Re: [meteorite-list] (AD) meteorites for sale

2013-01-09 Thread Don Giovanni
Steve, Good luck with your sale. By the way, your name in your recent emails is spelled wrong. Might want to change the automatic signature. From a well-meaning friend, DG On Jan 9, 2013, at 9:44 AM, steve arnold chicagosteve1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi again list. ……...Have a great day.

Re: [meteorite-list] It's about time!

2012-02-12 Thread Don Giovanni
Steve Curry's ebay handle uncometeorites is no longer a registered user. Mr. Curry and I had a long, not-very-pretty email exchange a few months back, as I suspect a lot of listees probably did. At the beginning I earnestly suggested that it would only be a matter of time and that for his

Re: [meteorite-list] For those of you that use PAYPAL I got this email today.

2012-01-30 Thread Don Giovanni
On Jan 30, 2012, at 12:12 PM, Shawn Alan wrote: paypal will be send this to the IRS not taking inconsideration if what you sold was at a lose. Well, yesbut isn't pretty much the same as, say, selling a stock in the stock market? The IRS is informed of the stock selling price only,

[meteorite-list] Fernlea auction

2011-08-07 Thread Don Giovanni
This looks pretty interesting! DG From: fernlea4 fernl...@aol.com Subject: [FernleaMeteorites] Robert Elliott Meteorite Collection - Pt II Date: August 1, 2011 11:54:01 PM HST To: fernleameteori...@yahoogroups.com Reply-To: fernleameteorites-ow...@yahoogroups.com Hi everyone. Part 2

[meteorite-list] Begaa

2011-06-19 Thread Don Giovanni
Hello, Wondering if anyone can fill in some blanks about Begaa. It was popularly bought and sold several years ago (and with good reason, gorgeous LL3! Unofficially, anyways). But I can't find any reference in the Meteoritical Bulletin. Not even as a synonym, so I'm thinking it must

Re: [meteorite-list] Pat's Stabilizing Process {was: The trials...}

2011-02-22 Thread Don Giovanni
Steve Schoner: (Red Devil Lye which can be bought at most groceries) I'm seeing this online: Red Devil Lye, also known as Lewis Red Devil Lye Drain Opener, was the trade name for a drain cleaner product sold by the manufacturer Reckitt-Benckiser. The product has been pulled from the

[meteorite-list] Mike Farmer's website?

2011-01-21 Thread Don Giovanni
Mike Farmer's website appears to be down, or at least I'm getting 404-not-found messages when I try to go there. Anyone know what's the deal? DG __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] meteorite crater on Mt. Ararat?

2010-11-20 Thread Don Giovanni
http://snipurl.com/1hm8yo ___ Technology Review,” a publication of MIT, published a story on Thurs., Nov. 18 titled “Unrecorded Meteorite Crater Found on Mount Ararat?” The article reveals that two physicists, Vahe Gurzadyan from the Yerevan Physics Institute

Re: [meteorite-list] Weston on ebay

2010-11-19 Thread Don Giovanni
The Weston auction is no more.The seller ended the listing early and cancelled all bids. I would imagine that those of us listees who reported the auction (or approached the seller) must have had a little something to do with it! The last two bidders, whether they realize it or not, owe

[meteorite-list] anyone know Steven Curry?

2010-10-30 Thread Don Giovanni
Which is worse, the claims or the journalism? DG http://www.kjct8.com/news/25571622/detail.html GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- Steven Curry, a meteorite researcher who lives southeast of Montrose, claims to have found the first lunar meteorites in North America. But it's what's inside these

[meteorite-list] anyone know Steven Curry?

