[meteorite-list] fireball event

2014-03-20 Thread Edwin Thompson
Bright fireball event announced just 50 minutes ago over Canada!

Edwin 
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[meteorite-list] outrageous Muong Nong tektite layering

2014-03-20 Thread Phil Morgan
For those fellow tektite aficionados out there, I thought I'd share a
couple of pictures of a muong nong specimen that I just received.  It
has some of the best layering and overall shape that I personally have
ever seen (but I don't get to Tucson or Thailand).

here is a link to the album

http://s25.photobucket.com/user/pkmorgan/library/tektite%20-%20muong%20nong

anyone have anything similar?

observations welcome.

Best Regards,
Phil
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Re: [meteorite-list] New fall

2014-03-20 Thread Bob Falls
Hi Mike,

Congratulations from Colorado to you Melodye and welcome to Evan!

This will definitely be the greatest "New Fall" for you.

Best Regards,
Bob Falls

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Subject: [meteorite-list] New fall

New fall in Tucson AZ!  Evan Reese Farmer
6 lb 13 oz. Born 20 March 2014 1157 am.
Michael Farmer

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[meteorite-list] New Fall

2014-03-20 Thread Charles Butterfield
Congratulations Mike ! Best wishes to you, Melanie & Evan!

And I'm still waiting on you to write your book!

Best regards,

Charley 

"Well, squids don't work. Hey! Let's
  try elephants !"

Hannibal 


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New fall in Tucson AZ!  Evan Reese Farmer
6 lb 13 oz. Born 20 March 2014 1157 am.
Michael Farmer

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Re: [meteorite-list] New fall

2014-03-20 Thread Rob Wesel

I'd say the adventure is just beginning Anne!

Congratulations Mike and Melodye and Happy Birthday Evan!

Rob Wesel
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New fall


No more adventures for you Mike.
You got  responsibilities now!


Anne M. Black
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[meteorite-list] AD:Carbonaceous.HED .Type 3 and other few items

2014-03-20 Thread rachid chaoui
Hello List
Here is some stufs priced competitively please feel free to contacte
me if you are interested.
below the link
https://www.flickr.com/photos/62957552@N06/sets/72157642434171923/
All the best

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IMCA # 4157
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[meteorite-list] 20/21 Early Morning Meteors USA - 2 // Australia - 1

2014-03-20 Thread drtanuki
List,

20/21 Early Morning Meteors USA - 2 // Australia - 1


Australia 21MAR2014
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2014/03/breaking-news-australia-fireball-meteor.html


California 20MAR2014
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2014/03/breaking-news-ca-fireball-meteor.html


AL TN FL 20MAR2014  MAY Have been big enough for mets!  C

http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2014/03/breaking-news-al-tn-fl-fireball-meteor.html


Dirk Ross...Tokyo
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Re: [meteorite-list] Holding meteorites for pictures

2014-03-20 Thread Tom Randall


Hello all!

 LOL! Paranoia can be a terrible thing! Wait, I'd better wipe off my 
laptop keyboard now.


Regards!

Tom

Galactic Stone & Ironworks Wrote:

"Too late! The NSA has collected your fingerprints and they are now 
being planted on a shipment of Iranian yellowcake uranium to frame you 
on federal charges. The unmarked black van should be pulling up in front 
of your house any time now"

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Re: [meteorite-list] New fall

2014-03-20 Thread Stefan Ralew

Congratulations!

Stefan

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Subject: [meteorite-list] New fall



New fall in Tucson AZ!  Evan Reese Farmer
6 lb 13 oz. Born 20 March 2014 1157 am.
Michael Farmer

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Re: [meteorite-list] New fall

2014-03-20 Thread Anne Black

No more adventures for you Mike.
You got  responsibilities now!


