It wouldn't be practical to melt meteorites to make musket balls. That's
not to say that iron meteorites couldn't be used as ammunition just as they
are. The blunderbuss had a large enough bore and muzzle to accpt smaller
meteorites as is. In fact it wasn't uncommon for users of the
Wasn't there a scene in 'Pirates of the Caribbean' where the dudes shoved a
bunch of metallic objects into the canon and fired it at the opposing ship
hitting one of the more hapless pirates in his wooden eye with a fork!
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From: dave carothers
I never saw the movie, but there are plenty of historical references to
cannoneers using scrap of all kinds (metal, glass, rocks, gravel, lengths of
chain, etc.). The common commercially-made equivalent ammunition was
grapeshot and canister rounds. Getting hit with grapeshot or a canister
Melting point of Iron: (Fe) 1811 [or 1538 °C (2800 °F)] K
http://www.webelements.com/iron/physics.html
hehehehe iron balls... ;)
Eric
On 7/27/2010 10:51 PM, countde...@earthlink.net wrote:
Bill says ...just about any firearm.
Just about any muzzle loader with a patched round can eat
thats the melting point for pure iron. The Ni works like antifreeze and lowers
the melting range about 50 degrees. I bet if i straped some magnets on my
armadillo she could dig up some meteorites a lot faster than Speedy!
On Wed Jul 28th, 2010 2:57 AM EDT Meteorites USA wrote:
Melting point of
I know the status of two:
The Lorton, Va., meteorite is being delayed due to the lack of a type
specimen.
The meteorite that fell in Wisconsin will be considered by the NomCom
very soon.
Jeff
On 7/27/2010 10:19 PM, Galactic Stone Ironworks wrote:
Hi Listees!
Does anyone have any
Hi Jeff,
That is good news.
If you know, can you inform us what the status is of
NWA 5743 in terms of the process of classification?
RSVP
Thanks, Michael
PS: For those few on the list that may not already
Know this, Jeff Grossman was the head of the Nomenclature
This hailstone is not a meteorite. Still I would not
want either me or my car to where it fell.
Heavy hailstone may smash U.S. record Giant ice chunk fell
near Vivian last week by Jeff Martin,Sioux Falls Argus Leader
http://www.argusleader.com/article/20100728/NEWS/7280302/1001
The hailstone
http://www.rocksfromspace.org/July_28_2010.html
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Ending tonight. NWA 5363 Brachinite-like Un-grouped Achondrite. One still at
.99 cents.
Possible Earth-Related meteorite. Definitely Rare. This along with it's
pairings is about as rare as it gets.
One find of it's kind in over 39,000-ish unique finds. This and / or it's
brother NWA
Michael and list,
Thanks for the photos of these distinguished members of The Meteoritical
Society. Congratulations are in order to Hiroshi Takeda for his work toward a
better understanding of HED achondrites and the lunar crust; to William K.
Hartmann for his work on impact cratering
Dear Jeff, All,
Since we are talking about recent meteorite fall classifications, I wonder
if anyone knows the status of the Zunhua (May 2008) meteorite.
I found this:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/23425472/Brief-document-on-Zunhua-meteorite
If you scroll down, it states that the BP (Beijing
Dear List Members,
Just a quick note to let those who have purchased items from me on eBay and
have
not yet paid for them know that I will be leaving town tomorrow night and will
return on August 6th. I will be able to ship items paid for by tomorrow
morning.
Any items paid for after this
Hi Mike and List,
Good question, and thanks for reminding me about Zunhua, I had
completely forgotten about that one and need to add it to my Recent
Falls page.
What was the date on that fall?
In the case of Zunhua, it's a little more understandable why the data
has not been submitted - things
1) When did you start collecting? (how long ago)
2) What first interested you about meteorites?
3) What was your first meteorite purchase, and from whom?
4) How many meteorites or localities do you currently have in your collection?
5) If you had to know for insurance purposes, what do you
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From: Galactic Stone Ironworks meteoritem...@gmail.com
To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 11:29 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite 20 Questions - Answer and Share if
youDare. :)
1) When did you start
My Answers from Greg S.
Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite 20 Questions - Answer and Share if you
Dare. :)
1) When did you start collecting?
Started in 1997
2) What first interested you about meteorites?
Since I was little, I like racks and fossils and my brother liked astronomy so
a
http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/journal_07_26_10.asp
Dawn Journal
Dr. Marc Rayman
July 26, 2010
Dear Dawn Days of Summers,
Dawn is flying smoothly through the asteroid belt, now less than a
year from entering orbit around Vesta, the first of its two cosmic
destinations.
Earlier in July,
1) 30 years ago
2) The interest in astronomy the fascination to be able to touch a piece
of a celestial body (other than mine) with my very hands.
3) A Mundrabilla individual from Pope Walter Zeitschel
4) Not countless, but I never count them.
5) Meteorites get a monetary value only, if they
Well firearms have been made from meteorites. It is reported that much of the
huge Cosby Creek, TN(iron) was smelted into iron used in the famous Kentucky
and Pennsylvania Long rifles.
Elton
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Aliens have developed a reliable source of weapons grade meteorites
Martin,
once a famous Chinese Zen-abbot cut a cat into two parts to get his monks on
the right way of meditation. Hope you wouldn't slice your cats together with
the hammered house plus interior.
Best,
Matthias
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From: Martin Altmann altm...@meteorite-martin.de
To:
Hi All,
Been having trouble posting to the list so this topic was a while back
but finally
Just uploaded some photos of my 1.2kg Gebel Kamil with evidence of
remnant fusion crustthe only piece I could find in
Ensisheim.anyone else found similar?
Thanks for pointing out the website
Does anyone know if the large Gebel Kamil main mass individual with
regmaglypts was found on the surface or was buried and how close to
the crater?
Just thinking that the shrapnel pieces would have landed on the
surface after exploding from the crater a a much lower velocity than
True?
Matt
http://www.theage.com.au/world/from-deep-space-to-deep-midwicket-meteorite-lands-on-cricket-pitch-during-county-game-20100726-10ryj.html
Matt Morgan
Mile High Meteorites
http://www.mhmeteorites.com
P.O. Box 151293
Lakewood, CO 80215
Matthias,
there you can see, that excessive meditation makes one's brain soft.
In an adaption of another famous abbot I say:
A life without cats is possible,
though futile.
Ehm but we must turn back to meteorites.
With the Lost city dog and the Peace River coyote...
it is everything else than
No way. The sample in the photo I saw is far too weathered to be fresh, and to
hit him in the chest? Nope. I don't think there is any truth to it. Surely,
even from a bounce it would have left some kind of mark. Think about the old
lady who was indirectly hit - that was after it went through
I am sure that somebody will get a kick out of this:
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/835482-man-hit-by-six-meteorites-is-being-targeted-by-aliens
Cheers
DEAN
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Some of it doesn't sound too far off reasonable, but from their description
it had a significant horizontal velocity component. Any real meteorite would
drop from almost directly overhead, with little or no horizontal component.
Chris
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Wow - that's only 72 years from now... Don't think I'll be around
Greg S.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/07/28/massive-asteroid-hit-earth-warn-scientists/?test=faces
Scientist Warns Massive Asteroid Could Hit Earth in 2182
A large asteroid in space that has a remote chance of slamming
Martian years, maybe...
Chris
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Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
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From: Thunder Stone stanleygr...@hotmail.com
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 4:23 PM
To answer my own questions :
1) When did you start collecting? (how long ago)
A little over 4 years ago.
2) What first interested you about meteorites?
I have always been an avid amateur astronomer, so after years of
observing objects in space, I wanted to own a few.
3) What was your first
Yeah, soft and flexible, no difference between the cat, the abbot and a
meteorite!
Well, and a pissed off meteorite immediately would pose the old question:
can we expect life out there?
Viva,
Matthias
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From: Martin Altmann altm...@meteorite-martin.de
To:
15 months ago. Newbie!