2010-10-30 Thread Don Giovanni
Which is worse, the claims or the journalism? DG http://www.kjct8.com/news/25571622/detail.html GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- Steven Curry, a meteorite researcher who lives southeast of Montrose, claims to have found the first lunar meteorites in North America. But it's what's inside these

[meteorite-list] Cunnamula, Queensland, Australia rock

2010-09-13 Thread Don Giovanni
This story appeared on the list a few months ago but according to the Perth Now people, it has apparently only just recently been authenticated. There's a pic in the online article - nice looking big rock, at least for one of these kinds of stories. (To our Aussie friends, what's a gidgee

[meteorite-list] Colombia - 'Meteorite fragments' are rocks, cement

2010-09-12 Thread Don Giovanni
Really? Two days? http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/11791-meteorite-santander-cement.html __ Material thought to be fragments from a meteorite which crashed to earth in Colombia's Santander department is mostly cement and common rocks,

[meteorite-list] Yeah, sure-gettite

2010-08-26 Thread Don Giovanni
If anyone has been looking for a Martian meteorite with the specific lithologies of shinny looking crystal type things (and better yet, they're imbeded) but maybe you only have $7,500.00 to spend, I may be able to point you in the right direction. It must be a sweet deal, as it was found in

[meteorite-list] NWA 2364 in Scientific American

2010-08-23 Thread Don Giovanni
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=meteorite-nugget-pushes-back-age-of-2010-08-23 A new analysis of a meteorite shows that an inclusion within the carbonaceous stone is older than any known material in the solar system. The finding pushes back the estimated age of the solar

[meteorite-list] same song, 9,218th verse

2010-08-19 Thread Don Giovanni
http://www.kens5.com/home/10-year-old-boy-discovers--100954269.html Leon Springs' 10-year-old boy claims meteorite discovery by Sarah Forgany / KENS 5 Posted on August 17, 2010 at 10:56 PM LEON SPRINGS -- A family out of Leon Springs had a strange experience Monday night. It was 8:45 p.m.

[meteorite-list] Blue Meteor Falls in Cirebon

2010-08-19 Thread Don Giovanni
http://www.tempointeractive.com/hg/nasional/2010/08/19/brk,20100819-272488,uk.html Blue Meteor Falls in Cirebon Thursday, 19 August, 2010 | 16:45 WIB TEMPO Interactive, Cirebon:A meteor allegedly fell on an open area in Tersana Baru Sugar Factory in Babakan, Cirebon, yesterday. The strange

[meteorite-list] Hegins, PA report

2010-08-17 Thread Don Giovanni
BY VICKI TERWILLIGER (EDITOR vick...@citizenstandard.com) Published: August 12, 2010 HEGINS - An uninvited guest apparently made a stop at the home of Ralph Lucht, of Hegins. Lucht believes a meteorite may have struck his Pine Drive home sometime during the end of July or beginning of

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorites and the newcomers

2010-08-15 Thread Don Giovanni
Steve, I'd guess Bob's line was more of a witty, off-the-cuff comment than a statement of undeniable truth. I suspect there are LOTS of people with two or more meteorites, who aren't dealers. Just a guess on my part. I once owned a different car than I have now. And I once sold some

[meteorite-list] GlobalTV Edmonton meteorwrong report

2010-08-14 Thread Don Giovanni
From GlabalTVEdmonton: (wonder who they are referring to at ASU?!) The man who says he found a meteorite on the banks of the North Saskatchewan River was disappointed by researchers at the University of Alberta. Neil Barrass says that he was sure his find was a meteorite from themoment he

[meteorite-list] Glen L. Evans @ Odessa

2010-08-06 Thread Don Giovanni
Odessa meteor crater expert dies Comments 0 August 06, 2010 5:01 AM ODESSA AMERICAN Glen L. Evans, a prominent geologist who was in charge of exploration of the Odessa Meteor Crater from 1939 to 1941, died July 14. He completed a publication in 2000 with Charles Gene Mear titled, The Odessa

Re: [meteorite-list] Wisconsin Meteorite Hunt.

2010-05-03 Thread Don Giovanni
Wow. Considering the list recently, Chicago-Steve's apparently imminent return could only be an improvement.:) DG -- ___ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com