Re: [meteorite-list] more fireballs 14-17OCT2011
Dirk and Listers Thats a lot of meteor sightings. I wonder if some of them coinside with the Epsilon-Geminids meteor shower? The shower started on the 14th of this month and the peak will be today and ends around the 27th. Let hope for some meteorites :) Shawn Alan IMCA 1633 eBaystore http://shop.ebay.com/photophlow/m.html [meteorite-list] more fireballs 14-17OCT2011 drtanuki drtanuki at yahoo.com Mon Oct 17 17:31:06 EDT 2011 Previous message: [meteorite-list] AD Next message: [meteorite-list] Comet May Have Missed Earth By A Few Hundred Kilometres in 1883? Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Soest, Germany Fireball Meteor 16OCT2011 Dear List, Fireballs/Meteors 14-17OCT2011: Emporia, VA, USA Large Yellow Meteor 17OCT2011 Enfield, Nova Scotia, Canada Bright Meteor 16OCT2011 Beirut, Lebanon Meteor? 16OCT2011 Vancouver, Washington, USA Meteor 16OCT2011 Haverfordwest, South Wales UK Meteor Fireball 15OCT2011 Albany, Auckland, New Zealand Meteor Green-Blue Meteor 16OCT2011 California / Nevada/ Utah Meteor 14OCT2011 http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/ Best Regards, Dirk Ross...Tokyo Previous message: [meteorite-list] AD Next message: [meteorite-list] Comet May Have Missed Earth By A Few Hundred Kilometres in 1883? 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] HOW, Ghubara, Gao, Zaklodzie
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[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day
NWA 6693 http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpod.asp __ 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] Comet May Have Missed Earth By A FewHundredKilometres in 1883?
I just gave up drinking beer and burned my will---no need for such trivia at this point. I just began drinking wine. Red wine. This comet reminds me of an old zen koan: Where have you been before your parents were born? But, who knows ... perhaps the impact did happen in fact. And that's what we're living now :-) - Original Message - From: John Lutzon j...@hc.fdn.com To: Ron Baalke baa...@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 2:42 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Comet May Have Missed Earth By A FewHundredKilometres in 1883? Hi Ron, Thank you again for all of your posts---very informative. I just gave up drinking beer and burned my will---no need for such trivia at this point. Does anyone have any data on this Pons-Brooks and/or are there any calcs. on its possible return to our backyard? Well, maybe one more beer while i wait for the flash. John. - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke baa...@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 7:23 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Comet May Have Missed Earth By A Few HundredKilometres in 1883? http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27264/ Billion Tonne Comet May Have Missed Earth By A Few Hundred Kilometres in 1883 Technology Review October 17, 2011 A re-analysis of historical observations suggest Earth narrowly avoided an extinction event just over a hundred years ago On 12th and 13th August 1883, an astronomer at a small observatory in Zacatecas in Mexico made an extraordinary observation. José Bonilla counted some 450 objects, each surrounded by a kind of mist, passing across the face of the Sun. Bonilla published his account of this event in a French journal called L'Astronomie in 1886. Unable to account for the phenomenon, the editor of the journal suggested, rather incredulously, that it must have been caused by birds, insects or dust passing front of the Bonilla's telescope. (Since then, others have adopted Bonilla's observations as the first evidence of UFOs.) Today, Hector Manterola at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, and a couple of pals, give a different interpretation. They think that Bonilla must have been seeing fragments of a comet that had recently broken up. This explains the 'misty' appearance of the pieces and why they were so close together. But there's much more that Manterola and co have deduced. They point out that nobody else on the planet seems to have seen this comet passing in front of the Sun, even though the nearest observatories in those days were just a few hundred kilometres away. That can be explained using parallax. If the fragments were close to Earth, parallax would have ensured that they would not have been in line with the Sun even for observers nearby. And since Mexico is at the same latitude as the Sahara, northern India and south-east Asia, it's not hard to imagine that nobody else was looking. Manterola and pals have used this to place limits on how close the fragments must have been: between 600 km and 8000 km of Earth. That's just a hair's breadth. What's more, Manterola and co estimate that these objects must have ranged in size from 50 to 800 