RE: [meteorite-list] SAD: eBay Bidders TAKE ACTION YOU NEED TO SEE THIS!!!

Dear List, While the STS-107 crew represented the best of humanity, this tragic event has brought out the nadir of human characteristics. They are repugnant and worthy of all our scorn and ridicule. May they lose their shirts trying to propser from blood money. I hope the decent ebayers and e

Re: [meteorite-list] SAD: eBay Bidders TAKE ACTION YOU NEED TO SEE THIS!!!

Hi Jamie and List, Intererstingly, if one goes to Ebay and just put in the words: "Columbia Shuttle" there are now hundreds of BRAND NEW auctions all list on Feb. 1, including--one guy selling 500 "In Memorium" buttons with a pic of the shuttle crew, another selling tee-shirts with a picture of

[meteorite-list] OT: eBay Bidders TAKE ACTION YOU NEED TO SEE THIS!!!

This person is selling the same thing but I don't see them getting nailed.  With the seller cadattack, it looks like the same person(s) is doing this.   http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3205272624&category=13904   Jamie

Re: [meteorite-list] BRECCIA

Wow, Mohammed. If only I had the wonderful photographic equipment and abundance of time to dedicate to meteorite hunting that you evidently have! That large inclusion in your stone is suspiciously reminiscent of brain coral. What a find! evidence of life from exospace? Remember what I said pre

[meteorite-list] OT: eBay Bidders TAKE ACTION YOU NEED TO SEE THIS!!!

I was concerned about somne of the jerks on ebay capitalizing on the tragidy. Well take a minute to notice that buyers are not going to stand for it. This seller listed over 100 auctions today of high resolution photos on CD and sold them all. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item

Re: [meteorite-list] Caltech Astronomer Saw Shuttle Apparently in Trouble Over California

Hi, This may not be the "smoking gun" that it appears to be. It is usual for the hot ionized plasma that surrounds the shuttle to "detach" from the fireball surrounding the craft and trail back before cooling enough to go dark. The only way to distinguish between trailing plasma-balls and trai

[meteorite-list] Seven Perish As Shuttle Breaks Up

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$I3JOJM0VERFHTQFIQMGCFF4AVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2003/02/02/wshut02.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/02/02/ixnewstop.html Seven perish as Shuttle breaks up By Julian Coman The Telegraph (United Kingdom) February 2, 2003 America was plunged into mourning once

[meteorite-list] Caltech Astronomer Saw Shuttle Apparently in Trouble Over California

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/shuttle_astronomer030201.html Astronomer Spots Trouble Astronomer Saw Shuttle Apparently in Trouble Over California By John Antczak The Associated Press February 1, 2003 Los Angeles - Space shuttle Columbia appeared to begin trailing fiery debri

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: eBay Does Notice

Hi Sterling and List, I think I spoke too soon. Although legal on ebay you have to wonder about the morals of someone who lists dozens of auctions, starting today, with the phrase, "You should BUY IT NOW, to get the item quicker after this tragic loss." Another person has dozen of auctions with

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: eBay Does Notice

Hi Sterling, Thanks very much for the info. I was afraid of this but I am glad ebay is doing the right thing. -Walter Walter Branch, Ph.D. 322 Stephenson Ave., Suite B Savannah, GA 31405 www.branchmeteorites.com - Original Message - F

[meteorite-list] Body Remains Found In Hemphill, Texas

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/5083301.htm Shuttle Debris Found in Texas, Louisiana PAM EASTON Associated Press February 1, 2003 NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Debris rained down Saturday over hundreds of square miles of Texas and Louisiana, smashing a rooftop, splashing int

[meteorite-list] Tucson meteorites, Wiluna

Hi again from sunny Tucson. We are in mourning here at the show. But, the show goes on. I am announcing some more Tucson specials here. I was lucky to see a box unpacked today from Wiluna Australia. Wiluna is a fall from Western Australia September 2, 1967. 150 kilos of small stones rained

[meteorite-list] NASA Asks For Help With Columbia Investigation

Robert Mirelson Headquarters, Washington Feb. 1, 2003 (Phone: 202/358-1600) 5 p.m. EST Eileen Hawley Johnson Space Center, Houston (Phone: 281-483-5111) RELEASE: 03-033 NASA ASKS FOR HELP WITH COLUMBIA INVESTIGATION NASA has established a telephone hotline and electr

