwayne.c.br...@nasa.gov with their name, media affiliation and work telephone number by 11 a.m. on June 23. For more information about Dawn, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/dawn For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and schedule information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv The briefing also will be carried live on Ustream, with a live chat box available, at http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 -end- __ 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: Meteorite Advertising $299 Year
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[meteorite-list] Cassini Captures Ice Queen Helene
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-186 Cassini Captures Ice Queen Helene Jet Propulsion Laboratory June 20, 2011 NASA's Cassini spacecraft has successfully completed its second-closest encounter with Saturn's icy moon Helene, beaming down raw images of the small moon. At closest approach, on June 18, Cassini flew within 4,330 miles (6,968 kilometers) of Helene's surface. It was the second closest approach to Helene of the entire mission. Cassini passed from Helene's night side to the moon's sunlit side. It also captured images of the Saturn-facing side of the moon in sunlight, a region that was only illuminated by sunlight reflected off Saturn the last time Cassini was close, in March 2010. This flyby will enable scientists to finish creating a global map of Helene, so they can better understand the history of impacts to the moon and gully-like features seen on previous flybys. The closest Helene encounter of the mission took place on March 10, 2010, when Cassini flew within 1,131 miles (1,820 kilometers) of the moon. The latest raw images are online at: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/ . 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, Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, visit 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 2011-186 __ 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] Currently used classification scheme - Divisions
Hi all, I am looking for some information in regards to the Division of Meteorites in the currently used classification scheme. It is my understanding that there are currently 3 divisions that all meteorites fall underor at least at one time there were three. Chondrites, Primitive Achondrites and Achondrites. 1. Referencing Weisberg et al: Systematics and Evaluation of Meteorite Classification, has there been any divisions added since this document was printed? Are there still only 3 divisions? 2. Is there a more up to date schema or diagram which supersedes the document above? I know there are changes in the IAB complex groups and grouplets, referencing a document by Wasson accepted in 2002, are there other changes? Thank you for any info on this. Kind Regards Jim Wooddell __ 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] Currently used classification scheme - Divisions
I think the Weisberg divisions are by no means in general usage. Meteorite classification is chaotic and there is no standard system. I wrote most of the wikipedia article on this subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorite_classification Take a look at the discussion there, which is fairly thorough. If I had to vote for the best scheme, I'd go for the one proposed by Krot et al. (2003), with there being two major divisions, chondrites and nonchondrites. Jeff On 6/20/2011 8:39 PM, Jim Wooddell wrote: Hi all, I am looking for some information in regards to the Division of Meteorites in the currently used classification scheme. It is my understanding that there are currently 3 divisions that all meteorites fall underor at least at one time there were three. Chondrites, Primitive Achondrites and Achondrites. 1. Referencing Weisberg et al: Systematics and Evaluation of Meteorite Classification, has there been any divisions added since this document was printed? Are there still only 3 divisions? 2. Is there a more up to date schema or diagram which supersedes the document above? I know there are changes in the IAB complex groups and grouplets, referencing a document by Wasson accepted in 2002, are there other changes? Thank you for any info on this. Kind Regards Jim Wooddell __ 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
Re: [meteorite-list] Currently used classification scheme - Divisions
Thanks Jeff and Michael! I had not seen David Weir's pageI see some new reading about to happen here! Thank you for that. Quickly scanning over it, I do see some new stuff I have not read before. Jeff, your vote would make the process come full circle, in a way, as I understand the first ever classification was Chondrite and Non-Chondrite! Then later changed to iron, stony-iron and stone (I wonder if that is where Geoff got his company name from...Aerolite?). Of course, what falls under those terms has changed. I think I am trying to swim in mud! Cheers! Jim Wooddell On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Michael Gilmer meteoritem...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jim, Jeff, and Listees, I like to refer to David Weir's list of classification types. It is not entirely definitive, but it's very thorough has links to write-ups of different meteorites of those classes. Link - http://www.meteoritestudies.com/protected_systemat.htm Best regards, MikeG PS - an article I wrote on types and type-collecting - http://www.galactic-stone.com/pages/types - Galactic Stone Ironworks - Meteorites Amber (Michael Gilmer) Website - http://www.galactic-stone.com Facebook - http://tinyurl.com/42h79my News Feed - http://www.galactic-stone.com/rss/126516 Twitter - http://twitter.com/galacticstone EOM - http://www.encyclopedia-of-meteorites.com/collection.aspx?id=1564 - On 6/20/11, Jim Wooddell jimwoodd...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am looking for some information in regards to the Division of Meteorites in the currently used classification scheme. It is my understanding that there are currently 3 divisions that all meteorites fall underor at least at one time there were three. Chondrites, Primitive Achondrites and Achondrites. 1. Referencing Weisberg et al: Systematics and Evaluation of Meteorite Classification, has there been any divisions added since this document was printed? Are there still only 3 divisions? 2. Is there a more up to date schema or diagram which supersedes the document above? I know there are changes in the IAB complex groups and grouplets, referencing a document by Wasson accepted in 2002, are there other changes? Thank you for any info on this. Kind Regards Jim Wooddell __ 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
Re: [meteorite-list] Mercury data
