[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Unclassified Contributed by: Laura Atkins http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=02/26/2016 __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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] 2nd recovered U.S. fall of 2016 - more details
Thank you to all of the great contributors that aid the in the recovery methodology thru their true diligence and love of the science! Without their help, this would be a near impossible task! Congratulations to all involved! Best Regards, Laura Atkins IMCA #4542 -Original Message- From: Meteorite-list [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Matson, Rob D. via Meteorite-list Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 1:22 PM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] 2nd recovered U.S. fall of 2016 - more details Hi All, Some further information about the circumstances leading to the successful meteorite recovery east of Lubbock, TX. First off, Mike Hankey deserves special notice since often the first indication we have of a new potential fall is the AMS website that he maintains. Marc Fries was the first to spot the nice Lubbock radar returns for this fall -- less than 18 hours after the event! I compiled those, and additional returns I found in the Amarillo radar, and then went on a search for seismic signatures or videos that could be used to pin down the time of the event. One Youtube video surfaced right away, taken from a dashcam on highway 183 near Euless, Texas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMkeVGSlV7o Pat Branch did some quick work measuring terminus angles, concluding that the vector lined up perfectly with the radar returns east of Lubbock. I soon located two more videos, one from some still undetermined location near Augusta, Kansas (east of Wichita) and some 580 km (!) from the fall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPDoZYfH4ko and another from a dashcam near Edmond, OK, north of Oklahoma City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPb7jrtX4p0 Pat Branch was successful in contacting the driver of this car who provided his exact location. There are numerous landmarks in this video that allowed me to determine reasonably accurate starting and ending directions. Triangulating this video with the one from Euless led to a fairly steep fireball entry angle and a nearly due west trajectory. However, upper atmospheric winds were relatively strong (over 100 mph to the southeast,) and not surprisingly this is the trend we see in the radar returns. All that remained was to get an accurate time for the event so that meteorite masses could be estimated (based on the time delay between the fall and when various radar volumes were scanned). Unfortunately, none of the three videos above has a sufficiently accurate timetag. But here again Pat came to the rescue. Rob Ferguson (the provider of the Edmond, OK dashcam) emailed Pat telling him that the fireball was also captured by the Oklahoma Dept. of Emergency Management's tower cam, and that a friend of his (Putnam Reiter) works there and pulled the video for him. This has a great, unobstructed view of the event, being up on a tower some 200 feet! Most importantly, it has a very accurate timetag, being regularly synced with a NTP server. So we now knew the beginning of the event was at 3:44:08 UT (21:44:08 CST). I determined that the earliest radar returns of the fall were from Amarillo NEXRAD at 3:45:49.7, just 99 seconds after the beginning of dark flight (~21:44:11 UT). This was how we knew meteorites were on the ground for sure, since dust or even small pebbles can't fall that far in less than 2 minutes. Anyway, this is getting a bit long and I want to get these details out there sooner rather than later in order to credit some of the important players that made this all happen. Hopefully it gives you a sense of the amount of detective work goes into chasing down these falls, and how much of a team effort it is. Cheers! Rob __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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 our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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] Opportunity Mars Rover Goes Six-Wheeling up a Ridge
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=5580 Opportunity Mars Rover Goes Six-Wheeling up a Ridge Jet Propulsion Laboratory February 25, 2016 NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is working adeptly in some of the most challenging terrain of the vehicle's 12 years on Mars, on a slope of about 30 degrees. Researchers are using Opportunity this month to examine rocks that may have been chemically altered by water billions of years ago. The mission's current targets of investigation are from ruddy-tinted swaths the researchers call "red zones," in contrast to tan bedrock around these zones. The targets lie on "Knudsen Ridge," atop the southern flank of "Marathon Valley," which slices through the western rim of Endeavour Crater. A panorama of Knudsen Ridge is online at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA20319 "We're hoping to take advantage of the steep topography that Mars provides us at Knudsen Ridge to get to a better example of the red zone material," said Steve Squyres of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, principal investigator for the mission. The red zone material crumbles easily. At locations in Marathon Valley where Opportunity already got a close look at it, the reddish bits are blended with other loose material accumulating in low locations. A purer exposure of the red zone material, such as some apparent on the ridge, would provide a better target for the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer on Opportunity's arm, which reveals the chemical composition of rocks and soil. Opportunity began climbing Knudsen Ridge in late January with two drives totaling 31 feet (9.4 meters). The wheels slipped less than 20 percent up slopes as steep as 30 degrees, the steepest the rover has driven since its first year on Mars in 2004. The slip is calculated by comparing the distance the rotating wheels would have covered if there were no slippage to the distance actually covered in the drive, based on "visual odometry" imaging of the terrain the rover passes as it drives. "Opportunity showed us how sure-footed she still is," said Mars Exploration Rover Project Manager John Callas at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. "The wheel slip has been much less than we expected on such steep slopes." The rover made additional progress toward targets of red-zone material on Knudsen Ridge with a drive on Feb. 18. Knudsen Ridge forms a dramatic cap overlooking the 14-mile-wide (22-kilometer-wide) Endeavour Crater. Its informal naming honors the memory of Danish astrophysicist and planetary scientist Jens Martin Knudsen (1930-2005), a founding member of the science team for Opportunity and the twin rover Spirit. "This ridge is so spectacular, it seemed like an appropriate place to name for Jens Martin," Squyres said. Marathon Valley became a high-priority destination