[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

2013-04-25 Thread valparint
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: NWA 4522

Contributed by: Gregor Hoeher

http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpod.asp
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[meteorite-list] Meteorite Additive

2013-04-25 Thread Count Deiro
Hi List,

Adam said he didn't think this post made it to the Listees that were posting 
regarding the use of meteorite dust in certain applications, so I'm re-posting 
with an apology.

Count Deiro
IMCA 3536  MetSoc


Hi Adam,

Now I know why that beauty you recently enchained finally said yes. I'm trying 
desperately to stay on topic here, but I must reveal that my successful 
experiments involving the aphrodisiatic benefits of meteorite dust include 
dispensing copious amounts of Mum's extra brut to the distaff side whilst 
imbibing a tenth of a gram of any 1AB I can get a hold ofand a Viagra. 

Cordially,  

Guido 
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[meteorite-list] AD Collection sale, Allende Slice from the King Collection

2013-04-25 Thread Kerry Palmer
Hi
I am selling a few items from my collection over the next few months

ALLENDE 37.1g Full Slice from the collection of Dr E.A.King,comes with a 
Certificate of Authenticity
issued by the International Meteorite Brokerage Inc. Price $525

NWA 470g Thumbprinted Fully Crusted Individual,originally bought from Meteorite 
Recon,come with original labels Price $475

NWA 165g Fully crusted Individual,nice shape,originally bought from Meteorite 
Recon,comes with original labels Price $225

Price includes shipping with a tracking number and payment to made via Paypal 
only

Anybody interested email me off list for photos etc.

Thanks for looking

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[meteorite-list] Cassini Observes Meteors Colliding With Saturn's Rings

2013-04-25 Thread Ron Baalke


April 25, 2013

Dwayne Brown 
Headquarters, Washington 
202-358-1726 
dwayne.c.br...@nasa.gov 

Jia-Rui C. Cook 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 
818-354-0850 
jcc...@jpl.nasa.gov 

RELEASE: 13-120

NASA PROBE OBSERVES METEORS COLLIDING WITH SATURN'S RINGS

WASHINGTON -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct 
evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and 
crashing into Saturn's rings. 

These observations make Saturn's rings the only location besides 
Earth, the moon, and Jupiter where scientists and amateur astronomers 
have been able to observe impacts as they occur. Studying the impact 
rate of meteoroids from outside the Saturn system helps scientists 
understand how different planet systems in the solar system formed. 

Our solar system is full of small, speeding objects. Planetary bodies 
frequently are pummeled by them. The meteoroids at Saturn range from 
about one-half inch to several yards (1 centimeter to several meters) 
in size. It took scientists years to distinguish tracks left by nine 
meteoroids in 2005, 2009 and 2012. 

Details of the observations appear in a paper in the Thursday edition 
of Science. 

Results from Cassini already have shown Saturn's rings act as very 
effective detectors of many kinds of surrounding phenomena, including 
the interior structure of the planet and the orbits of its moons. For 
example, a subtle but extensive corrugation that ripples 12,000 miles 
(19,000 kilometers) across the innermost rings tells of a very large 
meteoroid impact in 1983. 

These new results imply the current-day impact rates for small 
particles at Saturn are about the same as those at Earth-- two very 
different neighborhoods in our solar system, and this is exciting to 
see, said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet 
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. It took Saturn's 
rings acting like a giant meteoroid detector -- 100 times the surface 
area of the Earth -- and Cassini's long-term tour of the Saturn 
system to address this question. 

The Saturnian equinox in summer 2009 was an especially good time to 
see the debris left by meteoroid impacts. The very shallow sun angle 
on the rings caused the clouds of debris to look bright against the 
darkened rings in pictures from Cassini's imaging science subsystem. 

We knew these little impacts were constantly occurring, but we didn't 
know how big or how frequent they might be, and we didn't necessarily 
expect them to take the form of spectacular shearing clouds, said 
Matt Tiscareno, lead author of the paper and a Cassini participating 
scientist at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. The sunlight shining 
edge-on to the rings at the Saturnian equinox acted like an 
anti-cloaking device, so these usually invisible features became 
plain to see. 

Tiscareno and his colleagues now think meteoroids of this size 
probably break up on a first encounter with the rings, creating 
smaller, slower pieces that then enter into orbit around Saturn. The 
impact into the rings of these secondary meteoroid bits kicks up the 
clouds. The tiny particles forming these clouds have a range of 
orbital speeds around Saturn. The clouds they form soon are pulled 
into diagonal, extended bright streaks. 