[meteorite-list] OT: eBay Does Notice

Dear List, Within four hours of the loss of Columbia, there were auctions on eBay for pieces of recovered debris from the downed shuttle, a gruesome and criminal prospect:

[meteorite-list] Off Topic - Fitting poem for STS-107

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Re: [meteorite-list] BRECCIA

Dear Mohamed, again you are showing us some nice and professional pics of some breccia. But sorry, Mate, even I can see from the pics, thats no meteorite at all. Your FLOW LINES are just weathering grooves in the limestone inclusion. I envy your enthusiasm and your endeavour to find your own

[meteorite-list] Statement By NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe

Robert Mirelson Headquarters, WashingtonFeb. 1, 2003 (Phone: 202/358-1600) 4 p.m. EST RELEASE: 03-032 STATEMENT BY NASA ADMINISTRATOR SEAN O'KEEFE "This is indeed a tragic day for the NASA family, for the families of the astronauts who flew on STS-107, and like

Re: [meteorite-list] Columbia disaster

Dear List; I too, am very saddened by this mornings events. Watching Buzz Aldrin read the little one line poem and then choke up was very moving. To paraphrase (my memory isn't what it used to be) ..."riding a fire ball to heaven".a much more glorious way to depart this life than going by

[meteorite-list] Columbia disaster

Dear all, Maybe it is of -topic, but then, so be it. I, as several other list members already posting on the subject, am sad of what happened just a few hours ago, and want to express that sadness. Coming out of our faculty building and redelivering the keys to the guard in the main building this

RE: [meteorite-list] Space Shuttle "Columbia" Explosion...

Hello Greg and List Never is a pretty strong word there Greg. And I think you missed the whole intent of the message. Which was to point out that the shuttle design was the 6th or 7th place design as far a the designs go. We lost one crew to human error and a design flaw which was KNOWN to be a po

Re: [meteorite-list] Atwater ice hole mystery

Hello Ron & List, My original purpose when posting my first message on this subject was to see if there was any images available of this hole in Lake Tadd, and use this to compare with other incidents of such phenomena in the cold parts of the globe. To that I was partly sucessfull, as I got one pi

RE: [meteorite-list] Space Shuttle "Columbia" Explosion...

Mark, First let me say I respect, but totally disagree with your stated opinion. Throughout the history of mankind, including our very first ancestors, if they had not had the courage, drive and or curiosity to venture into the unknown, we would not be where we are today. The STS-107 astronau

[meteorite-list] Susupending meteorite list for a while

Hi all - Regreatfully, I must suspend meteorite list for a while. Anyone wishing to contact me on anything of importance please contact me via private e-mail. I hope to be able to rejoin this most interesting list soon. ep __ Do you Yahoo!? Yaho

Re: [meteorite-list] Remembering Challenger and Columbia

Hi Bernd and list I wish to join those who feel a loss in this tragic event. Like those before them, these 7 were among those who trained for a long time to have this job. And like the test pilots who put their lives on the line every day to further our knowledge and improve our technology, they we

[meteorite-list] Remembering Challenger and Columbia

Mark Miconi wrote: > God Speed to our fallen heros, they gave their lives > in a most noble cause, fully aware that the danger > exists long before they stepped aboard. S H U T T L E T R A G E D Y - Jan 28, 1986 Ronald Reagan's Address To The Nation After The Shuttle Tragedy: Ladies and gen

[meteorite-list] Shuttle Down

Dear List, With the caveat that the following is based on the original flight procedures manual for the orbiter which have been modified in detail over the years, here's the sequence of significant flight events after leaving orbit. After the OMS de-orbit burn, the hypergolic propellants (

[meteorite-list] NASA Press Conference Scheduled For 3PM EST, February 1

http://www.nasa.gov NASA PRESS CONFERENCE SCHEDULED FOR 3 P.M. EST FEB. 1 A press conference by Space Shuttle Program Manager Ron Dittemore and Chief Flight Director Milt Heflin will take place from NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, beginning at 3 p.m. EST today. The briefing will be car

[meteorite-list] Holbrook Boy

Nininger has a brief article on the Holbrook shower pages 13-14 in his book "Out of the Sky - An Introduction to Meteorites" (Dover Publications, 1952). The boy is mentioned at the top of page 14. __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://

Re: [meteorite-list] List member witnesses Columbia re-entry

Hi Bob, I was going to watch it, but got up ten minutes to late. I need to check with a friend who was going to take video of it going by in Lancaster, CA. A sad day indeed. Fred Ley IMCA9181 - Original Message - From: "Robert Verish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Meteorite-list Meteoritecen

Re: [meteorite-list] Space Shuttle "Columbia" Explosion...