for the Opportunity mission when mineral-mapping observations by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, located clay minerals (a type of phyllosilicate) in this valley. Clay minerals often form in the presence of water, which is why this is such a promising area of exploration. Opportunity found evidence of ancient water shortly after landing, but there were signs that the water would have been more highly acidic. The investigation in Marathon Valley could add understanding about the ancient environmental context for the presence of non-acidic water, a factor favorable for microbial life, if any has ever existed on Mars. "The locations of red zones in Marathon Valley correlate closely with the phyllosilicate signature we see from orbit," Squyres said. "That alone is not a smoking gun. We want to determine what it is about their chemistry that sets them apart and what it could have to do with water." To test the idea that water affected the red zone material, the experiment underway aims to compare the chemistry of that material to the chemistry of the surrounding tan bedrock, which could represent an unaltered baseline. Opportunity used its diamond-toothed rock abrasion tool last month to scrape the crust off a tan bedrock target for an examination of the chemistry inside the rock. The team is accomplishing productive science with Opportunity while avoiding use of the rover's flash memory, which was linked to several unplanned computer reboots last year. The only data being received from Opportunity is what can be transmitted each day before the solar-powered rover shuts down for energy-conserving overnight "sleep." For more information about Opportunity, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/rovers http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov Media Contact Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 guy.webs...@jpl.nasa.gov Dwayne Brown / Laurie Cantillo NASA Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 / 202-358-1077 dwayne.c.br...@nasa.gov / laura.l.canti...@nasa.gov 2016-050
[meteorite-list] When Is an Asteroid Not an Asteroid? When It's a Chunk of a Comet
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2016/02/18/asteroid_2016_ba14_is_actually_a_comet_chunk.html When Is an Asteroid Not an Asteroid? When It's a Chunk of a Comet. By Phil Plait February 18, 2016 If you think of them at all, you probably think of asteroids and comets as two distinct classes of objects. Asteroids are rocky and/or metallic, while comets are more icy and have fuzzy heads and long tails. But nature isn't so picky. Sometimes lines get blurred On Jan. 22 a small asteroid was seen in observations made by the Pan-STARRS survey telescope. The scope sweeps the sky every night, looking for (among other things) tiny specks of light that move among the background stars. These usually turn out to be asteroids, some of which get close to Earth. While we love all asteroids, astronomers are particularly interested in ones that get near our little world. For obvious reasons. The new asteroid was found to make a close approach to Earth on March 22, passing us at a distance of 3.5 million kilometers - close, in astronomical terms, though still far enough away to not be a danger for now. However, it does get close enough that keeping an eye on it is a good idea; it might make a closer flyby in the future. As is usual for such things, the new object was dutifully reported and assigned a temporary designation: asteroid 2016 BA14. Mind you, I'm biased, but I like that name (it being BA and all). But it wouldn't last. As reported by astronomer Michael Kelley, it didn't take long for people to notice the orbit of this object was extremely similar to the orbit of the comet 252P/LINEAR 12, which had been discovered back in 2000. Coincidence? Maybe. To find out, Kelley and Matthew Knight observed BA14 with the Discovery Channel Telescope (one of many 'scopes operated by Lowell Observatory in the US), and, to their surprise, they saw that it has a tail! You can see it in the photo at the top of this article; the tail is short and points away in the 10:00 direction. A tail is not very asteroidlike; it's more cometlike. The most likely explanation is that the comet 252P calved, or split, breaking apart into two pieces some time ago. The main chunk is what we call the comet 252P, and the smaller (but probably still substantial) piece is BA14. ... or used to be. Now that we know it's more like a comet, it's been given a comet name: P/2016 BA14 (PanSTARRS) - the "P" means it's a periodic comet, and the "(PanSTARRS)" is for the observatory that found it (comet names get complicated, but it's necessary). Both comets will pass the Earth in March, and happily Hubble Space Telescope observations are planned for that time, giving us a lot more information. Spectra of both objects would be best; that way we could tell just how similar they are in composition (breaking up the light from an object into thousands of individual colors is like taking a fingerprint of it, telling you what atoms and molecule are in it). Which brings me back to the difference between comets and asteroids. In reality, they aren't in two different classes; they fall along a continuum, with some being more rocky and metallic, some more rocky and filled with various ices (water, carbon dioxide, and so on). It's only in our own human brains that they're two separate things. Worse, comets can become asteroids! Every time a comet gets near the Sun, some of the ices turn to gas and blow away (making the head and tail), and are gone forever. Over time, it's possible for a comet to run out of volatile material, leaving behind a dead(ish) rocky body we'd be more likely to call an asteroid. A good example is the object 3552 Don Quixote, first thought to be a comet, but which looks more like an asteroid. Another is 3200 Phaethon, an asteroid that emits a stream of debris, so it acts more like a comet. I've written about both these objects, showing how our propensity for putting things into neat little boxes can trip us up. Asteroid? Comet? Nature doesn't care which is which. I'm not saying asteroids and comets are the same thing. They're clearly not! But I don't think we should think of them as being entirely separate, either. Just like big planets kinds sorta merge into being little stars, or big islands kinda sorta become continents, at the borders things get fuzzy. But that's also where they get interesting! Studying things at the edges of our definitions tells us more about objects on both sides of that line - and also reminds us that the line may not exist at all. __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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] Asteroid Dust Could Fight Climate Change on Earth
