Hello List,
Burnham's Celestial Handbook trilogy has always been as essential
to me as O.R. Norton's RFS (I,II) and his Cambridge Encyclopedia
of Meteorites.
Another very inspirational and motivating booklet that I can highly
recommend is Starlight Nights, The Adventures of a Star-Gazer by
Hello Steve, Alan and List,
Back from watching the Mundrabilla episode of Steve and Geoff!
Great episode! But let's now move on to Steve's question. Steve
inquired:
...do carbonaceous chondrites ever have impact melt zones in them?
According to my database queries, impact melt (clasts) have
Regine inquired:
I too would like to know where this one is being kept. What baffles
me though, how does one get to the conclusion the meteorite had been
carried in a medicine bag? It doesn't sound implausible, but what are
the clues? Magic powder topping? Is there any further info?
Hello
Hello Jeff, Mike, David and List,
David wrote: It is indeed the synonym for Glorieta
... and only one out of several others:
Albuquerque
Canoncito
Glorieta
Pojoaque
Rio Arriba
Santa Fe
Santa Fe County
Trinity County
Cheers,
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Hello Robert, Brien and all of you lucky and happy finders!
Wow! Sincere congratulations on your Californian gold rush finds!
Such a fresh and scientifically important CM fall and its immediate
recovery will surely have a tremendous impact on meteorite science.
I can hardly wait to see it
Amazing photos! Thank you very much for sharing!!!
http://msg-meteorites.co.uk/articles
... and, folks, don't forget to see Martin's slide
show of all 59 photos. You won't regret it!
Cheers,
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Chris inquires: Do meteorites 'glow' under a UV light?
I don't know whether meteorites glow under a UV light but I do know
that meteorites glow, i.e. some meteoritic minerals emit light when
exposed to an electrical discharge = luminescence
Herschel was one of the first to observe
Fabien wrote / Fabien a écrit:
my Norton County has enstatite crystals that glow in
yellow under UV light (UV-A, not tried with UV-C)
Salut Fabien, Hello List,
... and, with regard to their TL colors:
Ordinary chondrites, the most common meteorites, luminesce brightly
with a maximum at about
Tomasz Jakubowsk kindly wrote:
I am co organizer of this exhibition
Hi Tomasz and List,
Wonderful exhibition! Good overview because the showcases
are not overcrowded so that visitors can really focus on
what they are looking at!
As for the video sequence, it would be fine if the camera panning
Bob kindly wrote:
The more time goes by, the more things remain the same.
No, Bob, you're wrong, ... meanwhile this saying
has been updated a little by Bon Jovi ;-)
= The more things change the more the stay the sam e =
Best wishes and a very
Happy Easter to
All of you,
Bernd
Hi Norm and List,
Good to see you are back and good to see you are quickly catching
up on your website but what else should we expect from a slave-driver ;-)
Talking about LDG and King Tut, you write on your website the following:
The image of King Tut's breastplate at left shows a carved
Greg wrote:
The second is a droplet shaped chondrule
0.6 mm wide. Cross-polarized light.
http://www.lunarrock.com/NWA5958/nwa5958ThinSection2.jpg
I surely did enjoy that little porphyritic wonder!
Thanks for sharing, Greg!
Thanks for taking the picture, John!
Cheers,
Bernd
Hello Larry and List,
Sincere congratulations! That's a particularly nice cold find because
it shows something I would call a dichotomy: two halves separated
by a dividing line right through the middle!
http://s934.photobucket.com/albums/ad190/alienrockfarm/New%20Meteorite%20Find/
Thanks for
Hello All,
Speaking of Mercury: I'm sure Pete and some others have already read
the article Mercury's Marvels in the April 2012 issue of Sky Tel.,
pp.26-33.
On pp. 28-29, ST senior contributing editor and list member J.K. Beatty
describes the three ideas (or notions) of how 'iron-hearted'
MikeG wrote:
I really like that big oblong brown football chondrule that
is showing on some of the pieces, especially the 6.29g slice.
Any idea, Mike, who was quick enough last night
(European time) and grabbed exactly that one?
Go figure :-) ;-)
Best wishes,
Bernd
Canyon Diablo Meteorite etched full slice 55.1 grams! WOW inclusion!
Wow is definitely an understatement! This troilite nodule rimmed by
swathing kamacite is gorgeous, breathtaking, unique. If I didn't already
have a similar piece like this one, this would be my personal must have!
