Re: [meteorite-list] AL HAGGOUNIA 001 (NOT AUBRITE)

2007-12-01 Thread Adam Hupe
Jason, I never called it a type three if you read my emails although I am confident with the designation scientists with decades of experience assigned it. I am certainly no expert on the degree of metamorphism determing petrologic types in chondrites so I will present some notes collected from

[meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - December 1, 2007

2007-12-01 Thread SPACEROCKSINC
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Re: [meteorite-list] AL HAGGOUNIA 001 (NOT AUBRITE)

2007-12-01 Thread Jason Utas
Hola Adam, All, I never called it a type three if you read my emails although I am confident with the designation scientists with decades of experience assigned it. Interestingly put. Well, I did read your emails, as well as those posted by your brother, and, to be frank, although you don't

Re: [meteorite-list] last chance to see comet holmes?

2007-12-01 Thread Marco Langbroek
Relatively in the same general area of the sky, very diffuse, but still visible in binoculars, Comet Holmes fades into astronomical history after causing quite a stir and leaving us with a mystery. Jerry Flaherty Hi Jerry, In fact it is still visible with the naked eye, even from downtown

[meteorite-list] Meteorite in World Languages seeking help with another 168 languages

2007-12-01 Thread drtanuki
Dear List, As I posted earlier, there are 67 languages with meteorite entries currently. This is the first time in history that such a list has been compiled and will be useful to researchers, field researchers, linguists, writers, meteorite hunters and collectors, and those searching for more

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite in World Languages seeking help withanother 168 languages

2007-12-01 Thread Chris Peterson
Okay, you've got 67. But you're only looking for another 168? Come on, there are six or seven thousand languages currently spoken. How serious are you? g Chris * Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com - Original Message

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite in World Languages seeking helpwithanother 168 languages

2007-12-01 Thread Andreas Gren
Chris, I would suggest, you are the one who will write the list with the six or seven thousand languages. ;) Andi -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Chris Peterson Gesendet: Samstag, 1. Dezember 2007 17:49 An:

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite in World Languages seeking helpwithanother 168 languages

2007-12-01 Thread drtanuki
Andi and Chris, A mountain cannot be climbed in a single step...it takes a single step at a time. Yes, I know that there are thousands of languages (wikipedia is working on 168 languages currently for their on-line wikinary). I will do what I personally can and IF others are willing to

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite in World Languages seekinghelpwithanother 168 languages

2007-12-01 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Dirk, Chris, Andi, List, Here is the list with the 6000+ languages! The premiere reference on the World's languages, covering 6912 languages, is to be found online at: http://www.ethnologue.com/ in browse-able form. It contains a linguistic description of each language but you cannot search

[meteorite-list] Possible New BL Meteorite - Plus some other cute photos

2007-12-01 Thread dean bessey
Yesterday I sat down and did some cutting. I have a 3 kilo meteorite that looks somewhat like what I was selling as the affectionately nicknamed BL meteorite a couple years ago. I dont have any left to compare but if anybody has some take a look at this:

Re: [meteorite-list] Possible New BL Meteorite - Plus some other cutephotos

2007-12-01 Thread PolandMET
Dean You have the same as my NWA 2826 LL5 (aka NWA 2053 and many others) This is very good material, fresh, with many interesting inclusions, visible chondrules (thats why it should be LL5 not LL6) and very very large troilites (well visible on photos at rusty spots) -[ MARCIN CIMALA

Re: [meteorite-list] Possible New BL Meteorite - Plus some other cutephotos

2007-12-01 Thread dean bessey
--- PolandMET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dean You have the same as my NWA 2826 LL5 (aka NWA 2053 and many others) This is very good material, fresh, with many interesting inclusions, visible chondrules (thats why it should be LL5 not LL6) and very very large troilites (well visible on

Re: [meteorite-list] Possible New BL Meteorite - Plus some other cutephotos

2007-12-01 Thread PolandMET
--- PolandMET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dean You have the same as my NWA 2826 LL5 (aka NWA 2053 and many others) This is very good material, fresh, with many interesting inclusions, visible chondrules (thats why it should be LL5 not LL6) and very very large troilites (well visible on photos at