NOTE: This is an older article from 2012 http://www.livescience.com/23553-asteroid-dust-geoenineering-global-warming.html Asteroid Dust Could Fight Climate Change on Earth by Charles Q. Choi Live Science September 28, 2012 To combat global warming, scientists in Scotland now suggest an out-of-this-world solution - a giant dust cloud in space, blasted off an asteroid, which would act like a sunshade for Earth. The world is warming and the climate is changing. Although many want to prevent these shifts by reducing emissions of greenhouse gases that trap heat from the sun, some controversially suggest deliberating manipulating the planet's climate with large-scale engineering projects, commonly called geoengineering. Instead of altering the climate by targeting either the oceans or the atmosphere, some researchers have suggested geoengineering projects that would affect the entire planet from space. For instance, projects that reduced the amount of solar radiation Earth receives by 1.7 percent could offset the effects of a global increase in temperature of 3.6 degrees F (2 degrees C). The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has noted climate models suggest average global temperatures will likely rise by 2 to 11.5 degrees F (1.1 to 6.4 degrees C) by the end of this century. "A 1.7 percent reduction is very small and will hardly be noticeable on Earth," said researcher Russell Bewick, a space scientist at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. "People sometimes get the idea of giant screens blocking the entire sun. This is not the case ... as [the device] is constantly between the sun and the Earth, it acts merely as a very light shade or filter." Shading Earth One proposal to shade the Earth from the sun would place giant mirrors in space. The main problem with this concept is the immense cost and effort needed either to build and launch such reflectors or to construct them in outer space - the current cost to launch an object into low Earth orbit runs into thousands of dollars per pound. Another would use blankets of dust to blot out the sun, just as clouds do for Earth. These offer the virtue of simplicity compared with mirrors, but run the risk of getting dispersed over time by solar radiation and the gravitational pull of the sun, moon and planets. [Top 10 Craziest Environmental Ideas] Now instead of having a dust cloud floating by itself in space, researchers suggest an asteroid could essentially gravitationally anchor a dust cloud in space to block sunlight and cool the Earth. "I would like to make it clear that I would never suggest geoengineering in place of reducing our carbon emissions," Bewick told LiveScience. Instead, he said, "We can buy time to find a lasting solution to combat Earths climate change. The dust cloud is not a permanent cure, but it could offset the effects of climate change for a given time to allow slow-acting measures like carbon capture to take effect." The idea would be to place an asteroid at Lagrange point L1, a site where the gravitational pull of the sun and the Earth cancel out. This point is about four times the distance from the Earth to the moon. The researchers suggest outfitting a near-Earth asteroid with a "mass driver," a device consisting of electromagnets that would hurl asteroid-derived matter away from the giant rock. The mass driver could serve both as a rocket to push the asteroid to the L1 point and as an engine to spew out sun-shielding dust. [5 Reasons to Care About Asteroids] The researchers calculate that the largest near-Earth asteroid, 1036 Ganymed, could maintain a dust cloud large enough to block out 6.58 percent of the solar radiation that would normally reach Earth, more than enough to combat any current global warming trends. Such a cloud would be about 11 million-billion pounds (5 million-billion kilograms) in mass and about 1,600 miles (2,600 kilometers) wide. Ganymed has a mass of about 286 million-billion lbs. (130 million-billion kg). An asteroid of this size might make one think of disaster movies, such as "Armageddon"; however, "rather than destroying the Earth, it could be used to help mankind," Bewick said. Asteroid dust challenges The main challenge of this proposal would be pushing an asteroid the size of Ganymed to the sun-Earth L1 point. "The company Planetary Resources recently announced their intention to mine asteroids," Bewick said. "The study that they base their plans on reckons that it will be possible to capture an asteroid with a mass of 500,000 kilograms (1.1 million lbs.) by 2025. Comparing this to the mass of Ganymed makes the task of capturing it seem unfeasible, at least in everything except the very far term. However, smaller asteroids could be moved and clustered at the first Lagrange point." Safety is another concern. "A very large asteroid is a potential threat to Earth, and therefore great care and testin
Re: [meteorite-list] 2nd recovered U.S. fall of 2016
Great news, congrats to all who made it happen! Michael in so. Cal. On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:27 AM, Rob Matson via Meteorite-list wrote: > [Resending from a different account since the first attempt has not > shown up. Apologies if this turns out to be a repeat...] > > Hi All, > > Just want to report that the west Texas bolide that occurred one week > ago on the evening of 17 February 2016 is officially a fall: the second > successful radar-enabled recovery of 2016 (following Osceola, Florida) > as well as Texas' second Doppler-cued recovery (the first of course > being Ash Creek almost exactly seven years ago). Congratulations to > the persistent meteorite recovery team who walked the many miles to > make this another success story! --Rob > > > __ > > Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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 our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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] 2nd recovered U.S. fall of 2016 - more details
What a remarkable story! I’m so excited to see the technology coming together to produce results like this, and very grateful to Rob and the many volunteers who selflessly contribute so much time and expertise to the effort. I can imagine that the increasing proliferation of dashcams is likely to lead to more and more recoveries in the future. Congratulations to all involved! Doug Ross > On Thu, 2/25/16, Matson, Rob D. via Meteorite-list > wrote: > > Subject: [meteorite-list] 2nd recovered U.S. fall of 2016 - more details > To: "meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com" > > Date: Thursday, February 25, 2016, 10:22 AM > > Hi All, > > Some further information about the circumstances leading to the successful > meteorite recovery east of Lubbock, TX. First off, Mike Hankey deserves > special > notice since often the first indication we have of a new potential fall is the > AMS website that he maintains. Marc Fries was the first to spot the nice > Lubbock radar returns for this fall -- less than 18 hours after the event! I > compiled those, and additional returns I found in the Amarillo radar, and > then went on a search for seismic signatures or videos that could be used > to pin down the time of the event. One Youtube video surfaced right away, > taken from a dashcam on highway 183 near Euless, Texas: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMkeVGSlV7o > > Pat Branch did some quick work measuring terminus angles, concluding that > the vector lined up perfectly with the radar returns east of Lubbock. I soon > located two more