[meteorite-list] meteorite or not?

2011-07-13 Thread Dan Furlan
I'm not 100% sure but i don't think this item on ebay is a meteorite 120738890611 link to item: http://cgi.ebay.ca/2-6LB-Original-Iron-Meteorite-Specimen-China-/120738890611?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0hash=item1c1c994373 __ Visit the Archives at

[meteorite-list] test

2011-07-13 Thread michael cottingham
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[meteorite-list] AD: Weds/13th - Auctions End and Begin Today! Great Deals!

2011-07-13 Thread michael cottingham
Hello, I have 22 auctions that end today-throughout the day AND I have 60 auctions starting at 5 pm Mountain! Please check in and see what is ending and beginning this week. Some of today's ending auctions are Excellent Deals! ALL SALE ITEMS HERE:

[meteorite-list] AD: Weds/13th - Auctions End and Begin Today! Great Deals!

2011-07-13 Thread michael cottingham
Hello, I have 22 auctions that end today-throughout the day AND I have 60 auctions starting at 5 pm Mountain! Please check in and see what is ending and beginning this week. Some of today's ending auctions are Excellent Deals! ALL SALE ITEMS HERE:

[meteorite-list] AD eBay auction, Tamdakht big, Ghubara, ureilite ..

2011-07-13 Thread Tomasz Jakubowski
Dear List Members, I put 4 auctions on eBay : http://shop.ebay.com/meteoritepoland/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562 Tamdakht (big a fresh specimen), big ureilite slice, great Ghubara huge slice (with nice texture) and NWA xxx specimen. All pieces can be seen on bigger photos and Videos (link on

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite or not?

2011-07-13 Thread Göran Axelsson
Definitely no meteorite. Just compare the size with the weight. It is too light to be solid iron, it's just a bit of iron oxide and iron hydroxide concretion at best. 1x0.9x0.4 dm = 0.36 dm3 1.160/0.36 = 3.2 kg/dm3 Iron nickel meteorites have a density close to 8 so it's way off in density.

[meteorite-list] AD: NWA 6716 - new IIE iron recrystallized

2011-07-13 Thread Mirko Graul
Dear List Members, here are my new NWA iron - NWA 6716. It is a very interesting and double recrystallized IIE iron. All slices are sold very fast in the German Meteorite Forum. Now i have also cut the last piece. (the flat endcut) And so are for sale now the both last available pieces. The

[meteorite-list] In Memoriam: Tom Gehrels, 1925-2011

2011-07-13 Thread Bernd V. Pauli
Ted Bunch kindly wrote: Sad to see Tom go! We did some good things together. Here's one example from the monumental book I cited: Aqueous activity on asteroids: Evidence from carbonaceous meteorites [by J.F. Kerridge, T.E. Bunch in Tom Gehrels (1979) Asteroids (The University of Arizona Press,

[meteorite-list] Johnstown, Bjurbole, NWA 6704, other Auctions Ending... AD

2011-07-13 Thread Greg Hupé
Dear List Members, Later tonight I have a number of Outstanding and Historic eBay auctions ending. Included with these is a great selection of polished slices of NWA 6704, a 'Most Intriguing' Ungrouped Achondrite. I also have links to NWA 6704 specimens that are not on eBay that I have listed

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite or not?

2011-07-13 Thread Galactic Stone Ironworks
Hi Dan and List, I see a ton of these on eBay and they have been there for years. They are obvious meteorwrongs and look more like river rock than meteorites. For eBay to allow these sellers to operate in their venue shows that eBay does not care about the integrity of it's marketplace. It's

Re: [meteorite-list] AD eBay auction, Tamdakht big, Ghubara, ureilite ..

2011-07-13 Thread actionshooting
Those are some awesome pieces! -- Stuart McDaniel Lawndale, NC IMCA#9052 http://www.facebook.com/Stuart.McDaniel.No.1 Tomasz Jakubowski illae...@wp.pl wrote: = Dear List Members, I put 4 auctions on eBay : http://shop.ebay.com/meteoritepoland/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite or not?

2011-07-13 Thread m42protosun
Hi list, when I started collecting meteorites I had bought such item fron an IMCA member as NANTAN. The reality is that it is Mekong River Iron . The simple negative Ni-Test shows that it contain not yet more than 0.1 ppm Ni metal, a MUST of iron containing meteorites. m42protosun

[meteorite-list] Important - Please Read

2011-07-13 Thread jason utas
Hello All, Many of you know that a man named John/Bryan Scarborough was recently removed from the IMCA for selling meteorites that were analytically proven to be misrepresented. If you've never heard this before, please see the list archives:

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite or not?

2011-07-13 Thread meteoriteguy.com
Just another rock. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 12, 2011, at 11:05 PM, Dan Furlan danfur...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not 100% sure but i don't think this item on ebay is a meteorite 120738890611 link to item:

[meteorite-list] A Cosmic Catastrophe: The Great Clovis Comet Debate

2011-07-13 Thread Paul H.
Holliday, V. T., 2011, A Cosmic Catastrophe: The Great Clovis Comet Debate: A personal perspective on an Outrageous Hypothesis. Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. http://www.argonaut.arizona.edu/Clovis_Comet_Debate.html Yours, Paul H.