Cheers,
Hi Darryl and List,
Graham writes:
Tracing its history or story of its terrestrial journey could be interesting
Could you please measure the bandwidth - especially the bandwidth
in the 7 o'clock and in the 2 o'clock positions. This could be a first
step toward narrowing down what it might be,
Darryl wrote:
Marlin is going to clean and prepare the specimen
and I'll provide the new pics after he has done so.
Peter just wrote:
I hope that you can match this meteorite with a known sample
It's chunky and blocky and some of its kamacite bands
are a bit cloudy so it could be badly
These photos are a blast! They capture the humane moments between
the ones we've already seen and give us the feeling of having been there
although some of us we were thousands of miles away from these events.
Thank you, Carol and Ruben, for these precious moments!
Cheers,
Bernd
Hi Jim and List,
Jim wrote: The vugs have me concerned
It's not only those vugs but also the fusion crust
that looks more like a coating than a real fusion
crust. I'd call it doubtful!
... but an excellent meteor-wrong
Cheers from deep-freeze
Germany, Bernd
Keith kindly wrote:
... some photos everyone can see from Bloods Meteorite Auction...
and:
... Thirteenth Annual Meteor Mayhem Birthday Bash Harvey Awards...
Hello Keith and List,
Thank you once again very, very much for your more than welcome pics!!!
Cheers, Bernd
Hello James and List,
If someone trys to sell you one, you are to call NASA and
tell them. He must be uninformed and out of the loop.
He was probably referring to samples astronauts actually brought
back from the Moon. He was not talking about lunar meteorites
found here on Earth ... I guess!
Thank you, Michael! Finally a photo of Twink's Gold Basin cake!
The giant amethyst geode and Mr. Big-Mouthed Jaw are also
breathtaking!
Cheers, Bernd
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Bob L. wrote: Thanks for the photos, ArizonaKeith!!!
I totally agree!
Very much appreciated!
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Galactic Michael's grief ;-)
I look at Tissint and I notice it's stunning
While my checkbook gently weeps
With every glossy Martian we must surely be learning
That our checkbooks gently weep, oh, yeah.
Best,
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Hello Jonathan and List,
Beautiful and ethereal!
Thanks for sharing!
Bernd
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Tomasz wrote:
Wow! Amazing piece! Thanks Michael for post ...
... and special thanks to Regine for unveiling the inherent beauty
of this gorgeous Murchison through her outstanding photographic
skills!
Best wishes,
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Hello All,
Carl B. Agee wrote:
Yes, but not from native iron-nickel, which is normally
absent in SNCs, instead from ferrimagnetic* minerals
such as pyrrhotite Fe7S8 and magnetite Fe3O4.
See also:
Morris R.V. et al. (1998) Lepidocrocite to maghemite to
hematite:Pathway to magnetic and
Eric inquired:
Are Mars meteorites magnetic at all?
Some of them are definitely attracted to a magnet!
One of these is Bob Verish's Los Angeles and when I held
a magnet to one my LAs, it readily jumped to the magnet!
See, for example:
COLLINSON D.W.(1997) Magnetic properties of Martian
Hi Ruben,
No reason to be confused! You're right ... it is a typo.
Cheers,
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Martin kindly wrote:
Bernd, you wrote this almost 4 years ago: Eduardo
wrote:...a Sikhote Alin...labeled as Hexahedrite.
... which clearly demonstrates the Internet doesn't
forget but I do ;-)
Cheers,
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Hello All, Happy New Year!
Hello Luther,
Maybe that's something for you. Check it out:
http://www.zerzuraclub.org/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=120:il-kamil-cratercatid=35:contenuti
Cheers,
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Hello Jim,
We hope you are having a wonderful birthday party up there
on your little asteroid *149244 Kriegh*. You are gone but
you are not forgotten because it's only your body that is
gone, your soul is right here with your family and friends,
in the Gold Basin strewn field, in our hearts!
*
Hello All,
I got my 6.5-gram slice of Carsten's (GIPO) unusual CK3 today
and what I observe surely blows my socks off. What a meteorite!
Here are some features that make my slice a true highlight:
- light-colored chondrules have seams of finely dispersed sulfide and magnetite
- darker
MikeG wrote:
I agree 100% with what Greg said - that is a beautiful meteorite.
So do I ;-) because I am one of the lucky ones fast enough
to purchase a specimen of this unique, rare CK3 chondrite!