videos, one from some still undetermined location near > Augusta, Kansas (east of Wichita) and some 580 km (!) from the fall: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPDoZYfH4ko > > and another from a dashcam near Edmond, OK, north of Oklahoma City: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPb7jrtX4p0 > > Pat Branch was successful in contacting the driver of this car who provided > his exact location. There are numerous landmarks in this video that allowed > me to determine reasonably accurate starting and ending directions. > Triangulating > this video with the one from Euless led to a fairly steep fireball entry > angle and > a nearly due west trajectory. > > However, upper atmospheric winds were relatively strong (over 100 mph to > the southeast,) and not surprisingly this is the trend we see in the radar > returns. > All that remained was to get an accurate time for the event so that meteorite > masses could be estimated (based on the time delay between the fall and > when various radar volumes were scanned). Unfortunately, none of the > three videos above has a sufficiently accurate timetag. > > But here again Pat came to the rescue. Rob Ferguson (the provider of the > Edmond, OK dashcam) emailed Pat telling him that the fireball was also > captured by the Oklahoma Dept. of Emergency Management's tower cam, > and that a friend of his (Putnam Reiter) works there and pulled the video for > him. This has a great, unobstructed view of the event, being up on a tower > some 200 feet! Most importantly, it has a very accurate timetag, being > regularly synced with a NTP server. So we now knew the beginning of the > event was at 3:44:08 UT (21:44:08 CST). I determined that the earliest radar > returns of the fall were from Amarillo NEXRAD at 3:45:49.7, just 99 seconds > after the beginning of dark flight (~21:44:11 UT). This was how we knew > meteorites were on the ground for sure, since dust or even small pebbles > can't fall that far in less than 2 minutes. > > Anyway, this is getting a bit long and I want to get these details out > there sooner rather than later in order to credit some of the important > players that made this all happen. Hopefully it gives you a sense of the > amount of detective work goes into chasing down these falls, and how > much of a team effort it is. > > Cheers! > Rob __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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] Ungrouped achondrites
Hello Daniel and List, I have plenty of Ungrouped meteorites that you may be interested in. I have one correction to your request list. NWA 4882 in a Brachinite and I have nearly all of it since my first purchase of the mass in 2007 during one of my dozens of individual trips to Morocco. Please see what I have available on my Nature’s Vault web site, home of ‘The Hupe Collection’ of meteorites and Planetary meteorites too! I also have dozens more of Officially Classified meteorites that I haven’t had time over the last several years to offer ‘yet’. I committed all of my time helping others to properly market their meteorites, and with great success I might add! Please visit my meteorite sales page here: http://www.naturesvault.net/meteorites.html Best Regards, Greg Greg Hupe The Hupe Collection gmh...@centurylink.net www.NaturesVault.net (Online Catalog & Reference Site) www.LunarRock.com (Online Planetary Meteorite Site) NaturesVault (Facebook, Pinterest & eBay) http://www.facebook.com/NaturesVault http://pinterest.com/NaturesVault IMCA 3163 Click here for my current eBay auctions: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZnaturesvault From: Daniel Dunlap via Meteorite-list Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 12:50 PM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Ungrouped achondrites Hello all, I am asking for information regarding the aquisition of a few ungrouped achondrites. Any information would be appreciated. I am looking specifically for... NWA 4882 NWA 6698 NWA 8777 Thanks for your time! Daniel __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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 our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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] Image of possible recent impact crater
What crater, EP?? On page 327, right under the picture it says: "The walls of a community’s sectorial fallow system radiate from the top of a hill". Anne M. Black www.IMPACTIKA.com impact...@aol.com -Original Message- From: E.P. Grondine via Meteorite-list To: meteorite-list Sent: Thu, Feb 25, 2016 11:47 am Subject: [meteorite-list] Image of possible recent impact crater Hola, amigos - For an image of the possible crater, see page 327 here: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/anthropology/system/files/EricksonLentzvol.pdf good hunting, everyone - E.P. __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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 our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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] 2nd recovered U.S. fall of 2016 - more details
Hello Rob, You could not have explained anymore succinctly everyone's contribution to this most successful recovery effort, without the risk of leaving out someone, or omitting a significant plot-turn to this remarkable story. I wonder, when this story hits the newswires, if the general public will realize how much of a "volunteer" effort was contributed by everyone that was involved in this recovery, or will they erroneously assume that the government pays all of these people to get this job done? Of course, a tip-of-the-hat to the NOAA NEXRAD, but other than that, the general public may be surprised to learn that none of their tax-dollars were spent on the recovery of this new American meteorite. Also, a tip-of-the-hat to all of the property-owners that gave permission to allow their land to be searched by the all-volunteer recovery team, otherwise very little chance of finding the meteorite. Looking forward to watching this story continue to unfold. Again thanks to all involved, Bob V. On Thu, 2/25/16, Matson, Rob D. via Meteorite-list wrote: Subject: [meteorite-list] 2nd recovered U.S. fall of 2016 - more details To: "meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com" Date: Thursday, February 25, 2016, 10:22 AM Hi All, Some further information about the circumstances leading to the successful meteorite recovery east of Lubbock, TX. First off, Mike Hankey deserves special notice since often the first indication we have of a new potential fall is the AMS website that he maintains. Marc Fries was the first to spot the nice Lubbock radar returns for this fall -- less than 18 hours after the event! I compiled those, and additional returns I found in the Amarillo radar, and then went on a search for seismic signatures or videos that could be used to pin down the time of the event. One Youtube video surfaced right away, taken from a dashcam on highway 183 near Euless, Texas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMkeVGSlV7o Pat Branch did some quick work measuring terminus angles, concluding that the vector lined