Carl., Thank you so much for this very good information. So, If as you say the FeO is such a big deal. Why then would they have neglected to mention it if they found it? Is it possible Mercury is extremely depleted in FeO? I mean how could they miss it if it's there? And if it's not there. What kind of basalt would that match? Thank you. Carl -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. Carl Agee a...@unm.edu wrote: Of course it's still early days on understanding the Mercury data coming back from Messenger, but I think there are a few simple things that can be said about the two geochemical graphs that were part of the press release. The major element graph of Al/Si versus Mg/Si clearly shows that the measured Mercurian surface is similar to basaltic and mantle rocks from the Earth. They plot along the Earth array and look to be a bit more olivine-rich than mid-ocean ridge basalts, but not as olivinerich as mantle peridotites, perhaps more like Archean Earth komatiites. The measured Mercurian surface is NOT delpleted in aluminum, like Martian basalts or Angrites. Also, Messenger is clearly not measuring rocks like the lunar anorthositic highlands. The major element that is still missing from this puzzle is iron. The data do not say anything about the FeO content of the Mercurian surface -- this is a pretty big deal, and until that is known it will difficult to know exactly what we are looking at -- let alone if there is a match for any known meteorite type. The potassium/thorium plot shows that Mercury is a lot like the other terrestrial planets in terms of volatile element content. It seems to be closest to the K/Th of Mars which is quite surprising, since Mars is thought to be the most volatile rich of the rocky planets. This runs counter to the idea that the inner solar system is chemically zoned with volatile elements concentrated out at Mars and lower in towards the Sun. But who knows? Maybe Mercury formed farther from the Sun and migrated inwards. There was a brief mention of substantial amounts of sulfur, but no data in the multimedia press release, so it would be interesting to know what they mean by substantial amounts. Also, why do they think it is in the form of sulfide and not sulfate? See how important these missions of planetary exploration are and how fragmentary our understanding is? Just my opinion Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577 Email: a...@unm.edu http://epswww.unm.edu/iom/pers/agee.html __ 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] Florida Bright Green Meteor 20JUN2011 ~9:45pm EDT
Dear List, Florida Bright Green Meteor 20JUN2011 ~9:45pm EDT http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2011/06/mbiq-trigger-florida-green-bright.html Best Regards, Dirk Ross...Tokyo LunarMeteorite*Hunter __ 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] Mercury data
Carl: My guess is that the FeO data are not ready for primetime. As I understand it the XPS and the GRS on Messenger both will produce data on FeO. So I guess we will just have to wait until more information trickles out through press releases. The good stuff will probably be presented in a special session at some high profile meeting like AGU or LPSC, which are months away – perhaps a Science or Nature issue will be coming out earlier. I think most people will not be surprised if the Mercurian surface is low in FeO. That’s what reflectance spectroscopy is already suggesting. I can think of a very low FeO achondrite that is sitting in our museum – about a ton of it! But seriously, I think that Mercury should also have ages that are not all ~4.5 Ga, more like the range in lunar basalts, so that’s an important thing to consider. A word of caution about the global datasets taken from orbit: remember that so far no shergottite basalts have been seen with Mars orbital remote sensing, the global compositions are summations of very large areas and are not like looking at a geologists outcrop, let alone a nice martian meteorite hand sample. Carl Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577 Email: a...@unm.edu http://epswww.unm.edu/iom/pers/agee.html On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:33 PM, cdtuc...@cox.net wrote: Carl., Thank you so much for this very good information. So, If as you say the FeO is such a big deal. Why then would they have neglected to mention it if they found it? Is it possible Mercury is extremely depleted in FeO? I mean how could they miss it if it's there? And if it's not there. What kind of basalt would that match? Thank you. Carl -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. Carl Agee a...@unm.edu wrote: Of course it's still early days on understanding the Mercury data coming back from Messenger, but I think there are a few simple things that can be said about the two geochemical graphs that were part of the press release. The major element graph of Al/Si versus Mg/Si clearly shows that the measured Mercurian surface is similar to basaltic and mantle rocks from the Earth. They plot along the Earth array and look to be a bit more olivine-rich than mid-ocean ridge basalts, but not as olivinerich as mantle peridotites, perhaps more like Archean Earth komatiites. The measured Mercurian surface is NOT delpleted in aluminum, like Martian basalts or Angrites. Also, Messenger is clearly not measuring rocks like the lunar anorthositic highlands. The major element that is still missing from this puzzle is iron. The data do not say anything about the FeO content of the Mercurian surface -- this is a pretty big deal, and until that is known it will difficult to know exactly what we are looking at -- let alone if there is a match for any known meteorite type. The potassium/thorium plot shows that Mercury is a lot like the other terrestrial planets in terms of volatile element content. It seems to be closest to the K/Th of Mars which is quite surprising, since Mars is thought to be the most volatile rich of the rocky planets. This runs counter to the idea that the inner solar system is chemically zoned with volatile elements concentrated out at Mars and lower in towards the Sun. But who knows? Maybe Mercury formed farther from the Sun and migrated inwards. There was a brief mention of substantial amounts of sulfur, but no data in the multimedia press release, so it would be interesting to know what they mean by substantial amounts. Also, why do they think it is in the form of sulfide and not sulfate? See how important these missions of planetary exploration are and how fragmentary our understanding is? Just my opinion Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577 Email: a...@unm.edu http://epswww.unm.edu/iom/pers/agee.html __ 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] Texas / Arkansas Bright Green Meteor 20JUN 2011
Dear List, Another bright green fireball tonight over Texas and seen from Arkansas 20JUN2011. Two in one night so far (see previous post for Florida Green Meteor Fireball. http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2011/06/killeen-tx-green-meteor-20jun2011.html Dirk Ross...Tokyo __ 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
