If you want to see the Kalahari 008/9 location from Google Earth, download
that program from http://kh.google.com/download/earth/index.html, then take
the snippet of code below, paste it into a text file, save it as
"kalahari.kml", and then launch the file. There must be a better way to
send t
When this meteorite came to my attention as a member of the NomCom, warning
bells went off in my head too. Enough evidence was presented to us to
convince us that these were meteorites, although I expected this not to be
the case, that we had to name them. But the find story is very odd. My
The reason NASA ADS doesn't turn up anything is because this is a virtually
unstudied meteorite, so there is no scientific literature on it. In fact,
ADS gives one hit on the proper name, "Northwest Africa 859", and three
hits on "Taza"; all of these hits are to popular literature. If and when
Am I the only one who really liked the name given to this asteroid?
jeff
At 02:49 PM 7/26/2005, Darren Garrison wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:04:12 +, "tracy latimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have no desire to be wiped out, or even seriously inconvenienced by space
>junk; I fully exp
Some of you may enjoy reading this document on the subject of nomenclature
of impactites:
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/scmr/docs/paper_12/scmr_paper_12_1.pdf
jeff
At 04:42 AM 7/11/2005, Jeff Kuyken wrote:
Maybe this will help but I'm not sure that it works for all examples. I
think this is something
Looks like you found a typo! It's not type 4, that's certain from the
description.
jeff
At 06:30 AM 6/30/2005, Jeff Kuyken wrote:
G'day folks,
I have just finished the very tedious task of updating my Classification
List with all of the new meteorites. (Now over 10,000 meteorites) It should
Okay list, time to make yourselves useful...
Everybody wants the NomCom to publish and make official the name NWA
869. So please, if you know anything, help contribute to the facts so I
can produce a writeup for submission to the committee.
Here's what I've got:
* At least 400 kg of materia
This sort of pairing question is not really the domain of the NomCom. It
has to be worked out in the literature. Once the meteorites are announced,
which these now are, we do not consider publication of supplemental
information like pairings. The exception would be if somebody wanted to
appl
This is, of course, formally named the Kendrapara meteorite,
http://tin.er.usgs.gov/meteor/metbull.php?code=12276.
jeff
t 01:46 PM 5/27/2005, Paul H wrote:
An article about the September 27, 2003 meteorite
shower and the meteorites recovered from it is
available online for downloading. The art
I was the lazy editor of the MetBull when PV fell, so I can tell you the story.
Basically, two scientists were in communication with the NomCom during the
classification, Dave Kring and Alan Rubin. There were two schools of
thought on what to call it, and these were not really that far
apart.
Petrological type 7 is generally taken to be an extension of the
solid-state metamorphic sequence defined by Van Schmus and Wood
(1967). Mittlefehldt and Lindstrom (2001, Meteoritics & Planetary Science,
vol. 36, no. 3, p. 439-457) endorsed this concept and specifically excluded
from type 7 im
Here's what I could learn in a brief review of literature I have. Others
know much more about this than I do.
GK Gilbert published a paper in Science, "The Origin of Hypotheses,
Illustrated by the Discussion of a Topographic Problem", Science, Vol. 3,
No. 53. (Jan. 3, 1896), pp. 1-13. This wa
;t spotted yet? I'd like to
be able to look at some of the real and purported impact structures from
altitude.
Tracy Latimer
From: Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Subject: [meteorite-list] New toy
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 14:12:19 -0400
Okay all
Okay all you testers out there. I developed a "meteorites of the world"
add-on for World Wind. If anybody wants to try it out, it's posted on the
MetBull database site, http://tin.er.usgs.gov/meteor/metbull.php
Make sure you read the note that appears next to the link to the
add-on. It's imp
al bulletin publication before I
proceed.
Maybe then the TKW will have been updated.
Roman Jirasek
www.meteoritelabels.com
- Original Message -
From: "Jeff Grossman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Is Amgala Official? /
This happens all the time with meteorites that get on the market before
they come to the NomCom. It's just a fact of life. If a meteorite is
found halfway between towns, then usually the person who submits it to us
chooses. Hyphenated names are only used in special circumstances (there
will
Oops... ignore that please!
At 11:19 AM 5/10/2005, you wrote:
What is this entry for NWA 2035, classified as just "anomalous"?
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What is this entry for NWA 2035, classified as just "anomalous"?
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We are just days away from releasing a preview version of the new
bulletin. There will be several weeks during which you can make comments
to the editor before publication.
We are just days away from releasing a preview version of the new
bulletin. There will be several weeks during which you
If anybody finds one, I'd like a copy too!
