[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

2015-09-09 Thread Paul Swartz via Meteorite-list
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: NWA 1488

Contributed by: Gregor Hoeher

http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=09/09/2015
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[meteorite-list] AD: High quality complete polarising microscope setup ready to attach SLR camera

2015-09-09 Thread Martin Goff via Meteorite-list
(2nd and last free AD this year)

Hi all,

Through much trial and error and through much hard work and
disappointment I have now arrived at a polarising microscope setup for
thin section examination and photography that i am happy with. During
this journey I have tried many different setups from different
manufacturers and bought countless accessories, parts and adapters
both new and second hand. I have now been able through having
additional parts to build more microscopes the same setup as my own.
The parts are actually worth a whole lot more sold separately but I
would love for someone to get use out of and enjoy the complete setup.
It really is amazing to add another dimension to your meteorite
collecting to be able to view thin sections in cross polarised light.

I have now sold two of these to happy customers within the meteorite
community and will shortly have another one available.

Fully insured shipping can be accommodated via fedex pretty much
anywhere. Cost will be around $200 to Europe and around $300 to the
USA.

The microscope is a Nikon Optiphot full polarising setup and dependant
on options the cost would be between $2600 and $3200 plus shipping.

My own setups can be seen here:

(https://flic.kr/s/aHsjFKUpkE)

The below is a list of what it could include with options:
- Nikon Optiphot main microscope frame
- Nikon trinocular head
- 2 x Nikon 10x CFW eyepieces
- Nikon rotatable analyser with DIN standard 6mm by 20mm compensator
slot (no compensator included but can do for an additional $300)
- Nikon centreable 4x hole nosepiece (needed to centre the field of
view when rotating the stage and much rarer and more expensive then
the standard non-centreable 5 hole version)
- Nikon objectives x 3 (probably 10x, 20x and 40x) This would give
magnifications of 100x, 200x and 400x)
- Rotating stage with 2 x slide clips
- Nikon strain free NA 0.90 condensor with swing out lens
- Swing out lower polariser
- Nikon 50 watt, 12 Volt lamp housing with bulb and 1 x spare bulb
- Light compensating filter box with 4 x push down filters (1 of these
is the NCB10 filter which corrects the halogen light to a normal
colour temperature so it doesnt have an orange cast when viewing and
taking photos (hard to find and expensive)
- Mains power lead (bear in mind this is the 240 volt UK plug version
so you will need an adapter for it to work for you)
- DSLR (Nikon or Canon etc) adapter that slots straight into the trino
tube as mentioned above

If a camera adapter is included it will be a fully fledged, plug in
and go system ready to
add your DSLR and will work straight out of the box to take high
quality photos of meteorite thin sections :-)

I will also consider trades or part sale/trades.

Have a look at the above and let me know what you think :-)

Cheers

Martin

Martin Goff
www.msg-meteorites.co.uk
IMCA #3387
Sent from my mobile phone
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Re: [meteorite-list] Graham Hancock on the YD impacts E.P.

2015-09-09 Thread Paul H. via Meteorite-list
E.P. Grondine wrote,

"Hi Paul, all
A preview of fall TV shows:
http://sacredgeometryinternational.com/graham-hancock-and-joe-rogan-discuss-randall-carlsons-paradigm-changing-research
 
I never heard of Randall Carson - has anyone here heard of him? "

In slumming on the Graham Hancock Messageboard, I have 
become aware of him. Randall and Graham seem to be kindred 
souls in being contrarians and independent investigators into 
and advocates for matters that they judge to be unfairly 
overlooked by convential science and labeled either "alt-history"
 and "alternative history." Some people, whom I know have far 
less diplomatic and kinders lables for their interests.

