[meteorite-list] Images of Kainsaz CO 3.1 individual available now

2002-08-13 Thread Ivan Koutyrev
Dear listers! Ask me if interesting to sendfull size images of twovery beautiful individuals of Meteorite Kainsaz CO 3.1 - 229 and 396 gram each. Make an offer please. They are available for short time. Ivan

[meteorite-list] Re: [meteorite-list] YEAH!!! The 4° meteorite in Belgium

2002-08-13 Thread Christian Steyaert
Vincent, Any news about this? Thanks, Chris At 22:27 14/06/2002 +0200, vincent jacques wrote: Hello all, ... Secondly, Belgium should have a fourth meteorite. the first new meteorite since 1896! It is a observed fall in December 2001, and immediately

[meteorite-list] Re: Perseids?

2002-08-13 Thread Sharkkb8
The list used to receive dozens of Perseid-reports by this point in the evening of Aug 12.can we assume that it's not much of a show this year, last night or tonight? I'm about to head out north of the Neon Desert (Las Vegas) but can only assume that the lack of discussion suggests that it

[meteorite-list] Tektite Question

2002-08-13 Thread Mike Groetz
Good Morning- Something I have noticed some of my tektite specimens and have also seen in some of the photos of those for sale- many of them have a flat along one side of the elongated pieces. The flats are not perfectly straight so I do not believe they are man made. My thoughts include

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2002-08-13 Thread Steve Arnold, Chicago!!!
Good morning list. I have 10 gram slice of the TUCSON RING meteorite forsale? Anyone intersted? Please email me off list for price. Also check my new sale page. Let me know. steve = Steve R.Arnold, Chicago, IL, 60120 I. M. C. A.

[meteorite-list] Re: Perseids....

2002-08-13 Thread CMcdon0923
I was only out for a brief stint around midnight local time (Dallas, TX), and only saw one meteor that I could reliably trace back to Perseus. But, I saw at least three that could be traced back to emanating from Cepheus...definitely not Perseids, and a little too much coincidence to all have

[meteorite-list] Tektites from SE Arizona Ebay

2002-08-13 Thread drtanuki
Members, Does anyone have information about (complaints or comments to the seller on Ebay)on his sale of the Tektites from SE Arizona? I was bidding on these and then at the last minutes of the sale the seller retracted the sale claiming complaints. Please contact me off list. Thank you.

[meteorite-list] terrestial impacts

2002-08-13 Thread chris sharp
Hi, good article, with excellent graphics: www.miracosta.cc.ca.us/home/ kmeldahl/articles/blows.pdf chris sharp __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Fw: new email address while travelling, plus ebay auctions...

2002-08-13 Thread Michael Cottingham
- Original Message - From: Michael Cottingham To: Michael Cottingham Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 9:26 AM Subject: new email address while travelling, plus ebay auctions... Hello, As some of you may care I will have a new email address while travelling...starting on September

[meteorite-list] Perseids

2002-08-13 Thread Dave Harris
Hi, Well, I have been waiting a long time to be able to sit outside with my oldest boy at 11 o clock at night and watch a meteor storm! Made me feel like a real parent! And Sam (who is 10) got a real buzz being able to stay up late! What a gas!!! not a great number of them, but those that we saw

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Man Arrested Again (Gibeon Meteorite)

2002-08-13 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.namibian.com.na/2002/august/news/027A5E63D9.html 'Meteorite man' arrested again WERNER MENGES The Namibian August 13, 2002 A WINDHOEK resident who was arrested last year after a stolen meteorite was allegedly found in his possession is back in Police custody, again on charges

[meteorite-list] Eads, Colo.

2002-08-13 Thread Allen Shaw
Greetings List, I have available acomplete uncut oriented individual of said meteorite weighing in @ ~ 7 3/4 pounds. Anyone interested can contact me off list. All the best, Allen.

