[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: LEW 90500 Contributed by: AMN http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Strathmore Meteorite Centenary
Hello Listees (Repost) 2017 marks the Centenary of the Strathmore meteorite fall; Scotland's biggest. To commemorate this occasion, I am at the planning stage of an exhibition which will take place in the National Museums Scotland during that year. Outline permission had already been given and once I have major project on which I am currently extremely busy out of the way, I will be ramping up my efforts. In this modern digital, globalised age I am going to try a new approach in my search for ideas, suggestions or offers of information or objects which might help to extend the scope of the display. At the moment, as well as a case featuring the re-uniting of the four main fragments of the Strathmore fall, I am looking at cases which will look at other Scottish and possibly UK/Irish meteorites, and also maybe taking a slightly different angle by looking at meteoritic or related material that has been used for other purposes which could include tools, jewellery and so on. Therefore, I am sending this e-mail out to the list to attempt a sort of crowd sourcing exercise to see what comes up. Please be assured that, in terms of objects, I am not looking for permanent donations to the collections (though that would be nice) but loans. I will listen to all offers and all e-mails will be answered. There is no urgency at the moment, but I will be looking to start firming up on my ideas as soon as possible. Regards Peter Davidson Senior Curator of Minerals Department of Natural Sciences National Museums Scotland Chambers Street Edinburgh EH1 1JF +44 131 247 4283 p.david...@nms.ac.uk Take a steam-powered journey through our collections at Museum Lates: Retro-future, Friday 16 May at the National Museum of Scotland. Book now at www.nms.ac.uk/lates or call 0300 123 6789. National Museums Scotland, Scottish Charity, No. SC 011130 This communication is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you are not the addressee please inform the sender and delete the email from your system. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of National Museums Scotland. This message is subject to the Data Protection Act 1998 and Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. No liability is accepted for any harm that may be caused to your systems or data by this message. __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] AD - ebay: Stunning Thin Sections and cool meteorites...
Hello All, just FYI, I have 21 ebay auctions: http://shop.ebay.com/pema9/m.html?_nkw=_armrs=1_from=_ipg= Thank you, Peter Peter Marmet - IMCA #2747 http://www.thinsections.ch http://www.marmet-meteorites.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Japan Meteor 16MAY2014
List, Saitama, Japan Meteor 16MAY2014 http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2014/05/saitama-japan-fireball-meteor-16may2014.html Dirk Ross...Tokyo __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] 2015 IAA Planetary Defense Conference
http://iaaweb.org/content/view/599/785/ International Academy of Astronautics 2015 IAA Planetary Defense Conference April 13-17, 2015 Frascati, Roma, Italy CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN ! Call for papers http://iaaweb.org/iaa/Scientific%20Activity/callpdc2015.pdf soon available. Papers are solicited in the areas listed below for the 2015 IAA Planetary Defense Conference, sponsored by the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA). The 2015 PDC will include a hypothetical impact event to be both a part of the conference (similar to what was done at the 2013 conference) and where appropriate to be used as a reference for papers and presentations (more details below ). Topic areas for papers include: Planetary Defense - Recent Progress Plans * Current national and international funded activities that support planetary defense * Program status and plans (e.g., NASA's NEO program, ESA and EU NEO SSA program) * Current international agreements and coordination activities (UN and others) NEO Discovery * Overviews of current ground and space-based discovery statistics * Current discovery and follow-up capabilities, and advances in utilizing archival data * Orbital refinements including non-gravitational effects and keyholes * New surveys expected to be operational within the current decade NEO Physical Characterization that Informs Mitigation * Size distribution, albedos, composition, densities, rotation rates, etc. * Lessons learned from recent observing programs and plans for improvements * The smaller NEOs (? 300 m): assessing the physical properties of the more frequent impactors Mitigation Techniques Missions * Space technologies for asteroid deflection/disruption (e.g., new concepts, kinetic impactor, GNC (e.g. high speed impact and low gravity operations), astrodynamics etc) * Flight validation/demonstration missions for planetary defense technologies * Robotic and human NEO exploration mission planning and design (e.g., OSIRIS-REx, Hayabusa 2, etc.) Impact Effects that Inform Warning, Mitigation Costs * Information from the geological record and recent history (e.g., Chelyabinsk, Tunguska) *Consequences of ocean and land impacts * Economic costs of impacts Consequence Management Education * olicy or legal analysis that will affect or inform future mitigation plans * Educating the public and the media on NEO detection, impact effects, mitigation missions, impact warnings * Strategies for developing disaster response plans across international borders * Lessons learned from regional and international disasters (e.g.: Fukushima, Chernobyl, Hurricane Katrina) that provide insights for planetary defense ABSTRACT SUBMITTAL: Technical paper abstracts (250 to 500 words in length) in the areas described above or related to planetary defense will be accepted electronically through the conference website. __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Stardust in Meteorites!
