[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Chelyabinsk Contributed by: John Divelbiss http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Ad - Siam Tektite boxes and auctions ending
Hello all I have a small supply of vintage tektite boxes that are perfect gift shop or star party material or just a neat addition to your own cabinet http://www.nakhladogmeteorites.com/catalog/tekbox.htm And a number of auctions ending, lots of irons this week http://www.ebay.com/sch/nakhladog/m.html Rob Wesel Nakhla Dog Meteorites www.nakhladogmeteorites.com www.facebook.com/Nakhla.Dog.Meteorites www.facebook.com/Rob.Wesel __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Heritage Auction has 51 meteorite u for sale
Hello Listers For those of you looking for some magnificent meteorites, look no further. Heritage Auction house has some great meteoritic samples up for auction. Take a look at the link down below and enjoy. http://fineart.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?Ne=2130N=50+793+794+792+2088+4294944482+2305 S 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 https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Meteorite Times September Issue Now Up
Hello Everyone, The September issue of Meteorite Times is now up. As always, a huge Thank You to all of our contributors. http://www.meteorite-times.com/ Enjoy! Paul and Jim __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] A Managua, Nicaragua meteorite?
Team Meteorite: There appears a photo of an alleged meteorite crater in the news just a few moments ago. It's being well-guarded by armed Sandinista's. Does anyone beside Nica jefe Daniel Ortega think this looks like a met crater? http://www.ticotimes.net/2014/09/07/meteorite-smashes-into-nicaraguan-capital Kevin Kichinka Rio Oro, Santa Ana, Costa Rica The Art of Collecting Meteorites (Amazon and Barnes and Noble eBook) The Global Meteorite Price Report - 2015 out in late December mars...@gmail.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] A Managua, Nicaragua meteorite?
Hi Kevin and List, That is a pretty large crater. Any inbound space rock big enough to create that kind of crater would be on the radar somewhere, or there would have been a widely-visible fireball with sonics. Were there any reports of a fireball? Best regards, MikeG -- - Web - http://www.galactic-stone.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone Twitter - http://twitter.com/galacticstone Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/galacticstone - On 9/7/14, Kevin Kichinka via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: Team Meteorite: There appears a photo of an alleged meteorite crater in the news just a few moments ago. It's being well-guarded by armed Sandinista's. Does anyone beside Nica jefe Daniel Ortega think this looks like a met crater? http://www.ticotimes.net/2014/09/07/meteorite-smashes-into-nicaraguan-capital Kevin Kichinka Rio Oro, Santa Ana, Costa Rica The Art of Collecting Meteorites (Amazon and Barnes and Noble eBook) The Global Meteorite Price Report - 2015 out in late December mars...@gmail.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] A Managua, Nicaragua meteorite?
That's pretty funny! -Original Message- From: Kevin Kichinka via Meteorite-list Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2014 3:47 PM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] A Managua, Nicaragua meteorite? Team Meteorite: There appears a photo of an alleged meteorite crater in the news just a few moments ago. It's being well-guarded by armed Sandinista's. Does anyone beside Nica jefe Daniel Ortega think this looks like a met crater? http://www.ticotimes.net/2014/09/07/meteorite-smashes-into-nicaraguan-capital Kevin Kichinka Rio Oro, Santa Ana, Costa Rica The Art of Collecting Meteorites (Amazon and Barnes and Noble eBook) The Global Meteorite Price Report - 2015 out in late December mars...@gmail.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] House Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on ASTEROIDS Act on September 10
http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/news/house-subcommittee-to-hold-hearing-on-asteroids-act House Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on ASTEROIDS Act on September 10 Marcia S. Smith 03-Sep-2014 The Space Subcommittee of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee will hold a hearing next week on the ASTEROIDS Act, which was introduced in July by Rep. Bill Posey (R- FL) and Derek Kilmer (D-WA). The goal of the legislation is to establish and protect property rights for commercial exploration and exploitation of asteroids. Two U.S. companies promoting such activities are Planetary Resources, headquartered in Kilmer's Redmond, WA district, and Deep Space Industries of Houston, TX. Posey's district includes Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Five witnesses have been announced for the hearing, four of whom are scientists and one is a space lawyer. The scientists are: * Jim Green, Director of NASA's Planetary Science Division; * Phil Christensen, an Arizona State University (ASU) professor who co-chairs the National Research Council's (NRC's) Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science (CAPS) and was a member of the NRC's Decadal Survey for planetary science; * Jim Bell, another ASU Professor who is President of the grass-roots space advocacy group The Planetary Society; and * Mark Sykes, CEO and Director of the Tucson, AZ-based non-profit solar system exploration advocacy group Planetary Science Institute. The fifth witness is Joanne Gabrynowicz, an internationally recognized space lawyer who for many years before her retirement headed the National Center for Remote Sensing, Air and Space