Randall regards himself as self taught expert in whole range
of subjects, including geomythology, geology, catatsrophist,
planetary geologist, scared geometry, and so forth and an able
teacher of all the above. People can judge for themselves
how well Randall's self-evaluation of his expertise either 
matches or mismatches reality by listening or reading his 
own views at:

1. Sacred Geometry International (Featured Posts)
http://sacredgeometryinternational.com ,
http://sacredgeometryinternational.com/category/media/articles ,
and https://www.facebook.com/sacredgeometryintl

2. Randall Carlson and Joe Rogan Discuss Lost Civilizations, 
Climate Change, Sacred Geometry, Freemasonry and
Rewriting History with Graham Hancock – JRE #606 by SGI
http://sacredgeometryinternational.com/jre_606_randall_carlson_joe_rogan

3. Randall Carlson: The Making of a Catastrophist – Part 1
by Randall Carlson
http://sacredgeometryinternational.com/the-making-of-a-catastrophist-randall-carlson

By the way, an advanced discussing of their new book Magicians 
of the Gods can be found in "EXCLUSIVE: Comet 'three times 
bigger than dinosaur killer could soon destroy Earth' A 
TWENTY-mile wide piece of a huge comet poses a "clear and 
present" danger to 'all life on Earth,' a controversial new book 
by a bestselling author claims," by Jon Austin, Express, Sept. 2015.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/603596/Comet-3-times-bigger-than-dinosaur-killer-could-soon-destroy-Earth
http://csglobe.com/exclusive-comet-three-times-bigger-than-dinosaur-killer-could-soon-destroy-earth/

It appears that this book has a quite different view of the
Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis than has appeared in the 
"Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United
States" and other journals. This book appears will be not at 
all helpful, as assumed by some people, at making their ideas 
known among the public in a constructive manner. It might 
end up as a classic case of be careful what you wish for as you
might get it. It will be very interesting to see how it all eventual
turns out.

Ed also stated:

"To my knowledge, the FIRST suggestion that the YD 
impacts may have triggered a  release of Glacial Lake 
Missoula was made by me to the meteorite list several years 
back in regards to Assiniboine memories of what occurred."

The latest megaflood from Glacial Lake Missoula has been
very intensively research. At this point, there is absolutely no
need to invoke an exterestrial impact for the latest Missoula 
Flood event as a more plausible explanation has been well-
documented in numerous publications. For example, go see:

DeGrey, L., and P. K. Link, 2005, Lake Missoula Floods. 
(The Pleistocene Ice Age and the Cordilleran Ice 
Sheet Ancient Lake Missoula and the Missoula Ice Age 
Floods Lasting Effects of the Missoula Ice Age Floods, 
Digital Geology Idaho, Idaho State University.
http://geology.isu.edu/Digital_Geology_Idaho/Module13/mod13.htm

O'Connor, J. E., R. B. Waitt, G. Benito, D. Cordero, and 
S. Burns, 1995a, Beyond the Channeled Scabland A field trip 
to Missoula flood features in the Columbia, Yakima, and 
Walla Walla valleys of Washington and Oregon-Part 1. 
Oregon Geology, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 51-60.
http://www.oregongeology.org/pubs/OG/OGv57n03.pdf

O'Connor, J. E., R. B. Waitt, G. Benito, D. Cordero, and 
S. Burns, 1995b, Beyond the Channeled Scabland: A Field 
Trip to Missoula Flood Features in the Columbia, Yakima, 
and Walla Walla Valleys of Washington and Oregon; Part 2; 
Field Trip, Day One. Oregon Geology. v.ol 57, no.4, pp. 75–86.
http://www.oregongeology.org/pubs/OG/OGv57n04.pdf

Norman, D.K., A. J. Busacca, and R. Teissere, 2004, 
Geology of the Yakima Valley Wine County— A 
Geologic Field Trip Guide from Stevenson to Zillah, 
Washington. Field Trip Guide 1 June 2004. Washington 
State Department of Natural Resources .
http://wa-dnr.s3.amazonaws.com/publications/ger_ftg1_yakima_valley_wine_country.pdf

Baker, V. R., and D. Nummedal, eds., 1978, The Channeled 
Scabland, NASA, Washington, DC.
http://fax.libs.uga.edu/j84xnasx1x18xcx36/1f/channeled_scabland.pdf

There are a number PDf files of fieldtrip guidebook in
Discover the Ice Age Floods – http://hugefloods.com/Ellensburg.html
http://hugefloods.com/Beezley-Hills-Field-Trip-1.pdf