A picture I saw in a newspaper of Dr. Donald Brownlee of NASA holding NWA 5000
over his head with both hands and a big smile on his face.
I bought my first meteorite from Robert Cucchiara (Meteorite Madness)in May of
2009. A triple cut and etched 2.7 kilo Campo with
Wow what a sham(e).
A friend asked me about this earlier today but he cited a British rag. I told
him that the British tabloids still report this sensationalistic crap every so
often but the media in the US has figured out to ignore it. Well at least most
of them have.
A quick explanation:
Hi List,
I forgot to answer if I could have any meteorite from any collection in the
world. What would it be? I think I'd like to have the great Wilamette iron
stuck on a concrete plinth in the middle of my front lawn. The kids could play
on and in it.
Count Deiro
IMCA 3536
now that is some hi-content stuff.
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Aliens attacking man with meteorites
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2010, 5:58 PM
I am sure
Hi Greg,
I really suck at math, even so, I believe that would be 172 years from now,
not 72, so you definitely won't be around.
Greg
From: stanleygr...@hotmail.com
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010
Hi Richard/List,
I just added three more positions for this V.I. taken from Haleakala
on September 12, 2005. The observations are bracketed by a pair of
positions from Pulkovo taken on 9/10 and four more on 9/13 from
Catalina Sky Survey, so I don't expect the impact probabilities to
be altered
Hi Greg and Greg,
72 years or 172 years, if you are around you'll wish you'd taken better
care of yourself. :-)
--AL Mitterling
Quoting GREG LINDH gee...@msn.com:
Hi Greg,
I really suck at math, even so, I believe that would be 172 years
from now, not 72, so you definitely won't be
Hello again,
The Zacatecas has been sold!!
Thank you all very much.
Anne Black
In a message dated 7/27/2010 6:19:54 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
impact...@aol.com writes:
Hello List Members,
I really don't do this very often, but...
One of my customers has asked me to sell quickly
Stuart McDaniel
Lawndale, NC
Secr.,
Cleve. Co. Astronomical Society
- Original Message -
1) When did you start collecting? (how long ago)May 2009
2) What first interested you about meteorites?I could actually hold
something from space!!
3) What was your first meteorite
Not a mathematician are you?? LOL..it's 172 years. Bet that will
make a nice strewn field!!!
Stuart McDaniel
Lawndale, NC
Secr.,
Cleve. Co. Astronomical Society
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To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent:
Greetings,
Mike and all,
14) Statistics have caught up with someone. Anne Hodges will no
longer be the only documented person to be struck by a falling
meteorite. Assuming the next person struck could be anyone and you
could pick that person, who would it be? (silly answers only, nothing
List, Greg, Richard,
The study Fox News is citing may be a new
one or it may be this one from a year ago,
(one author of which is Sansaturio), which
is downloadable at:
http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.3631
101955 1999 RQ36 has a poorly determined
composition and shape. It has been frequently
Sterling K. Webb wrote:
List, Greg, Richard,
The study Fox News is citing may be a new
one or it may be this one from a year ago,
(one author of which is Sansaturio), which
is downloadable at:
http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.3631
101955 1999 RQ36 has a poorly determined
composition and shape. It has
List, Stuart,
An eight-mile complex crater with a depth of
about a half-mile. Will take 100% casualties out to
about 35 miles and 70% casualties out to 60 miles.
High-speed ejecta 1 cm and up will reach out to
about 100 miles. Within the inner 75-mile-diameter
circle, expect the destruction of
Richard Kowalski wrote:
Of course, and obviously the funding question is not missed on me.
However, no one is served by sensationalistic reporting. A realistic
approach is to continue optical and radar observations as the orbital
mechanics allow, and then fund and launch the OSIRIS-Rex
Sterling,
With the understanding that the impactor is of the size you described in your
last.
Could there be significant property damage and human casualties outside the 100
mile diameter from the fall of matter propelled to great heights and
trajectories?
Is it plausible that large
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