... only two specimens left if I am not mistaken!
Best regards,
Bernd
Hello All,
Sky Telescope, January 2012:
a) p. 14: Near-Earth Asteroids: Fewer than expected
b) p. 18: Taking Mars's ancient Temperature (ALH 84001)
c) p. 18: Comet water for a parched Earth
d) p. 50: A Fine Year for the Icy Quads (Quadrantids)
Cheers,
Bernd
Wow!
All thumbs up, Greg!
Does that Moon have a serial number?!
#482 perhaps ;-)
Great idea!
Cheers,
Bernd
P.S.: I saw the last few minutes of that eclipse, when the Earth's
shadow was biting off the last, minute chip off the Moon's disk
on the Mare Crisium side of our satellite because the
Hello All,
Here are some carbonaceous chondrites in which amino acids
have been found (well, not only CM chondrites, of course):
Murchison, Murray, Nogoya, Mighei, Essebi, Tagish Lake,
Orgueil, Ivuna, Renazzo, Allende.
Murchison and Murray contain well over 70 different (!)
amino acids.
Hi Ruben and List,
As Jeff Grossman already stated the primitive achondrite
vs. LL7 isssue is highly controversial but here are some
criteria and examples culled from the literature:
1) Dodd (1981) lists three criteria that can be used to
distinguish between types 6 and 7 ordinary chondrites:
Hi All,
Alan kindly wrote:
George Merrill's The Story of Meteorites from 1929:
There are andrites, eukrites, shergottites, howardites, bustites,
chassignites, chladnites, amphoterites, howarditic chondrites, white
chondrites, intermediate chondrites, gray chondrites, black chondrites,
Greg Hupé respectfully wrote:
First, I would like to apologize to Doug and all who read the exchange,
..., I was blunt, kind of an ass and disrespectful, I apologize.
These are not the words of a kind of an ... but the words
of a true, a sincere, an honest gentleman! You deserve our
respect and
Hi Maurizo, hi All,
The price is tantalizing but never forget this:
= Know your dealer! =
What if something goes wrong? Some of these stones will surely
be meteoritic, probably NWA 869, or some other unclassified finds,
but what if ...?!
Ciao from Allemania,
Bernd
Woof, woof, ...
http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpod.asp
My scaling prop - one lens frame of my wife's glasses - is 50 mm wide.
The Dog measures 64 x 51 x 35 cm (maximum dimensions)
Cheers and thanks for sharing!
Bernd
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Kitt Peak, Sky Tel., Mar 82, pp. 240-242.
The Founding of Kitt Peak, Sky Tel., Mar 83, pp. 228-232.
Construction of Kitt Peak Observatory, Sky Tel., Aug 83, p. 109.
Realm of the long eyes: Kitt Peak, Sky Tel., Jul 84, p. 35.
Cheers,
Bernd
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Incredibly, unbelievably beautiful and special !!!
Sincere congratulations on such an extraordinary beauty!
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Hi Ruben, Doug, AL, All ;-)
PEDERSEN H. et al. (1992) Vaca Muerta mesosiderite strewnfield
(Meteoritics 27-2, 1992, 126-135, Appendix A: Synonyms, p. 134):
As often happened with meteorite finds from the last century, the material
was assigned a variety of names. In the case of Vaca Muerta, this
The Count wrote:
Strange things can happen to your spacecraft
Especially if the probe is called * g r u n t *
(grunt = a short low sound an animal makes in its throat)
Sometimes nomen est omen ;-)
Cheers,
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Hello All,
-.-.-.-.-.--.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
Sky Telescope, December 1985, p. 553:
Killer Meteorite
On page 222 of the March issue you state, No one in recorded history
has been killed by a falling meteorite. However, Camille Flammarion in
his Astronomie
Hi Jim and List,
The one you cut sure looks like a CK chondrite ... maybe CK4 or CK5!
Best wishes,
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Rare and beautiful!
Thanks Paul, Doug, and Don José Quiles for sharing!
By the way, Sena is also sometimes called Sigena.
Here's what Mike Bandli posted to Meteorite Central on Nov 23, 2010:
The fall at Sena took place around noon on November 17, 1773... a man
named Miguel Calvo discovered a
Hi All,
When I started collecting meteorites seriously in the early eighties
(about thirty years ago), I purchased my first Allende specimens at
about 75 cents per gram and I had to pay about 38 cents per gram
for Nuevo Mercurios. Peekskill sold for about US $ 20-25 per gram.