Hello Listers, I always like to read stuff about how meteorites came to be and where they are from. Enjoy :) link http://www.pnas.org/content/108/48/19142.full.pdf+html?sid=76fd548f-cd97-41a3-9936-f8dbd11d6c7d Shawn Alan IMCA 1633 ebay store http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633nyc/m.html Website http://meteoritefalls.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Construction to Begin on NASA Mars Lander Scheduled to Launch in 2016 (InSight)
May 19, 2014 Construction to Begin on NASA Mars Lander Scheduled to Launch in 2016 NASA and its international partners now have the go-ahead to begin construction on a new Mars lander after it completed a successful Mission Critical Design Review on Friday. NASA's Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission will pierce beneath the Martian surface to study its interior. The mission will investigate how Earth-like planets formed and developed their layered inner structure of core, mantle and crust, and will collect information about those interior zones using instruments never before used on Mars. InSight will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, on the central California coast near Lompoc, in March 2016. This will be the first interplanetary mission ever to launch from California. The mission will help inform the agency's goal of sending a human mission to Mars in the 2030's. InSight team leaders presented mission-design results this week to a NASA review board, which approved advancing to the next stage of preparation. Our partners across the globe have made significant progress in getting to this point and are fully prepared to deliver their hardware to system integration starting this November, which is the next major milestone for the project, said Tom Hoffman, InSight Project Manager of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, California. We now move from doing the design and analysis to building and testing the hardware and software that will get us to Mars and collect the science that we need to achieve mission success. To investigate the planet's interior, the stationary lander will carry a robotic arm that will deploy surface and burrowing instruments contributed by France and Germany. The national space agencies of France and Germany -- Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) and Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) -- are partnering with NASA by providing InSight's two main science instruments. The Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) will be built by CNES in partnership with DLR and the space agencies of Switzerland and the United Kingdom. It will measure waves of ground motion carried through the interior of the planet, from marsquakes and meteor impacts. The Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package, from DLR, will measure heat coming toward the surface from the planet's interior. Mars actually offers an advantage over Earth itself for understanding how habitable planetary surfaces can form, said Bruce Banerdt, InSight Principal Investigator from JPL. Both planets underwent the same early processes. But Mars, being smaller, cooled faster and became less active while Earth kept churning. So Mars better preserves the evidence about the early stages of rocky planets' development. The three-legged lander will go to a site near the Martian equator and provide information for a planned mission length of 720 days -- about two years. InSight adapts a design from the successful NASA Phoenix Mars Lander, which examined ice and soil on far-northern Mars in 2008. We will incorporate many features from our Phoenix spacecraft into InSight, but the differences between the missions require some differences in the InSight spacecraft, said InSight Program Manager Stu Spath of Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Denver, Colorado. For example, the InSight mission duration is 630 days longer than Phoenix, which means the lander will have to endure a wider range of environmental conditions on the surface. Guided by images of the surroundings taken by the lander, InSight's robotic arm will place the seismometer on the surface and then place a protective covering over it to minimize effects of wind and temperature on the sensitive instrument. The arm will also put the heat-flow probe in position to hammer itself into the ground to a depth of 3 to 5 yards (2.7 to 4 1/2 meters). Another experiment will use the radio link between InSight and NASA's Deep Space Network antennas on Earth to precisely measure a wobble in Mars' rotation that could reveal whether Mars has a molten or solid core. Wind and temperature sensors from Spain's Centro de Astrobiologia and a pressure sensor will monitor weather at the landing site, and a magnetometer will measure magnetic disturbances caused by the Martian ionosphere. InSight's international science team is made up of researchers from Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. JPL manages InSight for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. InSight is part of NASA's Discovery Program of competitively selected mission. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Discovery Program. Lockheed Martin will build the lander and other parts of the spacecraft at its Littleton, Colorado, facility near Denver. For more
[meteorite-list] Mike Miller in ICU - Thoughts and Prayers Appreciated
Hi all, I stopped by to see our friend Mike Miller today at the hospital (KRMC) in Kingman, AZ. He's completely sedated and on a breathing machine. I was told that he's been in ICU for a few days and that doctors are somewhat baffled as to what has happened. Something is causing fluid build up in his lungs that is making it impossible for him to breathe unassisted. He entered the hospital on Wednesday evening due to pains in his chest and back but within hours had to be put on a ventilator to breathe. Mikes daughters (Ashley, and Melissa) work for him and will be checking his email. If you'd like to wish Mike well I'm sure he'd appreciate it. Here is his email. meteoritefin...@gmail.com -- Rock On! Ruben Garcia http://www.MrMeteorite.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Mike Miller in ICU - Thoughts and PrayersAppreciated
