[meteorite-list] Comet Chasers Get Mineral Shock (Stardust)

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060313/full/440260a.html Comet chasers get mineral shock Stardust mission yields white hot results. Mark Peplow nature.com March 14,2 006 The first results from a mission to catch dust from a comet's tail have revealed a surprise: these balls of dirty snow are

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite in Movie

Hi Kevin, I don't know the english title but I think you are talking about Fröken Smillas känsla för snö Or something like that. A free translation would be Miss Smillas feeling for snow. It's a book by Peter Høeg that have been filmed. OK, found it at IMDB. http://imdb.com/title/tt0120152/

[meteorite-list] Mineral Traces in Stardust Samples Upset Long-Held Assumptions About Origins of Comets

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3721363.html NASA find throws space experts Mineral traces in Stardust samples upset long-held assumptions about origins of comets By MARK CARREAU Houston Chronicle March 14, 2006 Tiny pieces of minerals that form at high temperatures have been found

[meteorite-list] Stardust Meteorites

Hi, During yesterday's press conference, Mike Zolensky mentioned that the minerals seen so far in Stardust's comet samples match the CH chondrites the best. The CI chondrites were always suspected to be cometary in nature because of their high water content. Now that it looks like comets can

[meteorite-list] New Source Suspected for Ancient Iron Meteorites

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060314_science_tuesday.html New Source Suspected for Ancient Meteorites By Sara Goudarzi space.com 14 March 2006 Iron meteorites typically thought to have formed beyond Mars might have started off closer to the Sun, created from the same material that

[meteorite-list] Questions Swirl Over What Went 'Boom' Over Northwest

http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=84038 Questions swirl over what went 'boom' over Northwest KATU.com March 13, 2006 PORTLAND, Ore. - People from the coast all the way to the mountains heard mysterious rumbles Saturday night, so what on earth were they? No, it was not an earthquake from

AW: AW: [meteorite-list] Empty quarter expedition

My compliments too, that you answered to my email. In my eyes you are missing some essential points. In the metioned article your assertion was made concerning solely the Oman. May I quote again? Drawing on his experience with meteor fragments in Oman where he set up a program to recover

[meteorite-list] Crashed Genesis Probe Delivers Solar Wind

http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn8848-crashed-genesis-probe-delivers-solar-wind.html Crashed Genesis probe delivers solar wind Maggie McKee New Scientist 15 March 2006 Solar wind ions salvaged from NASA's crashed Genesis space capsule could yet help trace the primordial composition of

[meteorite-list] Mars Global Surveyor Images: March 9-15, 2006

MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES March 9-15, 2006 The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now available: o Martian Graffiti (Released 09 March 2006) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2006/03/09 o Remains (Released 10 March 2006)

[meteorite-list] Moonquakes

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/15mar_moonquakes.htm Moonquakes NASA Science News March 15, 2006 March 15, 2006: NASA astronauts are going back to the moon and when they get there they may need quake-proof housing. That's the surprising conclusion of Clive R. Neal, associate professor

Re: [meteorite-list] Volcanic Gases, Not Meteors, May Have Caused Mass Extinctions

Hi, More information on the eleven flood basalt events that have happened in the last 250,000,000 years can be found at: http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/template.cfm?name=fbasalts The fact that there are only eleven such events in that length of time indicates that these events are not a normal,

[meteorite-list] Dino Egg Smuggling

Hi, all, Is this the same smuggler that was in the news shortly after the Tuscan show? Recent articles about Arabic relics and meteorites makes me wonder if Africa's deserts will one day be shut down from national heritage treasure meteorite exports, the way China has done. No more cheap

Re: [meteorite-list] Muonionalusta meteorite

In a message dated 3/15/2006 4:11:06 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Everyone, Could someone please help? How does one go about pronouncing Muonionalusta. Thanks, -Walter Branch -- Here is my way: Moo -

Re: [meteorite-list] Muonionalusta meteorite

That's a good one, I live 450 km from the spot and even I can't pronounce it, I even miss the spelling a lot of the times. :-) If I go there in the summer I'll tape the pronounciation from one of the locals and snap a picture of the road sign. /Göran Walter Branch wrote: Hello

Re: [meteorite-list] Impact Structures - Simple vs Complex?