The US $ was about
Hello Steve and List,
If any of you have information and experience
with various makers I would appreciate it.
Mirko Graul is a rising star at the thin section horizon!
Best wishes,
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Hitchhiking chondrules :-)
Beautiful, breathtaking, stunning!
Thanks, Paul and Gary, for sharing this Gao-Guenie
vehicle on wheels with the Meteorite Community!
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Mirko wrote:
Wow, what a large chondrule in this Belle
Plaine piece! How large is this chondrule?
Truly amazing! Thanks for sharing with us!
Judging from the scale cube, I'd say: the diameter is about 16 mm
thus making it a real macrochondrule according to J.C.Bridges
and the late R.
Phil wrote:
Do people still say 'dark side of the moon'
when referring to the far side of the moon?
Cometary Scars on the Moon? (ST, January 1988, pp. 11-12):
Certain mysterious whitish blotches on the lunar surface may be
the scars of comet impacts, perhaps less than 100 million years old.
Canyon Diablo with natural hole contributed by Mike Miller.
Hello Mike, Paul, and List,
A really nice one! Must once have been an oval troilite
inclusion...probably surrounded by swathing kamacite!
Thanks for sharing!
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A truly superb picture!
Aethetically appealing presentation!
Thanks for sharing!
Bernd
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Hello List,
Friable meteorites in my collection:
DaG 430 (C3-ung) - friable
NWA 096 (H3.8) - slightly friable
NWA 998 (SNC) - friable
NWA 2484 (AEUC) - friable
NWA 4398 (AEUC) - friable
NWA 4590 (ANG) - very friable (aka: Tamassint)
NWA 4801 (ANG) - friable
NWA 4890 (AEUC) - extremely friable
Hello Folks,
Twink kindly sent me this link:
http://asunews.asu.edu/20111020_meteoritehistory
I don't know if it has already been posted by someone else
(Ruben maybe). My apologies if this is a double post,
otherwise some of you may find it an interesting read!
Cheers,
Bernd
Hello Jim and List,
Thank you for sharing your photos with us!
I had already seen this one on the CSR Forum:
https://k7wfr.us/ScrapBook/ASU50th/Photo-0006.jpg
That beautiful lady is renowned Meenakshi Wadhwa !
Cheers,
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Roman wrote:
Now that's a sight to behold, and from my home country to boot!
Nice one Dave! I'll have to go look at my 1/2 gram specimen now.
... and that perfect, bluish-gray pyroxene chondrule sitting majestically
amid a sea of smaller chondrules and chondrule fragments! Gorgeous!
Thanks for
Michael Gilmer wrote: That's a sharp-lookin' pallasite.
I can't help but say: Yes, you are right!
A true Galactic Stone Ironworks ;-)
Beautiful, those myriads and myriads of amber-like olivines!
Definitely and truly a cosmic beauty of sorts!
Best wishes,
Bernd
KRING D.A. et al. (1998) Gold Basin Meteorite Strewn Field: The Fossil
remnants of an asteroid that catastrophically fragmented in Earths atmosphere
(Lunar and Planetary Science XXIX, 1998, excerpts):
The Gold Basin meteorite was discovered by J.D. Kriegh while prospecting
for gold with a
Bob inquired:
I was wondering if any list members from Europe or N. Africa were
successful in seeing the Draconid meteor shower (storm) this evening?
Hi All,
I saw one that even flared at 22:25 CEDST. It was bright (bluish-white)
with a short and stubby luminous trail.
At 22:45 CEDST, there
Greg: While it is not 'oriented', it does have orientation... :)
Preferred orientation?!
;-)
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Glorieta
http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpod.asp
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Beautiful olivines!
I especially like the oblong, narrow, finger-like olivine
left of center. Very interesting!
Wishful thinking or real?...I am under the impression that
several olivines tend to be arranged
Ed kindly wrote:
Truly, you are lucky to be alive!
Thank God you made it out alive.
I absolutely concur!
Here in Germany, there's a saying:
[Of] All good things [there]are three!
... but iI wouldn't bet on it!
Good to hear you are OK, Mike!
Cheers,
Bernd
From: Darryl Pitt dar...@dof3.com
Oh my word...
Mike. (Yikes!!)
I agree with the sentiments expressed by Ed and
Bernd, which are certain to continue to echo.
