Re: [meteorite-list] Kossuth IVA iron meteorite (USA, Iowa, 1975)
I have a very nice slice of Kossuth. 160.8g Anne M. Black www.IMPACTIKA.com impact...@aol.com -Original Message- From: cbo via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com To: meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wed, Feb 4, 2015 11:58 am Subject: [meteorite-list] Kossuth IVA iron meteorite (USA, Iowa, 1975) Dear Listers! Iam looking for the Kossuth IVA (USA, Iowa) iron meteorite. If you have anybody for sale piece please contact me. MetBull link of Kossuth IVA iron meteorite: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=12350 Best Regards! Zsolt Kereszty Hungary IMCA#6251 Meteoritical Society __ 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] Meteorite Picture of the Day
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: NWA 6112 TS Contributed by: Peter Marmet http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=02/04/2015 __ 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] Calgary, Alberta, Canada Meteor Apprx. 1925 MST 03FEB2015 w/ video
List, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Meteor Apprx. 1925 MST 03FEB2015 w/ video http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2015/02/calgary-albert-canada-meteor-03feb2015.html Dirk Ross...Tokyo __ 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] Ron Hartman Collection items coming to Tucson
Thank you for clarifying this and the well-thought out response. I will make one correction. There are no such thing as Nevada BLM agents. They are federally employed so have no state boundaries and are free to roam about like the rest of the Department of Interior across state lines. Adam . - Original Message - From: Robert Verish bolidecha...@yahoo.com To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com; Raremeteorites raremeteori...@centurylink.net Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Ron Hartman Collection items coming to Tucson Recently returned from a mineralogy symposium and every speaker commented on the problem with the BLM and Forest Service obstructing their field research. But that is off-topic. What is on-topic, and where more discussion needs to be done, is how these agencies are increasingly holding back meteorite researchers from conducting field work, by requiring more and more paperwork and permits. The next fall on public lands will find researchers unable to get to the strewn-field in a timely manner, because they will be mired in regulations. The primary concern of these .gov agencies seems to be in generating more and more paperwork. My first hand experience with the Nevada BLM is that they have little interest in meteorite-recovery and even less about meteorite-hunters removing a scant few pounds from the surface of the ground. They seem to have little interest in science, let alone hobbyists and their meteorites. So, it is no surprise that they have little concern about private property rights. Good luck in your battles protecting your rights. Bob V. -- On Feb 3, 2015, at 1:20 AM, Robert Verish via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: I'm forwarding a message from the curator for the Ron Hartman Collection, that he will be in Tucson later this week and will be making available some specimens from that collection. Here is a short list of some of the specimens being offered for trade or sale: ID# 35) Clover Springs Mesosiderite 6.6255 g. V. Good Corner slice. (SMB) ID# 37) Bensour, Morocco Ordinary Chondrite, LL6 5.69 g. Individual. Fell 2-11-2002 ID# 49) Cleo Springs Ordinary Chondrite, H4 53.9 g. Good Slice ID# 55) Songyuan [label has printed: Fuyu, (proposed name)] Jilin, China Ordinary Chondrite, H5 13.75 g. Part-slice. Fell 8-15-1993 (ex. mhmeteorites) ID# 56) Hebron Stone H6 Brecciated 17.19 g. Good Part slice. Thayer Co. Nebraska ID# 70) Silver Dry Lake Ordinary Chondrite, L4 S2 W2 1.272 g. Good endcut, nice fusion crust. [On HOLD] ID# 79) Dar al Gani DaG 749 Carbonaceous Chondrite CO3 12.622 g. V. Good - Rectangular slice. ID#380) Sahara SAH 99433 OC Stone 56.86 g. V. Good thick complete slice. ID#875) Pallasovka Pallasite 11.0 g. V. Good quarter-circle slice. The curators contact information will not be known until after he arrives in Tucson. In the meanwhile, if you are interested in making an offer or trade, you can reply to me and I will relay your messages. Bob Verish __ __ 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] Ron Hartman Collection items coming to Tucson
Recently returned from a mineralogy symposium and every speaker commented on the problem with the BLM and Forest Service obstructing their field research. But that is off-topic. What is on-topic, and where more discussion needs to be done, is how these agencies are increasingly holding back meteorite researchers from conducting field work, by requiring more and more paperwork and permits. The next fall on public lands will find researchers unable to get to the strewn-field in a timely manner, because they will be mired in regulations. The primary concern of these .gov agencies seems to be in generating more and more paperwork. My first hand experience with the Nevada BLM is that they have little interest in meteorite-recovery and even less about meteorite-hunters removing a scant few pounds from the surface of the ground. They seem to have little interest in science, let alone hobbyists and their meteorites. So, it is no surprise that they have little concern about private property rights. Good