Re: [meteorite-list] New type of fake moldavite coming soon?

2011-08-01 Thread Armando Afonso
?Hydrofluoric acid can do the job. AA - Original Message - From: Yinan Wang veom...@gmail.com To: Michael Gilmer meteoritem...@gmail.com Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com; tracy latimer daist...@hotmail.com Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list]

Re: [meteorite-list] New Mars Rock Marquette Island

2010-01-29 Thread Armando Afonso
A real one! :-) - Original Message - From: cdtuc...@cox.net To: meteoritelist meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 5:50 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] New Mars Rock Marquette Island List, Not sure if this posted here yet but, Does anybody know what type

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite hunting in Western Australia

2008-07-18 Thread Armando Afonso
Museum??? I thought that the right place for those things was ebay. Scratch, scratch... AA - Original Message - From: Göran Axelsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 7:27 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] Idaho man gives meteorite to Utah

2008-05-01 Thread Armando Afonso
What? He doesn`t sell on ebay? It is lost to science, then. - Original Message - From: Mike Groetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 5:37 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Idaho man gives meteorite to Utah

Re: [meteorite-list] WG: meteorites not being able to

2008-04-17 Thread Armando Afonso
- Original Message - From: Armando Afonso [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 6:30 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] WG: meteorites not being able to If I understood well, the right thing to do with a new meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] WG: meteorites not being able to

2008-04-15 Thread Armando Afonso
If I understood well, the right thing to do with a new meteorite is to sell it in ebay! I prefer to say that a standard protocole must urgently be implemented by the authorities of each country, with the objective of properly mapping the strewfield, collecting and preserve all the material for

Re: [meteorite-list] Futures Market for Meteorites?

2008-04-09 Thread Armando Afonso
A comunist dealer??? :-) - Original Message - From: Michael Gilmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 4:54 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Futures Market for Meteorites? Wouldn't it be interesting if there was a futures market

Re: [meteorite-list] April 6, 2008 witnessed fall

2008-04-09 Thread Armando Afonso
Not for me, Doug. I don´t need translations, since my language is latin, too. That thing of the allien language was a joke towards the high intelectuality of many of the specialists.:-) Armando Afonso (no L, please) - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] How Do You Know It's A Meteorite?

2008-04-07 Thread Armando Afonso
Some sellers are famous for having in-built mass-spetrometers in their eyes. They know everything about petrography, mineralogy, crystalo-optics, you name it. Many have great scientific background, as selling hamburgers, or speaking alien languages, as spanish. Some can even say beer in

Re: [meteorite-list] New Fall

2008-03-07 Thread Armando Afonso
Spain, right? - Original Message - From: Leigh Anne DelRay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New Fall ha.. I love how McCartney makes it into a game.. congrats on your

Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas crater

2008-02-29 Thread Armando Afonso
By the way, I have seen those milimetric holes on the surface of some sikhote refered as craters. Is that detail of terminology so important? - Original Message - From: Adam Hupe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Adam meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent:

Re: [meteorite-list] Ensisheim loss/year

2007-10-31 Thread Armando Afonso
It rains a lot, in Ensisheim. - Original Message - From: PolandMET [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 4:50 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Ensisheim loss/year Roughly, considering the 70 kg figure, this leads

[meteorite-list] Low altitude ed and green big bolide over Algarve, Portugal

2007-10-12 Thread Armando Afonso
Does anyone on the list knows something about the bolide reported yesterday in the south of Portugal? Refered was an angular altitude of the point of extinction of aprox. 15º , and west to east trajectory. __ Meteorite-list mailing list

Re: [meteorite-list] Low altitude ed and green big bolide over Algarve, Portugal

2007-10-12 Thread Armando Afonso
Bah! With this trajectory, probably it was only an other nwa ( no pedigree) flying to the desert. Someone have to teach this stones the right place to fall on. :) Armando - Original Message - From: Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Armando Afonso [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Martian Meteorite Heat Ablation?

2007-08-12 Thread Armando Afonso
This is not terribly important, but why was this message delayed 31h? - Original Message - From: Armando Afonso [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Groetz [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 6:01 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Martian Meteorite Heat Ablation?

2007-08-09 Thread Armando Afonso
No atmosphere? Where did you hear that? - Original Message - From: Mike Groetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 5:59 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Martian Meteorite Heat Ablation? Hi Everyone- Assuming Mars

Re: [meteorite-list] Ad: Cali meteorite Hammerstone ending onebay soon

2007-08-01 Thread Armando Afonso
Hehe. After all, I love this guys! Maybe I should start collecting meteorites... - Original Message - From: Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: M come Meteorite Meteorites [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 1:00 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [meteorite-list] Ok, all Cali meteorite pages are up.

