[meteorite-list] AD - Breja - Special Price

2012-05-16 Thread fallingfusion
The Breja on my sales page has to go (as does everything else).. as I will no longer be involved in the resale business. Special Met List price of $485 http://fallingfusion.com/Sales_Gallery.html First come, first served. Sorry but I got to move things along quickly. Thank you. Ryan -

Re: [meteorite-list] Ad - Thin-Sections of Sutter Mill

2012-05-16 Thread Edwin Thompson
Hello Anne and list, I too will have nice large thin sections of Sutter's Mill just as soon as I find one of the stones. Hopefully this will happen sooner than later. Have seen a number of very nice stones found mostly by locals and many are beautifully oriented little gems but no luck for Patr

[meteorite-list] Ad - Thin-Sections of Sutter Mill

2012-05-16 Thread Anne Black
Speaking of thin-sections (Thank you ET) Yes, I will have a few thin-sections of Sutter Mill in the near future, you just cannot rush the expert! I don't know yet how many there will be, and it will not be many (unless I can get another fragment that is just right shape and size

Re: [meteorite-list] Never underestimate or dismiss Spectroscopy

2012-05-16 Thread Benjamin P. Sun
If a dealer or someone were to claim that their Tatahouine or NWA 2060 came from Vesta, I would not counter or argue with him. Simply because he has more evidence and proof pointing his way now. You should say that the(<1%) rare odd non-Vestan ungrouped anomalous "eucrite" may or may not be from Ve

[meteorite-list] Ad - Tissint thin sections

2012-05-16 Thread Edwin Thompson
Hello list members, Will be home next week for a couple of days and have a couple of Tissint thin sections remaining. They are gorgeous David Mann thin sections and the specimen surface measures roughly 12 x 15mm in size. This is a fascinating SNC to enjoy under magnification. Even if you d

Re: [meteorite-list] Never underestimate or dismiss Spectroscopy

2012-05-16 Thread Benjamin P. Sun
"Generally speaking, stating to the HED clan of meteorites are mainly derived from "Vesta" is acceptable so long as we understand ( Caveat #1) that they could also be from any of the Vesta family: any of those 6000+ bodies populating the Vesta orbital region. Many of those are over 1 km size and mo

[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - May 16, 2012

2012-05-16 Thread Ron Baalke
MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES May 16, 2012 o A Youthful Crater in the Cydonia Colles Region http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025716_2200 Just what makes a Martian crater youthful, in a geologic sense? Very old craters tend to have eroded rims and can have plenty of

[meteorite-list] Lotus Meteorite sent to AMNH for Computed Tomography (CT) scan

2012-05-16 Thread Brien Cook
Yesterday I met with Qing-zhu Yin, an associate professor at UC Davis in the Dept. of Geology. We looked at my specimen under his microscope and got some amazing pictures, which I will be posting shortly. During my meeting we also spoke with Denton Ebel from the American Museum of Natural Histo

[meteorite-list] Sort-of Ad: Twitter free meteorite give-away!

2012-05-16 Thread Yinan Wang
Hi List, To expand my twitter presence, I'm giving away a free nice 16 gram NWA 869 meteorite to a random twitter follower/retweeter. All you have to do is go to the following link, follow me on twitter, and retweet that post: https://twitter.com/#!/veomega/status/202896777068818432 I will rando

Re: [meteorite-list] Will Michael Blood please contact me

2012-05-16 Thread Michael Blood
Thanks, Mal, Hope it brings you many hours of enjoyment. I wrote it over all those years and when I put it all together (a MUCH more difficult task than I had imagined) I read them All and was surprised at how much I ENJOYED IT! Hope your Experience is the same. From he who'

[meteorite-list] Meteorite List Will Michael Blood please contact me (AD)

2012-05-16 Thread Michael Blood
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[meteorite-list] NASA Survey Counts Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (WISE)

2012-05-16 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-138 NASA Survey Counts Potentially Hazardous Asteroids Jet Propulsion Laboratory May 16, 2012 PASADENA, Calif. -- Observations from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system's pop

Re: [meteorite-list] Hammer Talk

2012-05-16 Thread Howard Wu
Can I play too? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqyc37aOqT0 - Original Message - From: Shawn Alan To: "meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 10:06 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Hammer Talk Hammer time - you can't touch this :) http://www.youtube.com/

[meteorite-list] Sutter's Mill TKW Update

2012-05-16 Thread Michael Gilmer
Hi, New finds were added to the official and unofficial tally of finds today. As of this writing, the unofficial TKW is approx. 439.19 grams The number of known specimens (including some unofficial finds) is 56. The are several more finds with "SM numbers" assigned by Dr. Jenniskens that have n

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorites, state of our world etc...

2012-05-16 Thread Michael Farmer
These types of financed trips have been tried before, it usually ends badly because of too many factors. I will not be involved again because invariably people feel left out, ripped-off, cheated, scammed or unhappy because someone else got what they feel is a better deal than they did. accounti

[meteorite-list] New Met Bull listings

2012-05-16 Thread John Lutzon
List, If interested. 11 new listings today. John __ 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

[meteorite-list] JPL Invites all Earthlings to Annual Open House

2012-05-16 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-136 JPL Invites all Earthlings to Annual Open House Jet Propulsion Laboratory May 15, 2012 PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., invites the public to its annual Open House on Saturday, June 9, and Sunday, June

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorites, state of our world etc...

2012-05-16 Thread Bob Loeffler
HI Chris, One problem that I can think of would be... what if you had 50 investors who financed the expedition and only 1 small stone was found? Many people would not want that stone to be cut up (besides cutting a window in it for classification purposes), so all of those people would come away

Re: [meteorite-list] Will Michael Blood please contact me

2012-05-16 Thread Mal Bishop
Michael and list, My inability to be patient has caused me embarrassment yet again! Sorry for the unneeded attention brought to Michael and for disturbing others on the list. I'll try hard not to be so impetuous next time something like this comes up! I was just VERY anxious to read your b

[meteorite-list] [AD]Two oriented Taza

2012-05-16 Thread Tomasz Jakubowski
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Re: [meteorite-list] University of Arizona press conference today.

2012-05-16 Thread karmaka
WELL DONE !!! Another article and audio report: http://www.azpm.org/science/story/2012/5/15/1616-meteorite-hunters-contribute-to-future-ua-nasa-asteroid-study/ Martin Von: Michael Farmer An: Meteorite Central Betreff: [meteorite-list] University of Arizona press conference today. Datum

Re: [meteorite-list] Will Michael Blood please contact me

2012-05-16 Thread Michael Blood
Hi Mal, And to anyone else who orders a book. I was concerned when I read your post that I had missed several Emails for several days or something and immediately sent you the Information needed. However, I checked my PayPal history to see how long you had Been held up, thin

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

2012-05-16 Thread valparint
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: NWA 6267 Contributed by: Dirk Hohmann http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpod.asp __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteorit

[meteorite-list] Will Michael Blood please contact me

2012-05-16 Thread Mal Bishop
Sorry to bother the list, but I can't get Michael Blood's attention using his email account so I thought I would try to get his attention via the met. list. Michael, please contact me off list ASAP please regarding your book, 'Meteorite Market Trends'. Thank you very much! and sorry li

Re: [meteorite-list] El Hammami - Superb end piece with lipping 80% off next 3 days only (AD)

2012-05-16 Thread Michael Blood
See this spectacular end piece I acquired years ago directly from ET when he had a pickup load. I got one of the (perhaps THE) first shots at his fantastic new meteorite immediately upon his return from the adventure of packing out the material from the mountains on the backs of camels. I