Re: [meteorite-list] Cutting impact breccia
Hi Steve, You and I live pretty close so I could cut them for you. Cost for doing that would be $1,000,000 but for you it's free. Big thing would being able to set a time to meet. Best! --AL Mitterling Quoting Steve Witt stelo...@yahoo.com: Greetings List, After a recent trip to Kentland, I have what I believe to be several specimens of impact melt and impact breccia. I would like to cut the breccia to get a better idea of what I actually have. Can anyone recommend a good way of doing this. Would a masonry chop saw work? Or alternatively is there someone out there that would provide this service at a reasonable cost? The suspected breccia specimen is ~ 8 wide X 5high 6 deep. Thanx, Steve Steve Witt IMCA #9020 http://imca.cc/ __ 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] Meteorite Picture of the Day
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: El Hammami Contributed by: Mark Murphy 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
[meteorite-list] AD China New fall - Xining meteorite ending within 10 hours
Dear lists, Here are the links for Feb 11th, 2012 Chinese Witness Fall Xining L/LL6 meteorites auction on ebay ending within 10 hours: 1. the thin section http://www.ebay.com/itm/200739730118?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 2. the 0.89g crusted and shock vein fragment http://www.ebay.com/itm/200739731100?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 Thanks for looking! Wu Yonghui IMCA 1371 Email: wyh...@163.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] Cutting impact breccia
Hello, Mr. Witt Punch up Gem and Mineral clubs in your state, near you and you will see all kinds of folks that will be eager to help you. I know a couple of guys in my group that have large saws. Some may use thicker blades some thin. But, most importantly, check what they use for coolant. Ya don't want a cut to smell like an oil change shop. Dennis Miller Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 03:04:46 -0400 From: almi...@localnet.com To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Cutting impact breccia Hi Steve, You and I live pretty close so I could cut them for you. Cost for doing that would be $1,000,000 but for you it's free. Big thing would being able to set a time to meet. Best! --AL Mitterling Quoting Steve Witt stelo...@yahoo.com: Greetings List, After a recent trip to Kentland, I have what I believe to be several specimens of impact melt and impact breccia. I would like to cut the breccia to get a better idea of what I actually have. Can anyone recommend a good way of doing this. Would a masonry chop saw work? Or alternatively is there someone out there that would provide this service at a reasonable cost? The suspected breccia specimen is ~ 8 wide X 5high 6 deep. Thanx, Steve Steve Witt IMCA #9020 http://imca.cc/ __ 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 __ 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] Bicentenary of the meteorite of Toulouse
Hi List, First pictures and links to local tv news here: http://meteorites.superforum.fr/t4834p15-exposition-bicentenaire-de-chute-de-la-meteorite-de-toulouse More to come! Renaud __ 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: 500 gr lot ot the beautiful Mendota-wrong
I have a 500 gram lot of the beautiful, world famous Mendota-Wrong. This one of the, if not the best looking meteorwrongs on the planet. The 500gr lot is all complete stones. It is $115 shipped. Thanks, Joe Kerchner __ 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] Herschel Spots Comet Massacre Around Nearby Star
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM1XBHWP0H_index_0.html Herschel spots comet massacre around nearby star European Space Agency 11 April 2012 ESA's Herschel Space Observatory has studied the dusty belt around the nearby star Fomalhaut. The dust appears to be coming from collisions that destroy up to thousands of icy comets every day. Fomalhaut is a young star, just a few hundred million years old, and twice as massive as the Sun. Its dust belt was discovered in the 1980s by the IRAS satellite, but Herschel's new images of the belt show it in much more detail at far-infrared wavelengths than ever before. Bram Acke, at the University of Leuven in Belgium, and colleagues analysed the Herschel observations and found the dust temperatures in the belt to be between -230 and -170ºC. However, because Fomalhaut is slightly off-centre and closer to the southern side of the belt, the southern side is warmer and brighter than the northern side. Both the narrowness and asymmetry of the belt are thought to be due to the gravity of a possible planet in orbit around the star, as suggested by earlier Hubble Space Telescope images. The Herschel data show that the dust in the belt has the thermal properties of small solid particles, with sizes of only a few millionths of a metre across. But this created a paradox because the Hubble Space Telescope observations suggested solid grains more than ten times larger. Those observations collected starlight scattering off the grains in the belt and showed it to be very faint at Hubble's visible wavelengths, suggesting that the dust particles are relatively large. But that appears to be incompatible with the temperature of the belt as measured by Herschel in the far-infrared. To resolve the paradox, Dr Acke and colleagues suggest that the dust grains must be large fluffy aggregates, similar to dust particles released from comets in our own Solar System. These would have both the correct thermal and scattering properties. However, this leads to another problem. The bright starlight from Fomalhaut should blow small dust particles out of the belt very rapidly, yet such grains appear to remain abundant there. The only way to overcome this contradiction is to resupply the belt through continuous collisions between larger objects