2007-07-29 Thread Armando Afonso
Interesting report. Something maybe feasible could be the determination of the vector between the hole on the roof and the marks on the floor. This for each stone, and compare them with a 3d plot. Would they be paralel or radial? Would they focus? - Original Message - From: Michael

Re: [meteorite-list] Tunguska wood section new Spanish eucrite

2007-06-18 Thread Armando Afonso
Why did I get the impression that a lot of NWAs are getting some imaginative, sexy labelings latelly ? - Original Message - From: M come Meteorite Meteorites [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 4:45 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list]

Re: [meteorite-list] Nasa, CAMPO DEL CIELO

2007-05-12 Thread Armando Afonso
Wrong story, excuse me. http://axxon.com.ar/not/155/c-1550270.htm - Original Message - From: Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Armando Afonso [EMAIL PROTECTED]; PolandMET [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Moser Francesco [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ZZ ML Meteorite-List meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Nasa, CAMPO DEL CIELO

2007-05-10 Thread Armando Afonso
http://axxon.com.ar/not/156/c-1560334.htm __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite smugglers anger scientists - stamp collection

2007-04-19 Thread Armando Afonso
By the way, What is the interest of the meteorites to the average collector? They are simply nice or interesting, isn`t it? Like a collection of stamps? Most of the real interest of this materials relates to statistics of chemical and isotopical composition and other arid informations, of no

Re: [meteorite-list] Freedom of speech!!!!

2007-04-07 Thread Armando Afonso
For who? - Original Message - From: Rob McCafferty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 10:18 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Freedom of speech --- matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is for our interest to have better

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite coins and other ridiculous wastes oftime

2007-03-30 Thread Armando Afonso
Hi Martin. You are nearly to be erradicated from the list, acused of beeing a comunist... Each time I spoke against this and others scientific uses of meteorites I was insulted by the pirates. I warned you. AA - Original Message - From: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Thaddeus

Re: [meteorite-list] Fusion crusts on stony meteorites - NWA 2826

2007-03-24 Thread Armando Afonso
That is something that could be confused with porphyritic texture. Very interesting. AA - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 12:43 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Fusion crusts on stony meteorites - NWA 2826

Re: [meteorite-list] PolandMET page update [AD]

2007-03-23 Thread Armando Afonso
Excellent site. Congratulations. AA - Original Message - From: PolandMET [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 7:54 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] PolandMET page update [AD] Hello List Members. I have put new material on my page

Re: [meteorite-list] Fusion crusts on stony meteorites

2007-03-23 Thread Armando Afonso
porphyritic? Are you sure? The meteorites cool down in a single stage, I believe. AA - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 5:35 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Fusion crusts on stony meteorites GENGE M.J. and

Re: [meteorite-list] a question on fusion crust

2007-03-23 Thread Armando Afonso
the chemical composition of the heat altered layer on the surface of irons all you want, but it is fusion crust. Michael Farmer --- Armando Afonso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In that case, you get a vitrification of the silicates, with some inclusion of reduced iron, eventually coming from

Re: [meteorite-list] a question on fusion crust

2007-03-23 Thread Armando Afonso
- Original Message - From: Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Armando Afonso [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 4:48 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] a question on fusion crust But made from the matrix component. burned material from

Re: [meteorite-list] a question on fusion crust

2007-03-23 Thread Armando Afonso
- Original Message - From: Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Armando Afonso [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 4:48 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] a question on fusion crust But made from the matrix component. burned material from

Re: [meteorite-list] a question on fusion crust

2007-03-23 Thread Armando Afonso
Obviously, it is a diferent material... The external fusion crust of iron meteorites is Magnetite, the result of the combination with the air`s oxygene. AA - Original Message - From: Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mr EMan [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Michael Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED];

[meteorite-list] Fw: all List members Mike re ThreatsfromMr Gregory

2007-03-15 Thread Armando Afonso
- Original Message - From: Armando Afonso [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ingo Herkstroeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 2:50 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] all List members Mike re ThreatsfromMr Gregory Hi Ingo, You are right, the message was perhaps too strong. I

Re: [meteorite-list] How to display Your collection ? PolandMET idea !