Anne M. Black
www.IMPACTIKA.com
impact...@aol.com


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Farmer 

Sent: Thu, Mar 20, 2014 5:04 pm
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New fall



Congratulations Mike but getting a crib into your already crowded Room 
184 might

be a trick! - Carl

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New fall in Tucson AZ!  Evan Reese Farmer
6 lb 13 oz. Born 20 March 2014 1157 am.
Michael Farmer

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[meteorite-list] New fall

2014-03-20 Thread Shawn Alan
Congrats guys

The question is, is it a Lunar meteorite?
 
Shawn Alan
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[meteorite-list] New fall 
Michael Farmer Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:32:12 -0700 

New fall in Tucson AZ!  Evan Reese Farmer
6 lb 13 oz. Born 20 March 2014 1157 am.
Michael Farmer
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Re: [meteorite-list] New fall

2014-03-20 Thread csaconn

Congratulations Mike but getting a crib into your already crowded Room 184 
might be a trick! - Carl

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> 6 lb 13 oz. Born 20 March 2014 1157 am.
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Re: [meteorite-list] New fall

2014-03-20 Thread Graham Ensor
Congratulations to you both.

Graham

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Re: [meteorite-list] New fall

2014-03-20 Thread rickmont

Nice, YES!   Congrats Michael and Melodye!
Precious,
Richard "Rick Bob" Montgomery



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Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 3:21 PM
To: Michael Farmer
Cc: Meteorite List
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Alright! Alright! Alright!  A super big CONGRATS. " DADDY".   ( That's a 
name you're gonna love hearing that new fall make not all that far in the 
future).


Very best wishes to you and Melodye.  Give her a big hug for me. So happy 
for you both.


Can't wait to meet Evan!

 ( When are you taking him on his first meteorite hunting trip??? ;-)

Robert Woolard

Sent from my iPad

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New fall in Tucson AZ!  Evan Reese Farmer
6 lb 13 oz. Born 20 March 2014 1157 am.
Michael Farmer

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Re: [meteorite-list] New fall

2014-03-20 Thread Ted Bunch
Congratulations to you both! Your free time will be more limited as will 
be your travel time when you please attitude. You have a lot to learn 
Grasshopper!


Today is my 12 year old twins birthday, 4:31 AM.

Ted

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New fall in Tucson AZ!  Evan Reese Farmer
6 lb 13 oz. Born 20 March 2014 1157 am.
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[meteorite-list] How many pairings are there with BLACK BEAUTY?

2014-03-20 Thread Shawn Alan
Hello Listers,

I have been seeing a few different NWA numbers with Black Beauty NWA 7034 and
was wondering what the total is so fair. I have counted 6 pairing with a total 
of 
7 when you include NWA 7034. Is that correct or are there more pairings happing?
Also I wonder what the total know weight is?

Shawn Alan
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Re: [meteorite-list] New fall

2014-03-20 Thread Greg Hupe
Congratulations Mike and Melodye! Welcome to the MetList, Evan!!

Best Regards,
Greg Hupe

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Re: [meteorite-list] New fall

2014-03-20 Thread Robert Woolard
Alright! Alright! Alright!  A super big CONGRATS. " DADDY".   ( That's a 
name you're gonna love hearing that new fall make not all that far in the 
future). 

Very best wishes to you and Melodye.  Give her a big hug for me. So happy for 
you both. 

Can't wait to meet Evan!

  ( When are you taking him on his first meteorite hunting trip??? ;-)

Robert Woolard

Sent from my iPad

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Re: [meteorite-list] New fall

2014-03-20 Thread Galactic Stone & Ironworks
Congratulations!  A new meteorite hunter has entered the world.  :)

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Re: [meteorite-list] New fall

2014-03-20 Thread Darryl Pitt

Many, many congratulations!  That's outstanding!

The BEST.   

Wishing you and Melodye all that you wish for...


