Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Meteorite Fall in Zimbabwe?

2005-08-31 Thread Meteoriteshow
Hello Doug, Geoff and All, Of course, the fact that I found the explanations of this journalist quite good does not mean that I did not understand the humour of the post by Geoff! What I meant is only that most of the time, articles in common press about meteorites are often full of mistakes

[meteorite-list] OT: SATURN'S MOON ENCELADUS HAS HOT WATER VOLCANO

2005-08-31 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, All British newspapers and the BBC are making much of recently released Cassini photos and data from the earlier flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Enceladus, against expectation, has a water vapor atmosphere, eruptive plumes of hot water vapor from volcanic fissures at its South

[meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - August 31, 2005

2005-08-31 Thread SPACEROCKSINC
http://www.spacerocksinc.com/August31.html __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Sahara 99555, a Rosetta Stone!

2005-08-31 Thread luc Meteorites.tv / Labenne Luc
Hi List, A very important new paper on our angrite SAH99555 (Sahara 99555, a 2710g single stone with black fusion crust found by our team in May 1999) was published in the last issue of the scientific journal Nature. In the words of co-authors Joel Baker, Director of Geology School of Earth

[meteorite-list] DAG 476 Zagami thin section

2005-08-31 Thread luc Meteorites.tv / Labenne Luc
Hi List, I try to find a DAG 476 and a Zagami polished thin section. If there are anybody with it available for sale, please contact me off list. Luc Labenne Meteorites Meteorites for Science, Education Collectors http://www.meteorites.tv __

Re: [meteorite-list] Sahara 99555, a Rosetta Stone! OT: Tired of untruths!

2005-08-31 Thread drtanuki
Dear Luc and List, Luc Labenne, here is your chance to come clean on your supposed to be announced COORDINATES that have NEVER been ANNOUNCED. It has been more than five years since your Sahara series was used to sell your meteorites at a premium price; make open your data or prove yourselves

[meteorite-list] SAH99555

2005-08-31 Thread AstronomicalResearchNetwork
It is good to hear from Luc about SAH99555 in the past I purchased a lot of specimens from Luc . I don't think Luc will mind me offering a beautiful end cut he made for me long ago of SAH99555 3.5g end cut fusion crusted and 2 small vesicles Price $3,500 I will be taking a picture of it shortly

RE: [meteorite-list] OT: SATURN'S MOON ENCELADUS HAS HOT WATER VOLCANO

2005-08-31 Thread mark ford
Hi Stirling, Interesting theory, not sure if the fast breeder reactor effect, would be moderated that successfully in a planet situation though. Since the lighter 'ice' (i.e water/steam when hot) would tend move to the 'outside shell' of the active nuclear core, it would only moderate

[meteorite-list] AD Two auctions ending

2005-08-31 Thread Matt Morgan
I have two auctions ending shortly, both Campos. One with no reserve! Matt Morgan http://cgi3.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPageuserid=mhmeteorites __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

[meteorite-list] Mars Global Surveyor Images: August 25-31, 2005

2005-08-31 Thread Ron Baalke
MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES August 25-31, 2005 The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now available: o Terby's Rocks (Released 25 August 2005) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/08/25 o Amazonis Yardangs (Released 26

[meteorite-list] Ad Large Gibeon

2005-08-31 Thread AstronomicalResearchNetwork
Anyone looking for a Large Museum quality Gibeon specimen . I have a large 273 pound specimen on my website Please take a look under exotic main masses Thanks for your time ! Ken Regelman http://www.arn-meteorites.com/Sale.htm __ Meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Ad: 47 ebay auctions, many historic falls

2005-08-31 Thread Martin H.
Howdy Folks, I currently have 47 auctions running on ebay right now, all starting at $1.00. http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/zagami/ Although some of the pieces are small, they include many different classifications of irons, stony irons, chondrites, and achondrites. The offering contains more

Re: [meteorite-list] Sahara 99555, a Rosetta Stone! OT: Tired of untruths!

2005-08-31 Thread luc Meteorites.tv / Labenne Luc
Dirk, Yes, we changed our mind about publishing the coordinates of our meteorites since we found the first ones in 1997, a long time before the rush to meteorites in hot deserts. The relative coordinates are known, and that's enough to study pairing. We've decided not to publish the rest yet

Re: [meteorite-list] Sahara 99555, a Rosetta Stone! OT: Tired of untruths!

2005-08-31 Thread Darren Garrison
I, for one, would like to be the first to thank you for protecting the rest of the world from knowing the location of your finds so that you can protect the prices at your web site-- oops, I mean so that you can protect the integrety of their science. On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:27:45 +0200, luc

Re: [meteorite-list] Sahara 99555, a Rosetta Stone! OT: Tired of untruths!/ Reply

2005-08-31 Thread drtanuki
Dear List and Luc, How can you say that you are protecting anything from people like you? Exactly what are people like you? Honest and open to the meteoritic community. I have only been to the Sahara once and do not plan to return. Honest meteorite hunters have openly shared their information

Re: [meteorite-list] Sahara 99555, a Rosetta Stone! OT: Tired of untruths!

2005-08-31 Thread Martin Altmann
(Sorry, if this mail arrives twice, but I think first time I sent it in html, so that it didn't made it...) Hi Luc, I think the collectors can't understand, why you didn't clearly state the pairings of your finds in selling them. You adapted the Antarctic field number system for your Sahara

Re: [meteorite-list] Sahara 99555, a Rosetta Stone! OT: Tired of untruths!

2005-08-31 Thread David Weir
Hello Martin, Here is my synopsis of info from the latest R chondrite paper (and others) as it concerns the Labenne's pieces. They show some differences but are most likely paired of course: -- A single mass of 19 g was found in the Sahara Desert, the

Fwd: [meteorite-list] AD, $10, 000 meteorite sale tonight on ebay! Collection items.

2005-08-31 Thread Michael Farmer
Hi everyone, I have many meteorite auctions ending tomorrow. I will be traveling home all day tomorrow, so no time to answer questions before the auctions end. I have loaded another 60 meteorites on ebay, most starting at one cent, Many are still at one cent! See them all at the links below.

[meteorite-list] Scientists to Collect Meteorites in Antarctica in 22nd Exploration

2005-08-31 Thread Darren Garrison
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/2238/2005-9-1/[EMAIL PROTECTED] China is expected to launch the 22nd exploration to the South Pole in November, aiming primarily to collect meteorites on the Grove Mountain area. Yang Huigen, deputy director of China's Polar Region Research Center, said in an

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: SATURN'S MOON ENCELADUS HAS HOT WATERVOLCANO

2005-08-31 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Mark, It's been years since I worked all of this out, but here's some of the salient points. Since U235 has a short halflife, that means the present natural abundance of U235 of 1:140, or 0.7%, is the relict of much greater abundances in the past. Parley the halflifes backwards and