Al,
I was told that Ash Creek was named by Mexico Doug. He recovered the first
specimen at that site and sent it to Dr. Rubin with that as the name.
Nomenclature just approved the name. I have also heard that most people
preferred West. But nobody asked. Is this not true?
Carl
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Carl or
Hi Al,Dave,List,
my experience are exactly the same , first the CBN blades worked well on
irons, later,(since 3 years?)they don't work anymore because the CBN grit is
not fixed well anymore.
Greetings
Andi
Hi Dave and all,
That is my question too ( do Dia-Laser or Pro Slicer blades work
OK,, it states something to the effect that the softer upper layers of Mars are
unlikely to survive entry through Earth's atmosphere? Then what about
Howardites and some of the chondrites which can be quite friable?
I watched this program on TV about the presence of life in extreme
Highest price I have seen so far...amazing what difference being a 'hammer'
makes! Great find Michael.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=200466135832ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:GB:1123
I'm amazed that some of the farmers/locals out there havn't tried putting some
of their own on
Exactly. I think past falls have shown us that there is no point trying to
push one name over another. Amgala... ooops I mean Oum Dreyga is a perfect
example of that and dare I mention West... ooops... sorry... Ash Creek! ;-)
Anyhow, I thought it was generally the first person submitting the
Wow!
Common chondrite going for $150/gm. Even though it is a hammer and a
recent fall this price is nuts.
Prices are sky rocketing. My theory is that Meteorite Men have give
some much new exposure to meteorites that there are far too many buyers
for what is out there. Sure glad I started
Yes, the NomCom has final say but I believe they do listen to what is
spread on this list and elsewhere as well as to what the original
finders have to say. If it falls in there guidelines (whatever those
are) then suggestions spread around may influence what the stone is called.
Pretty sure
Hi Al and all,
I have tried many different blades for both meteorite (stone and iron) as well
as lapidary work.
Regarding the CBN blades I talked to the gentleman that developed the CBN
blade a few years ago in Tucson and expressed my displeasure in the CBN blade
basically coming apart during
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Is this man made? It sure looks like it to me.
GeoZay
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extraordinary object
wow and congratulations!
On May 8, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Michael Johnson wrote:
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george prompted me to take a closer look and upon reflection, i'm
afraid he's right.
the various aspects of the object are too...perfect.
(sorry larry)
On May 8, 2010, at 10:46 AM, geo...@aol.com wrote:
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Is this man made? It sure
It looks like an old doorbell casing... I won't believe this pic is a real
meteorite until I see a respected professional showing the analysis. I call
shenanigans on that picture.
Warren Sansoucie
From: geo...@aol.com
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010
I failed to mention that its weight is .1 gram.
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Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 10:00:10
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Subject: [meteorite-list] FW: Rocks from Space Picture of the
So it looks like a .1 gram meteor-wrong.
Warren Sansoucie
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meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] FW: Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - May
I would agree man made.
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Warren Sansoucie warren3...@hotmail.com wrote:
So it looks like a .1 gram meteor-wrong.
Warren Sansoucie
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On Sat, 8 May 2010 15:03:53 +, you wrote:
I failed to mention that its weight is .1 gram.
Iron at .1 gram? Must be tiny. Maybe the female end of some type of snap
fastener?
http://www.denverfabrics.com/pages/sewinginfo/hsc-sewing-hints/sewing-snaps.htm
A couple of comet-ish micrometeorites from Antarctica.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2010-05-07-Antarctica-comet_N.htm
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0508/Ancient-meteorites-in-Antarctica-could-reveal-origins-of-Solar-System
podcast:
Why would you even think that's a meteorite? I think Darren called it.
It's a snap fastener.
Phil Whitmer
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Everyone,
Looks like a metal grommet from a tarp to me.
Frank
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2010
Levis Jeans buttons do contain nickel so that might be a possibility here.
I propose. strauss meteorite . Levis would be far too confusing. Too funny.
Carl
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Michael Johnson mich...@rocksfromspace.org wrote:
Hi All,
Flanged buttons of this type are limited to tektites, which undergo a
vastly different formation process than meteorites. There are no
meteorite flanged buttons, or if there is, I have not seen in during
my experience of handling thousands of meteorites and seeing photos of
tens of
It's a Franconia Iron. When you've been out in the field and walked two and a
half miles into some inhospitable desert and you can only find them within the
strewn field then you know... I have plenty of dumb bells and funky U shaped
irons but most of them are flat and corn flake looking
d
Here we go again with the I know more than you foul attitude and the terse
commenting.
