Re: [meteorite-list] Another awful meteorite-related TV event

2009-07-02 Thread Sterling K. Webb
That was truly horrible. People who say the 1950's was the age of bad SciFi movies are wrong. A few more as bad as this and we will be the winners of the Bad title. It isn't just bad, it's silly. Sterling K. Webb - Original Message

[meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - July 2, 2009

2009-07-02 Thread SPACEROCKSINC
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Re: [meteorite-list] High Levels of Formic Acid in Tagish Lake

2009-07-02 Thread Walter Branch
Ahhh, I see. Thanks Carl, And just to keep this meteorite related, fellow list members, here is the movie The Monolith Monsters. I consider this to be the best meteorite-related SciFi movie from the 1950s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mbuSLODgb4 Be sure to watch al the parts. -Walter

Re: [meteorite-list] Another awful meteorite-related TV event

2009-07-02 Thread lebofsky
Hi Sterling: Lots of things probably hit the Earth early on, including something that made the Moon. Given what the Moon looks like, just think about what the Earth looked like after the late heavy bombardment. In the back of my mind, there is always the idea of the Deccan Traps being the result

Re: [meteorite-list] Another awful meteorite-related TV event

2009-07-02 Thread lebofsky
Hi Sterlng and Darren: Twilight Zone: Sterling's response to Darren came 30 minutes before Darren's email! I will be good and watch the movie. May be something to use in a class on bad science. On that note, did either of you make it through Impact!? Talk about lame endings. From the beginning

[meteorite-list] [AD] Gibeon 3,1 KG.

2009-07-02 Thread Jan Bartels
Dear Listoids, For those interested: We have a 3,1 kg. Gibeon for sale. Ask for pictures and/or make an offer. This one goes cheap!! Cheers, Jan Holland IMCA #9833 __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list

Re: [meteorite-list] Another awful meteorite-related TV event

2009-07-02 Thread Carl 's
Hi Sterling and All, Too late. Here's a clip from a fairly recent movie from Japan. Check out the unforgettable battle around the asteroid belt. This from Godzilla vs Spacegodzilla (1994): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt7lS3FVGkA Sorry. Carl Sterling wrote: That was truly horrible.

[meteorite-list] OT: To André Moutinho

2009-07-02 Thread Martin Altmann
Sorry for abusing the list. (but I don't know to help myself otherwise). Yes André, we received all your emails from April on. And I replied to all of them to all of your 3 email-addresses. Please check with your provider, what's going wrong. (The problem has to be on your side, we never had such

Re: [meteorite-list] Another awful meteorite-related TV event

2009-07-02 Thread al mitt
Greetings, Seems to me if a big one came down and did break into mantle material that we might have a magma wave and simultaneous volcanic eruptions with some of the major volcanoes on Earth. Not that anyone would care at that point. --AL Mitterling - Original Message - From:

Re: [meteorite-list] High Levels of Formic Acid in Tagish Lake

2009-07-02 Thread Grant Elliott
Sterling, I am old enough to have seen this film, first run, at my local movie house. To say the least, at that age, I was scared spitless. It was great and memorable fun. Thanks for the Memories, Grant Elliott - Original Message - From: Sterling K. Webb sterling_k_w...@sbcglobal.net

Re: [meteorite-list] Another awful meteorite-related TV event

2009-07-02 Thread Darren Garrison
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 04:17:12 -0700 (MST), you wrote: Twilight Zone: Sterling's response to Darren came 30 minutes before Darren's email! Looks like he's finally getting the bugs worked out of his time machine! We will know it is fully functional when we can no longer remember our crushing

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Feature Article in Tucson's Desert Leaf

2009-07-02 Thread Notkin
Dear LIstees: The summer issue of Tucson's Desert Leaf magazine arrived in town yesterday. The cover story is a feature article on meteorite hunting titled: Chasing What Falls from the Sky. The article is based on a series of interviews I did with Tucson author Susan Dawson-Cook, and

[meteorite-list] Phoenix Mission Research Points to Martian Climate Cycles

2009-07-02 Thread Ron Baalke
FROM: Johnny Cruz (520-621-1879; cr...@email.arizona.edu) Phoenix Mission Research Points to Martian Climate Cycles July 2, 2009 EDITOR'S NOTE: Peter Smith will be available to speak with local reporters today at 2 p.m. at the Phoenix Mission Science Operations Center, 1415 N. Sixth Ave.,

[meteorite-list] Clues to Origin of Life Revealed in Tagish Lake Meteorite

2009-07-02 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/02/bc-tagish-lake-meteorite-formic-acid.html Clues to origin of life revealed in Tagish Lake meteorite CBC News (Canada) July 2, 2009 New research into a meteorite that crashed into northern British Columbia nine years ago is revealing startling

[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - July 1, 2009

2009-07-02 Thread Ron Baalke
MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES July 1, 2009 o Martian Zambonis? http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_013329_1070 o Gullies on Southwest Slope of Ring Trough in Noachis Terra http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_012912_1320 o Layering and Faulting in Melas Chasma Layered Deposits

[meteorite-list] Recent smaller impacts

2009-07-02 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi Paul - Are any of these events you mentioned timed to cometary debris streams? I suppose that some folks we know or know of have more definitive information on these events which they can not make public right now. My seat of the pants estimate is that the number dead in an accidental

[meteorite-list] A futura awful meteorite related movie

2009-07-02 Thread Darren Garrison
Okay, maybe I'm jumping the gun, and this will be the next Oscar-winning, compelling epic. But I'm thinking not. http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2009/07/asteroids-movie/ http://360.kombo.com/article.php?artid=16753 http://www.goriya.com/flash/asteroids/asteroids.shtml

Re: [meteorite-list] Another awful meteorite-related TV event

2009-07-02 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Larry, List, The Deccan Traps, so it seems, are now believed to have started and stopped and started over again, in irregular cycles, producing multiple layers. The layers date from 62 to 68 million years ago, with the peak eruptions at 66 million years ago and lasting for as little as

[meteorite-list] AD - 4th of July sale with great savings!

2009-07-02 Thread Greg Catterton
Hi to all, hope everyone is having a good day! I have marked down several items listed on ebay to VERY good prices for the 4th of July. You will have a hard time finding better buys on these meteorites and the sale is good until July 6th when I will take the prices back up. You can view my

Re: [meteorite-list] Another awful meteorite-related TV event

2009-07-02 Thread Jerry Flaherty
Sterling, So much effort on your part to solidify, what to me is tantamount to an obvious causal relationship between these cotemporaneous events. Not that all, isn't fair game in the name of Science. Platonic a-priori reasoning is not well received in a fundamentalist rationalistic

[meteorite-list] freebies / sale/ AD

2009-07-02 Thread steve arnold
Hi everyone.To all my american meteorite friends here and abroad,I want to wish everyone a happy 4th of july on saturday.I am also having another givaway in honor of the holiday,and getting my first pay check.I have a 40.5 gram unclassed endcut,I also have a 3.3 gram nuveo mercurio,I also have

Re: [meteorite-list] Opinions on an oddball meteorite I cut open

2009-07-02 Thread Mr EMan
Mike, I am coming in to this midstream--but if you can't see chondrules BUT can see metal flakes AND it is weakly attracted to a ND magnet, then this is strongly suggesting this isn't a meteorite. Some part of the things you've found don't seem to fit inside the normal wisdom. Elton

[meteorite-list] ISS volcano pictures - must see!

2009-07-02 Thread Greg Catterton
Totally awesome images from the ISS that captured a volcano erupting in one of the Kuril Islands in the Russian Federation. http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-200906-English.htm __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list