Law at the University of Mississippi and was editor of the Journal of Space Law. She is currently a member of the NASA Advisory Council's Planetary Protection Subcommittee that advises the agency on matters concerning the prevention of forward or back contamination of solar system bodies. The concept of mining asteroids involves many scientific, technical and economic considerations, but property rights is a particularly thorny issue. Under the 1967 U.N. Outer Space Treaty, there is no national sovereignty in space so no country can own an asteroid. Pursuant to the treaty, governments are responsible for the actions of their non-governmental entities, such as a company, sparking debate over whether a company can own an asteroid or any part of it. Without ownership rights to minerals mined from asteroids, it is unlikely that companies would pursue asteroid mining even if such an activity could prove to be otherwise feasible. The ASTEROIDS Act would apply only to U.S. companies and seeks to ensure that materials mined from an asteroid by a U.S. company are the property of that company. It would not confer ownership of the asteroid itself. The hearing is at 10:00 am ET on September 10, 2014 in 2318 Rayburn House Office Building. -- Note: the hearing will be webcast live here http://science.house.gov/hearing/subcommittee-space-exploring-our-solar-system-asteroids-act-key-step Ron Baalke __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Twelfth Batch of MESSENGER Data Released; Water Ice Exploration Tool Unveiled
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/details.php?id=261 MESSENGER Mission News September 5, 2014 Twelfth Batch of MESSENGER Data Released; Water Ice Exploration Tool Unveiled Data collected during MESSENGER's 31st through 36th month in orbit around Mercury were released to the public today by the Planetary Data System (PDS), an organization that archives and distributes NASA's planetary mission data. With this release, data are now available to the public through the sixth full Mercury solar day of MESSENGER orbital operations. NASA requires that all of its planetary missions archive their data in the PDS, which provides documented, peer-reviewed data to the research community. This 12th delivery of MESSENGER data extends the formatted raw and calibrated data available at the PDS for the spacecraft's science instruments and the radio science investigation to the period from September 18, 2013, to March 17, 2014. Spacecraft, planet, instrument, camera-matrix, and events (SPICE) data from launch through the period of this release are also included. The ACT-REACT QuickMap interactive Web interface to MESSENGER data has been updated to incorporate the full coverage of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) orbital data and the Mercury Atmospheric and Surface Composition Spectrometer (MASCS) Visible and Infrared Spectrograph (VIRS) measurements included in this delivery. QuickMap can be accessed via links on the MESSENGER websites at http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/ and http://www.nasa.gov/messenger . MDIS mosaics can be downloaded from http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/the_mission/mosaics.html . In addition, the MESSENGER team has unveiled a version of the public QuickMap interface tailored for students and educators -- the Water Ice Data Exploration (WIDE) tool. The WIDE tool highlights the sequence of data acquired over four decades, culminating in MESSENGER's observations, which led to confirmation of the proposal that water ice is present in Mercury's north polar region. Observations by the MESSENGER spacecraft have provided compelling support for the 20-year-old hypothesis that Mercury hosts abundant water ice and other frozen volatile materials in its permanently shadowed polar craters, said Montana State University's Keri Hallau, of MESSENGER's Education and Public Outreach team. We wanted to create a suite of materials to engage the public in the scientific process that led to this discovery. The WIDE suite consists of a video presentation from a mission scientist and engineer, a pencil-and-paper activity, and an introductory version of QuickMap, the interactive data-mapping tool. Each of these individual parts examines Mariner 10 flyby data from the 1970s, Earth-based radar data from the early 1990s, and MESSENGER flyby and orbital data from several instruments to show the progression of evidence in support of this conclusion. The tool is available online at http://www.messenger-education.org/teachers/wide.php . The data for this release are available online at http://pds.nasa.gov/subscription_service/SS-20140905.html, and all of the MESSENGER data archived at the PDS are available at http://pds.nasa.gov . The team will deliver the next mission data set for release by PDS in March 2015. MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) is a NASA-sponsored scientific investigation of the planet Mercury and the first space mission designed to orbit the planet closest to the Sun. The MESSENGER spacecraft was launched on August 3, 2004, and entered orbit about Mercury on March 17, 2011 (March 18, 2011 UTC), to begin a yearlong study of its target planet. MESSENGER's first extended mission began on March 18, 2012, and ended one year later. MESSENGER is now in a second extended mission, which is scheduled to conclude in March 2015. Dr. Sean C. Solomon, the Director of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, leads the mission as Principal Investigator. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory built and operates the MESSENGER spacecraft and manages this Discovery-class mission for NASA. __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