Can we have a thread where someone doesn't try to take the conversation down a
path like this?
I suggest you learn a few things about the art of having a civil conversation.
It's easy to sit in YOUR
Hi Graham all,
It seemed like a very low price to me - in fact it is
Less than 50% over the rest of the material which has
Consistently been sold for $100/g. That is a very modest increase,
Indeed since it is one of only three hammer stones in this fall and the
only one that will ever be
Hi Jeff and all,
My understanding is that the naming of all meteorites is at
the sole discretion of the Nomenclature committee of the
Meteoritical Society. The original finder is irrelevant. I believe
anyone is free to suggest a name, but my experience is that such
suggestions carry
Hi Tet,
The consistent reports as to the number of miles walked
On the average relative to the number of grams recovered
Make $100/g seem modest, especially when you combine that
With the cost of travel, meals and lodging. My guess is the
average hunter who went to WI and found one
It resembles a very weathered specimen of the type of vesiculated basalt with
olivine that is fairly common out here in HI.
Best!
Tracy Latimer
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To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010
Manmade stuff ends up in weird places. I stand by my assessment until
I see a chemical analysis and verdict from a respectable authority on
meteorites. ;)
BTW - I know plenty about metal detectors and have spent years
wandering the wilds. I've run across some odd stuff out in the middle
of
Dear List and Nomenclature,
While considering the name for the latest meteorite fall in Wisconsin
many of the locals highly suggest Iowa-Grant Counties since the
strewnfield crosses both counties. Their other main choice is
'Livingston' but we have already heard the word on that one. This
Hello Everyone,
The May issue is now up.
http://www.meteorite-times.com/meteorite_frame.htm
Enjoy!
Paul and Jim
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BTW - if anyone has a link to any meteorite in the shape of a
perfectly flanged button, iron or stony, please send me the link or
photo.
Best regards,
MikeG
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Manmade stuff ends up in weird places. I stand by my assessment
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Good afternoon List,
I am looking for Jim Schwade's email address and or phone number.
Can anyone send it to me off List?
I appreciate your help.
Tim Heitz
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Hi, Erik,
Using the photo, I would have put money down on a small sewing/tent/tarp
grommet, too!
Even the weight is close to those I use.
I am always amazed at the variety of meteorites.
I would appreciate seeing photos of your flat and odd shaped irons.
While they sound to be common to
This guy lists all kinds of interesting junk that he finds in strewnfields.
He claims they're meteoriteswell, because they were found in a strewn
field! He's sold 80 meteorites on eBay and has never had to return a
single one based on lack of authenticity.
Graham and List,
This is not the highest price. Right after the fall Steve Arnold sold 17 pieces
of this same material at an average price of $244.74 per gram.
Regards,
Steve
Steve Witt
IMCA #9020
http://imca.cc/
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List,
I think the highest price per gram was the very first piece that Steve Arnold
sold. It was a .117G flake that sold for $63.00.
Warren Sansoucie
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 11:24:02 -0700
From: stelo...@yahoo.com
To:
Those ebay links you provided were not listed by Larry, the guy who owns the
Franconia iron, which I believe could very well be an iron meteorite, but not
100% sure.
I have some Franonia irons with odd shapes as well, The roll over lip make
me think it could very well be authentic. Also
Also, the hole is not perfectly uniform, which it should be if it were
mad-made. I guess we will never know, or really need to worry much about it,
because I dont see Larry selling it or trading it, ever.
Best Wishes,
Joe Kerchner
http://illinoismeteorites.com
http://skyrockcafe.com
Hi Joe,
You misunderstood my post. I never said the links were from Larry, the
Franconia meteorwrong guy. They're from some other meteorwrong guy. But I
guess I can see how you infered that. I was trying to illustrate the point
that something found in a known strewn field doth not a
Some cheap-o deals to be had!!
Make a reasonable offer on my crusted Claxton too,
http://stores.ebay.com/Mile-High-Meteorites
Thanks for looking.
Matt
Matt Morgan
Mile High Meteorites
http://www.mhmeteorites.com
P.O. Box 151293
Lakewood, CO 80215
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Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 15:25:59
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Subject: [meteorite-list] FW: Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - May 8,
2010
Hi Joe,
Well I think were back to the train wreck shrapnel. As I remember the pieces
could fly about 4 miles.