luck in your battles protecting your rights. Bob V. -- On Feb 3, 2015, at 1:20 AM, Robert Verish via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: I'm forwarding a message from the curator for the Ron Hartman Collection, that he will be in Tucson later this week and will be making available some specimens from that collection. Here is a short list of some of the specimens being offered for trade or sale: ID# 35) Clover Springs Mesosiderite 6.6255 g. V. Good Corner slice. (SMB) ID# 37) Bensour, Morocco Ordinary Chondrite, LL6 5.69 g. Individual. Fell 2-11-2002 ID# 49) Cleo Springs Ordinary Chondrite, H4 53.9 g. Good Slice ID# 55) Songyuan [label has printed: Fuyu, (proposed name)] Jilin, China Ordinary Chondrite, H5 13.75 g. Part-slice. Fell 8-15-1993 (ex. mhmeteorites) ID# 56) Hebron Stone H6 Brecciated 17.19 g. Good Part slice. Thayer Co. Nebraska ID# 70) Silver Dry Lake Ordinary Chondrite, L4 S2 W2 1.272 g. Good endcut, nice fusion crust. [On HOLD] ID# 79) Dar al Gani DaG 749 Carbonaceous Chondrite CO3 12.622 g. V. Good - Rectangular slice. ID#380) Sahara SAH 99433 OC Stone 56.86 g. V. Good thick complete slice. ID#875) Pallasovka Pallasite 11.0 g. V. Good quarter-circle slice. The curators contact information will not be known until after he arrives in Tucson. In the meanwhile, if you are interested in making an offer or trade, you can reply to me and I will relay your messages. Bob Verish __ __ 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] Kossuth IVA iron meteorite (USA, Iowa, 1975)
Dear Listers! Iam looking for the Kossuth IVA (USA, Iowa) iron meteorite. If you have anybody for sale piece please contact me. MetBull link of Kossuth IVA iron meteorite: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=12350 Best Regards! Zsolt Kereszty Hungary IMCA#6251 Meteoritical Society __ 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] UNM scientist studies the authenticity of meteorites
Hello Listers Enjoy :) Shawn Alan IMCA 1633 ebay store http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633ny/m.html Website http://meteoritefalls.com UNM scientist studies the authenticity of meteorites In 2011, Carl Agee received a rock in the mail from a meteorite collector in Morocco. At the time, nobody knew what it was or where it had come from. Even for Agee, director of UNM’s Institute for Meteoritics, the rock’s origin remained a mystery for quite some time. “This collector sent it to me because no one knew what it was, and it took me months of laboratory analyses to figure it out,” Agee said. At the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, he tested the rock’s chemical composition, isotopic composition, and mineralogy to determine its makeup. “From all of those different lines of evidence, the picture that emerged was that it was a meteorite from Mars,” he said. Now, Agee is being funded by NASA to study the meteorite, known as NWA 7034, or “Black Beauty” for its dark color. There are several reasons why NASA is interested in Black Beauty. Tests showed that it contains 10 to 30 times more water than any previously studied Martian sample. Agee and his team also found that the meteorite is composed of a variety of minerals, ranging from 4.4 to 2.1 billion years old. “There are different fragments of the Martian crust all together in the same meteorite in addition to the water, so there’s a record of the surface processes on Mars for about two billion years,” Agee said. Black Beauty is also notable, Agee said, because it is very similar to the rock samples that are currently being collected by the two rovers on Mars, which use a robotic remote sensing technique to identify the rocks’ composition. “Black Beauty finally forms the first tangible meteorite link to the rocks that NASA’s rovers are sampling in outcrops on Mars,” Agee wrote in the Universities Space Research Association’s report for the Eighth International Conference on Mars. He notes that the meteorite provides insight into volcanic activity on the planet, which is one of his research specialties. While Agee is best known for his work in meteoritics, he was originally trained as a geologist, which is how he began researching volcanoes. He said he became interested in planetary geology while working on his doctoral degree at Columbia University. “If you’re trained in geology, planets are like whole new worlds to map out and understand,” Agee said. After finishing at Columbia, he taught at Harvard for eight years before moving to Houston to work at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. He said he came to UNM because he enjoys the intellectual atmosphere of a university. “I have contracts for NASA that I work on, so I’m still involved with them,” Agee said. “In addition to Black Beauty, they have also funded me for years to study the processes of planetary volcanism.” He uses the department’s high-pressure laboratory to simulate the conditions of planetary interiors to study the behavior of magma, he said. Source: http://www.dailylobo.com/article/2015/02/2-4-agee-profile __ 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] Met Bulletin Update - NWA, Lunar and Achondrites,