Saturn's rings are unusually bright and clean, leading some to 
suggest that the rings are actually much younger than Saturn, said 
Jeff Cuzzi, a co-author of the paper and a Cassini interdisciplinary 
scientist specializing in planetary rings and dust at NASA's Ames 
Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. To assess this dramatic 
claim, we must know more about the rate at which outside material is 
bombarding the rings. This latest analysis helps fill in that story 
with detection of impactors of a size that we weren't previously able 
to detect directly. 

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the 
European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. JPL manages the 
Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in 
Washington. JPL designed, developed and assembled the Cassini orbiter 
and its two onboard cameras. The imaging team consists of scientists 
from the United States, England, France and Germany. The imaging 
operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, 
Colo. 

For images of the impacts and information about Cassini, visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/cassini 

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Re: [meteorite-list] Cassini Observes Meteors Colliding With Saturn's Rings

2013-04-25 Thread Michael Mulgrew
A meteor can't collide with anything!

Michael in so. Cal.

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Ron Baalke baa...@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov wrote:



 April 25, 2013

 Dwayne Brown
 Headquarters, Washington
 202-358-1726
 dwayne.c.br...@nasa.gov

 Jia-Rui C. Cook
 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
 818-354-0850
 jcc...@jpl.nasa.gov

 RELEASE: 13-120

 NASA PROBE OBSERVES METEORS COLLIDING WITH SATURN'S RINGS

 WASHINGTON -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct
 evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and
 crashing into Saturn's rings.

 These observations make Saturn's rings the only location besides
 Earth, the moon, and Jupiter where scientists and amateur astronomers
 have been able to observe impacts as they occur. Studying the impact
 rate of meteoroids from outside the Saturn system helps scientists
 understand how different planet systems in the solar system formed.

 Our solar system is full of small, speeding objects. Planetary bodies
 frequently are pummeled by them. The meteoroids at Saturn range from
 about one-half inch to several yards (1 centimeter to several meters)
 in size. It took scientists years to distinguish tracks left by nine
 meteoroids in 2005, 2009 and 2012.

 Details of the observations appear in a paper in the Thursday edition
 of Science.

 Results from Cassini already have shown Saturn's rings act as very
 effective detectors of many kinds of surrounding phenomena, including
 the interior structure of the planet and the orbits of its moons. For
 example, a subtle but extensive corrugation that ripples 12,000 miles
 (19,000 kilometers) across the innermost rings tells of a very large
 meteoroid impact in 1983.

 These new results imply the current-day impact rates for small
 particles at Saturn are about the same as those at Earth-- two very
 different neighborhoods in our solar system, and this is exciting to
 see, said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet
 Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. It took Saturn's
 rings acting like a giant meteoroid detector -- 100 times the surface
 area of the Earth -- and Cassini's long-term tour of the Saturn
 system to address this question.

 The Saturnian equinox in summer 2009 was an especially good time to
 see the debris left by meteoroid impacts. The very shallow sun angle
 on the rings caused the clouds of debris to look bright against the
 darkened rings in pictures from Cassini's imaging science subsystem.

 We knew these little impacts were constantly occurring, but we didn't
 know how big or how frequent they might be, and we didn't necessarily
 expect them to take the form of spectacular shearing clouds, said
 Matt Tiscareno, lead author of the paper and a Cassini participating
 scientist at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. The sunlight shining
 edge-on to the rings at the Saturnian equinox acted like an
 anti-cloaking device, so these usually invisible features became
 plain to see.

 Tiscareno and his colleagues now think meteoroids of this size
 probably break up on a first encounter with the rings, creating
 smaller, slower pieces that then enter into orbit around Saturn. The
 impact into the rings of these secondary meteoroid bits kicks up the
 clouds. The tiny particles forming these clouds have a range of
 orbital speeds around Saturn. The clouds they form soon are pulled
 into diagonal, extended bright streaks.

 Saturn's rings are unusually bright and clean, leading some to
 suggest that the rings are actually much younger than Saturn, said
 Jeff Cuzzi, a co-author of the paper and a Cassini interdisciplinary
 scientist specializing in planetary rings and dust at NASA's Ames
 Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. To assess this dramatic
 claim, we must know more about the rate at which outside material is
 bombarding the rings. This latest analysis helps fill in that story
 with detection of impactors of a size that we weren't previously able
 to detect directly.

