Hi All,
I notice that the Rocks from Space Picture of the Day, dated about a
year ago, September 29, 2009, features an unusually remarkable glowing
fluorescent meteorite. It's described as an 11.1 g piece of Norton
County (ASU#523) where The large enstatite crystals fluoresce bright
yellow.
Hi David and all,
I'm not a geologist but I suspect that when the thinsections are made
and polarized light is used to reveal the various colors (mineral make
up) of the meteorite that this is in effect about the same thing as
using fluorescent lighting. They also use quite an array of other
Hi,
we had last year some fun with Robert Fuchs, a collector of UV-minerals and
meteorites,
who has always a cabinet with fluorescent minerals at the Munich show,
to check some meteorites.
Pena Blanca Spring, another aubrite, displayed also a very few large
fluorescent crystals.
Best,
Martin
AL, David, List,
I mean, are the scientists really looking and checking for
fluorescent color values in meteorites on a systematic basis?
Yes, they do.
Cheers, Bernd
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Some references :-)
S.W.S. McKeever, D.W. Sears (1980) Meteorites
Hello All,
Here are some details from an abstract,
Cheers,
Bernd
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D.W.G. Sears, P.H. Benoit, and D.G. Akridge (1999) Thermoluminescence
and The Thermal History Of Meteorites (MAPS 34-4, 1999, A105, excerpts):
S.W.S. McKEEVER and D.W. SEARS (1980) Meteorites
That Glow (Sky and Telescope, July 1980, pp. 14-16, excerpts):
In 1802, Edward C. Howard exposed a sample of the Benares meteorite
to an electrical discharge and it glowed in the dark.
A. Herschel discovered that some grains from the Middlesbrough
Hola to all. We have a slice of the SaH 02500 meteorite, that under ultraviolet
light ( LW ) shows this fluorescent crystals :
Under flahs camera light :
http://inlinethumb30.webshots.com/43549/2460945940100862759S600x600Q85.jpg
Under UV LW light :
Dear List,
Just finished some updates to my sales page - Added some FRESH Buzzard
Coulee part-slices showing great chondrules, along with some antique
meteorite related items and curiosities:
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I also have some auctions ending tomorrow.
Hola larense,
Nice picture you posted! It really shows clearly in dramatic graphic
form that given a simple longwave UV light (UVA: 400nm-315nm) that a
possibly remarkable and thought provoking image result can be achieved.
Congratulations!
I wonder if you've been able to determine the identity
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Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 1:22 PM
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Good afternoon list. I have 15 ebay auction ongoing. A few rarities,some not
I have often thought that the Star Trek term M-class planet, used to
designate planets suitable for human-type lifeforms, would not be a bad way to
talk about exosolar planets which might support our type of life. It implies
other classes with other types of life being possible.
Just my 2
Hello Listers,
I have some great historic meteorites ending soon on eBay. If you have been
looking for that high end meteorites, look no further. I have meteorites from
the 1400's all the way up to 2008, all with a great pasts. If you looking for
the first dated fall, 1492, or the great Hoax
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Hello Listers,
I have some great historic meteorites ending soon on eBay. If you have been
looking for that high end meteorites, look no
Hi List,
Thought I would share a couple pictures of a recent questionable find.
I know, it looks like a piece of shrapnel. And it might just be.
I found it 6 down using my Gold Bug II. I was detecting an area
within a 40 acre parcel up in the pinions. It intrigued me so I put
it in my
Hello all,
Looking for the following meteorites.
1) Dar al Gani 351 (1-5g)
2) Koltsovo (1-5g)
3) Vyatka (1-3g)
4) Bluff (1-5g)
5) Miles (1-5g)
6) Verkhnyi Saltov (5-10g)
7) Mifflin (1-2g)
8) Any rare Brazilian meteorite
Regards,
André Moutinho
IMCA 2731
Hi Mike,
Odd looking specimen you got there.
If it's got a specific gravity of 7.75 it falls within the range of being
a piece of iron (7.3 - 7.8).
I am not sure what you mean when you say after doing a bulk density
weighing and coming-up with 7.5g/cc. According to Professor Randy L.
Kootev,
Off the cuff what jumps to mind is diopside. It is known in meteorites and it
is commonly UV reactive..How-some-ever it is yellow in longwave and only blue
in
shortwave.
I think augite is a longwave yellow fluorescent as well
I'll have to read up on that whole Si2 O6 solid solution series.
Dear Listees:
Greetings all.
A number of our Canadian friends on the M-List asked me to post a
reminder when Meteorite Men started airing in Canada. I'm pleased to
announce that we are now showing on the brand new Discovery Science
Canada (formerly Discovery Civilization) and there are
Hi David, other interested list members,
The Lone Ranger could have been up there on that mountainside in those
woods, I don't know. If he had been, he would have probably had iron
on his hip, which sometimes while up in the thick timber by myself, I
wished I'd had on me. Pepper spray
Carl,
I'll try to answer a few of your questions embedded within your post.
--- On Fri, 10/1/10, cdtuc...@cox.net cdtuc...@cox.net wrote:
Richard, Martin,
Very good question.
It seems to me that unless you are getting paid for
something. You are an amateur?
Well yes and no. I've been
Hi Carl Richard,
no Carl, that hasn't to do with money.
I understood Richard's question in that way, whether or to which degree
amateurs would contribute to meteorite science.
And there I said, they're bringing the stones, the asteroid belt, Moon
Mars to the labs, where the research on the
Hello List,
This is a slice of the New Gebel Kamil meteorite from Egypt, it is an
Ataxite and it is ungrouped which makes it unique and is one of a kind in
composition
http://www.meteorman.org/Gebel-Kamil-slice-77g-640.jpg
Could someone tell me what are Schlering bands, are those
Hi Tim,
Try a little different spelling or just go to this article by Jim Tobin in
Meteorite Times:
http://www.meteorite-times.com/Back_Links/2004/January/Tektite_of_Month.htm
My best,
Thomas
--- On Sat, 10/2/10, Tim Heitz midwestmet...@earthlink.net wrote:
From: Tim Heitz
HI Martin.
I wanted to add that on the whole I do not consider meteorite hunters
meteoriticists.
Now I want to be PERFECTLY CLEAR by what I mean here. I know that the field of
meteoritics heavily depends on meteorite hunters, both professional and
part-time, to find and bring in material for
Hello List and Thomas,
It is very high in nickel and shows a strange etch pattern,
it shows brittle and silvery Schreibersites, as seen in this iron as needles
that is shown in the etching.
http://www.meteorman.org/Gebel-Kamil-slice-77g-640.jpg
Spelling is Schreibersites
Regards,
Tim
Hello Jeff,
Yes, I do see bands there in this piece.
Regards.
Tim
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From: Jeff Kuyken i...@meteorites.com.au
To: Tim Heitz midwestmet...@earthlink.net; Meteorite List
meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 10:50 PM
Subject: Re:
Hi Tim,
I don't know a lot about them but I do know they often show up when ataxites
(i.e. Chinga) are etched. Here is an example:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=230500864867
Cheers,
Jeff
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From: Tim Heitz midwestmet...@earthlink.net
To:
I took the picture displayed in Rocks from Space Picture of the Day dated
September 29, 2009.
I used a UV led flashlight with the primary output around 380nm.
Most minerals in meteorites do not fluoresce under UV light because of their
high Fe content. The Fe quenches the fluorescence. The
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