Wayne
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Here are some photos of Franconia irons:
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z126/tboswell/005.jpg
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z126/tboswell/007-1.jpg
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z126/tboswell/008.jpg
Lots of odd morphologies in the smaller ones, similar to the more oddly
Dear List and Mystery Object Fans Everywhere,
First, what IS a flanged button?
It is not just a rounded shape with a fringe around
its edge. It is a shape that forms at a specific stage
of the ablation of a solid spheroid shape at high
speed.
The formation of flanged buttons was unriddled by
On Sat, 8 May 2010 12:17:38 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
if he says it is a meteorite after having it for
a few years and examining it in person,
FWIW, the caption says that it was found in April, 2010 (didn't say if it was
on the 1st) so it falls short of a few years yet.
Sorry about that, I dont know why, but I thought it was found a couple
years ago, sorry for my mistake.
Larry had told me the story about this
piece while out for dinner while in WI hunting. I got the impression it
was found a few years ago. again I apologize for not reading the caption
Good evening everybody,
recently I've been so lucky as to acquire some fragments of Mount Tazerzait, one
of the very few highly porous L5 chondrites. I thought I'd take the occasion and
compile a brief illustrated feature on this spectacular material:
Hi Greg,
I considered my post, a witty play on different definitions of debris,
and fuel for thought.
I said might because laws are either non-existent, vague, poorly
written, untested, conflicting, subject to too much interpretation, or
some combination.
I certainly wouldn't advocate breaking
Hi List
I don't often weigh in on subjects, but cutting irons has long been an issue.
The best I've seen cutting any metal, is a bandsaw. And, if money isn't an
object, check out the custom made saws for opal slicing. Might be an answer
in those for quantity cutting with a little modification.
Hello list,
This will be short for now, my computer is in the shop.
First, I'm havin fun!
Second, I thought it may be a little controversial though it may be a bit more
so than I thought.
Next I'll say that the object is smaller than might be apparent. I'll show more
pictures later. I can say it
Hi Larry and List!
I was hoping you would weigh in with more details. I certainly
respect your experience with meteorites and I enjoy your list posts,
so please don't take my naysaying personally. :)
Your details soften my judgement somewhat. First, it was not readily
apparent from the photos,
Hi, Larry, List,
Well, you can only tell so much by looking,
either in pictures or in person. It's so tiny
that testing must seem certain to destroy
it, but I think there's a way.
A SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope)
Microprobe using the data from the back-
scattered electrons can detect and
Hi All I have actually seen hundreds of Franconia irons and have
actually walked far more than .well farther than was needed to get
my head in the right place. What I see in the picture is a perfect
circular line that once went all the way around. What I see is not
formed in nature it is made
Hi Larry, Sterling and List,
Sterling raises a great point - you can have this tiny specimen
analyzed via non-destructive means.
Larry, you should have this object analyzed. If it is meteoritic,
then you have a very unique and valuable find, like a miniature
Lovinas.
Best regards,
MikeG
On
Hi All,
Would anyone have Marlin's contact info.
Thanks,
Sonny
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Larry, I thought at the very least you were going to tell us it tested positive
for nickel. That is why I mentioned that Levis uses metal with nickel in their
buttons but, short of it having nickel most of us would not have even given it
a second thought. Sorry. Good luck getting it tested.
http://montanameteoritelab.com/
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Hi All,
Would anyone have Marlin's contact info.
Thanks,
Sonny
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Thanks,
Sonny
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http://montanameteoritelab.com/On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 3:36 PM,
Listees,
Just wanted to let everyone know that I just posted some Micros from cutting
my stone. I started them off at $.99
Most of them have crust and great features. you can see the brecciation and the
great matrix. these are some really nice micros. I dont collect micros, but I
am keeping
Hi Sterling, Larry,,
There should be plenty of universities over there willing to have a go at that.
I have access to one over here at a small local uni who are always willing to
let me put samples through.
Graham, UK
Sterling K. Webb sterling_k_w...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Hi, Larry,
Hello All,
All we can do is look at this object...objectively.
Sterling made some good points; while it might be possible for an
iron meteorite to attain such a shape...it's not likely.
