Ah, the colors of Fall
Anita
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Scientists have identified the microscopic shrapnel of a nearby star
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Hello List
I have some new specimens for sale.
This time no NWA material but specimens from one of the biggest collections
in Poland.
So take a look and send me Your offer...
. BIALYSTOK [A-EUC] - ultra rare eucrite from Poland!
. TATAHOUINE [A-DIO] - big complete specimen
. CAMEL DONGA
Thanks Paul and Jim!
I think your Meteorite-Times is one of those initiatives here on the List,
that is very much appreciated, but doesn't get the explicit appreciation it
deserves.
Therefore: a big THANK YOU to you and your co-writers!
Rob
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Dear List,
A little known fact about the fate of Sputnik IV:
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News:
Manitowoc, Wisconson: Sputnik IV Crash Site 48 Years Ago 5SEP1962 10SEP2010
www.lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com
Best Regards, Dirk Ross...Tokyo
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
Sept. 09, 2010
This story and photos are online at: http://uanews.org/node/34019
Contact information follows this story.
Phoenix Mars Lander Finds Surprises About Planet's Watery Past
An instrument designed and built at the UA measured
Hello,
Well it looks like the days of my 0.99 cent auctions are coming to an end.
Why bother anymore. My ebay store has very steady sales and people are
willing to pay more in my store than they are during the auction runs. I know
the economy is slow, but my store sales do not indicate
Hi List,
Can someone tell me the proposed/accepted angle of descent of the
asteroid which formed Meteor Crater in AZ?
Wikipedia has the impactor at 50 meters across, and velocity at 12.8
km/s. Is this accurate?
Eric
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Rob L. kindly wrote:
Thanks Paul and Jim! I think your Meteorite-Times is one of those initiatives
here on the List, that is very much appreciated, but doesn't get the explicit
appreciation it deserves.
Hello Rob and List,
I couldn't agree more! Special thanks also to Chuck whose September
Sep. 9, 2010
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Hello,
Well it looks like the days of my 0.99 cent auctions are coming to an end. Why
bother anymore. My ebay store has very steady sales and people are willing to
pay more in my store than they are during the auction runs. I know the economy
is slow, but my store sales do not indicate that.
test
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Anita wrote: Ah, the colors of Fall...
Emily Dickinson (1830-86) the daughter of Edward Dickinson, a prominent
lawyer of Amherst, Massachusetts. Here is one of her many short poems:
Autumn
The morns are meeker than they were,
The nuts are getting brown,
The berry's cheek is plumper,
The rose is
With the reports of a possible fall of a meteorite in Co. Tipperary,
Ireland, it's interesting to note that the Mooresfort meteorite fell in Co.
Tipperary in August 1810, slightly over 200 years ago.
A paper of mine involving the history of the Mooresfort meteorite and how it
led to one of
Dear List,
A little-known fact about the fate of Sputnik IV in Wisconsin:
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2010/09/manitowoc-wisconson-sputnik-iv-crash.html
Best Regards, Dirk Ross...Tokyo
Sorry if this posts twice; first time failed to post.
My emails are not coming through on my computer, but I see that I have 3 posts
in the archieves ...my apologies for the extras
Best Wishes
Michael Cottingham
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I think it's because there's a longer than normal delay in posting to
the list. Hence the double postings. Art sent out an email a couple days
ago mentioning this.
Eric
On 9/9/2010 12:37 PM, jim_brady...@o2.co.uk wrote:
metal nano particle formation in the olivine? Would love to see that at
Dear list members,
For all those interested and especially those who have inquired about this
Whetstone Mountains specimen, I have listed the 77.3 gram portion of the main
mass on eBay with a Buy it Now price. The auction will remain active for ten
days and can be seen here:
Hello List
I have some new specimens for sale.
This time no NWA material but specimens from one of the biggest collections
in Poland.
So take a look and send me Your offer...
. BIALYSTOK [A-EUC] - ultra rare eucrite from Poland!
. TATAHOUINE [A-DIO] - big complete specimen
. CAMEL DONGA
Hi List. I can't seem to get a good answer to this question off list so I
will go this route. Anyways, does anyone have their site linked as an
affiliate to the new Meteorite Hunting magazine. I have gone through the
directions to do this but now when I click the Hop link I was given to use
on
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Has anyone heard of the claims related to tektites
Associated with the the Tunguska event?
See these offerings on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=180558454201ssPageName=A
DME:B:SS:US:1123
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=180558453506ssPageName=A
Hello,
Well it looks like the days of my 0.99 cent auctions are coming to an end. Why
bother anymore. My ebay store has very steady sales and people are willing to
pay more in my store than they are during the auction runs. I know the economy
is slow, but my store sales do not indicate that.
http://www.rocksfromspace.org/September_10_2010.html
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Dear Rob,
Thank you very much for your THANK YOU!
We VERY much appreciate you adding your THANK YOU to all the writers.