2007-03-15 Thread Armando Afonso
Very interesting, Marcin! Thanks for share it with us. My only criticism goes to the bright color of the labels. Regards. AA - Original Message - From: PolandMET [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 6:33 PM Subject:

Re: [meteorite-list] all List members Mike re Threats fromMr Gregory

2007-03-11 Thread Armando Afonso
Dear friends, From time to time, I take the time and patience to read what is happening in this list. Invariably, Mike Farmer is exchanging insults with someone... If this list was something near neutrality, this gentleman would have been banned long, long ago... Anyway, from a certain

Re: [meteorite-list] New Orleans

2007-03-11 Thread Armando Afonso
New preparation technique: hammering! - Original Message - From: Bruce Yankewitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 10:26 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] New Orleans Seems to me that virtually all of the New Orleans meteorite to

Re: [meteorite-list] the lunar meeorite from morocco

2007-02-22 Thread Armando Afonso
Hehe... Any doubts about meteorite classification can be easily solved contacting Michael Farmer... He knows nothing about petrography, mineralogy, never heard about isotopes, but can identify anything by sight! The only side effect is the resulting thousands of insults and fisical menaces, but

Re: [meteorite-list] the lunar meeorite from morocco

2007-02-22 Thread Armando Afonso
Hehe... Any doubts about meteorite classification can be easily solved contacting Michael Farmer... He knows nothing about petrography, mineralogy, never heard about isotopes, but can identify anything by sight! The only side effect is the resulting thousands of insults and fisical menaces, but

Re: [meteorite-list] New FALL in Turkey

2007-02-05 Thread Armando Afonso
After all, they are more civilized than I thought... - Original Message - From: Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Fred Caillou Noir [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Bjorn Sorheim [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 2:46 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [meteorite-list] new thread - How to tell if you are 12stepping up, number #13

2007-01-25 Thread Armando Afonso
#14-You say that you found those stones on the beach - Original Message - From: Tim Heitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 3:57 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] new thread - How to tell if you are 12stepping up, number #13

Re: [meteorite-list] India Meteorite Guessing Contest?

2006-08-01 Thread Armando Afonso
Paving stone - basalt from the local quarry! AA - Original Message - From: drtanuki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Horejsi [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 4:19 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] India Meteorite Guessing Contest?

Re: [meteorite-list] Norwegian meteorite classification guessing game

2006-07-19 Thread Armando Afonso
Shhh... You must buy it from the natives at the maximum of 0.50$/g. At the airport, if someone asks, the stones are souvenirs, catched at the beach. AA - Original Message - From: Andreas Gren [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Martin Altmann' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Re: [meteorite-list] Man in Norway 2 m from meteorite fallingonFriday!

2006-07-17 Thread Armando Afonso
What? They didn`t sell it? AA - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 5:49 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Man in Norway 2 m from meteorite fallingonFriday! Finally, an English artilce:

Re: [meteorite-list] Congratulations Matteo

2006-07-10 Thread Armando Afonso
Well done, Italy. AA - Portugal (Sniff!) - Original Message - From: M come Meteorite Meteorites [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 5:39 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Congratulations Matteo Thanksfinaly after

Re: [meteorite-list] Uncut NWA's - Does the exterior disclose theinterior

2006-06-30 Thread Armando Afonso
Hi. Thanks for a great humouristic intervention. Then, Virgin Mary is a kind of CAI? I bought a Sikhote with wings...I am looking at it with diferent eyes, now. Tonight, I will check if it glows in the dark. And there are Kriptonite meteorites, too. What a mess, upstairs. AA And I have even

[meteorite-list] fossil meteorites from Arkansas?

2006-06-26 Thread Armando Afonso
Hi all I would like to know if some of you heard about fossil meteorites from a place called Arkansas Lime in Batesville, Arkansas. By curiousity, I just bought one at e-bay. I didn´t receive it yet. Honestly I think that this is only a fragment of a limonitised Pyrite fossil, but I would

[meteorite-list] norwegian fall

2006-06-14 Thread Armando Afonso
Did someone see it glowing all the way to the ground? For sure? That is normally an ilusion. What is seen to glow in a meteor, is not the incandescence of the meteoroid, but the cloud of ionized gases around it, many thousands times larger than the stone in itself. The meteorites fall at a

[meteorite-list] norwegian fall

2006-06-13 Thread Armando Afonso
That has the look of a percussion mark, to me. The shape is elipsoidal, the internal part is fractured, the envolving rock seams, by contrast, healty. It would be a strange rockslide. Even if the scale of the scar is dificult to evaluate from the photo, a mass of an average car falling at the

[meteorite-list] NORWEGIAN FALL

2006-06-13 Thread Armando Afonso
Possibly this is a multiple fall, and more of this holes have to be found. And normally there is some exageration on this popular reports. Possibly the stones scatered into little pieces in the bush. I would go there, if I could. AA __ Meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Antartic treaty

2006-06-04 Thread Armando Afonso
Hi again. This is known to everybody, but it clearly shows how, in reality, the meteorite hunters are seen by the scientific comunity, regardless of the many times described (by the first) proximity and cooperation between them: A PLAGUE. The problem of Saharan meteorites is exactly the same

[meteorite-list] Zagami

2006-06-04 Thread Armando Afonso
About the Zagami stone: In the Mars meteorite compendium of 2003, it seams that Bob Haag toke 9Kg of the meteorite, about 50 % of the total mass. At the actual prices are between 500 - 1000 USD/g. it means 4.5 to 9 Million USD, if I am not totally wrong. What was traded for the meteorite?