metres across and that the parent comet must originally have tipped the scales at a billion tonnes or more, that's huge, approaching the size of Halley's comet. That's an eye opening re-examination of the data. Astronomers have seen a number of other comets fragment. The image above shows the Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 comet which broke apart as it re-entered the inner Solar System in 2006. There's no reason why such fragments couldn't pass close by Earth. One puzzle is why nobody else saw this comet. It must have been particularly dull to have escaped observation before and after its close approach. However, Manterola and co suggest that it may have been a comet called Pons-Brooks seen that same year by American astronomers. Manterola and co end their paper by spelling out just how close Earth may have come to catastrophe that day. They point out that Bonilla observed these objects for about three and a half hours over two days. This implies an average of 131 objects per hour and a total of 3275 objects in the time between observations. Each fragment was at least as big as the one thought to have hit Tunguska. Manterola and co end with this: So if they had collided with Earth we would have had 3275 Tunguska events in two days, probably an extinction event. A sobering thought. Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1110.2798 http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2798: Interpretation Of The Observations Made In 1883 In Zacatecas (Mexico): A Fragmented Comet That Nearly Hits The Earth __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Re: [meteorite-list] more fireballs 14-17OCT2011
Dear List, Olaf Gabel has located video of the Soest, Germany fireball event! http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2011/10/soest-germany-fireball-meteor-16oct2011.html Olaf, Great job! Thank you for your kind checking your allsky camera data. Best Always, 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
[meteorite-list] Soest, Germany obsevation of German fireball
Track goes right through the handle of the Big Dipper. So termination was NNW of Soest, Germany, about 8 degrees above azimuth 345. Assuming a termination altitude of 20 km (very uncertain!), that puts the range at around 140 km. With luck, this stayed over land and didn't end up in the North Sea. Towns that are roughly this distance from Soest along that azimuth are Lastrup, Lindern, Molbergen, Vrees, Rastdorf, Hilkenbrook and Saterland. Looks like lots of farmland -- perfect for meteorite recovery! --Rob -Original Message- From: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of drtanuki Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 12:21 PM To: Olaf Gabel; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] more fireballs 14-17OCT2011 Dear List, Olaf Gabel has located video of the Soest, Germany fireball event! http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2011/10/soest-germany-fireball -meteor-16oct2011.html Olaf, Great job! Thank you for your kind checking your allsky camera data. Best Always, 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
Re: [meteorite-list] Soest, Germany obsevation of German fireball
Thank you Rob for your kind analysis! Way to go Olaf! Hunters going to Germany for Munich going on a meteorite hunt as well? --- On Wed, 10/19/11, Matson, Robert D. robert.d.mat...@saic.com wrote: From: Matson, Robert D. robert.d.mat...@saic.com Subject: Soest, Germany obsevation of German fireball To: drtanuki drtan...@yahoo.com, Olaf Gabel rockho...@chief-impactor.de, meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 5:15 AM Track goes right through the handle of the Big Dipper. So termination was NNW of Soest, Germany, about 8 degrees above azimuth 345. Assuming a termination altitude of 20 km (very uncertain!), that puts the range at around 140 km. With luck, this stayed over land and didn't end up in the North Sea. Towns that are roughly this distance from Soest along that azimuth are Lastrup, Lindern, Molbergen, Vrees, Rastdorf, Hilkenbrook and Saterland. Looks like lots of farmland -- perfect for meteorite recovery! --Rob -Original Message- From: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of drtanuki Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 12:21 PM To: Olaf Gabel; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] more fireballs 14-17OCT2011 Dear List, Olaf Gabel has located video of the Soest, Germany fireball event! http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2011/10/soest-germany-fireball -meteor-16oct2011.html Olaf, Great job! Thank you for your kind checking your allsky camera data. Best Always, 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
[meteorite-list] Meet the Man Who Wants to Mine the Moon