[meteorite-list] Perseids

2002-08-13 Thread SSachs9056
Hi List, Stayed up till 3:30am (my co-workers always know why I use a vacation day after the Perseids :-) Chicago time...waiting for cloud cover to break...it didn't. Chicago weather is fickle. The evening sky of the 10th and 11th was absolutely clear, and saw (2) on Sat. and (3) on Sun.

[meteorite-list] Re: Deciphering Denshal Dog Data

2002-08-13 Thread Ron Baalke
Even though my skeptical nature leads me to scrutinize the impact dog event, I remain open-minded to any new evidence supporting either side. No one asks for anything more. While looking through the literature for any helpful data, I found a non-peer-reviewed paper, published by Eugster et

Re: [meteorite-list] How do you know?

2002-08-13 Thread Ron Baalke
I have been told that only one in one thousand rocks submitted to the experts at the universities and other meteorite identification labs, turns out to be an actual meteorite. I've always thought the odds were more like one in a hundred. This applies for rocks brought in from the general

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Man Arrested Again (Gibeon Meteorite)

2002-08-13 Thread James_TOM Knudson
This article gives us "good guys" A bad name I wish selfish people would think of the rest of us. Thanks, Tom From: Ron Baalke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Meteorite Mailing List) Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Man Arrested Again (Gibeon Meteorite) Date: Tue, 13 Aug

[meteorite-list] tektite Sale

2002-08-13 Thread TektiteDawg
Could the person interested (from NL) in the large bediasite for sale in a recent post of mine please email me again? Thanks. Randy in N.O. __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Nahkla's entry angle

2002-08-13 Thread Matson, Robert
Hi Ron and List, One comment on the angle of atmospheric entry for Nakhla. You wrote: Another consideration for the Nakhla strewnfield is the angle of trajectory through the atmosphere. Nahkla had a very inclined path, just 30 degrees from the horizontal. If you exclude the effect of

[meteorite-list] Perseids a bust

2002-08-13 Thread Tracy Latimer
Sounds like the good folks in GB might have gotten the best show of all of us this year; any reports from our observers on the Continent? I usually take a fast look at the skies many nights, but it had completely slipped my mind that the Perseid shower was the night of the 12th, so I didn't

RE: [meteorite-list] Perseids a bust

2002-08-13 Thread Jonathan Brown
Well, here in Manchester (UK) things looked like they were going to be great at 6pm, there was little cloud for a change, and the blue sky made me think that it was going to be a good night. But as it got darker the cloud became more prevalent and soon enough a fairly dense layer had built up -

[meteorite-list] Tagish Lake entry angle

2002-08-13 Thread Bernd Pauli HD
Hello Rob and List, I would be curious to know what the estimated angles were for Tagish Lake. I suspect ... 25 degrees or less. Cheers, Rob The entry angle was shallow, about 16 degrees from the horizontal, causing an unusually long shooting star that lasted some 15 seconds, according to

[meteorite-list] Binningup's entry angle

2002-08-13 Thread Bernd Pauli HD
Matson, Robert wrote: I would be curious to know what the estimated angles were for Peekskill, Tagish Lake and the recent Bavarian fall. I suspect they are all 25 degrees or less. Hello again, Binningup, H5, slightly friable Binningup beach, near Bunbury Western Australia Fell 1984, Sep

[meteorite-list] Pribram's and Neuschwanstein's entry angle

2002-08-13 Thread Bernd Pauli HD
Matson, Robert wrote: I would be curious to know what the estimated angles were for Peekskill, Tagish Lake and the recent Bavarian fall. I suspect they are all 25 degrees or less. Pribram's slope was given as 43° and the first observations of the Bavarian fireball (Neuschwanstein) gave a

Re: [meteorite-list] Tagish Lake entry angle

2002-08-13 Thread David Weir
Hello, Peekskill is not your conventional event: At 7:48 P.M. a greenish fireball brighter than the full moon appeared over Kentucky and traveled in a near-grazing trajectory of only 3.4° for more than 700 km in a north-northeasterly direction for at least 40 seconds, finally landing in