You're very fortunate, Mike. As is Melodye.
Celebrate it.
With a big, big hug / me
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A seldom seen and hard to get IIIAB iron!
I'm glad I own a 15-gram cut and etched end section.
Thanks for sharing,
Bernd
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Hello List and Aleksandr,
Sorry, but none of these are meteorites as far as I can tell!
They look like terrestrial breccias / terrestrial compactions
but beautiful they are! So be sure to keep them as wonder-
ful meteorwrongs!
Best wishes,
Bernd
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Try and stop me. Falls in my yard, it's mine. :)
... falls on your head (direct hit) and you
won't be able to tell anyone it's yours :-)
OK. Just kidding, let's hope no one will get hit
and hurt by any chunks of that space debris!
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Hello List,
Tonight I had a first look at my thin section of the ungrouped achondrite NWA
6693 that I purchased from E.T. (Hello Edwin, I hope your surgery was
successful and
that you are already on the mend!).
We all know that Greg Hupés NWA 6704 (gorgeous 6.01 gr slice in my
collection!)
I wrote:
The quadrangular viewing area of E.T.s NWA 6693
thin section is a whopping 1.7 - 2.1 x 2.8 mm...
This should read: 1.7 - 2.1 x 2.8 cm
Centimeters ... of course!
Cheers,
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Hello Listees, Listoids, Listers,
A heads-up for those of you who do not subscribe to Sky Telescope!
Sky Telescope, October 2011, pp. 24-28:
Meteorites in the Driveway
Rocks from Heaven
Canadians Scientists get a close look at a meteor
as it breaks up over southern Ontario (by Philip Downey)
Anne just informed us:
Tonight I have the very sad mission to inform you all that Ron
Hartman, one of the inventors of the IMCA has passed away.
Thank you, Anne! I am sure Ron will meet up with his chum
Richard and they will rejoin in friendship up there, much closer
to their heavenly treasures
Gary, I beg to differ ;-)
NWA 2928 is that gorgeous plagioclase-rich eucrite, 9.78 grams
of which will soon embellish my collection.
The rare noritic diogenite meteorite, that's NWA 6927 and because
this is such an extraordinary diogenite, I just couldn't help adding
that beautiful 5.36 gr slice
MMartin wrote from Hawaii:
I would enjoy watching a live feed of the Denver show from home in Hawaii.
So would I from my home in Germany! The live feed from Tucson was a terrific
experience. I felt like being there -- especially when Ruben asked my opinion
about a female visitor's specific
Interesting idea. What could possibly go wrong?
What if the nudge is a little bit too strong?
What if the Moon interferes?
What if this NEO is thus sent hurtling toward planet Earth?
- utter devestation
- millions of people killed
- wildfires
- tsunamis
- earthquakes
- tons and tons of material
Carl inquired:
none of the other pallasites in the bulletin show their data
this same way. What does it mean when it says: mg/g etc.
This is milligrams per gram.
and:
What would the percentage be put in a way that it
can be compared with the way others are reported?
Well, like this:
Ni =
Hello Jonathan and List,
Beautiful, awe-inspiring, fascinating, not just a documentary
but a work of art! Thank you very much for sharing with us!
Bernd (in Germany)
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AL wrote: Easier or harder?? Takes less energy to fall in than out.
Hello Al, Eric, and List,
Easier for s u r v i v a l !
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MichaelG. wrote:
In all seriousness, it is an attractive pallasite.
At first glance, it has a passing resemblance
to Brenham.
In all seriousness: not only at first glance does it look
like Brenham. It does look suspiciously like Brenham.
Maybe it is a transported Brenham mass!
Cheers,
Bernd
Dave kindly wrote:
... not because the landowner wasn't credible, ...
... of course there are the findings of UCLA's Dr. John Wasson ...
... it was possible the stone was transported by a native American ...
Hello Dave, Karl A., and List,
Just a short note to avoid misunderstandings!
Of
Matthias wrote:
That reads breathtakingly interesting!
This once again raises the question whether planetary ejecta from
the inner regions of the solar system (Venus, Mercury) may have
made it to Earth (and beyond) just like Earth ejecta may have been
catapulted into regions beyond the asteroid
Eric W. wrote:
Absolutely! Why not? It makes perfect sense.