Jeff
At 07:54 AM 5/6/2005, Jeff Kuyken wrote:
Hi List,
I'm looking for a PDF (if possible) for the following abstract:
Title: Properties of chondrules
Authors: Grossman, Jeffrey N.; Rubin, Alan E.; Nagahara, Hiroko; King,
Elbert A
Journal: IN: Meteorites a
Most ordinary chondrites contain little water now. Up to petrologic
type 3.5, there is at most a few % water in the rock, and this is locked
in hydrated minerals which would not cause rusting on earth. Above
type 3.5, metamorphism has driven out almost all of even this water
leaving a very "dry"
No, just dissolution of glass (and partial replacement by clay minerals).
At 08:50 AM 5/4/2005, Gerald Flaherty wrote:
Hi Jeff and List,
Jeff you use the term bleaching, is that an oxidation process?
Jerry Flaherty
- Original Message - From: "Jeff Grossman" <[EMAIL PROTECTE
ty environment..I don't
know).
It would be interesting and helpful if someone detected such bull's-eye
chondrules in one of their thin sections so that we could draw further
conclusions on their mineralic compositions (core material, rim or seam
(?) material, high-temperature, low-temp
n their mineralic compositions (core material, rim or seam
(?) material, high-temperature, low-temperature phases, etc.).
Esteemed list member Jeff Grossman wrote several papers on chondrule
formation, chondrule composition, zoned chondrules, etc. Maybe he can
enlighten us
rom the NHM for compensation would work too;-)
- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Grossman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New database
> The actual information that I present about each meteorite is similar to
> wha
erred rock and then return web pages that contain .PDFs for example?
Something like that would turn the database into quite a powerfull tool to
find the latest data on a particular stone I would think.
Stan
From: Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.
on I will buy Joern's Metbase.
Martin
- Original Message -
From: "Jeff Grossman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 6:25 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] New database
> If anybody would like to test this, I'm putting a new database on-line
which,
&
ld be very willing
to send photos of representative specimens.
Thanks for your efforts!
-John & Dawn
Arizona Skies Meteorites
http://www.arizonaskiesmeteorites.com
--- Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If anybody would like to test this, I'm putting a
> new database on-li
If anybody would like to test this, I'm putting a new database on-line which,
when finalized, will be the authoritative place to search for meteorite
names and their status.
http://tin.er.usgs.gov/meteor/metbull.php
Comments, suggestions and bug reports are welcome!
Enjoy,
Jeff
Dr. Jeffrey N. Gro
accepted?
Does the Editor have veto power?
Best,
John Gwilliam
At 04:03 AM 3/3/2005, Jeff Grossman wrote:
You don't understand what I'm saying. Maybe others also don't fully
understand the system either. Let me explain the way it is supposed to work.
1) A new meteorite is cha
0:13 EST 2005
>
>
> Why not exit??? My Institute have sent this to Sara
> Rusell and she have say there is not problems, the
> same for the Lago Valscura meteorite and Lido di
> Venezia meteorite
>
> Matteo
>
>
> --- Jeff Grossman ha
> scritto:
>
> > The e
The entries quoted below have not appeared in the Meteoritical Bulletin,
nor have they been approved for the next Bulletin. This has happened on
the List several times recently. Folks need to be careful to say
"submitted" or "in preparation" when posting things like these.
jeff
At 11:23 AM 3/
Names I'd like to see for meteorites:
A-lien (Taiwan)
Avarice (after Avarice Mount, Australia)
Expensive (after Expensive Tank, New Mexico)
Impossible (after Impossible Canyon, Calif.)
Pandora (New Zealand)
Priceless (after the Priceless Mine, Ariz.)
Stolen (Norway)
Unique (Cuba)
Unknown (Zimbabwe)
Donga Donga is not an official name. The official ones are Big Rock Donga
(H6), Billygoat Donga (L6), Dingo Pup Donga (Ureilite), Camel Donga
(Eucrite) plus 39 numbered Camels Donga (is that the plural?), not to
mention Donga Kohrod (a 19th century H6 fall from India).
Johnny's Donga is lost.
The clasts in question are not basaltic. They're alkaline and subalkaline
igneous rocks. That's why the authors are speculating about Mars'
satellites. See their article:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003M%26PS...38..725I&db_key=AST&link_type=ARTICLE
and the abstra
There should be a pre-release of meteorites approved between August and
January posted within a couple of weeks. The deadline for submitting new
meteorites for inclusion in MB89, which will be published in the summer, is
approximately Feb 15.
jeff
At 07:08 AM 1/24/2005, you wrote:
Hello to the
To all who may be concerned,
Jutta Zipfel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has been appointed to succeed me as
Chair of the Meteorite Nomenclature Committee, effective
immediately. Please direct future correspondence related to the
functioning of the Committee to her instead of me. I will remain a member
I don't know if this thing is a real meteorite, but check out these two
images. I think they are about the same size, both found in cold deserts.