Meet the Man Who Wants to Mine the Moon by Jeremy A. Kaplan, FoxNews, October 18, 2011 http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/10/18/meet-man-who-wants-to-mine-moon/ Maybe he can bring home some moonrocks for collectors, while engaging in his lunar mining? Yours, Paul H. __ 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] Meet the Man Who Wants to Mine the Moon
Maybe, Paul, maybe. Wouldn't make him a special friend of dealers, specialized on planetary material. The price for Moon and Mars would drop like a stone. But in times you can ask for the genom copyright of plants and animals, why not privatize the moon, Mr.Jain, for mining? Here in Germany we've such an old fashioned sentimental volkslied like Der Mond ist aufgegangen (the moon has raised). Why not add: Sponsored by: Moon Express/Naveen Jain? I like? ... Best, Matthias - Original Message - From: Paul H. oxytropidoce...@cox.net To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 11:20 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Meet the Man Who Wants to Mine the Moon Meet the Man Who Wants to Mine the Moon by Jeremy A. Kaplan, FoxNews, October 18, 2011 http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/10/18/meet-man-who-wants-to-mine-moon/ Maybe he can bring home some moonrocks for collectors, while engaging in his lunar mining? Yours, Paul H. __ 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 __ Hinweis von ESET Smart Security, Signaturdatenbank-Version 6554 (20111018) __ E-Mail wurde geprüft mit ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __ Hinweis von ESET Smart Security, Signaturdatenbank-Version 6554 (20111018) __ E-Mail wurde geprüft mit ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __ Hinweis von ESET Smart Security, Signaturdatenbank-Version 6554 (20111018) __ E-Mail wurde geprüft mit ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.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] new meteorite supload to my web-site
Hello! I have done a little refresh of my web-site and I have also upload some new meteorites: This is the first time that they are offered on the market! NWA5813 - L4 http://web.tiscali.it/francesco.moser/Secondarie/OnSale/Chondrite/NWA5813.ht m NWA5860 - L6 http://web.tiscali.it/francesco.moser/Secondarie/OnSale/Chondrite/NWA5860.ht m NWA6677 - IMB http://web.tiscali.it/francesco.moser/Secondarie/OnSale/NWA6677%20IMB/NWA667 7.htm NWA6679 - LL5 http://web.tiscali.it/francesco.moser/Secondarie/OnSale/NWA6679%20LL5/NWA667 9.htm NWA6684 - L3.6-6 http://web.tiscali.it/francesco.moser/Secondarie/OnSale/NWA6684%20L3.6-6/NWA 6684.htm NWA6691 - LL5 http://web.tiscali.it/francesco.moser/Secondarie/OnSale/NWA6691%20LL5/NWA669 1.htm NWA6692 - LL5 http://web.tiscali.it/francesco.moser/Secondarie/OnSale/NWA6692%20LL5/NWA669 2.htm If you are interested, please take a look! Thanks a lot! Francesco Moser IMCA #1510 __ 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] over 25, 000 Carolina Bays measured with precision LiDAR -- probable ejecta sheet from 41 Ka impact on Saginaw Bay, MI, USA, Michael E Davias: Rich Murray 2011.10.17
over 25,000 Carolina Bays measured with precision LiDAR -- probable ejecta sheet from 41 Ka impact on Saginaw Bay, MI, USA, Michael E Davias: Rich Murray 2011.10.17 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/10/over-25000-carolina-bays-measured-with.html [ Rich Murray: after following their work for 3 years, I am impressed by the impressive evolution in presentation and interpretation of precise and very beautiful evidence, so I am quoting from their vast site to provide an introduction. ] Michael E. Davias, Stamford, CTmich...@cintos.org 917-751-8861 Jeanette L. Gilbride, NCSU, Raleigh, NC 27695 http://www.Cintos.org\ We presented a poster at the 2011 GSA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis. The poster content, seen below, is also available as a PDF for download. http://cintos.org/graphics/GSA_2011/GSA-2011_Poster_192776_Davias-HQ.pdf I presented a TALK on the Survey and its use of LiDAR Google Earth. http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2011AM/finalprogram/abstract_192576.htm A PDF of the deck [ very detailed slide show ] is available HERE. http://cintos.org/graphics/GSA_2011/Davias_GSA2011_Presentation_165-9_HQ.pdf 2011 GSA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis (9–12 October 2011) Paper No. 165-9 Presentation Time: 10:35 AM-10:50 AM LIDAR DIGITAL ELEVATION MAPS EMPLOYED IN CAROLINA BAY SURVEY DAVIAS, Michael, Stamford, CT 06907, mich...