Re: [meteorite-list] Pasamonte stone! & FILMS
Hi Jeff and List, Jeff, thanks very much for making these movies available for list (and non list) members. Your video archives and Mark's text archives complement each other very nicely. I witnessed my first fireball a few days ago, on 12/22/05. I left work early that day because I was sick. I was driving home about 4:00 p.m. It was very sunny with only a few clouds. I happend to be approaching a bridge over a river and about a mile of marshland and I saw it traveling from roughly east to west, at a very steep angle. It was breaking up and disentegrating and looked a lot like the peekskill videos on Jeff's site. This was in broad daylight! It was amazing. After years of night-time astronomical observations, during which I have seen many sporadic meteorites, this was amazing. The illusion of closeness was very real. It seemed as though I could have driven over the bridge and into the marsh (with subsequent explanations to my wife) and there a meteorite would be - right in the middle of the marsh! I will never forget it. I hope to see one again. -Walter Branch __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Pasamonte stone! & FILMS
Bernd wrote: "Pasamonte is unique in many different respects: another unique feature was its glowing, twisted and distorted trail of ionized atmosperic gases similar to the lingering trail of the Tagish Lake carbonaceous chondrite." Reminds me of the Magadan, Russia meteor in July, 2000. There's a video of it about halfway down my films page. www.meteorites.com.au/films/ If anyone wants the meteor/truck commercial it is also availale here: http://www.meteorites.com.au/films/desertmeteor.wmv. Cheers, Jeff - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 1:14 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Pasamonte stone! A "stoked" Mike Farmer wrote: "Well, after 9 years of dealing and collecting meteorites, I have finally succeeded in getting a complete Pasamonte stone! I recently bought a stone from a collector, with British Museum label, 39 grams, Nininger #197V British Museum # 1959-756." http://www.meteoriteguy.com/collection/pasamonte.htm heck it out and tell me what you think. Gee, that's *g r e a t* ... like looking at the Holy Grail of meteorites! " I am stoked about adding this rare little puppy to my "new" collection. " One can really see "live" and "on-line" how excited Michael F. must have been because in his write-up you can read that this stone "have" serious provenance. Well, who wouldn't be overcome with such joy if we were him! Pasamonte is a polymict, very friable, brecciated, noncumulate eucrite and resembles my little Stannern piece that I purchased from Martin Horejsi some time ago: black, glossy, frothy fusion crust, a shining white interior, fragile and *beautiful*. Only difference: Stannern is monomict. Pasamonte is unique in many different respects: another unique feature was its glowing, twisted and distorted trail of ionized atmosperic gases similar to the lingering trail of the Tagish Lake carbonaceous chondrite. Mike, sincere congrats on the acquisition of this "drool-worthy" beauty! Bernd __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Pasamonte stone!
A "stoked" Mike Farmer wrote: "Well, after 9 years of dealing and collecting meteorites, I have finally succeeded in getting a complete Pasamonte stone! I recently bought a stone from a collector, with British Museum label, 39 grams, Nininger #197V British Museum # 1959-756." http://www.meteoriteguy.com/collection/pasamonte.htm Check it out and tell me what you think. Gee, that's *g r e a t* ... like looking at the Holy Grail of meteorites! " I am stoked about adding this rare little puppy to my "new" collection. " One can really see "live" and "on-line" how excited Michael F. must have been because in his write-up you can read that this stone "have" serious provenance. Well, who wouldn't be overcome with such joy if we were him! Pasamonte is a polymict, very friable, brecciated, noncumulate eucrite and resembles my little Stannern piece that I purchased from Martin Horejsi some time ago: black, glossy, frothy fusion crust, a shining white interior, fragile and *beautiful*. Only difference: Stannern is monomict. Pasamonte is unique in many different respects: another unique feature was its glowing, twisted and distorted trail of ionized atmosperic gases similar to the lingering trail of the Tagish Lake carbonaceous chondrite. Mike, sincere congrats on the acquisition of this "drool-worthy" beauty! Bernd To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Pasamonte stone!
In a message dated 1/2/2006 9:53:42 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, after 9 years of dealing and collecting meteorites, I have finally succeeded in getting a complete Pasamonte stone! I recently bought a stone from a collector, with British Museum label, 39 grams, Nininger #197V British Museum # 1959-756. http://www.meteoriteguy.com/collection/pasamonte.htm Check it out and tell me what you think. I am stoked about adding this rare little puppy to my "new" collection. I just finished reading the section in "Find a Falling Star", about the Pasamonte fall, and I am sitting here with the book, and the story written 50 years ago, and holding one of Nininger's stones! Red it on pages 65-70. This is what I love about meteorites, reading the history, I can almost see myself standing there with Nininger, asking so many people about the fireball, excited and anxious about tracking down the meteorite that he knew was close-by. Michael Farmer -- A couple years ago during a local mineral show, a young woman asked me if I had a piece of the Pasamonte meteorite, I did, just a micro and she bought it. I asked her why she was interested by that meteorite in particular. She told me she had just finished writing the history of the family that had owned the Pasamonte Ranch when the meteorite fell, it was her thesis for a PhD in History. We talked quite a while longer, and she finally mailed a copy of her thesis to me. Very interesting. BTW: would you like to guess where that family lived before they bought the Pasamonte Ranch? PARAGOULD. And they spent some time in Texline too!!! Weird! Anne M. Black www.IMPACTIKA.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] President, I.M.C.A. Inc. www.IMCA.cc __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Pasamonte stone!
Well, after 9 years of dealing and collecting meteorites, I have finally succeeded in getting a complete Pasamonte stone! I recently bought a stone from a collector, with British Museum label, 39 grams, Nininger #197V British Museum # 1959-756. http://www.meteoriteguy.com/collection/pasamonte.htm Check it out and tell me what you think. I am stoked about adding this rare little puppy to my "new" collection. I just finished reading the section in "Find a Falling Star", about the Pasamonte fall, and I am sitting here with the book, and the story written 50 years ago, and holding one of Nininger's stones! Red it on pages 65-70. This is what I love about meteorites, reading the history, I can almost see myself standing there with Nininger, asking so many people about the fireball, excited and anxious about tracking down the meteorite that he knew was close-by. Michael Farmer __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