 The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the
 European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. JPL manages the
 Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in
 Washington. JPL designed, developed and assembled the Cassini orbiter
 and its two onboard cameras. The imaging team consists of scientists
 from the United States, England, France and Germany. The imaging
 operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder,
 Colo.

 For images of the impacts and information about Cassini, visit:

 http://www.nasa.gov/cassini

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[meteorite-list] Ad - New Jersey Franklin mineral show

2013-04-25 Thread Derek Yoost
If anyone is going to be in the New Jersey area, the Franklin mineral show will 
be this Sat and Sun.  I will be inside dealer and will bring meteorites as well 
as fossils and minerals to sell.

Thanks, Derek.
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Re: [meteorite-list] Cassini Observes Meteors Colliding With Saturn's Rings

2013-04-25 Thread Chris Peterson
I'd agree that a meteor can't collide with Saturn's rings, but it would be 
correct usage to say a meteor collided with an airplane, a bird, or maybe even 
the ground were it still hypersonic and ablating, since at that stage both the 
visual effect and the body itself are typically called a meteor (something 
the IAU is considering formalizing last I heard). 

Chris 


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Michael Mulgrew mikest...@gmail.com wrote:

A meteor can't collide with anything!

Michael in so. Cal.

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Ron Baalke baa...@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov 
wrote:



 April 25, 2013

 Dwayne Brown
 Headquarters, Washington
 202-358-1726
 dwayne.c.br...@nasa.gov

 Jia-Rui C. Cook
 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
 818-354-0850
 jcc...@jpl.nasa.gov

 RELEASE: 13-120

 NASA PROBE OBSERVES METEORS COLLIDING WITH SATURN'S RINGS

 WASHINGTON -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct
 evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and
 crashing into Saturn's rings.

 These observations make Saturn's rings the only location besides
 Earth, the moon, and Jupiter where scientists and amateur astronomers
 have been able to observe impacts as they occur. Studying the impact
 rate of meteoroids from outside the Saturn system helps scientists
 understand how different planet systems in the solar system formed.

 Our solar system is full of small, speeding objects. Planetary bodies
 frequently are pummeled by them. The meteoroids at Saturn range from
 about one-half inch to several yards (1 centimeter to several meters)
 in size. It took scientists years to distinguish tracks left by nine
 meteoroids in 2005, 2009 and 2012.

 Details of the observations appear in a paper in the Thursday edition
 of Science.

 Results from Cassini already have shown Saturn's rings act as very
 effective detectors of many kinds of surrounding phenomena, including
 the interior structure of the planet and the orbits of its moons. For
 example, a subtle but extensive corrugation that ripples 12,000 miles
 (19,000 kilometers) across the innermost rings tells of a very large
 meteoroid impact in 1983.

 These new results imply the current-day impact rates for small
 particles at Saturn are about the same as those at Earth-- two very
 different neighborhoods in our solar system, and this is exciting to
 see, said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet
 Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. It took Saturn's
 rings acting like a giant meteoroid detector -- 100 times the surface
 area of the Earth -- and Cassini's long-term tour of the Saturn
 system to address this question.

 The Saturnian equinox in summer 2009 was an especially good time to
 see the debris left by meteoroid impacts. The very shallow sun angle
 on the rings caused the clouds of debris to look bright against the
 darkened rings in pictures from Cassini's imaging science subsystem.

 We knew these little impacts were constantly occurring, but we didn't
 know how big or how frequent they might be, and we didn't necessarily
 expect them to take the form of spectacular shearing clouds, said
 Matt Tiscareno, lead author of the paper and a Cassini participating
 scientist at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. The sunlight shining
 edge-on to the rings at the Saturnian equinox acted like an
 anti-cloaking device, so these usually invisible features became
 plain to see.

 Tiscareno and his colleagues now think meteoroids of this size
 probably break up on a first encounter with the rings, creating
 smaller, slower pieces that then enter into orbit around Saturn. The
 impact into the rings of these secondary meteoroid bits kicks up the
 clouds. The tiny particles forming these clouds have a range of
 orbital speeds around Saturn. The clouds they form soon are pulled
 into diagonal, extended bright streaks.

