[meteorite-list] Eaggle Butte little reassumed

2002-02-22 Thread Matteo Chinellato
hello all Then, this is a small reassumed of the situation: After my demand care greater information on the meteorite Eagle Butte, this personage has said to me that the meteorite had been found in the place described in the first email that I have sent to you. To my second answer, informing

Re: [meteorite-list] Melting meteorite iron?

2002-02-22 Thread meteorite1.net
Hello Jeff, Yes you are correct, if you melt down Gibeon or any other Iron meteorite the Widmanstatten pattern that was formed from long term cooling will be destroyed. You will be left with a nickel-iron alloy depending on what the smelter or blacksmith adds to the mix, any silicate

[meteorite-list] impactite

2002-02-22 Thread Dave Harris
Hi Graham, Sounds very much like impactite to me - you have provided a very good description of my Monturaqui impactite!! -- In gentle decay, dave IMCA #0092 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for IMCA member contact) http://www.meteorites.ic24.net/index.html http://www.meteoritecollectors.org I have a

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteor crater impactite?

2002-02-22 Thread MARK BOSTICK
Hello Graham! Your description sounds like an Arizona impactite to me.Send me your address and I will send you a free little Monturaqui impactite so you can compare them. Since I missed the bandwagon to send you free stuff:-) I will also include a little NWA encrite and Carion's new

[meteorite-list] Copter Crash - Meteorite?

2002-02-22 Thread magellon
All, The tragic US Army copter crash (which left no survivors) was witnessed by fishermen about a mile or two from the crash site. I find it very odd that they would think the copter was brought down by a meteorite Quote: 'Rodrigo Alanano, mayor of Dauin town on nearby Negros, said he talked

[meteorite-list] Info needed on NWA 531

2002-02-22 Thread Dfpens
Dear Listees: Can anyone on this list provide info on the recovery date and TKW for NWA 531 (LL5)? I'm a bit confused. I haven't been able to find anything on NWA's in the Catalog of Meteorites (5th edition). And in Jensen's book Meteorites from A to Z, on page 131 there is the following

[meteorite-list] NYTimes.com Article: EBay Is Asked to Remove Trade Center Items

2002-02-22 Thread wsulliva
This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] EBay Is Asked to Remove Trade Center Items February 22, 2002 By MICHAEL COOPER The Bloomberg administration demanded that eBay remove World Trade Center memorabilia from its Web site.

Re: [meteorite-list] Info needed on NWA 531

2002-02-22 Thread Bernd Pauli HD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone on this list provide info on the recovery date and TKW for NWA 531 (LL5)? Hi Dave and List, Northwest Africa 531 LL4, S1; W1; Rissani, Morocco Found 2000 (year uncertain) 434 gr; 1 piece Type specimen 19.4 gr. Classified by M. Denise (MNHNP); main mass

Re: [meteorite-list] Copter Crash - Meteorite?

2002-02-22 Thread Ron Baalke
All, I feel so stupid! It never once thought that the fishermen were describing the falling Chinook helicopter as a meteorite. Duh! As big and noisy as they are, I wouldn't expect someone a mile or two away to mistake it for a meteorite! It is not uncommon for people witnessing a

Re: [meteorite-list] Copter Crash - Meteorite?

2002-02-22 Thread magellon
You are correct No wonder it made no sense to me. Thank you for putting up with the ramblings of a fool. Sending away for "Hooked on Phonics," kn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reading that quote, surely they're saying that they thought the helicopter *was* a meteorite as it fell, and not that

Re: [meteorite-list] Info needed on NWA 531

2002-02-22 Thread David Freeman
Dear Dave; I haven't had time to look it up but since the Catalogue of Meteorites actually came out a year ago, and it went to the print deadline before that, I would think you would have to wait for the 6th. edition of the Catalogue of Meteorites to get the explosion of NWA classifieds in

[meteorite-list] Re: Eagle Butte - Dr. Schimpf and the Royal Tyrell Museum

2002-02-22 Thread Sharkkb8
In regard to the rather astonishingly crude and unprofessional emails Matteo has been receiving from the self-styled member of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Tyrell Museum in Alberta, I sent a polite email to the Museum, explaining the situation in nonaccusatory terms, and asking about

[meteorite-list] US-Antarctic Database Updated

2002-02-22 Thread Bernd Pauli HD
Hello All! I've just imported the 281 US-Antarctic meteorites contained in AMN 25-1, 2002 - collected from the Queen Alexandra Range during the 1999-2000 field season. The highlights among the mostly ordinary chondrites (a lot of which are LL5's!) are: 2 eucrites (1 brecciated / 1 unbrecciated)

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteor crater impactite? THANK YOU!!

