Re: AW: [meteorite-list] John Hopkins AstronomersReacttoPluto'sPlanetary 'Demotion'

2006-08-25 Thread Fred Caillou Noir
That's a good one Dave! But where is Darth Vador? Cheers Fred - Original Message - From: Dave Carothers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 1:46 AM Subject: Re: AW: [meteorite-list]

[meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: August 21-25, 2006

2006-08-25 Thread Ron Baalke
MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES August 21-25, 2006 o Feature of the Week: Coprates Chasma http://themis.asu.edu/feature o Polar Dunes (Released 21 August 2006) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20060821a o Channel Flow (Released 22 August 2006) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20060822a o Polar Margin

[meteorite-list] Pluto Responds: 'Planets Have Feelings, Too'

2006-08-25 Thread bernd . pauli
An aboslute must read !!! The cutest thing I have read over the years :-)) A double plutonic: Woof, woof! Bernd __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Not because it is easy, but because we want to beat the Russians (and Chinese)

2006-08-25 Thread Darren Garrison
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/08/24/china.russia.mars.reut/ China-Russia plan joint mission to Mars Thursday, August 24, 2006 Posted: 1533 GMT (2333 HKT) BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- China and Russia plan to launch a joint mission to Mars in 2009 to scoop up rocks from the red planet

[meteorite-list] AD- Bulk Unclassified Material

2006-08-25 Thread Rob Wesel
Hello all I just got in a supply of unsorted mixed material of various sizes, most small, but a few larger (up to 4kg) I'm offering lots at $30 per half kilo or $50 per kilo Just send me your requests and I'll get them right out, shipping is $4 for half a kilo, $8 for more than half a kilo.

Re: [meteorite-list] Xena Awarded 'Dwarf Planet' Status, IAU Rules; Solar System Now Has Eight Planets

2006-08-25 Thread MexicoDoug
However, about two decades later, the famed astronomer Gerard Kuiper postulated that a region in the outer solar system could house a gigantic number of comet-like objects too faint to be seen with the telescopes of the day. The Kuiper belt, as it came to be called Hello List: ...And the

[meteorite-list] AD - KAYUNWAR EBAY AUCTIONS

2006-08-25 Thread Meteoriteshow
Dear All, This is just a short note to remind those of you who are interested in the Kayunwar pending auctions on ebay, that they will start ending tomorrow at 2:00 PM (US time - east coast). Should I mention a big and crusty OC of 1.5kg? The nice ZAG slice? Tioulaoualene (the CV3 officially

[meteorite-list] AD - KAYUNWAR EBAY AUCTIONS

2006-08-25 Thread Fred Caillou Noir
Dear All, Sorry, this message was already sent but not from the right e-mail address. I then prefer to send it again. This is just a short note to remind those of you who are interested in the Kayunwar pending auctions on ebay, that they will start ending tomorrow at 2:00 PM (US time - east

Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomers Lean Toward Eight Planets

2006-08-25 Thread Larry Lebofsky
Hi Sterling: I am so far behind in reading emails that I am now reading the most recent and going backwards. Hence my response to your email from Wednesday. First, with only about 425 scientists voting on the porposal Thursday, there is now a petition for the planetary (and astronomy?)

Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomers Lean Toward Eight Planets

2006-08-25 Thread Walter Branch
Thumbing through my (signed) copy of The Grand Tour by Miller and Hartmann, I see an interesting comment regarding pluto: At first Classified as a planet, Ceres was later downgraded because it was so small, and because it is accompanied by numerous smaller objects in nearby orbits. Pluto may

[meteorite-list] From 1936 Issue: Meteorites Contain Large Amounts of Rare Metals

2006-08-25 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060826/timeline.asp From the August 22, 1936, issue METEORITES CONTAIN LARGE AMOUNTS OF RARE METALS Discovery of notable amounts of the rare metals, gallium and germanium, in the Earth's only imports from outer space, the meteorites that fall from the

Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomers Lean Toward Eight Planets

2006-08-25 Thread MexicoDoug
Yes, Sterling, as Larry mentions, carbonaceous chondrites have been proposed as questionable yet decent matches for Ceres, though others add that primitive achondrites are where it is at and that the biggest inner minor planet is somewhat differentiated. Looks like there aren't any especially

[meteorite-list] Mars Exploration Rovers Update - August 25, 2006

2006-08-25 Thread Ron Baalke
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html SPIRIT UPDATE: Spirit Continues Mid-Winter Studies of Martian Rocks and Soil - sol 933-942, August 25, 2006: Spirit continued to make progress on the rover's winter campaign of science observations, acquiring microscopic images and data about

Re: [meteorite-list] moss meteorite for private collecters

2006-08-25 Thread Dave Carothers
Steve, A thought comes to mind Why don't you ask your friend where he is getting a kilo of Moss. Dave - Original Message - From: Steve Arnold, Chicago!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 8:21 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] moss

Re: [meteorite-list] moss meteorite for private collecters

2006-08-25 Thread Michael Farmer
Good luck to this friend who thinks he can get a kilo. If you pay $200 gram to the owners of the ~680 gram fragment, and the other two guys Bjorn Sorheim and Michael Mazur who refuse to admit how much material they have. There is perhaps a kilo to come out, but seeing is believing I like to say.

[meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - August 26, 2006

2006-08-25 Thread SPACEROCKSINC
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[meteorite-list] Vernadsky

2006-08-25 Thread Darren Garrison
Anyone seen any photos of this yet? http://www.marstoday.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=21840 Sol 938: Spirit acquired super-resolution, panoramic camera images of a possible meteorite candidate known as Vernadsky. The rover continued to make daily observations of the sky and ground with the panoramic