 Saturn's rings are unusually bright and clean, leading some to
 suggest that the rings are actually much younger than Saturn, said
 Jeff Cuzzi, a co-author of the paper and a Cassini interdisciplinary
 scientist specializing in planetary rings and dust at NASA's Ames
 Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. To assess this dramatic
 claim, we must know more about the rate at which outside material is
 bombarding the rings. This latest analysis helps fill in that story
 with detection of impactors of a size that we weren't previously able
 to detect directly.

 The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the
 European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. JPL manages the
 Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in
 Washington. JPL designed, developed and assembled the Cassini orbiter
 and its two onboard cameras. The imaging team consists of scientists
 from the United States, England, France and Germany. The imaging
 operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in 

Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk - IMB or SMB? The nomenclature of Melts.

2013-04-25 Thread Jim Wooddell
 Hi All!
Just a point of information.  I just read Dr. Rubin's paper, Multiple
melting in a four-layered barred-olivine chondrule with
compositionally heterogeneous glass from LL3.0 Semarkona
Whew!  That's a title for a paper!
While we are on the subject of melts, I thought I'd point out this
paper.  Enjoyed reading it the first timeactually understood some
of it and will read it once again after thinking about it for a while.
 You folks might enjoy reading it when you get a chance!
Thanks Alan!!



Jim Wooddell


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Jim Wooddell jimwoodd...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi Jeff!

 To me, Impact Melt should mean total melt to liquid...no fragments of any
 kind.In the case of the classified S4, partial melting occurred,
 confirmed by fragments.  Still, various flavors understandable especially at
 boundaries.
 Yep, I think nodules is the keyword that is questionable. Graphite nodules
 are found in Canyon Diablo, for example.  Once they find large enough pieces
 of this meteorite, they might confirm nodules but they would not be abnormal
 or a special anomaly if they are impact melt.

 Jim



 On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Jeff Kuyken i...@meteorites.com.au wrote:

 Definitely IMB although you will find variations within different stones.
 Some will be shocked to the point of melt and others will not quite get
 there. Personally I think IMB and SMB are the exact same terms as both are
 melt breccias and shock is derived from impact.

 The official classification of Chely states: A significant portion (1/3)
 of
 the stones consist of a dark, fine-grained impact melt containing mineral
 and chondrule fragments.

 http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=57165

 I personally don't think nodules is really the correct terminology
 either.
 They are just individuals / fragments of the same material shocked to a
 higher degree in the parent body. For example... compare it to Gao. We
 don't
 call the IMB pieces, nodules. They are IMB individuals. The term nodules
 would seem to me to be better reserved for things like iron nodules in a
 stony Mesosiderite or a Troilite nodule in an iron meteorite.

 Good question Mike.

 Cheers,

 Jeff

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 From: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com
 [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Galactic
 Stone  Ironworks
 Sent: Thursday, 25 April 2013 10:42 AM
 To: Meteorite List
 Subject: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk - IMB or SMB? The nomenclature of
 Melts.

 Hi List,

 We keep hearing about the IMB nodules that have been recovered -
 these have an all-black lithology with no chondrules, shock veins, or
 grey matrix material.

 However, these nodules were not created on impact.  Had there been
 such an impact, we would have a visible crater and the nodules would
 be located in a radius directly adjacent to the crater amidst the
 ejecta.  Instead, these nodules were apparently created during the
 fragmentation events that took place while the body was still in
 atmospheric flight.

 If this is true, shouldn't these nodules be called shock melt and
 not impact melt ?

 Is there any distinction in the official nomenclature between an
 impact melt and a shock melt?

 Is it correct to continue using IMB in reference to these Chelyabinsk
 specimens?

 Best regards,

 MikeG

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Re: [meteorite-list] New Meteorite Found

2013-04-25 Thread David Libuszowski
Just wanted to share a pretty recent fall meteorite I found while hunting for 
meteorites in the desert using the Minelab GPX5000. Has a really black fusion 
crust, and performed an xrf analysis of it, as shown in the pics. I have to say 
this is one of the most magnetic pieces I have found, besides a solid iron.
Dave Libuszowski
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/302008_184433205043044_514369302_n.jpg
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/305771_184433315043033_382374224_n.jpg
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/575614_184433351709696_611575177_n.jpg

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Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk - IMB or SMB? The nomenclature of Melts.

