[meteorite-list] Postal Service Honors NASA Planetary Discoveries with 2016 Stamps

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http://www.nasa.gov/feature/postal-service-honors-nasa-planetary-discoveries-with-2016-stamps
 
Postal Service Honors NASA Planetary Discoveries with 2016 Stamps
December 30, 2015

The U.S. Postal Service has previewed the New Year's series of stamps 
highlighting NASA's Planetary Science program, including a do-over of 
a famous Pluto stamp commemorating the NASA New Horizons' historic 2015 
flyby. 

[Image]
Pluto Explored! In 2006, NASA placed a 29-cent 1991 "Pluto: Not Yet Explored"
stamp in the New Horizons spacecraft. In 2015 the spacecraft carried the 
stamp on its history-making mission to Pluto and beyond. With this stamp, 
the Postal Service recognizes the first reconnaissance of Pluto in 2015 
by NASA's New Horizon mission. The souvenir sheet of four stamps contains 
two new stamps appearing twice. The first stamp shows an artists' rendering 
of the New Horizons spacecraft and the second shows the spacecraft's enhanced 
color image of Pluto taken near closest approach.
Credits: USPS/Antonio Alcala  Copyright 2016 USPS

The Postal Service on Wednesday released a preview of its new 2016 stamps, 
which include an image of Pluto and the New Horizons spacecraft, eight 
new colorful Forever stamps of NASA images of solar system planets, a 
Global Forever stamp dedicated to Earth's moon as well as another postal 
treat for space fans: a tribute to 50 years of Star Trek.

"U.S. Postal stamps express the enthusiasm and personality of senders 
to favorite themes in our society. From Mercury to Neptune, Pluto and 
Star Trek, it's exciting to see that planetary science and space exploration 
are being celebrated in these new 2016 stamps," said John Grunsfeld, NASA's 
associate administrator for science in Washington. "On behalf of NASA 
scientists across the nation, we're honored that the U.S. Postal Service 
has chosen to highlight NASA's New Horizons and 50 years of planetary 
exploration with these iconic images."

[Image|
Pluto Explored. (left to right): New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan 
Stern of Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder, Colorado; New Horizons’ 
Deputy Project Scientist Leslie Young, SwRI; Johns Hopkins University 
Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) Director Ralph Semmel; Annette Tombaugh, 
daughter of Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto in 1930; and New Horizons 
Co-Investigator Will Grundy, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona hold 
a print of the 1991 Pluto stamp - with their suggested update - on July 
14 at APL in Laurel, Maryland.
Credits: NASA/Bill Ingalls

The Pluto stamps are of special significance to NASA and the New Horizons 
team, which placed a 29-cent 1991 "Pluto: Not Yet Explored" stamp on board 
the spacecraft. On July 14, New Horizons carried the tiny postage stamp 
on its history-making journey to Pluto and beyond, as members of the mission 
team celebrated with a large print, striking the words "not yet." 
 
"The New Horizons project is proud to have such an important honor from 
the U.S. Postal Service," said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator 
from the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. 'Since the 
early 1990s the old, 'Pluto Not Explored' stamp served as a rallying cry 
for many who wanted to mount this historic mission of space exploration. 
Now that NASA's New Horizons has accomplished that goal, it's a wonderful 
feeling to see these new stamps join others commemorating first explorations 
of the planets."

The souvenir sheet of four stamps contains two new stamps appearing twice. 
The first stamp shows an artist's rendering of NASA's New Horizons Pluto 
flyby spacecraft and the second shows the spacecraft's enhanced color 
image of Pluto taken by New Horizons near its closest approach to Pluto.

The view - which is color enhanced to highlight surface texture and composition 
- is a composite of images from New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance 
Imager (LORRI), combined with color data from the imaging instrument Ralph 
that clearly reveals the now-famous heart-shaped feature stretched across 
Pluto's surface; this feature has been named Tombaugh Regio in honor of 
Pluto's discoverer, Clyde Tombaugh. Antonio Alcala of Alexandria, Virginia 
was the art director for these stamp designs.

"Our stamps articulate the American experience through miniature works 
of art," said Acting Stamp Services Director Mary-Anne Penner. "Our diverse 
stamp topics for 2016 are sure to appeal to everyone, and with the New 
Year just around the corner, now is a perfect time to get started in stamp 
collecting. It's an educational hobby the entire family can enjoy."

The "Pluto Explored!" stamps will be dedicated in late May of 2016 at 
the World Stamp Show in New York.

Other space-themed stamps highlighting NASA images of the solar system 
planets, Earth's moon, and popular culture in the 2016 collection include:

[Image]
Views of Our Planets

With this pane of 16 Forever stamps, the Postal Service showcases some 
of the more 

[meteorite-list] 'I saw meteorite break up over Plymouth on New Year's Eve', says supermarket worker

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Regards!

Tom

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[meteorite-list] MBC 10 Russian microscopes

[Michael Farmer via Meteorite-list]

List members

I have two MBC 10 Russian microscopes for sale. $500 each! 
These are wonderful desktop instruments. Both have lights. One has fiber-optic 
light. One has bulb light. 
I don't use them, it's better to let someone who will enjoy them have them. 

Michael Farmer
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[meteorite-list] Ad - NWA 10203 Lunar Part Slices and Endcuts, Rare Black and Red Trinitite

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Hi Friends and Collectors,

To ring in the New Year, I am offering some superb lunar specimens
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As always, use coupon code "metlist" at checkout for 20% off your
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I also have another small fragment of black (non-metal containing)
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In addition to the trinitite, I have several very nice specimens of
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[meteorite-list] Mining Asteroids

[Sean Brooks via Meteorite-list]

Hello Listers,
 Over the years there's been a lot of talk about
mining asteroids for gold, diamonds, platinum and other valuable
metals. There are groups forming companies, looking for investors and
finding them. What I'm wondering is if all that treasure is out
there wouldn't we already have found it in the tens of thousands of
meteorite samples we know about within the meteorite community? I
realize we've found nano diamonds and nickel along with the iron group
material but is there any thing indicating that there's any reason to
justify the expense of an space mining operation? If I'm wrong about
what we've already found in meteorite samples please correct me. Any
thoughts?

Sean Brooks
#7781
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Re: [meteorite-list] Looking for high quality Sikhote Alin

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Me too but I haven't found any



> On 4 Jan 2016, at 21:20, Wah via Meteorite-list 
>  wrote:
> 
> Dear List, 
> 
> I'm looking for high quality Sikhote Alin specimens. 
> If you have such specimens for sale, please contact me. 
> Thank you very much! 
> 
> Best Regards, 
> 
> Wah!
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[meteorite-list] Looking for high quality Sikhote Alin

[Wah via Meteorite-list]

Dear List, 

I'm looking for high quality Sikhote Alin specimens. 
If you have such specimens for sale, please contact me. 
Thank you very much! 

Best Regards, 

Wah!
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[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

[Paul Swartz via Meteorite-list]

Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: NWA 8177

Contributed by: Geoff Notkin/Aerolite Meteorites

http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=01/05/2016
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