Neither was sailing to the new worldor running down a sand dune at Kitty Hawk, or leaving the earth 250,000 miles behind to explore the moon or running up the stairs in a burning 110 story building. This is why there are heros in the world. If we were to curl up in our safe little worlds, we w

[meteorite-list] NASA Statement On Loss Of Communication With Columbia

http://www.nasa.gov NASA STATEMENT ON LOSS OF COMMUNICATIONS WITH COLUMBIA February 1, 2003 A Space Shuttle contingency has been declared in Mission Control, Houston, as a result of the loss of communication with the Space Shuttle Columbia at approximately 9 a.m. EST Saturday as it descended

[meteorite-list] List member witnesses Columbia re-entry

I got the phone call early this morning, from Rob Matson, giving me the horrible news. According to Rob, he was driving north on US15 in the Victorville area of the Mojave Desert when he observed the Space Shuttle Columbia early in its re-entry. Rob reported that "all appeared normal at this poin

Re: [meteorite-list] BRECCIA

Mohamed H. Yousef, How do you feel so free to ask questions and expect replies and yet not feel obligated to answer simple questions directed to you? Sincerely, ken newton M Yousef wrote: > Dear List; > First we regret to hear news about the space shuttle, we express our deep > sorrow for this ho

[meteorite-list] BRECCIA

Dear List; First we regret to hear news about the space shuttle, we express our deep sorrow for this horrible accident that remind us with Challenger. Back to my rocks and I suppose this is the last update of mu hunts because my holiday is over (you will be happy I know!). I wonder if you still

[meteorite-list] Ureilites ????? can anyone give me more info ?

I've been reading up on Ureilites and the possibility of them being from Venus and was wondering if anyone more knowledgeable than my beginner self can fill me in on the up to date wisdon on their make-up and origins. They seem a fascinating fall type and I'd love to know more. Thanks in adv

Re: [meteorite-list] Space Shuttle "Columbia" Explosion...

Hello all from internet point The news is arrive now in Italy from the TV and internet http://www.ansa.it/fdg01/20030201153198790/20030201153198790.shtml is very terrible this. Regards Matteo --- Mark Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Feb. 1, 2003 > > Dear Meteorite Enthusiasts, > > I just li

[meteorite-list] Space Shuttle "Columbia" Explosion...

Feb. 1, 2003 Dear Meteorite Enthusiasts, I just listened to the news right after the post from Mr. John Gwilliam. This is just terrible!! Why must we keep sending people up there? Space travel, no matter how breathtaking and awesome, is still too hazardous and not well thought out yet. Peo

[meteorite-list] Breaking News - Space Shuttle Columbia

In my haste to type and send this message to the List before leaving for Tucson this morning, deja vu must have affected me. The original message should read "the Columbia is gone." * It appears that the space shuttle Challenger is go

[meteorite-list] Space Shuttle Crash

Hello List, As you might be hearing on the news right now, the Space Shuttle Columbia has just crashed in Texas. Saddened, Mark Bostick __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Entry Revisions For Mystery Meteorite Contest #2---made it before 12:00 AM PST!

January 28, 2003 Greetings Mr. Adam Hupe: I decided to revise my assumptions, and just in time! If any of the following is against the rules, please ignore them then, and just keep my original guesses which are provided at the end of this e-mail! In my revision, I left Specimen #3 the same. I h

[meteorite-list] Breaking News - Space Shuttle Challenger Missing

It appears that the space shuttle Challenger is gone. While on it's glide approach for landing this morning, it disappeared from radar and all communications were lost at an altitude of about 200,000 feet. People in the northeast section of Texas, about 100 miles north of Dallas, have report

[meteorite-list] Hessle & Orgueil

Hi I have some Hessle and Orgueil for sale. The Hessle pieces are pea-sized complete stones with crust. Some of the Orgueil pieces still have crust and the largest weighs 1.19 g. I'll bring the meteorites with me to Tucson. Send me an E-mail if you're interested. Johan Soderhielm Add photos to yo