Enjoyenjoy




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Re: [meteorite-list] New fall

2014-03-20 Thread Alexander Seidel
Well done!
Alex


> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 20. März 2014 um 22:51 Uhr
> Von: "Bernd V. Pauli" 
> An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
> Betreff: [meteorite-list] New fall
>
> Mike kindly informs us:
> 
> "New fall in Tucson AZ! Evan Reese Farmer
>  6 lb 13 oz. Born 20 March 2014 1157 am.
> 
> Wow! Congrats and a hearty welcome to Evan Reese !!!
> 
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Re: [meteorite-list] New fall

2014-03-20 Thread J Sinclair
Congratulations Mr and Mrs Farmer. You've done it again!
John

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Re: [meteorite-list] New fall

2014-03-20 Thread Matson, Rob D.
Congratulations to you and Melanie (spelling?)! Born exactly two
hours after the equinox. Your son's middle name is a variant
on my grandfather's (Reece), and his first name is the same as
my great-grandfather. Evan's metric weight is just a hair over
3 kilos! :-)

Best wishes,
Rob

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New fall in Tucson AZ!  Evan Reese Farmer
6 lb 13 oz. Born 20 March 2014 1157 am.
Michael Farmer

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Re: [meteorite-list] New fall

2014-03-20 Thread Don Merchant

Congrads. Is it a new fall or find?
Cheers
Don
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Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 5:30 PM
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Congrats to you and your family Mike!

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New fall in Tucson AZ!  Evan Reese Farmer
6 lb 13 oz. Born 20 March 2014 1157 am.
Michael Farmer

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[meteorite-list] New fall

2014-03-20 Thread Bernd V. Pauli
Mike kindly informs us:

"New fall in Tucson AZ! Evan Reese Farmer
 6 lb 13 oz. Born 20 March 2014 1157 am.

Wow! Congrats and a hearty welcome to Evan Reese !!!

Bernd


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[meteorite-list] AD: some nice stuff for sale ( fresh unclass. HED, Sikhote alin bullet, ...)

2014-03-20 Thread David Goettlich
Hi List,

I have some nice new stuff for sale on ebay.

1)
beautiful unclass. NWA (HED) with fresh glossy crust and flowlines:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/34-7g-fresh-NWA-XXX-possible-HED-Meteorite-/261428322110?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cde579f3e


2)
amazing Sikhote alin Bullet:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/57g-beautiful-oriented-Sikhote-alin-Bullet-Meteorite-/251481544001?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a8d77d541


And some more stuff you can find here:
http://stores.ebay.com/Gavie-Meteoriten-Mineralien-Zubehor?_trksid=p2047675.l2563


If you are interested in something contact me.

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[meteorite-list] Phobos As Dropbox for Mars Sample Return

2014-03-20 Thread Ron Baalke


http://redplanet.asu.edu/?p=4952

Phobos as dropbox for Mars sample return
by Robert Burnham
Red Planet Report
March 20, 2014

Current plans for bringing samples to Earth from Mars involve three distinct 
steps. First is a rover with the capability to cache samples: this will 
be the Mars 2020 rover, now in its initial stages of development.

Second is a special lander carrying a small 'fetch rover" that collects 
the cached samples and brings them to the lander, which then sends them 
up into Martian parking orbit. The third step sends a spacecraft to Mars 
to collect the orbiting samples and deliver them to Earth. All these are 
robotic spacecraft, and for budgetary purposes, several years could easily 
intervene between each step.

But what if the second step deposited the samples on the surface of Phobos, 
Mars' larger moon, instead of sending them into orbit around Mars or directly 
to Earth?

That's the suggestion of Philip Stooke (University of Western Ontario). 
He presented the idea (PDF) in a poster talk (PDF electronic version here) 
at the 45th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

Using Phobos as a dropbox offers several advantages, he argues. It has 
only weak gravity, so landing a sample collection there will be easy, 
using airbags for example. Also, Phobos could serve as a place where Mars 
missions by other space agencies could drop off samples they collect.