2002-02-22 Thread Tracy Latimer
If you are close enough, maybe you can go up and snoop around the Eagle Butte astrobleme and see if you can find any bits of the Eagle Butte Meteorite for yourself and help us resolve the current raging controversy :-) At any rate, I'd bet you'll find some nice meteorwrongs... Tracy Latimer

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Eagle Butte - Dr. Schimpf and the Royal Tyrell Museum

2002-02-22 Thread Tracy Latimer
That's an absolutely LOVELY letter. Short and to the point. I'd seriously consider sending a copy to Ebay/SafeHarbor. They probably won't do anything about it, but it would be another link in the chain of evidence against this yoyo. I just received my piece of the Eagle Butte Meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Eagle Butte - Dr. Schimpf and the Royal Tyrell Museu

2002-02-22 Thread MARK BOSTICK
Hello All, As I was saying about a week ago I have few samples of this meteorite I have just gotten I am willing to send out. I should probley look up Wassen's e-mail and see if he is interseted in looking at them. If someone has it handy please send it to me and I will see what he thinks. Other

[meteorite-list] Eagle Butte Picts.

2002-02-22 Thread magellon
Eagle Butters, I downloaded a few interesting picts from current E. Butte auction. Meteoric or Volcanic? Flow Lines 1 Flow Lines 2 Back Auction Site: METEORITE - Fe/Ni Meteorite Frag. L@@KS NEAT safe landings, kn

Re: [meteorite-list] Eagle Butte Picts.

2002-02-22 Thread Matt Morgan
Those are not meteorites. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 12:59 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Eagle Butte Picts. Eagle Butters, I downloaded a few interesting picts from current E. Butte

[meteorite-list] AD: Web Site Sale

2002-02-22 Thread Jason Phillips
Hello List, I am having a sale this weekend: -10% off of everything on my web site www.rocksfromheaven.com -Small stable Nantan's 15 cents a gram. -Dhofar 020 (H4-5) Nice Fusion Crusted Individuals and Fragments 50 cents a gram. -All tektites (Moung-Nong and Indochinite) small and large 12 cents

[meteorite-list] New Expedition

2002-02-22 Thread Jason Mccain
I am beginning the process of arranging a new expedition for the first time. Anyone out there have any ideas or hints? I'll be searching in the California desert in the USA. I would really like to find some pallisites, they are deffinately the most interesting. Thank you. Jason

Re: [meteorite-list] NYTimes.com Article: This is important to all sellers!

2002-02-22 Thread Mark Miconi
EVERYONE that sells on Ebay needs to complain about items like this: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1075645659 Please take 5 minutes and write ebay. Ever had someone get that smirk on their face when you say you sell on Ebay? THIS IS WHY. I realize this is off topic, but

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Eagle Butte - Dr. Schimpf and the Royal Tyrell Museum

2002-02-22 Thread Matteo Chinellato
Hello all Thanks to all you for the support that you have given to me for this thing, when it is right that a person comes punished why has to offend a person uselessly that it asked information. Ebay has answered to me and it has said me that they cannot make null, but council to all to send

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteor crater impactite? THANK YOU!!

2002-02-22 Thread Graham Christensen
I would be happy to, I have never been to a crater before so it sounds like fun. I might have a chance to search it in the summer if it is nearby. Does anyone have a good map of the area showing where the crater is, roads, nearby towns, where the 'meteorites' are found etc?

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Eagle Butte - Dr. Schimpf and the Royal Tyrell Museum

2002-02-22 Thread meteorites
On Fri, 22 February 2002, Matteo Chinellato wrote Hello all Thanks to all you for the support that you have given to me for this thing, when it is right that a person comes punished why has to offend a person uselessly that it asked information. Ebay has answered to me and it has

Re: [meteorite-list] Eaggle Butte little reassumed - a brief comment

2002-02-22 Thread John Gwilliam
Matteo and List Members, It seems to me that the logical thing to do would be to purchase a piece of this alleged Eagle Butte, Eaggle Butte, Eagle Button...whatever, and simply send it to a reputable lab to have it tested. This would give some finality to the current issue. Just because a

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Eagle Butte - Dr. Schimpf and the Royal Tyrell Museum

2002-02-22 Thread Tracy Latimer
What pond scum! After their meteorite has been identified as a meteorwrong, they go off and invent some official sounding title to sell their fraudulent find to people who don't know better. If this didn't happen almost constantly, I'd be stomping around demanding to know what could be done

Re: [meteorite-list] Eaggle Butte little reassumed - a brief comment

2002-02-22 Thread Tracy Latimer
I have a piece of the wretched thing in my custody right now; I just received it from geopaleo_guy. Where do you recommend I send it to be tested? I'm willing to sacrifice it in the name of finishing this mess (although if it turns out to be meteoric, I want the remnants, and no fair keeping

RE: [meteorite-list] Other on Eagle Butte

2002-02-22 Thread Greg Redfern
Hello Matteo and List, This individual, TRUE identity unknown (after all this is the Internet), certainly does not accord themselves as an educated person. Sticking with fact and not flowery language, proves one's point. The louder and more vulgar the reaction, the less confident of their

[meteorite-list] Thanks RUSS and Go Canada

2002-02-22 Thread Tettenborn
Many thanks to Russ from New England Meteoritical Services for donating Murchison dust for my son's science fair project. Russ, your tops! The samples are prepared and the timing begun to see what benefits algae and radish seeds will gain from growing in Murchison enriched water. And,