up perfectly with the radar returns east of Lubbock. I soon located two more videos, one from some still undetermined location near Augusta, Kansas (east of Wichita) and some 580 km (!) from the fall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPDoZYfH4ko and another from a dashcam near Edmond, OK, north of Oklahoma City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPb7jrtX4p0 Pat Branch was successful in contacting the driver of this car who provided his exact location. There are numerous landmarks in this video that allowed me to determine reasonably accurate starting and ending directions. Triangulating this video with the one from Euless led to a fairly steep fireball entry angle and a nearly due west trajectory. However, upper atmospheric winds were relatively strong (over 100 mph to the southeast,) and not surprisingly this is the trend we see in the radar returns. All that remained was to get an accurate time for the event so that meteorite masses could be estimated (based on the time delay between the fall and when various radar volumes were scanned). Unfortunately, none of the three videos above has a sufficiently accurate timetag. But here again Pat came to the rescue. Rob Ferguson (the provider of the Edmond, OK dashcam) emailed Pat telling him that the fireball was also captured by the Oklahoma Dept. of Emergency Management's tower cam, and that a friend of his (Putnam Reiter) works there and pulled the video for him. This has a great, unobstructed view of the event, being up on a tower some 200 feet! Most importantly, it has a very accurate timetag, being regularly synced with a NTP server. So we now knew the beginning of the event was at 3:44:08 UT (21:44:08 CST). I determined that the earliest radar returns of the fall were from Amarillo NEXRAD at 3:45:49.7, just 99 seconds after the beginning of dark flight (~21:44:11 UT). This was how we knew meteorites were on the ground for sure, since dust or even small pebbles can't fall that far in less than 2 minutes. Anyway, this is getting a bit long and I want to get these details out there sooner rather than later in order to credit some of the important players that made this all happen. Hopefully it gives you a sense of the amount of detective work goes into chasing down these falls, and how much of a team effort it is. Cheers! Rob __ __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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] FWD from Alan Rubin/John Wasson: help from the meteorite list
Forwarded for Alan Rubin/John Wasson: My colleague John Wasson wants to publish this photo that is available on the web. The problems are that the resolution of the posted image is too low (by a factor of 2) and he has not been able to find find out the name of the owner. If you can help John please send him email at jtwas...@ucla.edu Please don't send him your own Treysa images unless they are better (sharper, no extraneous reflections, proper color of the troilite) than this one: http://www.meteoritecentral.com/img/wasson/TreysaMarburgMass.jpg Thanks. John -- Alan Rubin Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences University of California 3845 Slichter Hall 603 Charles Young Dr. E Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567 USA office phone: 310-825-3202 fax: 310-206-3051 e-mail: aeru...@ucla.edu website: http://cosmochemists.igpp.ucla.edu/Rubin.html __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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] Ungrouped Achondrites Clarification
Hello again group, I wanted to make clear my request. I am graduate student at Arizona State University. I am working on dating the formation of these ungrouped achondrites. So my request is not for personal use (unfortunately!). As such, I would only need something on the order of 1 gram, or so, of sample. Again any information regarding samples NWA 8777 NWA 4882 NWA 6698 would be much appreciated. Thanks for your time! Daniel __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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] 2nd recovered U.S. fall of 2016 - more details
Thanks for the behind the scenes details Rob. That's an amazing account of what it takes to pull this off. I thank you guys for what you do. Sincerely, Larry Atkins -Original Message- From: Matson, Rob D. via Meteorite-list To: meteorite-list Sent: Thu, Feb 25, 2016 11:22 am Subject: [meteorite-list] 2nd recovered U.S. fall of 2016 - more details Hi All, Some further information about the circumstances leading to the successful meteorite recovery east of Lubbock, TX. First off, Mike Hankey deserves special notice since often the first indication we have of a new potential fall is the AMS website that he maintains. Marc Fries was the first to spot the nice Lubbock radar returns for this fall -- less than 18 hours after the event! I compiled those, and additional returns I found in the Amarillo radar, and then went on a search for seismic signatures or videos that could be used to pin down the time of the event. One Youtube video surfaced right away, taken from a dashcam on highway 183 near Euless, Texas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMkeVGSlV7o Pat Branch did some quick work measuring terminus angles, concluding that the vector lined up perfectly with the radar returns east of Lubbock. I soon located two more videos, one from some still undetermined location near Augusta, Kansas (east of Wichita) and some 580 km (!) from the fall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPDoZYfH4ko and another from a dashcam near Edmond, OK, north of Oklahoma City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPb7jrtX4p0 Pat Branch was successful in contacting the driver of this car who provided his exact location. There are numerous landmarks in this video that allowed me to determine reasonably accurate starting and ending directions. Triangulating this video with the one from Euless led to a fairly steep fireball entry angle and a nearly due west trajectory. However, upper atmospheric winds were relatively strong (over 100 mph to the southeast,) and not surprisingly this is the trend we see in the radar returns. All that remained was to get an accurate time for the event so that meteorite masses could be estimated (based on the time delay between the fall and when various radar volumes were scanned). Unfortunately, none of the three videos above has a sufficiently accurate timetag. But here again Pat came to the rescue. Rob Ferguson (the provider of the Edmond, OK dashcam) emailed Pat telling him that the fireball was also captured by the Oklahoma Dept. of Emergency Management's tower cam, and that a friend of his (Putnam Reiter) works there and pulled the video for him. This has a great, unobstructed view of the event, being up on a tower some 200 feet! Most importantly, it has a very accurate timetag, being regularly synced with a NTP server. So we now knew the beginning of the event was at 3:44:08 UT (21:44:08 CST). I determined that the earliest radar returns of the fall were from Amarillo NEXRAD at 3:45:49.7, just 99 seconds after the beginning of dark flight (~21:44:11 UT). This was how we knew meteorites were on the ground for sure, since dust or even small pebbles can't fall that far in less than 2 minutes. Anyway, this is getting a bit long and I want to get these details out there sooner rather than later in order to credit some of the important players that made this all happen. Hopefully it gives you a sense of the amount of detective work goes into chasing down these falls, and how much of a team effort it is. Cheers! Rob __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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 our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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] 2nd recovered U.S. fall of 2016 - more details