Well, Eric and List, because getting ejected into the outer reaches
of the solar system and surviving this torture is much easier than
falling toward the Sun without being swallowed by our central
star ... thinking of sungrazing comets
Tomasz kindly wrote:
for all Thin Section's fans couple of animated gifs
I made. Every GIF have about 20 photos. Enjoy...
https://picasaweb.google.com/10086119851742847/ThinSectionAnimatedGifS#
Hello Tomasz,
Our late O.R. Norton would have loved and applauded your stunning
animations!
Hello Graham and List,
Assuming that your comment was meant for all Listees in general
and for Tomasz in particular, I thought it appropriate to forward
your message to the List!
Bernd
Original Message
Yes...absolutely stunningthey almost seem to
pulse into life...I want
Hi Robert, AL, and List,
Some references, which may be helpful:
MILLARD H.T. (1963) The rate of arrival of meteorites at the surface of the
earth (J. Geophys. Res. 68, 4297-4303).
PARKIN D.W. et al. (1968) Influx measurements of extraterrestrial material
(Science 159, 936-946).
HARVEY R.P.
Stuart wrote:
Man I would really like to have a Gujba!!
Hello Stuart and List,
If the Gujba Marcin is offering is not the one you would like
to add to your collection, Eric Twelker (Meteorite Market)
has a lot of Gujbas to choose from at a very affordable price!
See here:
Hello All,
Shirokovsky is terrestrial, it is a pseudo-meteorite, it is man-made!
- does not contain typical accessory phases of stony-iron meteorites
- accessory phases completely atypical
- Olivine has a terrestrial oxygen isotopic composition
- Pt/Ir ratio similar to that of terrestrial Cu-Ni
Hello Matteo,
This is why - here's what Art Jones posted:
I assumed that folks would figure this out but I guess not; the List
is currently in moderated mode. Because of this your posts won't go
out instantly and your emails will be released in batch. I'll probably
switch it back to
Hi Robert, Rob and List,
Rob wrote: Even better. It arrived today!
Mine was in the mailbox too today!
Rob also wrote: I surely will enjoy reading it.
So will I ! Especially the article about biotite and hornblende
found in the unusual R chondrite LAP 04840. SNCs contain
rare biotite and HaH
Hi E.P. and List,
Simple question - what classes of meteorites have CAI inclusions?
Hutchison R. (2004) Meteorites: A Petrologic, Chemical,
and Isotopic Synthesis (CPS Series, p.75, excerpts):
All chondrite groups except CI contain subspherical to highly
irregular objects surrounded by
Hi All,
I would like to remind you of Russ Kempton's article in Meteorite!
Kempton R. (1996) Abee: More Questions Than Answers
(METEORITE! Magazine, Pallasite Press, November, 1996):
Curiously, the study of light reflected from Mercury's surface
indicates that it is iron-rich and oxygen-poor -
Hello List,
In the Sky Tel, Sep 2011 issue (p.16), there is an interesting article
in the News Notes section on the 'Tagish Lake Meteorite's Organic
Brew'. The authors' conclusions are quite provocative, so, get your
copy if interested in finding out what is so provocative ;-)
Cheers,
Bernd
In the August 2011 issue, pp. 20-27:
Pummeling the Planets:
- Humans have evolved
- Clues from the Moon
- Apollo samples aren't enough
- It's Neptune's fault
- What about Mars?
- Evidence under our noses
- Solving the puzzle
- Did the Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB) flame out or fizzle out?
Best
Matthias wrote:
Svend, what an exceptional powerful iron! Congrats and thanks for sharing
This is the stuff that iron meteorite dreams are made of!
Michael, Svend, thanks a lot for sharing this beauty with us!
Cheers,
Bernd
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Hi All,
Alan Shawn inquired: by chance what are the other two falls?
The first 2011 potential meteorite-dropping fireball was the one that
plunged through the atmosphere near Geislingen, Germany, on Jan 08,
2011.
As for pictures, see here:
Elizabeth Warner wrote:
Actually, one of the discoverers...has a preference for Cerberus
Hmmm, ... so there would be two of them - one on Mars and one for
this fourth moon around Pluto!
Any chance this moon could help restore Pluto's status as a planet???
Cheers,
Bernd
Hi Tracy and List,
This must predate the last bout of glaciation in the area;
note how it has a huge terrestrial rock sitting on top of it.
... unless glacial forces were strong enough to move and/or push both the
terrestrial and the celestial rock simultaneously into this position.
Maybe the
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