In Stooke's scenario, a mission with a human crew would retrieve the samples 
from Phobos. This would serve as a rehearsal for a crewed landing mission 
to Mars, much as Apollo 10 was the dress rehearsal for the actual first 
lunar landing by Apollo 11.

"Human flights to Mars will be extremely risky and expensive," he says, 
"making a rehearsal mission both necessary for system testing yet hard 
to justify in scientific terms." Thus he is proposing to combine both 
sample return and rehearsal into a decade-long program of robotic sample 
collection that culminates in a human flight to Phobos to collect and 
return the samples.

An added advantage, says Stooke, is that Phobos itself is a good target 
for samples to collect. Besides original Phobos material, the moon's regolith 
is littered with rocks thrown off Mars by large impacts. The retrieval 
crew would scout for these for when they arrive to collect the samples.

Finally, he notes that parking samples on Phobos does not commit anyone 
to a crewed mission to Mars: "If human Mars exploration is eventually 
deemed impossible, a flagship-class robotic mission to Phobos can gather 
the samples instead."

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Re: [meteorite-list] New fall

2014-03-20 Thread Art Jones
Congrats to you and your family Mike!

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[mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Michael Farmer
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Subject: [meteorite-list] New fall

New fall in Tucson AZ!  Evan Reese Farmer
6 lb 13 oz. Born 20 March 2014 1157 am.
Michael Farmer

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[meteorite-list] (no subject)

2014-03-20 Thread debfred
Hello list, 
The first thing I tried to do when I started my box company 10 years ago was to 
try to find someone to make a high quality riker display box at a reasonable 
price. I was unable to do so until late last year. I have two sizes now and am 
adding a larger 7.5 X 10.75 inch size next month. I will also have a nice foam 
insert with black on one side and white on other for about for smaller boxes 
and  for foam for larger box. You can look at rikers at 
http://www.rockboxes.com/ and I will list some on ebay as soon as I am able. I 
am getting a new knee tomorrow so will be out for a couple of weeks.
Thanks, Fred Olsen, Denver
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[meteorite-list] New fall

2014-03-20 Thread Michael Farmer
New fall in Tucson AZ!  Evan Reese Farmer
6 lb 13 oz. Born 20 March 2014 1157 am.
Michael Farmer

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[meteorite-list] searching for Kosice meteorite article

2014-03-20 Thread Pelé Pierre-Marie


Hello,

I'm searching for the PDF article of the Meteoritics & Planetary Science named 
"The Kosice meteorite fall : atmospheric trajectory, fragmentation and orbit".


If some has it, could you send it to me by email ?

Thanks a lot,


Pierre-Marie Pelé 
Meteor-Center 
Météorites : achat - vente - expertise - expéditions - recherche 
http://www.meteor-center.com 
IMCA 3360 
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Re: [meteorite-list] Holding meteorites for pictures

2014-03-20 Thread Jim Wooddell

Imagine what you could do with a 3d printer!

Jim


On 3/19/2014 5:52 PM, Ruben Garcia wrote:

You mean like this?
http://www.mrmeteorite.com/tinychely.htm

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Floyd Griffith  wrote:

Hello and good day from sunny Parker, Colorado, USA

I was looking at the ebay listing of one of the list members that I know and I 
had a thought.
That alone is scary. Anyway, the meteorite sample that was for sale was 
pictured.
What I noticed was how well I could see the finger prints, when he was holding 
the sample.
I went through his listings and determined that if I wanted to, I could obtain 
a full set if his fingerprints.
This I thought was concerning enough to bring to all on the list.
If one was inclined to fake the Identification of someone, it would be nice to 
have a set of fingerprints.
Easy to prevent, wear gloves.

Best to all,
Floyd "Griff" Griffith
IMCA 2510




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[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

2014-03-20 Thread valparint
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Bassikounou

Contributed by: Jean Redelsperger

http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp
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