[meteorite-list] test 1001 please delete

2006-06-02 Thread Armando Afonso
__ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Dear friends, I am back.

2006-06-02 Thread Armando Afonso
For unclarified reasons, my posting to this list is allowed again, and without the need of another email adress for each new message! Thanks!!! I promise to behave properly, now. I will absorb each insult and publicity of the predators, without making waves. I have my helmet, too. Fire. AA

[meteorite-list] TEST

2006-06-01 Thread Armando Afonso
- Original Message - From: Mike Bandli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Meteorite Mailing List' meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 12:18 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] In search of Latvian Meteorites: Buschhof, Lixna,Misshof, Nerft. Hi List, I am trying to

Re: [meteorite-list] Lost Opportunities Past and Future was Some ..meteorite finds.

2006-05-20 Thread Armando Afonso
it A dissertation about the market`s logic is usual, too. AA - Original Message - From: E J [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Armando Afonso [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 5:03 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Lost Opportunities Past and Future

Re: [meteorite-list] Ad 64 meteorites auctions ending right now.PIRACY

2006-05-19 Thread Armando Afonso
of the universe is very funny, too. Armando - Original Message - From: Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Armando Afonso' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 5:13 PM Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Ad 64 meteorites auctions ending right

Re: [meteorite-list] Quiz! - name this beauty

2006-05-19 Thread Armando Afonso
martian. absolutelly. A vision told me. aa - Original Message - From: Marcin Cimala - PolandMET [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com; 'Michael Farmer' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 12:13 AM Subject:

Re: [meteorite-list] Quiz! - name this beauty

2006-05-19 Thread Armando Afonso
martian. By the smell. aa - Original Message - From: Marcin Cimala - PolandMET [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com; 'Michael Farmer' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 12:13 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Quiz! - name

Re: [meteorite-list] Some more spectacular meteorite finds.

2006-05-19 Thread Armando Afonso
Beautyfull stones, indeed. Incredible, what we can find by the side of the road. Or was the head of this strewfield on the lobby of the hotel? AA - Original Message - From: Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 6:13 PM

Re: [meteorite-list] Some more spectacular meteorite finds.

2006-05-19 Thread Armando Afonso
Sorry, my english is a bit limited. AA - Original Message - From: Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Armando Afonso' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 1:17 AM Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Some more spectacular meteorite finds. I

Re: [meteorite-list] Some more spectacular meteorite finds.

2006-05-19 Thread Armando Afonso
from Tucson in the photos, and I remember my look during a little trip to Morocco. I normally have a very clear skin, but that time I could be confused with a Tuareg. AA - Original Message - From: Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Armando Afonso' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] you can trust mike

2006-05-19 Thread Armando Afonso
Obviously, he is. I simply like to introduce a bit of dialetics, even with my crude english. Armando - Original Message - From: Steve Arnold, Chicago!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 1:39 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] you can trust

Re: [meteorite-list] Some more spectacular meteorite finds.

2006-05-19 Thread Armando Afonso
The authorities are complacent with the business, or momentarily blind? AA - Original Message - From: Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Armando Afonso' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 1:48 AM Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Some

Re: [meteorite-list] Some more spectacular meteorite finds.

2006-05-19 Thread Armando Afonso
- From: E J [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 2:02 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Some more spectacular meteorite finds. Armando Afonso wrote: You look for them while you drive, with the air conditioning at the maximum, or walking by foot

[meteorite-list] Canada laws

2006-04-25 Thread Armando Afonso
ed in the university of Lisbon (yes, there is more than ignorants, around here), but no, it was saved from our 3th world ignorance by the hands of an americanspecialist ( he speaks a bit of spanish, and heard about chondrules, I think). This is a shame to my coun

[meteorite-list] Canada law

2006-04-24 Thread Armando Afonso
Calgary — To scientists, they are priceless clues about the origins of life, but now, six years after he found some frozen meteorite fragments that weigh roughly as much as two blocks of butter, a Canadian has cashed in. The price tag: $750,000. And as a bonus, the space rocks that landed

[meteorite-list] odour

2006-04-20 Thread Armando Afonso
Hi.I have been in contact with the persons who found the Ourique meteorite, and all of them refered the initial strong sulfur smell of the stones, now inexistent.The specimens seam to be less magnetic now than when they were fresh, too.I would say that this indicates the presence of an iron