2013-04-25 Thread Jim Wooddell
 Hi Mendy,
I read it in Meteoritics  Planetary Science, Volume 48 Number 3 2013 March.

Jim


On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Mendy Ouzillou ouzil...@yahoo.com wrote:
 where can one read this paper?

 Best,


 Mendy

 
 From: Jim Wooddell jimwoodd...@gmail.com
 To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
 Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 5:29 PM
 Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk - IMB or SMB? The nomenclature of
 Melts.

 Hi All!
 Just a point of information.  I just read Dr. Rubin's paper, Multiple
 melting in a four-layered barred-olivine chondrule with
 compositionally heterogeneous glass from LL3.0 Semarkona
 Whew!  That's a title for a paper!
 While we are on the subject of melts, I thought I'd point out this
 paper.  Enjoyed reading it the first timeactually understood some
 of it and will read it once again after thinking about it for a while.
 You folks might enjoy reading it when you get a chance!
 Thanks Alan!!



 Jim Wooddell


 On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Jim Wooddell jimwoodd...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi Jeff!

 To me, Impact Melt should mean total melt to liquid...no fragments of any
 kind.In the case of the classified S4, partial melting occurred,
 confirmed by fragments.  Still, various flavors understandable especially
 at
 boundaries.
 Yep, I think nodules is the keyword that is questionable. Graphite
 nodules
 are found in Canyon Diablo, for example.  Once they find large enough
 pieces
 of this meteorite, they might confirm nodules but they would not be
 abnormal
 or a special anomaly if they are impact melt.

 Jim



 On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Jeff Kuyken i...@meteorites.com.au
 wrote:

 Definitely IMB although you will find variations within different stones.
 Some will be shocked to the point of melt and others will not quite get
 there. Personally I think IMB and SMB are the exact same terms as both
 are
 melt breccias and shock is derived from impact.

 The official classification of Chely states: A significant portion (1/3)
 of
 the stones consist of a dark, fine-grained impact melt containing mineral
 and chondrule fragments.

 http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=57165

 I personally don't think nodules is really the correct terminology
 either.
 They are just individuals / fragments of the same material shocked to a
 higher degree in the parent body. For example... compare it to Gao. We
 don't
 call the IMB pieces, nodules. They are IMB individuals. The term
 nodules
 would seem to me to be better reserved for things like iron nodules in
 a
 stony Mesosiderite or a Troilite nodule in an iron meteorite.

 Good question Mike.

 Cheers,

 Jeff

 -Original Message-
 From: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com
 [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of
 Galactic
 Stone  Ironworks
 Sent: Thursday, 25 April 2013 10:42 AM
 To: Meteorite List
 Subject: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk - IMB or SMB? The nomenclature of
 Melts.

 Hi List,

 We keep hearing about the IMB nodules that have been recovered -
 these have an all-black lithology with no chondrules, shock veins, or
 grey matrix material.

 However, these nodules were not created on impact.  Had there been
 such an impact, we would have a visible crater and the nodules would
 be located in a radius directly adjacent to the crater amidst the
 ejecta.  Instead, these nodules were apparently created during the
 fragmentation events that took place while the body was still in
 atmospheric flight.

 If this is true, shouldn't these nodules be called shock melt and
 not impact melt ?

 Is there any distinction in the official nomenclature between an
 impact melt and a shock melt?

 Is it correct to continue using IMB in reference to these Chelyabinsk
 specimens?

 Best regards,

 MikeG

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[meteorite-list] Wolcott CT meteorite fall analysis

2013-04-25 Thread Marc Fries
Howdy all

The guys and gals at the Galactic Analytics shop have been wringing our 
brains out over the Wolcott CT event, which was by all accounts a meteorite 
fall. A meteorite has been recovered from a home after striking the roof on the 
night of 19 Apr (20 Apr UTC). We have examined all the available evidence - 
seismometer, radar, eyewitness accounts, etc., and the data set is quite 
sparse. Nonetheless we at least have a bolide direction to offer on the web 
page.  That should help guide a ground search, and hopefully lead to more 
meteorites recovered from this event - the first meteorite fall in the US in 
2013.

http://wp.me/p2AyTK-iB

Cheers,
Marc Fries, Rob Matson, Jake Schaefer, Jeff Fries, Vishnu Reddy and Lucille 
LeCorre
Galactic Analytics/PSI, in mid-transition...
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Re: [meteorite-list] Wolcott CT meteorite fall analysis

2013-04-25 Thread Galactic Stone Ironworks
Hi Marc and List,

Marc and team, thanks for all of your hard work and dedication to
increasing the recovery rate of meteorite falls.