Re: [meteorite-list] Possible New BL Meteorite - Plus some other cutephotos

2007-12-01 Thread Kashuba
Dean, It's too bad that we missed another chance to find out about those fine-grained inclusions that are so prominent in the original BL, NWA 1658. I see they aren't mentioned in the classifications of NWA 2826 or 2053 either. This week I will be sending several samples to Bathurst to try

Re: [meteorite-list] Possible New BL Meteorite - Plus some other cutephotos

2007-12-01 Thread dean bessey
--- Kashuba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dean, It's too bad that we missed another chance to find out about those fine-grained inclusions that are so prominent in the original BL, NWA 1658. I see they aren't mentioned in the classifications of NWA 2826 or 2053 either. Yeah, those things

Re: [meteorite-list] Possible New BL Meteorite - Plus some other cutephotos

2007-12-01 Thread tett
Dean, Is your metal veined shocked material for sale. The 22.7 gram piece? Cheers, Mike Tettenborn - Original Message - From: dean bessey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 4:34 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Possible New BL

Re: [meteorite-list] Possible New BL Meteorite - Plus someother cutephotos

2007-12-01 Thread tett
John, Are you sending more 1685 to Bathurst? I am hoping that Phil McCausland will be getting some results soon. I think he now has more time to look at this stuff. I was very impressed when I saw the centre piece in Meteorite magazine. Beautiful and inspiring. Cheers, Mike Tettenborn

[meteorite-list] I'm adding AN UNCONVENTIONAL METHOD FOR CUTTING IRON STONE METEORITES page to my web site

2007-12-01 Thread David Kitt Deyarmin
Several people have aksed how I cut meteorites into roughs for my sphere I created a page that explains how I cut them into slices and I plan to upload it tomorrow but i wanted some people to look at it first to give me some feedback You can see the page by clicking this:

[meteorite-list] old mundrabilla piece

2007-12-01 Thread steve arnold
Good late evening list.For all you iron lovers,have a look on my homepage of my website.I aquired a 239 gram mundrabilla piece that is at least 20 years old in a trade.It still has all natural patina and has fusion crust on one side.Also please notice the absolute sculpted features on this.Simply

[meteorite-list] The EL3/Aubrite/whatever - Why FOSSIL?

2007-12-01 Thread dean bessey
I dont want to get involved in the thread about what the classification is (I will be pretty happy no matter what the proposed options are) but can somebody explain to me why its called a Fossil meteorite? I realize that the term fossil can be loosely used to describe pretty much any old stuff

[meteorite-list] Meteorite in World Languages...

2007-12-01 Thread Thomas Webb
Sterling wrote: Rather than being an academic product, it is published by SIL International, an organization that attempts to translate The Bible into every language of man. Despite their considerable linguistic efforts, the group has generated considerable controversy as well:

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite in World Languages seeking help with another 168 languages

2007-12-01 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, As the old saying has it, I only know what I read in the newspapers, or in this case the Wikipedia. The Wiki URL quotes a set of accusations made in a recent book and presents SIL's reply to those accusations as well. I know no more about it than that, and I mentioned it only in the

Re: [meteorite-list] The EL3/Aubrite/whatever - Why FOSSIL?

2007-12-01 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Dean, I'm sure someone will have the paper and a mountain of details, but the short-and-simple is: it sat in a lake bottom which turned to a swamp which turned to a pan and so forth as the Sahara dried out and went from a wooded grassland with lakes and rivers to a pocket edition of the

Re: [meteorite-list] old mundrabilla piece

2007-12-01 Thread Jeff Kuyken
Hi Steve, Any comments?? I think Mundrabilla is a little older than 20 years! Ohh... and the fusion crust is long gone too! ;-) It's actually a nice representative piece of Mundrabilla though! Cheers, Jeff - Original Message - From: steve arnold To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

[meteorite-list] QMIG update

2007-12-01 Thread Bob WALKER
Listoids Update of a sort... Mirror website at http://www.qmig.net let me know if youse finds any errors on the mirror that I need to webedit - the webcounter points to the qmig.org domain until I get around to fixing this... This will allow me to have a website 24/7 especially since I am