[meteorite-list] St. Robert entry angle - Contradictory statements

2002-08-13 Thread Bernd Pauli HD
Matson, Robert wrote: I would be curious to know what the estimated angles were for Peekskill, Tagish Lake and the recent Bavarian fall. I suspect they are all 25 degrees or less. Hello Everybody, BROWN P. et al. (1995) The fall of the St. Robert meteorite: Interpretation of eyewitness

Re: [meteorite-list] St. Robert entry angle - Contradictory statements

2002-08-13 Thread Bernd Pauli HD
Peter Brown kindly informed us:: The first of these references is from an early solution using eyewitness only data. The second solution is the more accurate as it uses satellite data to make the estimate of the entry angle. Thank you very much. Very much appreciated! Best wishes, Bernd

[meteorite-list] St. Robert entry angle

2002-08-13 Thread Matson, Robert
Hi All, Peter Brown explained: The first of these references is from an early solution using eyewitness only data. The second solution is the more accurate as it uses satellite data to make the estimate of the entry angle. I saw the discrepancy and assumed one was an early estimate. The TKW on

[meteorite-list] Tagish Lake direction of flight

2002-08-13 Thread Bernd Pauli HD
Ron Baalke wrote: Obviously, there is a collecting bias in the Tagish Lake strewnfield data, not unlike Nakhla's strewnfield. Does anyone know the direction of flight for the Tagish Lake fireball? The cover image of MAPS 37-5, 2002, May, does show the trajectory projected onto a Landsat 7

Re: [meteorite-list] St. Robert entry angle

2002-08-13 Thread Ron Baalke
I saw the discrepancy and assumed one was an early estimate. The TKW on St. Robert (ordinary chondrite) was 25.4 kg according to the Catalogue of Meteorites. Note the fairly slow estimated entry velocity: A statistical evaluation of the likely heliocentric orbits for the body prior to

[meteorite-list] Minimum asteroid atmospheric entry velocity

2002-08-13 Thread Matson, Robert
Ron Baalke wrote: There are [different?] velocity measurements. There is velocity relative to Earth prior to accerleration caused by Earth's gravity (V infinity), and the velocity at atmospheric entry which include's Earth's gravity field (V impact). Agreed. Obviously the velocity we're

[meteorite-list] tagish lake video

2002-08-13 Thread SPACEROCKSINC
Can any of you tell me where I could obtain a video of the Tagish Lake Fall? Recall seeing one on PBS here in SC but can't recall who it was from. Thanks! Michael D. Johnson SPACE ROCKS, INC. 932 Hanging Rock Road Boiling Springs, South Carolina 29316-7401 USA Tel: 1-864-578-5188

[meteorite-list] Perseids

2002-08-13 Thread Dfpens
Dear List: I spent the past two nights out at the local amateur astronomers association observatory in Deer Lakes Park (Wagman Observatory), about 20 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, PA. Sunday night was fairly clear with high thin clouds. Between midnight and 2:30 am, we saw about a dozen

Re: [meteorite-list] Minimum asteroid atmospheric entry velocity

2002-08-13 Thread Ron Baalke
Unless there is some very recent radar data that indicates otherwise, I have serious doubts that 2000 SG344 is an asteroid. After quite a bit of photometric analysis in November of 2000, I'm fairly convinced that 2000 SG344 is actually the Saturn V upper stage to Apollo 12 launched in

Re: [meteorite-list] Perseids

2002-08-13 Thread MuseumStore/NatureSource
Sam was demanding to see one, having waited outside for what must have been a very long 10 minutes to him, when, right on cue, as soon as Sam had extorted Well, C'mon, let's see one!, a huge arc of yellow light cut the heavens in half - he was most impressed with his apparent ability to summon

[meteorite-list] Cat-Faced Sikhote

2002-08-13 Thread geoking
Dear Listees: Greetings from sweltering New York/New Jersey. It was great to see the meteorite community so well represented at the Springfield, Mass show this past weekend. I believe it was the best turn out ever with (by my count) eight dealers displaying meteorites on their tables, and a