Martin Horejsi, Michael Blood, Bob Verish, Norbert Classen and the IMCA
Team, John Kashuba, Anne Black keeper of the Meteorite Fall Calendar,
and Michael Johnson's
Are there any tektite experts on this list? The formation of
tektites has been a mystery to science. Volcanic origin, Lunar
ejecta, meteorite impact origin, explosive electrical discharge,
etc. The latter proposed by NASA experiments at an arc-jet
facility. What are the current
Over the next couple hours I have a couple dozen ebay auctions ending including
a few over a kilo.
Nothing spectacular but most well under ten cents a gram. I took advantage of
ebays free listing day last week to list some bigger ones in auction cheap
which I dont normally do.
I have been
Very cool article Bob!
Eric
On 9/9/2010 10:49 PM, Robert Verish wrote:
Hello List,
Would like to hear from any of you that have a fragmental impact breccia in
your collection, and think that it is giving-off an odor.
( Here is a list of some Impact Melt Breccia (IMB):
list down ?
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Not sure how many list members live in Eastern Australia but if you do you
might want to come up to Bribie Island just north of Brisbane for the Bribie
Island Gem and Fossiking clubs annual rock and gem show.
They have a big show and a lot of dealers and its one of the major rock shows
in the
Hi Chris and List,
I am going to take a wild layman stab at this one and then Sterling
Webb can come in and clean up my mess. ;) LOL
All of the confirmed planetary meteorites we have seen (barring the
disputed Angrite-Mercury connection) come from planets further out
from the sun than Earth.
Hi Don, See my reply to you offlist. Thanks.
Regards,
Eric
(By the way, I answered your email earlier. You actually have to have a
website to post the HTML on.)
On 9/9/2010 4:15 PM, Don Merchant wrote:
Hi List. I can't seem to get a good answer to this question off list
so I will go this
Eric, List,
That is the conclusion of the 2005 paper in Nature by
Melosh and Collins. Their computer models suggest it
fragmented and came in as a swarm of pieces, much
slowed by the atmosphere.
Here's two popular articles:
Hi Ed.
At the risk of starting up the 'great Tektite wars' again, (second only
to the God Thread) I think it's now been very well established that they
are of Earth impact origin (i.e terrestrial). The lunar origin, is still
propagated by a small minority of people. The evidence for a lunar
Hi Ed,
Not an expert by any means on tektites but the subject has been
discussed here quite a bit in the past. You can go to the meteorite
central site and conduct a search on what has been said or google a
search on tektites. We do have very knowledgeable people on here that
can offer
Hi Sterling, Thanks for the answer, and links.
Still have a question though. I'm more curious about the angle of
descent. The paper mentions an angle of 45 degrees.
This seems like a very safe guess. Are there any data, or information
on the angle of descent other than in the paper you
Eric wondered:
Can someone tell me the proposed/accepted angle of descent
of the asteroid which formed Meteor Crater in AZ?
The trajectory of the impacting body was interpreted by Shoemaker
as traveling north-northwest at a relatively low impact angle.
and furthermore:
Wikipedia has the
Hi Bernd, Thanks!
What would a relatively low impact angle be? 10 degrees, 20 degrees?
See my post just before this one.
Eric
On 9/10/2010 2:51 AM, bernd.pa...@paulinet.de wrote:
Eric wondered:
Can someone tell me the proposed/accepted angle of descent
of the asteroid which formed Meteor
Eric wrote:
The crater is not perfectly round as would be expected from an impactor
coming in at a sharper angle. In fact the crater is more elliptical in shape.
SHOEMAKER E.M. and KIEFFER S.W. (1974, 1979) Guidebook to the
Geology of Meteor Crater, Arizona (Publ. No. 17, Center for Meteorite
I think it looks elliptical in that Google picture because of the
perspective of the image.
To my eye when viewed from directly above it is more like a square with
rounded corners.
By the way does anyone know what that 100m diameter circular structure is,
located at 0.85 km to the SSW of the
In spite of all your posts I can find no auctions when I click on your link.
Dan
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No crater! No tektites!
Dan
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Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Tunguska Tektite?
Has anyone heard of the claims related to tektites
Eric, Bernd, Sterling, List,
David Kring of LPL put together a great guidebook for the 2007 MetSoc tour
of the crater (150 pages). He is Gene Shoemakers successor as advisor to
the Barringer family. He and family members lead the tour. Carolyn
Shoemaker was there too.
Chapter 9. Trajectory
Hi Mike, Chris and list,
I've often wondered the same thing. Were there any studies on matching the
Venusian atmosphere to some ungrouped achondrites or other meteorites, similar
to gases trapped in Martian meteorites to it's atmosphere?
Thanks! Carl2
MikeG wrote:
...I am going to take a
To produce an elongated crater you need a very low angle impact, on the order
of only a few degrees at most.
Here's a quick, but more detailed answer. Additional searches will allow reader
to find explanations with as much detail (and math) as they would like.
The mhcmagazine picture is seen from an angle in google earth. When
you look at it directly overhead, it looks like this:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8ll=35.02599,-111.022038spn=0.021402,0.045276t=hz=15
Looks pretty round to me.
As for the little crater to the SSW, definitely man made, but
After dealing with Marcin Cimala, PolandMet, many times, I must commend his
professionalism in all areas of Meteorite Dealership.