Hi Bulletin Watchers, There are 9 new approvals from the NWA DCA. There is one lunar, several achondrites of various types, and one OC. Link : http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?sea=%2Asfor=namesants=falls=valids=stype=containslrec=50map=gebrowse=country=Allsrt=namecateg=Allmblist=Allrect=phot=snew=1pnt=Normal%20tabledr=page=0 Best regards and Happy Huntings, MikeG -- - Web - http://www.galactic-stone.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone Twitter - http://twitter.com/galacticstone Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/galacticstone - __ 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] Rosetta Swoops In For A Close Comet Encounter
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Rosetta_swoops_in_for_a_close_encounter Rosetta Swoops In For A Close Encounter European Space Agency 4 February 2015 ESA's Rosetta probe is preparing to make a close encounter with its comet on 14 February, passing just 6 km from the surface. Yesterday was Rosetta's last day at 26 km from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, marking the end of the current orbiting period and the start of a new phase for the rest of this year. Today, Rosetta is moving into a new path ahead of a very close encounter next week. First, it will move out to a distance of roughly 140 km from the comet by 7 February, before swooping in for the close encounter at 12:41 GMT (13:41 CET) on 14 February. The closest pass occurs over the comet's larger lobe, above the Imhotep region. The upcoming close flyby will allow unique scientific observations, providing us with high-resolution measurements of the surface over a range of wavelengths and giving us the opportunity to sample taste or sniff the very innermost parts of the comets atmosphere, says Matt Taylor, ESAs Rosetta project scientist. The flyby will take Rosetta over the most active regions of the comet, helping scientists to understand the connection between the source of the observed activity and the atmosphere, or coma. In particular, they will be looking for zones where the outflowing gas and dust accelerates from the surface and how these constituents evolve at larger distances from the comet. The comet's surface is already known to be very dark, reflecting just 6% of the light that falls on it. During the close flyby, Rosetta will pass over the comet with the Sun directly behind, allowing shadow-free images to be collected. By studying the reflectivity of the nucleus as it varies with the angle of the sunlight falling on it, scientists hope to gain a more detailed insight into the dust grains on the surface. After this close flyby, a new phase will begin, when Rosetta will execute sets of flybys past the comet at a range of distances, between about 15 km and 100 km, says Sylvain Lodiot, ESA's spacecraft operations manager. It was always planned to change from bound orbits to flyby trajectories at this point in the mission, based on predictions of increasing cometary activity. The range of flyby distances also balances the various needs of Rosetta's 11 instruments in order to optimise the mission's scientific return. During some of the close flybys, Rosetta will encounter the comet almost in step with the rotation, allowing the instruments to monitor a single point on the surface as it passes by. Meanwhile, the more distant flybys will provide the broader context of a wide-angle view of the nucleus and its growing coma. We're in the main science phase of the mission now, so throughout the year we'll be continuing with high-resolution mapping of the comet, says Matt. We'll sample the gas, dust and plasma from a range of distances as the comet's activity increases and then subsides again later in the year. Perihelion, closest approach to the Sun, occurs on 13 August when the comet and Rosetta will be 186 million kilometres from the Sun, between the orbits of Earth and Mars. In the month before perihelion, as activity is reaching a peak, the team are planning to study one of the comet's jets in greater detail than ever. We hope to target one of these regions for a fly-through, to really get a taste of the outflow of the comet, adds Matt. After perihelion and once the comet's activity begins to subside, the mission team will determine if and when to return to a bound orbit around the comet, and how long Rosetta might be able to operate beyond the end of 2015. Follow the Rosetta blog and the @ESA_Rosetta and @esaoperations twitter accounts for further details on the upcoming spacecraft operations. __ 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] New Horizons Returns New Images of Pluto En Route to Historic Encounter
February 4, 2015 NASA Spacecraft Returns New Images of Pluto En Route to Historic Encounter NASA's New Horizons spacecraft returned its first new images of Pluto on Wednesday, as the probe closes in on the dwarf planet. Although still just a dot along with its largest moon, Charon, the images come on the 109th birthday of Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered the distant icy world in 1930. My dad would be thrilled with New Horizons, said Clyde Tombaugh's daughter Annette Tombaugh, of Las Cruces, New Mexico. To actually see the planet that he had discovered, and find out more about it -- to get to see the moons of Pluto-- he would have been astounded. I'm sure it would have meant so much to him if he were still alive today. New Horizons was more than 126 million miles (nearly 203 million kilometers) away from Pluto when it began taking images. The new images, taken with New Horizons' telescopic Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on Jan. 25 and Jan. 27, are the first acquired during the spacecraft's 2015 approach to the Pluto system, which culminates with a close flyby of Pluto and its moons on July 14. This is our