Re: [meteorite-list] [IMCA] Important - Please Read

2011-07-13 Thread actionshooting
I just looked at several of his auctions and it seems he has removed the IMCA reference but it is funny, some of the ones he is selling were purchased THIS September. Have I slept through Sept or something?? -- Stuart McDaniel Lawndale, NC IMCA#9052

Re: [meteorite-list] [IMCA] Important - Please Read

2011-07-13 Thread Abe Enochs
-Original Message- From: actionshooting actionshoot...@carolina.rr.com To: jason utas jasonu...@gmail.com; Ken Newton ken.i...@gmail.com Cc: Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com; imca i...@imcamail.de Sent: Wed, Jul 13, 2011 10:14 am Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] [IMCA]

Re: [meteorite-list] A Cosmic Catastrophe: The Great Clovis Comet Debate

2011-07-13 Thread Chris Peterson
The archaeological, paleontological, geological, and astronomical data supporting the notion of a significant Pleistocene impact are very thin, and getting thinner all the time. Certainly, the consensus viewpoint is that there was no impact. Of course, that doesn't mean that reputable

[meteorite-list] AD: Ebay auctions of rare US falls/finds

2011-07-13 Thread Sergey Vasiliev
Hello List, I have a few ebay auctions ending on Saturday. Check all my items: http://shop.ebay.com/svassiliev/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562 Don't miss them while weekend and bid now! Thanks and all the best from Prague, Sergey --- Sergey Vasiliev U Dalnice 2684/1 Prague 5, 155

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite or not?

2011-07-13 Thread Jonathan E. Dongell
M22protosun, Did the same thing when I began collecting. Bought several, sold as: iron/nickel meterites : ^ ( Question. How did you track the source to Mekong River? Jonathan ICMA 3922 - Original Message - From: m42protosun m42proto...@t-online.de To:

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite or not?

2011-07-13 Thread Richard Montgomery
JonathanI think one paddles upstream. :)) - Original Message - From: Jonathan E. Dongell jdong...@cox.net To: m42proto...@t-online.de; Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 5:21 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite or not? M22protosun, Did

[meteorite-list] meteorite or not?

2011-07-13 Thread JoshuaTreeMuseum
Richard, Good one! I thought most of the Mekong Delta material was hematite. Phil Whitmer JonathanI think one paddles upstream. :)) __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite or not?

2011-07-13 Thread Jonathan E. Dongell
Guess I should have Googled it. - Original Message - From: JoshuaTreeMuseum joshuatreemus...@embarqmail.com To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 5:40 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] meteorite or not? Richard, Good one! I thought most of the

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite-list] meteorite or not?

2011-07-13 Thread Tom Randall (KB2SMS)
I just twittered Be careful who you buy meteorites from on eBay people. Lots of scams out there. Check the meteorite list. Meteoritecentral.com --- http://www.youtube.com/user/Tommyr __ Visit the Archives at

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite or not?

2011-07-13 Thread Jim Wooddell
Good evening all! Here is the response I received from this person selling the rock... Thank you for your information,It is an iron meteorite,I bought from other seller who said like this also,We haven't done any tests about it.But it is not rock.Many thanks. - crystal-sphere9

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite or not?

2011-07-13 Thread Galactic Stone Ironworks
Thank you for your information,It is an iron meteorite,I bought from other seller who said like this also,We haven't done any tests about it.But it is not rock.Many thanks. Translation - Thank you for peeing into the wind. I don't care what you say or how much you know about meteorites. We

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite or not?

2011-07-13 Thread John.L.Cabassi
Perfect Translation Mike :-) -Original Message- From: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Galactic Stone Ironworks Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 7:16 PM To: Jim Wooddell Cc: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

[meteorite-list] AD - NWAxxxx meteorite fragments and more - sale

2011-07-13 Thread Melanie Matthews
Hi Listers, CV3 1 - 122.9 g. CV3 2 - 58.4 g. ^^both with CAIs showing. LL7 metachondrite - 84.5 Whitecourt - 9.45 g. in as-found condition; with export paper and ID card from Big Kahuna Meteorites Two Park Forest Riker displays - one Garza the other Winslow Street Hammer Collection.

[meteorite-list] Attn GPS users

2011-07-13 Thread Mark Bowling
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Re: [meteorite-list] A Cosmic Catastrophe: The Great Clovis Comet Debate

2011-07-13 Thread Rich Murray
What fascinates me is that with a thousand curious, adventurous people on this list, hardly anyone is following up the remarkable ground study leads provided by Cox, Barretto, and Murray, or pondering the implications of the Mark Boslough supercomputer simulations at Sandia Lab of directed blasts