Thanks for the behind the scenes details Rob. That's an amazing account of what it takes to pull this off. I thank you guys for what you do. Sincerely, Larry Atkins Sincerely, Larry Atkins IMCA # 1941 Ebay alienrockfarm -Original Message- From: Matson, Rob D. via Meteorite-list To: meteorite-list Sent: Thu, Feb 25, 2016 11:22 am Subject: [meteorite-list] 2nd recovered U.S. fall of 2016 - more details Hi All, Some further information about the circumstances leading to the successful meteorite recovery east of Lubbock, TX. First off, Mike Hankey deserves special notice since often the first indication we have of a new potential fall is the AMS website that he maintains. Marc Fries was the first to spot the nice Lubbock radar returns for this fall -- less than 18 hours after the event! I compiled those, and additional returns I found in the Amarillo radar, and then went on a search for seismic signatures or videos that could be used to pin down the time of the event. One Youtube video surfaced right away, taken from a dashcam on highway 183 near Euless, Texas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMkeVGSlV7o Pat Branch did some quick work measuring terminus angles, concluding that the vector lined up perfectly with the radar returns east of Lubbock. I soon located two more videos, one from some still undetermined location near Augusta, Kansas (east of Wichita) and some 580 km (!) from the fall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPDoZYfH4ko and another from a dashcam near Edmond, OK, north of Oklahoma City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPb7jrtX4p0 Pat Branch was successful in contacting the driver of this car who provided his exact location. There are numerous landmarks in this video that allowed me to determine reasonably accurate starting and ending directions. Triangulating this video with the one from Euless led to a fairly steep fireball entry angle and a nearly due west trajectory. However, upper atmospheric winds were relatively strong (over 100 mph to the southeast,) and not surprisingly this is the trend we see in the radar returns. All that remained was to get an accurate time for the event so that meteorite masses could be estimated (based on the time delay between the fall and when various radar volumes were scanned). Unfortunately, none of the three videos above has a sufficiently accurate timetag. But here again Pat came to the rescue. Rob Ferguson (the provider of the Edmond, OK dashcam) emailed Pat telling him that the fireball was also captured by the Oklahoma Dept. of Emergency Management's tower cam, and that a friend of his (Putnam Reiter) works there and pulled the video for him. This has a great, unobstructed view of the event, being up on a tower some 200 feet! Most importantly, it has a very accurate timetag, being regularly synced with a NTP server. So we now knew the beginning of the event was at 3:44:08 UT (21:44:08 CST). I determined that the earliest radar returns of the fall were from Amarillo NEXRAD at 3:45:49.7, just 99 seconds after the beginning of dark flight (~21:44:11 UT). This was how we knew meteorites were on the ground for sure, since dust or even small pebbles can't fall that far in less than 2 minutes. Anyway, this is getting a bit long and I want to get these details out there sooner rather than later in order to credit some of the important players that made this all happen. Hopefully it gives you a sense of the amount of detective work goes into chasing down these falls, and how much of a team effort it is. Cheers! Rob __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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 our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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] 2nd recovered U.S. fall of 2016 - more details
Incredible report. The new science of meteorite recovery is amazing. The time and effort of all is greatly appreciated. Thanks Rob and to everyone else that are taking part in these great recoveries. John On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Matson, Rob D. via Meteorite-list wrote: > Hi All, > > Some further information about the circumstances leading to the successful > meteorite recovery east of Lubbock, TX. First off, Mike Hankey deserves > special > notice since often the first indication we have of a new potential fall is the > AMS website that he maintains. Marc Fries was the first to spot the nice > Lubbock radar returns for this fall -- less than 18 hours after the event! I > compiled those, and additional returns I found in the Amarillo radar, and > then went on a search for seismic signatures or videos that could be used > to pin down the time of the event. One Youtube video surfaced right away, > taken from a dashcam on highway 183 near Euless, Texas: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMkeVGSlV7o > > Pat Branch did some quick work measuring terminus angles, concluding that > the vector lined up perfectly with the radar returns east of Lubbock. I soon > located two more videos, one from some still undetermined location near > Augusta, Kansas (east of Wichita) and some 580 km (!) from the fall: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPDoZYfH4ko > > and another from a dashcam near Edmond, OK, north of Oklahoma City: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPb7jrtX4p0 > > Pat Branch was successful in contacting the driver of this car who provided > his exact location. There are numerous landmarks in this video that allowed > me to determine reasonably accurate starting and ending directions. > Triangulating > this video with the one from Euless led to a fairly steep fireball entry > angle and > a nearly due west trajectory. > > However, upper atmospheric winds were relatively strong (over 100 mph to > the southeast,) and not surprisingly this is the trend we see in the radar > returns. > All that remained was to get an accurate time for the event so that meteorite > masses could be estimated (based on the time delay between the fall and > when various radar volumes were scanned). Unfortunately, none of the > three videos above has a sufficiently accurate timetag. > > But here again Pat came to the rescue. Rob Ferguson (the provider of the > Edmond, OK dashcam) emailed Pat telling him that the fireball was also > captured by the Oklahoma Dept. of Emergency Management's tower cam, > and that a friend of his (Putnam Reiter) works there and pulled