[meteorite-list] AD eBay auction

2010-12-16 Thread Tomasz Jakubowski
Dear List Members I have few auction ending soon (Millbillillie, Tamdakht and NWA chondrite lots) : http://shop.ebay.com/meteoritepoland/m.html Also one Millbillillie 45 left : http://picasaweb.google.com/illaenus/Millbillillie45g# Beside this, I have many good looking NWA chondrites for trade

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: Frustrated

2010-12-16 Thread Guenther
Hi Jim, I had the same problem at first. The problem was on my end. My email settings are set to automatically send emails in HTML format. That's the way I like it for day to day emails. When posting to a newsgroup I always have to make sure that I double check that I am sending in Plain Text

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: Frustrated

2010-12-16 Thread Art
Hi John; Abe is correct; 99% of the time a post is delayed it is due to the formatting of the email. HTML emails are held by the list software and I need to manually release the post after verifying it doesn't contain anything harmful (e.g. attachments, embedded scripts, etc.). I don't constantly

[meteorite-list] test 1 (please delete)

2010-12-16 Thread Zelimir . Gabelica
test __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Geminid pic / photographing meteors

2010-12-16 Thread John Hendry
Chris, To be clear about how I personally was looking at this; the length of time the shutter is open has no bearing on the sensitivity to the meteor exposure. That I thought was entirely controlled by aperture and ISO sensitivity (i.e. film speed), along with the velocity, brightness and trail

Re: [meteorite-list] Geminid pic / photographing meteors

2010-12-16 Thread Chris Peterson
The sensitivity is very much related to exposure time. The longer the shutter is open, the more the sky background (and its associated noise) fills each pixel. This rapidly washes out fainter meteors. The actual exposure time for a meteor is the amount of time its image dwells on a single

[meteorite-list] Double Geminid Photo

2010-12-16 Thread Mike Hankey
Over 2 nights of cold and mostly cloudy weather I was able to capture 21 meteor photos. I was really impressed with how active this shower was especially the peak night. One of these exposures caught two meteors within the same shot (a 25 second time frame)

[meteorite-list] MRO Provides Travel Tips for Mars Opportunity Rover

2010-12-16 Thread Ron Baalke
Dec. 16, 2010 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.br...@nasa.gov Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 guy.webs...@jpl.nasa.gov Rachel Hoover Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-0643 rachel.hoo...@nasa.gov

Re: [meteorite-list] Double Geminid Photo

2010-12-16 Thread Matthias Bärmann
Wonderful, Mike, thank you! Best, Matthias - Original Message - From: Mike Hankey mike.han...@gmail.com To: Global Meteor Observing Forum meteor...@meteorobs.org; meteoritelist meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 12:24 AM Subject: [meteorite-list]

[meteorite-list] Double Geminid Photo

2010-12-16 Thread bernd . pauli
Really *Great* shot !!! Breathtaking! Beautiful! Thanks for sharing, Mike! Bernd .. getting ready for snow-shoveling tomorrowmorning To: mike.han...@gmail.com meteor...@meteorobs.org meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com __ Visit the Archives

[meteorite-list] Rocks-Paper-Scissors - AD

2010-12-16 Thread Greg Hupe
Dear List Members, In the spirit of the Holidays, I would like to try something fun and offer a few select meteorites, including a new Lunar that has never been offered publicly. Here is how this special will work: Rock - I have several great 'meteorites' listed below. Paper - Make me a

Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks-Paper-Scissors - AD

2010-12-16 Thread Michael Gilmer
If someone would kindly loan me about $20K, I would go on a shopping spree here. LOL Seriously though, those are some awesome specimens. Those big olivine diogenite pieces are super. The big endcut reminds me of a piece of marble cake. The big palm-sized slice looks like a gourmet pancake.

Re: [meteorite-list] Double Geminid Photo

2010-12-16 Thread Stuart McDaniel
Nice picture, I caught a nice one too. http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b143/MrKrink/PHOTOGRAPHY/ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY/METEORITES/Geminid1-1.jpg -Original Message- From: bernd.pa...@paulinet.de Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 6:21 PM To: mike.han...@gmail.com ;

Re: [meteorite-list] Double Geminid Photo

2010-12-16 Thread Rob Holcomb
Thanks for sharing! I love night photography and to catch multiple meteors is tough to do. Rob Holcomb http://www.rholcomb.com -- From: Mike Hankey mike.han...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 3:24 PM To: Global Meteor Observing Forum

Re: [meteorite-list] Double Geminid Photo

2010-12-16 Thread Michael Johnson
My neighbor Jimmy Eubanks made this great shot a few nights ago: http://www.flickr.com/photos/astroimaging/5263191360/ Regards, Michael Johnson http://www.rocksfromspace.org - Original Message - From: Rob Holcomb rob.holc...@gmail.com To: Global Meteor Observing Forum

[meteorite-list] Google Book Tool Tracks Cultural Change With Words

2010-12-16 Thread Paul H.
Google Book Tool Tracks Cultural Change With Words by Dan Charles, All Things Considered, Dec. 16, 2010 http://www.npr.org/2010/12/16/132106374/google-book-tool-tracks-cultural-change-with-words Google Ngram Viewer provides searchable dataset of books. Los Angeles Times, December 16, 2010

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 88, Issue 28

2010-12-16 Thread Suresh Bansal
Theory of Earth Formation 1. Universe is like a natural forest where different-2 Planets are growing and last shrinking and dying. As in the natural forest where different-2 seeds of trees plants are germinating and converting in big trees plants, And after completion of their age,