Hi Jeff: It has been some time since I studied this (will ask around here at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference), but I think that it is basically: size matters! How big of a hole can you maintain in a bowl shape before gravity and the strength of the material take over? Larry

RE: [meteorite-list] New Theory: Global Warming Caused by TunguskaEvent / climate change

On the same note, I invite as many people as possible to install this screen saver application: http://bbc.cpdn.org/ it has been produced by the BBC and is using distributed computing (i.e our own domestic computers) to accurately model the earths climate hopefully they will get a better

Re: [meteorite-list] Impact Structures - Simple vs Complex?

Hi Larry, Thanks for that! Yeah... I was wondering about it from the whole 'size matters' perspective. For example: can a 500m crater be a complex one... can a 1km crater be one... or are we talking more like 3km, 5km or more?!?!?! Cheers, Jeff - Original Message - From: Larry

[meteorite-list] F-15s Did Not Cause Booms Over Oregon Air Guard Says

http://www.katu.com/stories/84179.html F-15s Did Not Cause Booms Air Guard Says By KATU.com Web Staff March 15, 2006 PORTLAND, Ore. - The Portland Air National Guard says they do not believe F-15 fighters are to blame for loud booms heard throughout our area on Saturday. The Air National Guard

[meteorite-list] Deep Impact and Stardust May Be Sent on Future Missions

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4545515,00.html Colorado craft could return to the stars Deep Impact and Stardust may be sent on future missions By Jim Erickson Rocky Mountain News March 16, 2006 LEAGUE CITY, Texas - Think of it as celestial recycling. Comet

[meteorite-list] NASA Reviews Canceled Asteroid Mission (Dawn)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060316/ap_on_sc/asteroid_mission NASA Reviews Canceled Asteroid Mission By ALICIA CHANG Associated Press March 16, 2006 LOS ANGELES - In an unusual move, is reviewing a recent decision by an agency head to scrap a mission to orbit two asteroids. The Dawn project

[meteorite-list] Water May Not Have Formed Mars' Recent Gullies

WATER MAY NOT HAVE FORMED MARS' RECENT GULLIES From Lori Stiles, UA Office of University Communications, 520-621-1877 - Thursday, March 16, 2006 -- Contact Information Gwendolyn Bart 520-626-5065 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[meteorite-list] My first martian meteorite

Hello I have buy my first martian meteorite from a moroccan dealer days ago. Its little, at 16 grams, but its a martian meteorite. When arrive I put some photos of the mass, and after I cut for the analysis. Matteo M come Meteorite - Matteo Chinellato Via Triestina 126/A - 30030 - TESSERA,

[meteorite-list] Free Classifieds and 2006 stats

Hello Everyone! We've been removing all the sold items from our free classifieds to clean them up and thought we'd give you some stats. We've got lots of people looking but not a whole lot of new ads. Mostly because we have not mentioned the classifieds in a while. Please add some of your

[meteorite-list] Weird Saturn Ring Spokes May Reappear In July, According To CU-Boulder Study

Office of News Services University of Colorado-Boulder Boulder, Colorado Contact: Mihaly Horanyi, (303) 492-6903 Jim Scott, (303) 492-3114 March 16, 2006 Weird Saturn Ring Spokes May Reappear In July, According To CU-Boulder Study Unusual spokes that appear fleetingly on the rings of Saturn

[meteorite-list] Dinosaur egg smuggler fined

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/dinosaur-egg-smuggler-fined/2006/03/16/1142098571108.html Illegally exported dinosaur eggs. March 16, 2006 - 11:54AM An Australian mineral dealer who pleaded guilty to smuggling fossilised dinosaur eggs from China to the United States flies home tonight.

[meteorite-list] NASA's Dawn Mission Cancellation Under Review

http://space.com/news/060316_dawn_mission.html NASA's Dawn Mission Cancellation Under Review By Leonard David space.com 16 March 2006 HOUSTON, Texas - NASA is taking another look at the decision to cancel the Dawn mission that would explore two large asteroids in the solar system. The space