[meteorite-list] One Year Ago

2002-08-13 Thread Bernd Pauli HD
Darryl Futrell

[meteorite-list] pic of the ring

2002-08-13 Thread Steve Arnold, Chicago!!!
Good evening all. There is a photo of the 10 gram TUCSON RING slice on my sale page. Enjoy at your liesure. = Steve R.Arnold, Chicago, IL, 60120 I. M. C. A. MEMBER #6728 The Midwest Meteorite Collector! Website url http://stormbringer60120.tripod.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Cat-Faced Sikhote

2002-08-13 Thread SSachs9056
Geoff and list, Geoff, Very cool! Put a piece of red cellophane behind the holes, shine a light through it, voila...instant Halloween meteorite! Thanks for sharing it. Great pic by the way...what type of camera do you use? Digital? Best, Steven L. Sachs /

[meteorite-list] displays

2002-08-13 Thread James_TOM Knudson
Hello List, I need Ideas! I have no idea how to display my growing collection of meteorites! I would like to walk in a room and see them, But how? I am lost, I want them to look nice! Anybody have any suggestions they would share? Maybe some Pics? Any Ideas would be appreciated greatly!

[meteorite-list] Perseids 2001

2002-08-13 Thread Robert Woolard
Hello List, I went out between 4:00-5:15 AM Monday the 12th here in Little Rock, Arkansas to try to catch a pre-peak-peek at the Perseids. The sky was mostly clear then, and the forecast was calling for clouds and rain moving in Monday night. It was a good thing I did go then, because the

[meteorite-list] Perseids 2002

2002-08-13 Thread Robert Woolard
Whoops! Obviously I meant 2002, not 2001. Gotta work on my typing skills a little more I guess! Robert Woolard __ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com

[meteorite-list] Re: Cat-Faced Sikhote + Cameras

2002-08-13 Thread geoking
Dear Steven and List: Steven posted: Put a piece of red cellophane behind the holes, shine a light through it, voila...instant Halloween meteorite! Brilliant idea! Now I won't have to make a costume to scare the neighborhood kids. Thanks for the tip : ) Great pic by the way...what type of

[meteorite-list] Digital cameras

2002-08-13 Thread Matson, Robert
Hi Geoff and List, Geoff posted: The 880 is, unfortunately, no longer in production. Nikon's current comparable (or superior?) cameras are the 995 and the 5000. I have worked with the 995 and achieved good results, but it is considerably larger and heavier than the 880. I have not yet had an

Re: [meteorite-list] One Year Ago

2002-08-13 Thread Impactika
In a message dated 8/13/2002 4:26:34 PM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Darryl Futrell ONE year! Already! I am still coming up with questions that I wish I could ask of him. Anne Black IMCA #2356 www.IMPACTIKA.com e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [meteorite-list] Digital cameras

2002-08-13 Thread MARK BOSTICK
Hello Geoff, Robert and list, I use the Nikon 990. It is big and heavy but I am use to it and it has held up so far to the bashing I give it so I can't complain. I saw Richard Norton with one in Tuscon and picked one up when I came home. (If anyone cares, All of the Nikon Coolpix's can be

Re: [meteorite-list] Perseids?

2002-08-13 Thread ceweed
Hi Greg list Here in Qatar the show was dissappointing at around 11pm got one N-S fireball then 2 others within 15 minutes , then nothing gave up around midnight with a stiff neck sore throat All the best Colin - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, August 13,

[meteorite-list] Perseids?

2002-08-13 Thread Springmoon99
Clear skies and gorgeous showing in Pacific Northwest. Outside of the city, perfectly clear night. About 1 a minute starting at 10 pm. Not much more frequency after 2 am, tho. Earlier was just as nice. M. Grimes __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [meteorite-list] Perseids

2002-08-13 Thread Springmoon99
In a message dated 8/13/02 8:37:39 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What really surprised me was the very large number of satellites we both saw going across the sky - maybe 6 or so? We saw about 20 satellites in 3 hours What is going on with that? My son, 16, at first trying to be blase,