It seems much more likely to be a man-made object if only
becauseit's a very inorganic shape. It's one
Hi Larry and list,
These little SaW 005 individuals are really unique and interesting(the only one
of 5 meteorites classified as H-metal that is not Antarctic). Most are
irregular in shape and pretty variable in their morphology. At the last Tucson
show Keith Jenkerson and I had a blast
This is a nice example of franconian on ebay now. Can't use this one to tie a
tarp either.
lol
http://cgi.ebay.com/Franconia-Meteorite-14-7-grams-/180504286442?cmd=ViewItempt=LH_DefaultDomain_0hash=item2a06e4d4ea
Warren Sansoucie
Date: Sun, 9 May
Dear Friends,
While looking at Wikipedia, I looked at the
Wikipedia page about Trinitite at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinitite
This page stated:
There are many known fakes in circulation among
collectors. [citation needed] These fakes use a variety
of means to achieve the glassy green
Hi Paul,
As a collector and dealer of trinitite, I have heard this as well.
After thinking about it and discussing it with a few qualified
individuals, I came to a similar conclusion as you - that there is no
profit motive or practicality to manufacturing bogus trinitite. For
one thing, the
It was witty and I thought it was fun
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The ebay user name is disturbing. Not to mention what they claim meteorites are
used for.
Warren Sansoucie
In FW: Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - May 8, 2010 at
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Joe Kerchner wrote:
Also, the hole is not perfectly uniform, which it
should be if it were mad-made.
Actually, that does not prove that it is not manmade. When,
I
Hello List,
Got my computer back a couple hours ago and I'm ready for a friendly
rebuttal ;)
Ok, I snapped a few images and created a photobucket account so I might
plea my case visually.
I'll start by saying Phil, Warren, I like guys like you.. so
full of it and all.. kinda like me ; )
Hello List,
Got my computer back a couple hours ago and I'm ready for a friendly
rebuttal ;)
Ok, I snapped a few images and created a photobucket account so I might
plea my case visually.
I'll start by saying Phil, Warren, I like guys like you.. so
full of it and all.. kinda like me ; )
Hi Paul,
Wikipedia is such an unreliable source of information I will
Not allow students to cite it in any papers. Wikipedia is nothing
More that a compendium of information (or misinformation)
Submitted by its own readers. It therefore has zero credibility as
an academic resource.
On Sat, 8 May 2010 20:49:16 -0500, you wrote:
The ebay user name is disturbing.
I don't understand how it would be disturbing.
A quick google search shows that to be the name of a character that appeared in
an episode of The Honeymooners.
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Hi Warren,
I have no doubt these are S-A shrapnel. As for what meteorites
Are used, I know of people who use tin foil as hats to ward off the
Government radio waves which would be used to read their minds,
(Others use them to keep Extra Terrestrial aliens from reading their
Minds).
Please direct your tinfoil-hat-wearing friends
to this webpage IMMEDIATELY:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/
Here you can read a paper: On the Effectiveness
of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study
by Rahimi, Recht , Taylor, Vawter (MIT, 2005).
They tested the attenuation of a
MAYBE the paper was written by government stooges to tricks us out of
wearing our tinfoil hats... hmmm?
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Hi, Larry, List,
After looking at the Franconia irons, I have to
admit they are weird bunch of objects, but also
that this one is an order of magnitude weirder
than the others.
If you arrange a SEM, one quick and convincing
check would be to take along another SaW 005
that no one would
Hey everyone,
Yahoo mail's anti-spam measures have been at times preventing me from posting
and responding to replies on this list, which is a big part of why I have been
so quiet around here.. After sending I either get this stupid caption thing
(which even after typing it in correctly my
I had another problem with hotmail, which is why I created this yahoo account
to post on the list.
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eBay: metmel2775
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Unclassified meteorites are like a box of chocolates... you never know what
you're gonna get!
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I was using plain text.
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Unclassified meteorites are like a box of chocolates... you never know what
you're gonna get!
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If I remember correctly, the son's name was Gaylord Focker from one of the
Meet the Parents movies.There was a hilarious scene when Robert DeNiro
realized what his daughter Martha's name would be if she married a
Focker..
I think this seller is just trying to be funny...and a bit
Hope this posts..
Anyways,, it states something to the effect that the softer upper layers of
Mars are unlikely to survive entry through Earth's atmosphere? Then what about
Howardites and some of the chondrites which can be quite friable?
I watched this program on TV about the presence of
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