[meteorite-list] I, persidious!

2004-08-12 Thread David Freeman
Dear List; Staying up late after a two day jaunt collecting kimberlites, and more ancient life forms had me a doubtful participant at a late nighter of star gazing as I longingly stared with sleepy eyes at ten p.m. and opted for the pillow and posterpedic instead of porcupine pupils and

[meteorite-list] Perseids 2004 from L.R.

2004-08-12 Thread Robert Woolard
Hello List, Pretty nice show here tonight. Had been cloudy and raining off and on most of the day and into the early night, but by ~ 2:30 AM, the skies opened up. I saw several really nice ones with persistent trains. One in particular was great. It went just about entirely across the sky,

Re: [meteorite-list] Perseids 2004 from L.R.

2004-08-12 Thread dfpens
The Perseids from Pittsburgh, PA was a bust. Partial clouds around 10:30 pm. Saw a fairly bright one at 10:50 pm, which may have been a sporadic as it went north to south. Clouds began to get heavier and by 2 am it was completely clouded over. I quit when I began to feel the raindrops. That

[meteorite-list] Explorers Find UFO Fragments in Tunguska Meteorite Area

2004-08-12 Thread Paul H
Ron Baalke wrote: http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/378/13705_tunguska.html Explorers find UFO fragments in Tunguska meteorite area Pravda.Ru (Russia) August 10, 2004 ...text deleted... Members of the scientific expedition of the Siberian state foundation Tunguska Space Phenomenon

[meteorite-list] Free 8x10 Meteorite photos for educational presentations

2004-08-12 Thread WAHLPERRY
I have a few photos of Franconia and Dry Lake bed meteorites. They are taken in the field as found. They were recently used in a display. These are duplicate copies so if anyone is interested please email me. All I ask is that you pay for postage. Thanks, Sonny

[meteorite-list] Perseids 2004 from California

2004-08-12 Thread Thomas Kurtz
How was it for some of the rest of you? Best regards, Robert Woolard Hello List, I observed the Perseids in California, 1 Mile from the Lick Observatory and it was a great show ! I begun at 4:10 AM and saw 7 Perseids in 2 minutes. Then unfortunately, comes a cop and drove my

[meteorite-list] Photos have been spoken for

2004-08-12 Thread WAHLPERRY
Hi List, The photos have already been given away. Sonny __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Colourful Perseides

2004-08-12 Thread C.Gießler
Hi all, i was out yesterday night too, because of the perseides. Saw a few, not to much, but one of them was really great: It seemed very close, first it was orange-yellow, then it broke and the colour turned into green! (No, we where not drunk ;) Never saw something like that before. Anyone

Re: [meteorite-list] Perseids 2004 from California

2004-08-12 Thread bernd . pauli
Robert Woolard wrote: How was it for some of the rest of you? (a) Interestingly, we saw more Perseids before midnight than after midnight. (b) We observed a slightly larger number of brighter meteors before midnight. (c) The ones after midnight seemed to be fainter, foreshortened

Re: [meteorite-list] Colourful Perseides

2004-08-12 Thread bernd . pauli
Hello All, It seemed very close, first it was orange-yellow, then it broke and the colour turned into green! Anyone have a clue how this come? Ablation, disruption, changing atmospheric conditions, etc. Cheers, Bernd __ Meteorite-list mailing list

[meteorite-list] Perseids from Europe

2004-08-12 Thread Marco Langbroek
Hello folks, We had a beautifull Perseid 11-12 August night here, that we will long remember. At first we were affraid to loose the night as it seemed a front would pass over right this night. But it didn't, at least not for several hours after midnight. We saw the pre-frontal cirrus coming in

[meteorite-list] Perseid report from HI

2004-08-12 Thread tracy latimer
Aloha! My internal alarm clock woke me at 3:45, so I went outside for 20 minutes to see if the Perseids were as active as predicted. During that 20 or so minutes, I collected 3 mosquito bites and saw 8 Perseids. No bolides, just some respectable shooting stars, one leaving a slight smoke

[meteorite-list] Mars Exploration Rover Update - August 12, 2004

2004-08-12 Thread Ron Baalke
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Aiming for 'Axel Heiberg' - sol 190-191, August 12, 2004 Opportunity continues its voyage farther into Endurance Crater with a near-term drive goal of a rock outcrop dubbed Axel Heiberg, and a possible later destination at

[meteorite-list] test only thanks

2004-08-12 Thread drtanuki
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[meteorite-list] Tunguska Story Makes the Rounds

2004-08-12 Thread Charlie Devine
Dear listmembers, This story sheds light on the recent claims and provides some history regarding similar claims. Turns out the explorers predicted they would find alien technology before they set out to do so. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/tunguska_event_040812.html C. Devine

[meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture Of The Day - August 12, 2004

2004-08-12 Thread SPACEROCKSINC
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[meteorite-list] Thanks for the Perseid Reports -was Perseids 2004 from L.R.

2004-08-12 Thread Robert Woolard
Hello List, Thanks to all of those who sent in their report on last night's show ( or lack thereof for some). Looks like a pretty wide variation in performance around the globe. I wish everyone had witnessed a great display. I was happy with what I was treated to here, especially after it