the video for > him. This has a great, unobstructed view of the event, being up on a tower > some 200 feet! Most importantly, it has a very accurate timetag, being > regularly synced with a NTP server. So we now knew the beginning of the > event was at 3:44:08 UT (21:44:08 CST). I determined that the earliest radar > returns of the fall were from Amarillo NEXRAD at 3:45:49.7, just 99 seconds > after the beginning of dark flight (~21:44:11 UT). This was how we knew > meteorites were on the ground for sure, since dust or even small pebbles > can't fall that far in less than 2 minutes. > > Anyway, this is getting a bit long and I want to get these details out > there sooner rather than later in order to credit some of the important > players that made this all happen. Hopefully it gives you a sense of the > amount of detective work goes into chasing down these falls, and how > much of a team effort it is. > > Cheers! > Rob > > __ > > Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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 our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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] Image of possible recent impact crater
Hola, amigos - For an image of the possible crater, see page 327 here: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/anthropology/system/files/EricksonLentzvol.pdf good hunting, everyone - E.P. __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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] 2nd recovered U.S. fall of 2016 - more details
Hi, Thank you so much for this email. I LOVE THIS. Congratulations to all involved and with especial appreciation to those whose efforts helped to make this possible. Bravo! On Feb 25, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Matson, Rob D. via Meteorite-list wrote: > Hi All, > > Some further information about the circumstances leading to the successful > meteorite recovery east of Lubbock, TX. First off, Mike Hankey deserves > special > notice since often the first indication we have of a new potential fall is the > AMS website that he maintains. Marc Fries was the first to spot the nice > Lubbock radar returns for this fall -- less than 18 hours after the event! I > compiled those, and additional returns I found in the Amarillo radar, and > then went on a search for seismic signatures or videos that could be used > to pin down the time of the event. One Youtube video surfaced right away, > taken from a dashcam on highway 183 near Euless, Texas: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMkeVGSlV7o > > Pat Branch did some quick work measuring terminus angles, concluding that > the vector lined up perfectly with the radar returns east of Lubbock. I soon > located two more videos, one from some still undetermined location near > Augusta, Kansas (east of Wichita) and some 580 km (!) from the fall: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPDoZYfH4ko > > and another from a dashcam near Edmond, OK, north of Oklahoma City: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPb7jrtX4p0 > > Pat Branch was successful in contacting the driver of this car who provided > his exact location. There are numerous landmarks in this video that allowed > me to determine reasonably accurate starting and ending directions. > Triangulating > this video with the one from Euless led to a fairly steep fireball entry > angle and > a nearly due west trajectory. > > However, upper atmospheric winds were relatively strong (over 100 mph to > the southeast,) and not surprisingly this is the trend we see in the radar > returns. > All that remained was to get an accurate time for the event so that meteorite > masses could be estimated (based on the time delay between the fall and > when various radar volumes were scanned). Unfortunately, none of the > three videos above has a sufficiently accurate timetag. > > But here again Pat came to the rescue. Rob Ferguson (the provider of the > Edmond, OK dashcam) emailed Pat telling him that the fireball was also > captured by the Oklahoma Dept. of Emergency Management's tower cam, > and that a friend of his (Putnam Reiter) works there and pulled the video for > him. This has a great, unobstructed view of the event, being up on a tower > some 200 feet! Most importantly, it has a very accurate timetag, being > regularly synced with a NTP server. So we now knew the beginning of the > event was at 3:44:08 UT (21:44:08 CST). I determined that the earliest radar > returns of the fall were from Amarillo NEXRAD at 3:45:49.7, just 99 seconds > after the beginning of dark flight (~21:44:11 UT). This was how we knew > meteorites were on the ground for sure, since dust or even small pebbles > can't fall that far in less than 2 minutes. > > Anyway, this is getting a bit long and I want to get these details out > there sooner rather than later in order to credit some of the important > players that made this all happen. Hopefully it gives you a sense of the > amount of detective work goes into chasing down these falls, and how > much of a team effort it is. > > Cheers! > Rob > > __ > > Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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 our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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] 2nd recovered U.S. fall of 2016 - more details
Hi All, Some further information about the circumstances leading to the successful meteorite recovery east of Lubbock, TX. First off, Mike Hankey deserves special notice since often the first indication we have of a new potential fall is the AMS website that he maintains. Marc Fries was the first to spot the nice Lubbock radar returns for this fall -- less than 18 hours after the event! I compiled those, and additional returns I found in the Amarillo radar, and then went on a search for seismic signatures or videos that could be used to pin down the time of the event. One Youtube video surfaced right away, taken from a dashcam on highway 183 near Euless, Texas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMkeVGSlV7o Pat Branch did some quick work measuring terminus angles, concluding that the vector lined up perfectly with the radar returns east of Lubbock. I soon located two more videos, one from some still undetermined location near Augusta, Kansas (east of Wichita) and some 580 km (!) from the fall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPDoZYfH4ko and another from a dashcam near Edmond, OK, north of Oklahoma City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPb7jrtX4p0 Pat Branch was successful in contacting the driver of this car who provided his exact location. There are numerous landmarks in this video that allowed me to determine reasonably accurate starting and ending directions. Triangulating this video with the one from Euless led to a fairly steep fireball entry angle and a nearly due west trajectory. However, upper atmospheric winds were relatively strong (over 100 mph to the southeast,) and not surprisingly this is the trend we see in the radar returns. All that remained was to get an accurate time for the event so that meteorite masses could be