Today I received my most recent purchase, promptly and packaged securely.
As is always the case, the presentation is outstanding.
A clear plastic case containing the
I'm aware it looks more round from directly above crater. I
purposefully captured the image from an angle to accentuate the
elliptical shape of the bulges in the NW and SE corners of the crater.
The point being, it's NOT round.
Eric
On 9/10/2010 10:12 AM, Yinan Wang wrote:
The mhcmagazine
Hi John, Thanks for the details. It's interesting to note that the angle
of descent is not known, though there are educated guesses or
calculations. What can probably be agreed is that an impactor with an
entry angle of 45* degrees could produce a round crater. Meaning of
course that Meteor
According to measurements using the measuring tool on google earth.
From crater rim to crater rim:
NW rim to SE rim: 3,880 - 3,930 ft.
NE rim to SW rim: 3,860 - 3,910 ft.
I'd call that round, falling within margins of error, but I'm not
gonna argue impact angles, just going to reference below:
What can probably be agreed is that an impactor with an
entry angle of 45* degrees could produce a round crater. Meaning of
course that Meteor Crater, since it's not perfectly round as evidenced
by the bulges in the NW and SE corners, must have been produced by an
impactor with a
Last night, at about 1 AM here in Flagstaff, I was going from my rental to my
house and I saw a flash on the horizon. There were no clouds, and the sky was
perfectly clear, and I wondered what that flash was. I looked up into the sky,
and then I saw three bright meteors, one after the
Not at all logically. Meteor Crater was round after the impact. Its current
shape is produced by the non-isotropic nature of the local geology. In
essence, it has eroded into its current shape. This process is well
understood. There is no evidence at all that the impactor arrived at a
shallow
List,
The little curved structures must be stock ponds - built to capture storm
runoff to water cattle on the range. They are built in streams and have
training dikes.
- John
Ontario, California
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Hi Steve...
Last night, at about 1 AM here in Flagstaff, I was going from my
rental to my house and I saw a flash on the horizon. There were no clouds,
and
the sky was perfectly clear, and I wondered what that flash was. I looked
up into the sky, and then I saw three bright meteors,
MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES
September 6-10, 2010
o Nili Patera Dunes (06 September 2010)
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o North Polar Dunes (07 September 2010)
http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20100907a
o North Polar Dunes (08 September 2010)
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o
Hello everyone -
I need the depth of Serpent Mound Crater, and in particular the height of the
central rebound uplift. The tech papers all seem to be on pay sites. Do any of
you have thaqt data handy?
E.P.
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Hello list members,
Michael Johnson kindly posted a Rocks from Space photo on Sept 10 showing
a
beautifully oriented 34 gram Kosice stone. The meteorite exhibits roll over
lipping on the trailing surface as well as a very frothy fusion crust. The
original photos were not very
good
Dear List,
I have a nice group of auctions ending in 48 hours including Batesland,
Nogoya, Homestead, and several others. Most are still at .99 cents:
http://shop.ebay.com/historic-meteorites/m.html
Also, I have updated my sales page with a few items and curiosities:
I have a 1/4 Page Full Color ad spot available in Meteorite Hunting
Collecting Magazine for $249 for a whole year (6 issues).
First person to contact me with payment gets it!
Eric
P.S. I won't post another ad till next week...
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Hi list. I do not know if this ever went out,but I have a 23 gram slice of
esquel for trade. Direct from bob haag hiself. I am looking for taza's,ZIZ,NWA
5549 or glorietta siderites. Please pics and if interested off list.
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All List members get 20% off everything listed below by using the
coupon code metlist at checkout.
I have several new offerings and one of them is a very rare H3.6 type
(NWA 6283). There are only 35 H3.6 meteorites and 29 of those are
Antarctics which are off-limits to collectors.
Hi,
Earlier today MikeG, Chris and I were kind of wondering about Venusian
meteorites. I looked back at the archives and found a bit of discussion already
between Sterling, Elton, Tracy, Howard, Mike F. and Mark F. on the subject.
This discussion was way back in 2003, before my time, but it
Steve,
Just my opinion, but I think you'll get a much better response if you post a
link to a photo or two. Just my 2 grams.
Best,
Steve
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How about SW to NE? I believe there are several finds along that path that
match the Canyon Diablo material.
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Three meteors came from the same direction, in a 10 degree radiant from the
Seven Sisters star cloud. The flash that I caught from the corner of my eye
was closer to the horizon, so I did not notice a streak or persistent trail.
None of the meteors I saw last night had persistent trails.
Hello Listers,
I have a question about rust and how to clean it off your L6 meteorite. Now can
you just soak the meteorite in a 99% alcohol bath for a couple days and the
rust on the surface will some what come off the surface or are there other
steps?
The the size of the L6 fragment is
Offerings from the Stephan collection:
Twodot 126.70 grams H6
NWA 3163 ten grams of lunar dust
NWA 3117 15.0 grams HOW
NWA 753 24.90 grams R3.9
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NWA 3151 2.40 grams Brachinite
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