@cintos.org and GILBRIDE, Jeanette L., North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 Aerial photographs of Carolina bays taken in the 1930’s sparked research into their geomorphology, but revealed only part of their unique planforms. Digital Elevation Maps (DEMs), using LiDAR-derived data, accentuate the visual presentation of these shallow basins. To support a geospatial survey of Carolina bay landforms in the continental US, 400,000 km2 of hsv-shaded DEMs were created as KML-JPEG tile sets for visualization on a virtual globe. A majority of these DEMs were generated with LiDAR data, while the remainder represents USGA 1/3 arc second data. We demonstrate the tile generation process and their integration into Google Earth for open public access over the Internet. While the generic Carolina bay planform is considered oval, we document regional variations. Using a small set of empirically derived planform shapes, we created Google Earth overlay elements to support the manual capture of individual Carolina bay shapes and orientations. The resulting overlay data element for each measured bay is extracted from Google Earth and programmatically processed to generate metrics such as geographic location, elevation, surface area and inferred orientation. When visualized in LiDAR, we document the robustness of a single planform shape across hundreds or thousands of basins within geographically large areas. We maintain that utilizing a virtual globe facility for data captures and extraction results in more reliable data sets compared to processes that reference flat map projections. This is especially true when capturing the geospatial shape and orientation of the bays, which can be skewed and distorted in the projection process. Using the process described, we have measured over 25,000 distinct Carolina bays, and have assembled their individual characteristics into a geographic information database. We examine the Google Fusion geospatial visualization facility, through which the database has been made publically accessible. Preliminary findings from the survey are briefly discussed, such as how bay surface area, eccentricity and orientation vary within and across ~700 .25 deg x .25 deg grid elements. We presented a poster at the 2011 Southeastern Section GSA Meeting in Wilmington. The poster content, seen below, is also available as a PDF for download. http://www.cintos.org/graphics/GSA_2011/Poster%20SE-GSA%202011%20184903.pdf 2010 GSA Abstract 176738 Oct 31 Denver, slide show http://www.cintos.org/LiDAR_images/page5/page5.html http://www.cintos.org/LiDAR/index.html Graphic shows the impact site and triangulation from ~200 bay fields. The Saginaw Impact Manifold Evaluating The Carolina Bays As Surface Features In A Distal Ejecta Blanket: Geophysical Flow Analysis Predicts Bay Orientations, Enables Triangulation To A Causal Impact Site Abstract We present a novel approach to the genesis of the Carolina bays, proposing that those enigmatic landforms are depositional features within a 1 to 10 meter-thick blanket of hydrated ejecta associated with a cosmic impact into the Wisconsinan ice shield during the latter part of the Pleistocene era, ~40,000 years ago. The ellipsoidal bays exhibit an inferred orientation, facilitating the use of a triangulation network to identify the associated terrestrial impact crater. Attempts by others to triangulate bay orientations to a causal crater may have failed because the ballistic physics and fluid mechanics aspects of an ejecta distribution were not considered. An analytical model was heuristically developed to generate ejecta
Re: [meteorite-list] new meteorite supload to my web-site
Nothing there. Chris Spratt (Via my iPhone) __ 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] Alex' Berlin picnic basket (TBA)
Alex, and fellow friends of carbonaceous delicacies, So astounding and special a piece - I can't resist to comment without delay on the great home you've found for the otherworldly Mexican transplant in your Berlin picnic basket, because I am very hungry in this moment after a very difficult working day that is not yet concluded until 4:00 AM perhaps. The Italian parsley reminded me a lot of the pungent fragrance of fresh coriander leaves, a.k.a. cilantro in Mexico and on occasion referred to as culantro ;-) by our conquistador's home country. Please invite me to the party to make him feel at home if I bring a hastily placed raw woolen poncho, some fiery dried chili anchos and locally grown pecans, to complete your awe-inspiring visitor's nostalgic feast! After such a long journey from a distant and cooler realm, he must recall, that fateful Jovian night accompanied by a gibbous Moon on his tail - that he first discovered these flavors upon coming to rest. Thanks for this early special! Doug __ 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] Franconia Group Hunt Report Posted
Thanks for sharing Jim. That iceberg is a pretty one! Congrats on all your finds. Wish my professors would cut me a break so I could go out and hunt. [Erik] Sent from my iPod On Oct 10, 2011, at 7:48 AM, Jim Wooddell nf11...@npgcable.com wrote: Hi All! I posted my hunt report on the Franconia Birthday Hunt on my webpage below under recent findings. Enjoy! Jim Jim Wooddell https://k7wfr.us __ 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
