[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Ordinary Chondrite Contributed by: Gourgues Denis 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] Ancient Asteroid Destroyer Finally Found, And It's a New Kind of Meteorite
Ancient Asteroid Destroyer Finally Found, And It's a New Kind of Meteorite http://www.livescience.com/46563-new-meteorite-type-fossil-ordovician.html Original paper (open access, freely downloadable): A fossil winonaite-like meteorite in Ordovician limestone: A piece of the impactor that broke up the L-chondrite parent body? Birger Schmitz, Gary R. Huss, Matthias M.M. Meiera, Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink, Ross P. Church, Anders Cronholm, Melvyn B. Davies, Philipp R. Heck, Anders Johansen, Klaus Keil, Per Kristiansson, Greg Ravizza, Mario Tassinari, Fredrik Terfelt 2014 EPSL, 400, 145 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X14003367 Katsu OHTSUKA __ 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] Trego County Historical Society (Kansas) Small Stolen Iron Meteorite
Hi Everyone, I was contacted this morning by the Trego County Historical Society located in Kansas regarding a small iron meteorite that was stolen from their collection yesterday. This is what was sent: On Friday, June 27th, a small metal meteorite was stolen from our museum. It was about 4 inches in diameter and weighed about 3 lbs. We do not have a picture. If anyone should contact you about a small meteorite, would you please contact the Trego County Historical Society in WaKeeney, Kansas. Thank you for your time. We would appreciate any assistance Contact Information: Marjean Deines Associate Director Trego County Historical Society WaKeeney, Kansas 67672 785-743-2964 email - tregohistori...@ruraltel.net The only other information is that it was found along the Smoky River Basin (in Kansas) and was probably found in the 1980s. They had received it as a donation too their Historical Society and had not yet cataloged and photographed the case it was in. Let's be on the lookout and if you see or are offered something that fits this description please contact them. I know that without a picture or specific type it will be hard to identify. If I receive any additional information I will pass it along. Best Regards, Bob Falls __ 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] Trego County Historical Society (Kansas) Small Stolen Iron Meteorite
Hi Bob...will keep my eyes openbut had this been analyzed and confirmed as a meteorite? Graham On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 8:48 PM, Bob Falls via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: Hi Everyone, I was contacted this morning by the Trego County Historical Society located in Kansas regarding a small iron meteorite that was stolen from their collection yesterday. This is what was sent: On Friday, June 27th, a small metal meteorite was stolen from our museum. It was about 4 inches in diameter and weighed about 3 lbs. We do not have a picture. If anyone should contact you about a small meteorite, would you please contact the Trego County Historical Society in WaKeeney, Kansas. Thank you for your time. We would appreciate any assistance Contact Information: Marjean Deines Associate Director Trego County Historical Society WaKeeney, Kansas 67672 785-743-2964 email - tregohistori...@ruraltel.net The only other information is that it was found along the Smoky River Basin (in Kansas) and was probably found in the 1980’s. They had received it as a donation too their Historical Society and had not yet cataloged and photographed the case it was in. Let's be on the lookout and if you see or are offered something that fits this description please contact them. I know that without a picture or specific type it will be hard to identify. If I receive any additional information I will pass it along. Best Regards, Bob Falls __ 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
[meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: June 23-27, 2014
MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES June 23-27 2014 o Crater Dunes (23 June 2014) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20140623a o Lava Channels (24 June 2014) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20140624a o Crater Fill (25 June 2014) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20140625a o Dust Devil Tracks (26 June 2014) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20140626a o Dark Slope Streaks (27 June 2014) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20140627a All of the THEMIS images are archive here: http://themis.asu.edu/latest.html NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. The Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) was developed by Arizona State University, Tempe, in co.oration with Raytheon Santa Barbara Remote Sensing. The THEMIS investigation is led by Dr. Philip Christensen at Arizona State University. Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, is the prime contractor for the Odyssey project, and developed and built the orbiter. Mission operations are conducted jointly from Lockheed Martin and from JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. __ 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] Fossil Meteorites Arrive at The Field Museum
Hello Listers Now I need to get one of these fossilized meteorites in my collection :) Enjoy the article. Shawn Alan IMCA 1633 ebay store http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633nyc/m.html Website http://meteoritefalls.com Fossil Meteorites Arrive at The Field Museum source:http://www.fieldmuseum.org/explore/science-newsflash/fossil-meteorites-arrive-field-museum They are the “Mona Lisas” of meteorites – out of over 50,000 known meteorites, only 101 of them are fossilized, and four of them will be on display at The Field Museum. These meteorites have a fascinating story! Back in 1952, the manager of a limestone quarry in Sweden that was once an ancient sea floor noticed an unusually dark object in a slab that one of his workers had cut and set aside. He approached a paleontologist about it, who set it on a shelf in his office and forgot about it. 27 years later, a mineralogist who was interested in meteorites walked into that very same office, and exclaimed, “That looks like a meteorite!” The discovery of this meteorite nearly three decades after it was removed from the quarry led to a systematic search for more—in fact, workers were trained to recognize them. Over the next 20 years, 101 fossilized meteorites were uncovered in the quarry, which is 100 times more than we would expect. Philipp Heck, Robert A. Pritzker Associate Curator of Meteoritics and Polar Studies at The Field Museum, tells us why. “These meteorites all came from the same source,” said Heck. “The breakup occurred somewhere between Jupiter and Mars – nowhere near Earth. We know that because the collision generated fragments ranging from millimeters to feet in diameter that have been found in Russia, China and Sweden, indicating that this was a global event. In fact, I would venture to guess that fragments of this meteorite can even be found on Mars.” Like all fossils, the 101 meteorites that have been recovered in the quarry became fossilized when the original material was replaced by other minerals during the transformation of the soft seabed to sedimentary rock. However, these meteorites contain a mineral called chromite that was preserved in its pristine form that matches the composition of L chondrites – the second most abundant type of meteorites that fall to Earth today. “There is one exception,” said Heck. “Out of the 101 fossilized meteorites, one of them did not match the composition of the L chondrites. We do know that it took the same amount of time to reach Earth as the others, so we think it may be part of the projectile that caused the parent asteroid to break up.” __ 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