in orbit around Fomalhaut, creating new dust. To sustain the belt, the rate of collisions must be impressive: each day, the equivalent of either two 10 km-sized comets or 2000 1 km-sized comets must be completely crushed into small fluffy, dust particles. I was really surprised, says Dr Acke, To me this was an extremely large number. To keep the collision rate so high, there must be between 260 billion and 83 trillion comets in the belt, depending on their size. Our own Solar System has a similar number of comets in its Oort Cloud, which formed from objects scattered from a disc surrounding the Sun when it was as young as Fomalhaut. These beautiful Herschel images have provided the crucial information needed to model the nature of the dust belt around Fomalhaut, says Göran Pilbratt, ESA Herschel Project Scientist. Contact for further information http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Herschel/SEMCFDEWF0H_0.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
[meteorite-list] Live Public Talk: Mars Science Laboratory Landing Site
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-101 Live Public Talk: Mars Science Laboratory Landing Site Jet Propulsion Laboratory April 11, 2012 Where is NASA's Mars Science Laboratory going to land and why? Join us either in person or virtually for a live public talk from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Thursday, April 12 at 7 p.m. PT (10 p.m. ET) about Gale Crater, the landing site for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory. The mission and its rover, Curiosity, are scheduled to arrive at Mars in August. The speaker is JPL's Matthew Golombek, Mars Exploration Program landing site scientist. The selection of Gale Crater as the landing site took more than five years, involved broad participation of the science community, and narrowed more than 50 initial potential sites to four finalists, based on science and safety. In the final selection, Gale Crater was chosen for its greater diversity and potential habitability. Live streaming high-definition video of the event will be carried on Ustream, with chat available, at: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl Standard-definition video will be available at: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 For more information and viewing details on the lecture, visit: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/events/lectures_archive.cfm?year=2012month=4 DC Agle 818-393-9011 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. a...@jpl.nasa.gov 2012-101 __ 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] MRO HiRISE Images - April 11, 2012
MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES April 11, 2012 o Terraces or Strata on a Crater Slope http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025370_1290 Structural features cut through the layered material and strata at this location. Could these features be faults or dikes? o A Volcanic Pit Chain and Dust Avalanches http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_026249_2025 The upper wall of the pit shows at least four distinct layers, each representing a sequence of one or more lava flows. o Eroded Terrain Near Volcanic Fissures http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_026303_1945 This observation was taken to investigate the topography near the source of fluids from the Cerberus Fossae fractures in the Elysium Planitia region of Mars. o Layered Sediments in Danielson Crater http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_026349_1885 These layered sediments are of great interest because they are very regular in thicknesses. 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] large green fireball over Illinois, Wisconsin and Illinois tonight 11APR2012
Dear List, There was a large green fireball over Illinois, Wisconsin and Illinois tonight 11APR2012. Reports will be posted as they come in: http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2012/04/mbiq-detects-illinois-wisconsin.html Reports: http://thelatestworldwidemeteorreports.blogspot.jp/ 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] large green fireball over Illinois, Wisconsin and Illinois tonight 11APR2012
List, I have more than 15 reports since posting. The event occurred at around 20:25 Central. It was also seen in Iowa. Dirk...Tokyo http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2012/04/mbiq-detects-illinois-wisconsin.html http://thelatestworldwidemeteorreports.blogspot.jp/ --- On Thu, 4/12/12, drtanuki drtan...@yahoo.com wrote: From: drtanuki drtan...@yahoo.com Subject: [meteorite-list] large green fireball over Illinois, Wisconsin and Illinois tonight 11APR2012 To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Thursday, April 12, 2012, 10:43 AM Dear List, There was a large green fireball over Illinois, Wisconsin and Illinois tonight 11APR2012. Reports will be posted as they come in: http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2012/04/mbiq-detects-illinois-wisconsin.html Reports: http://thelatestworldwidemeteorreports.blogspot.jp/ 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 __ 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: NWA 1068 - Louise-Michel, Soko-Banja, and others
Hi List, I have a couple of interesting meteorites up this week on ebay, ending on Sunday. My entire store is here: http://stores.ebay.com/Devonian-Depot Amongst the highlights: NWA 1068 - Louise-Michel: Martian shergottite, 2 grams: http://www.ebay.com/itm/380428725420 Soko-Banja: 1 gram of fragments from this meteorite that fell in Serbia and Montenegro in 1877: http://www.ebay.com/itm/120893186843 Unclassified NWA shaped like a big bullet: http://www.ebay.com/itm/120893180046 Unclassified NWA with some nice flow lines: http://www.ebay.com/itm/380428720016 Feel free to contact me if you have questions! Yinan __ 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