birthday tribute to Professor Tombaugh and the Tombaugh family, in honor of his discovery and life achievements -- which truly became a harbinger of 21st century planetary astronomy, said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado. These images of Pluto, clearly brighter and closer than those New Horizons took last July from twice as far away, represent our first steps at turning the pinpoint of light Clyde saw in the telescopes at Lowell Observatory 85 years ago, into a planet before the eyes of the world this summer. Over the next few months, LORRI will take hundreds of pictures of Pluto, against a starry backdrop, to refine the team's estimates of New Horizons' distance to Pluto. As in these first images, the Pluto system will resemble little more than bright dots in the camera's view until late spring. However, mission navigators can still use such images to design course-correcting engine maneuvers to direct the spacecraft for a more precise approach. The first such maneuver based on these optical navigation images, or OpNavs, is scheduled for March 10. Pluto is finally becoming more than just a pinpoint of light, said Hal Weaver, New Horizons project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. LORRI has now resolved Pluto, and the dwarf planet will continue to grow larger and larger in the images as New Horizons spacecraft hurtles toward its targets. The new LORRI images also demonstrate that the camera's performance is unchanged since it was launched more than nine years ago. Closing in on Pluto at about 31,000 mph, New Horizons already has covered more than 3 billion miles since it launched on Jan. 19, 2006. Its journey has taken it past each planet's orbit, from Mars to Neptune, in record time, and it is now in the first stage of an encounter with Pluto that includes long-distance imaging as well as dust, energetic particle and solar wind measurements to characterize the space environment near Pluto. The U.S. has led the exploration of the planets and continues to do so with New Horizons, said Curt Niebur, New Horizons program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. This mission will obtain images to map Pluto and its moons better than has ever been achieved by any previous planetary mission. APL manages the New Horizons mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Alan Stern, of SwRI, is the principal investigator and leads the mission. SwRI leads the science team, payload operations and encounter science planning. New Horizons is part of the New Frontiers Program, managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. APL designed, built and operates the spacecraft. To view the Pluto image online and see the mission timeline for upcoming images, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons and http://pluto.jhuapl.edu -end- Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.br...@nasa.gov Michael Buckley Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. 240-228-7536 michael.buck...@jhuapl.edu Maria Stothoff Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio 210-522-3305 maria.stoth...@swri.org __ 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: New Rumuruti
Dear List: For those of you unable to make it to Tucson (like me...), I have several new stones to offer in the very near future. I loaded the first of the bunch to my site today. NWA 8720 is an R4 Rumuruti priced at a VERY reasonable $20/g. Only several slices and an endcut(with beautiful crust) available. I will be loading one crooked slice on ebay tomorrow. www.AJmetcltr.com/NWA8720 Thanks for peeking, and stay tuned for several more soon! Aras IMCA# 2117 www.AJmetcltr.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] MRO HiRISE Images: February 4, 2015
MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES February 4, 2015 o Tangential Craters within Ptolemaeus Crater http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_020065_1335 This image shows two small craters, just touching on their rims, in the much larger Ptolmaeus Crater. o Curiosity Rover at Pahrump Hills http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_039280_1755 The region contains sedimentary rocks that scientists believe formed in the presence of water. o Yardangs in Arsinoes Chaos http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_039563_1730 Yardangs are portions of rock that have been sand blasted into long, skinny ridges by bouncing sand particles blowing in the wind. o Icy Wonderland http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_039633_0950 The weak boundaries of the polygonal structure of the surface have been eroded by spring sublimation of carbon dioxide as energy from the Sun turns ice to gas. All of the HiRISE images are archived here: http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ Information about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is online at http://www.nasa.gov/mro. The mission is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, of Denver, is the prime contractor and built the spacecraft. HiRISE is operated by the University of Arizona. Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., of Boulder, Colo., built the HiRISE instrument. __ 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 Picture of the Day
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: NWA 1951 Contributed by: Peter Marmet http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=02/05/2015 __ 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