estimated (based on the time delay between the fall and when various radar volumes were scanned). Unfortunately, none of the three videos above has a sufficiently accurate timetag. But here again Pat came to the rescue. Rob Ferguson (the provider of the Edmond, OK dashcam) emailed Pat telling him that the fireball was also captured by the Oklahoma Dept. of Emergency Management's tower cam, and that a friend of his (Putnam Reiter) works there and pulled the video for him. This has a great, unobstructed view of the event, being up on a tower some 200 feet! Most importantly, it has a very accurate timetag, being regularly synced with a NTP server. So we now knew the beginning of the event was at 3:44:08 UT (21:44:08 CST). I determined that the earliest radar returns of the fall were from Amarillo NEXRAD at 3:45:49.7, just 99 seconds after the beginning of dark flight (~21:44:11 UT). This was how we knew meteorites were on the ground for sure, since dust or even small pebbles can't fall that far in less than 2 minutes. Anyway, this is getting a bit long and I want to get these details out there sooner rather than later in order to credit some of the important players that made this all happen. Hopefully it gives you a sense of the amount of detective work goes into chasing down these falls, and how much of a team effort it is. Cheers! Rob __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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] 2nd recovered U.S. fall of 2016
Was this the fall west of Lubbock? Is there a city close by? Thanks Frank Carroll Houston Texas Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 25, 2016, at 8:48 AM, Ruben Garcia via Meteorite-list > wrote: > > Congratulations, on the find! > > Great Job. > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 2:27 AM, Rob Matson via Meteorite-list > wrote: >> [Resending from a different account since the first attempt has not >> shown up. Apologies if this turns out to be a repeat...] >> >> Hi All, >> >> Just want to report that the west Texas bolide that occurred one week >> ago on the evening of 17 February 2016 is officially a fall: the second >> successful radar-enabled recovery of 2016 (following Osceola, Florida) >> as well as Texas' second Doppler-cued recovery (the first of course >> being Ash Creek almost exactly seven years ago). Congratulations to >> the persistent meteorite recovery team who walked the many miles to >> make this another success story! --Rob >> >> >> __ >> >> Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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 > > > > -- > Rock On! > > Ruben Garcia > http://www.MrMeteorite.com > __ > > Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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 our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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] 2nd recovered U.S. fall of 2016
Congratulations both to Rob and to the intrepid discoverer(s) of this event! Can't wait till the exciting story is further revealed. I have a hunch for no particular reason that this meteorite and the circumstances of recovery will be extra-special (as all are)! Cheers, Doug -Original Message- From: Rob Matson via Meteorite-list To: 'meteorite-list' Sent: Thu, Feb 25, 2016 4:27 am Subject: [meteorite-list] 2nd recovered U.S. fall of 2016 [Resending from a different account since the first attempt has not shown up. Apologies if this turns out to be a repeat...] Hi All, Just want to report that the west Texas bolide that occurred one week ago on the evening of 17 February 2016 is officially a fall: the second successful radar-enabled recovery of 2016 (following Osceola, Florida) as well as Texas' second Doppler-cued recovery (the first of course being Ash Creek almost exactly seven years ago). Congratulations to the persistent meteorite recovery team who walked the many miles to make this another success story! --Rob __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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 our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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] 2nd recovered U.S. fall of 2016
Congratulations, on the find! Great Job. On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 2:27 AM, Rob Matson via Meteorite-list wrote: > [Resending from a different account since the first attempt has not > shown up. Apologies if this turns out to be a repeat...] > > Hi All, > > Just want to report that the west Texas bolide that occurred one week > ago on the evening of 17 February 2016 is officially a fall: the second > successful radar-enabled recovery of 2016 (following Osceola, Florida) > as well as Texas' second Doppler-cued recovery (the first of course > being Ash Creek almost exactly seven years ago). Congratulations to > the persistent meteorite recovery team who walked the many miles to > make this another success story! --Rob > > > __ > > Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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 -- Rock On! Ruben Garcia http://www.MrMeteorite.com __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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] 2nd recovered U.S. fall of 2016
That's some great news. Congratulations to the finder/s! I can't wait to see what type it is. Sincerely, Larry Atkins IMCA # 1941 Ebay alienrockfarm -Original Message- From: Rob Matson via Meteorite-list To: 'meteorite-list' Sent: Thu, Feb 25, 2016 2:27 am Subject: [meteorite-list] 2nd recovered U.S. fall of 2016 [Resending from a different account since the first attempt has not shown up. Apologies if this turns out to be a repeat...] Hi All, Just want to report that the west Texas bolide that occurred one week ago on the evening of 17 February 2016 is officially a fall: the second successful radar-enabled recovery of 2016 (following Osceola, Florida) as well as Texas' second Doppler-cued recovery (the first of course being Ash Creek almost exactly seven years ago). Congratulations to the persistent meteorite recovery team who walked the many miles to make this another success story! --Rob __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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 our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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
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[meteorite-list] 2nd recovered U.S. fall of 2016
[Resending from a different account since the first attempt has not shown up. Apologies if this turns out to be a repeat...] Hi All, Just want to report that the west Texas bolide that occurred one week ago on the evening of 17 February 2016 is officially a fall: the second successful radar-enabled recovery of 2016 (following Osceola, Florida) as well as Texas' second Doppler-cued recovery (the first of course being Ash Creek almost exactly seven years ago). Congratulations to the persistent meteorite recovery team who walked the many miles to make this another success story! --Rob __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and 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