I don't know if these photos have been seen yet.  Our own list member
Peter Scherff visited the people who now own the Wolcott meteorite.
He posted some photos and details here on this forum -
http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/5818597/page/0/view/collapsed/sb/5/o/all/fpart/1#Post5821569

This is now the 3rd meteorite fall of this year - Planeta Rica,
Chelyabinsk, and Wolcott - http://www.galactic-stone.com/pages/falls

Best regards,

MikeG

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On 4/25/13, Marc Fries chief_scient...@galacticanalytics.com wrote:
 Howdy all

   The guys and gals at the Galactic Analytics shop have been wringing our
 brains out over the Wolcott CT event, which was by all accounts a meteorite
 fall. A meteorite has been recovered from a home after striking the roof on
 the night of 19 Apr (20 Apr UTC). We have examined all the available
 evidence - seismometer, radar, eyewitness accounts, etc., and the data set
 is quite sparse. Nonetheless we at least have a bolide direction to offer on
 the web page.  That should help guide a ground search, and hopefully lead to
 more meteorites recovered from this event - the first meteorite fall in the
 US in 2013.

 http://wp.me/p2AyTK-iB

 Cheers,
 Marc Fries, Rob Matson, Jake Schaefer, Jeff Fries, Vishnu Reddy and Lucille
 LeCorre
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Re: [meteorite-list] Wolcott CT meteorite fall analysis

2013-04-25 Thread Frank Cressy
That makes 5 witnessed falls for the small state of Connecticut;  America's 
first documented fall, an H4 at Weston in 1807, the two Wethersfield L6 stones 
that hit houses in 1971 and again in 1982, a single L6 stone that landed in a 
street in Stratford in 1974, and now the house hitter at Wolcott.  Wonder what 
the state rock should be?

Cheers,

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From: Marc Fries chief_scient...@galacticanalytics.com
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Sent: Thu, April 25, 2013 7:19:18 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Wolcott CT meteorite fall analysis

Howdy all

    The guys and gals at the Galactic Analytics shop have been wringing our 
brains out over the Wolcott CT event, which was by all accounts a meteorite 
fall. A meteorite has been recovered from a home after striking the roof on the 
night of 19 Apr (20 Apr UTC). We have examined all the available evidence - 
seismometer, radar, eyewitness accounts, etc., and the data set is quite 
sparse. 
Nonetheless we at least have a bolide direction to offer on the web page.  That 
should help guide a ground search, and hopefully lead to more meteorites 
recovered from this event - the first meteorite fall in the US in 2013.

http://wp.me/p2AyTK-iB

Cheers,
Marc Fries, Rob Matson, Jake Schaefer, Jeff Fries, Vishnu Reddy and Lucille 
LeCorre
Galactic Analytics/PSI, in mid-transition...
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Re: [meteorite-list] New Meteorite Found

2013-04-25 Thread wahlperry
Hi Dave 
Way to go congratulations on your new find.
Sonny

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On Apr 25, 2013, at 5:51 PM, David Libuszowski davidlibuszow...@yahoo.com 
wrote:

 Just wanted to share a pretty recent fall meteorite I found while hunting for 
 meteorites in the desert using the Minelab GPX5000. Has a really black fusion 
 crust, and performed an xrf analysis of it, as shown in the pics. I have to 
 say this is one of the most magnetic pieces I have found, besides a solid 
 iron.
 Dave Libuszowski
 https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/302008_184433205043044_514369302_n.jpg
 https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/305771_184433315043033_382374224_n.jpg
 https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/575614_184433351709696_611575177_n.jpg
 
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[meteorite-list] Last call - donations to West, TX

2013-04-25 Thread Marc Fries
Howdy all

Anyone else care to send a donation to the West, TX volunteer fire 
department?  We didn't receive as many donations as I had hoped, but I suspect 
that several of y'all have sent donations to them directly.  Here's the link to 
donate, and again 100% of your donation will go to the West VFD:

http://www.galacticanalytics.com/products/miscellaneous/disaster-relief-donation-to-west-tx-vfd/

Cheers,
Marc Fries
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