Thanks Ruben. I had no clue, like most of us, until we hear here. Prayers, please. Rick Bob Richard Montgomery -Original Message- From: Ruben Garcia via Meteorite-list Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 3:41 PM To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Mike Miller in ICU - Thoughts and PrayersAppreciated Hi all, I stopped by to see our friend Mike Miller today at the hospital (KRMC) in Kingman, AZ. He's completely sedated and on a breathing machine. I was told that he's been in ICU for a few days and that doctors are somewhat baffled as to what has happened. Something is causing fluid build up in his lungs that is making it impossible for him to breathe unassisted. He entered the hospital on Wednesday evening due to pains in his chest and back but within hours had to be put on a ventilator to breathe. Mikes daughters (Ashley, and Melissa) work for him and will be checking his email. If you'd like to wish Mike well I'm sure he'd appreciate it. Here is his email. meteoritefin...@gmail.com -- Rock On! Ruben Garcia http://www.MrMeteorite.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Mike Miller in ICU - Thoughts and Prayers Appreciated
Thanks Ruben for the information, please keep us informed on Mike Cheers John On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Ruben Garcia via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: Hi all, I stopped by to see our friend Mike Miller today at the hospital (KRMC) in Kingman, AZ. He's completely sedated and on a breathing machine. I was told that he's been in ICU for a few days and that doctors are somewhat baffled as to what has happened. Something is causing fluid build up in his lungs that is making it impossible for him to breathe unassisted. He entered the hospital on Wednesday evening due to pains in his chest and back but within hours had to be put on a ventilator to breathe. Mikes daughters (Ashley, and Melissa) work for him and will be checking his email. If you'd like to wish Mike well I'm sure he'd appreciate it. Here is his email. meteoritefin...@gmail.com -- Rock On! Ruben Garcia http://www.MrMeteorite.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Mike Miller in ICU - Thoughts and Prayers Appreciated
Thanks for the info, Ruben. I'll be praying for Mike. Keep us informed about the latest. Greg Lindh Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 15:41:43 -0700 To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Mike Miller in ICU - Thoughts and Prayers Appreciated From: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Hi all, I stopped by to see our friend Mike Miller today at the hospital (KRMC) in Kingman, AZ. He's completely sedated and on a breathing machine. I was told that he's been in ICU for a few days and that doctors are somewhat baffled as to what has happened. Something is causing fluid build up in his lungs that is making it impossible for him to breathe unassisted. He entered the hospital on Wednesday evening due to pains in his chest and back but within hours had to be put on a ventilator to breathe. Mikes daughters (Ashley, and Melissa) work for him and will be checking his email. If you'd like to wish Mike well I'm sure he'd appreciate it. Here is his email. meteoritefin...@gmail.com -- Rock On! Ruben Garcia http://www.MrMeteorite.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Mike Miller in ICU - Thoughts and PrayersAppreciated
Just sent Mike a note. Thanks for the info, Ruben. Sure doesn't sound good, but I pray they take good care of him and he recovers soon. Linton - Original Message - From: Ruben Garcia via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 4:41 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Mike Miller in ICU - Thoughts and PrayersAppreciated Hi all, I stopped by to see our friend Mike Miller today at the hospital (KRMC) in Kingman, AZ. He's completely sedated and on a breathing machine. I was told that he's been in ICU for a few days and that doctors are somewhat baffled as to what has happened. Something is causing fluid build up in his lungs that is making it impossible for him to breathe unassisted. He entered the hospital on Wednesday evening due to pains in his chest and back but within hours had to be put on a ventilator to breathe. Mikes daughters (Ashley, and Melissa) work for him and will be checking his email. If you'd like to wish Mike well I'm sure he'd appreciate it. Here is his email. meteoritefin...@gmail.com -- Rock On! Ruben Garcia http://www.MrMeteorite.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4592 / Virus Database: 3950/7519 - Release Date: 05/19/14 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Mike Miller in ICU - Thoughts and Prayers Appreciated
Hi all, Thanks to everyone that sent Mike an email message. In response to questions about Mikes illness: The doctors have treated Mike for pneumonia, and valley fever, but they're thinking now that the cause may be meteorite related. Mike has been cutting, sanding, etching, opticon-ing and lacquering meteorites for nearly a decade without using any type of mask. Even If not THE cause I doubt seriously it's helped the situation. Update: Just talked to Melissa (Mike's daughter) and she said Mike has responded somewhat favorably to the treatment. Just this afternoon he began breathing on his own and so they removed the ventilator. While still heavily sedated and in ICU he is trying to speak and moving enough that they thought he was trying to break the restaints placed on his arms and legs. It's looking better... Keep Praying! On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 6:42 PM, John Cabassi j...@cabassi.net wrote: Thanks Ruben for the information, please keep us informed on Mike Cheers John On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Ruben Garcia via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: Hi all, I stopped by to see our friend Mike Miller today at the hospital (KRMC) in Kingman, AZ. He's completely sedated and on a breathing machine. I was told that he's been in ICU for a few days and that doctors are somewhat baffled as to what has happened. Something is causing fluid build up in his lungs that is making it impossible for him to breathe unassisted. He entered the hospital on Wednesday evening due to pains in his chest and back but within hours had to be put on a ventilator to breathe. Mikes daughters (Ashley, and Melissa) work for him and will be checking his email. If you'd like to wish Mike well I'm sure he'd appreciate it. Here is his email. meteoritefin...@gmail.com -- Rock On! Ruben Garcia http://www.MrMeteorite.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list -- Rock On! Ruben Garcia http://www.MrMeteorite.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