Heat Shield Rock, Mars:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/p/346/1P158910593EFF40DPP2593L7M1.JPG
Derrick Peak Iron, Antarctica:
http://www.r
There is no such thing as "THE definition" of meteorite. However, there is
a really good one published by Rubin and Grossman (1998): What is a
meteorite? The pursuit of a comprehensive definition. Meteorite! 4:24-25.
This definition does not require the accreting body to be Earth.
jeff
At 04:1
If confirmed, it can be named, but won't need any special designation like
"Aresite"... it will simply be another asteroidal meteorite, this one found
on Mars. It would be wrong to call it a Martian meteorite because the
adjective refers to the place of origin, not the place of find. We alread
For those of you who have been complaining about late issues of MAPS,
here's the story: The November issue did not go into the mail until
January 5, so it's not surprising that many of you have not yet received
it. This issue plus the one for December have been delayed due to
typesetting prob
This meteorite will be well documented. In fact, Dr Hasnaa Chennaoui, who
was mentioned by Philippe Thomas earlier today and is describing it, will
be one of two new members of the Nomenclature Committee beginning next month.
Jeff
At 01:31 PM 12/1/2004, David Freeman wrote:
I have an idea, lets
The NomCom struggled with this issue for months this year. We were not
able to find a satisfactory way to deal with pairings of desert
meteorites. Until we can, we will not do this.
jeff
At 02:29 PM 11/25/2004, Michel Franco wrote:
Stan, List,
I have not really all the details about that prese
At 12:38 PM 11/25/2004, Michael Gallant wrote:
Hello Jeff,
First off, I would like to thank you for all your time and effort you
place into this list.
I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that your name is one of several that
prompt one to pause and fully read your posts.
I wonder if you might clar
At 10:39 AM 11/25/2004, Herbert Raab wrote:
Jeff Grossman wrote:
> Now if somebody wants to call a new meteorite he buys in Morocco
> NWA 5434, which is not allowed under our rules, he would have to
> go the extra step of actually faking a specimen number.
I bought a stony meteorite f
Just so you all understand, here's what JSC does (I think). It doesn't
translate well into a system where more than one person owns the meteorite,
but perhaps that doesn't matter. They label their original specimen
",0". I suppose if they had a case where there was more than one
fragment in
There are several reasons for this result. Among these are:
1) Not all scientists are equally skilled at classifying meteorites.
2) Not all samples are representative of the whole. It used to be that a
lab would have the entire mass to examine and could see the entire
structure. With meteorite
I don't know if this will help, but maybe it would be a good idea if you
dealers start keeping good records of how meteorites are divided and
labeling specimens accordingly. So when you get a new meteorite named and
you own the whole thing, begin numbering the subspecimens you prepare in
the w
At 06:21 PM 11/12/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You mentioned that some times a person cannot tell if it is one
classification or another so end up using the slash. I can understand how
this is possible
over a range of two grades. But do you believe that this is
possible/acceptable over 3 or more
Mike is not quite right. The hyphen means it's a breccia spanning at least
the range of specified types. So H3-6 means it's a breccia containing H3,
H6, and possibly (but not necessarily) everything in between. The slash
means the person could not tell, or, sometimes, that the meteorite is
t
To: Respondents to the Call for Comments,
The Meteorite-list,
Meteoritical Bulletin mailing list
From: Jeff Grossman, Chair, Nomenclature Committee
Dear all,
Last summer, I requested input from the community on two proposals under
consideration by the Nomenclature Committee (NomCom). The
On further investigation, I'd have to revise my nearest hit to the
Stratford fall. Since it fell on Memorial Day (May 27) in 1974, I was
probably back home in New York from college before going off to my summer
job in Maine. So it fell 60 km from me. This is the hard part of figuring
out thi
Maybe another interesting angle for this discussion is to find the
meteorite that fell closest to you personally, not to the place where you
now live; i.e., how close did you ever come to being hit?
For me, it's Wethersfield (1971), which fell in Connecticut, 120 km from my
home in New York whe
The NomCom is trying to prevent confusion and chaos. By approving the name
NWA 1110 we are certifying that experts have looked at the original mass of
material and classified it correctly. If you buy it or borrow a specimen
for research, you can be fairly sure of what you are getting. If
non
At 04:17 AM 7/11/2004, meteoriteshow wrote:
Dear Mark,
Meteorites named "Sahara" were found and accurately spotted by their
finders, but the coordinates should be provided by the Nom Com 5 years after
their first announcement at the Met Bul. This is a special agreement between
some finders and the
There are no boundaries to either the NWA area or the Sahara
area. "Sahara" refers to meteorites for which the finders are
intentionally withholding the geographic coordinates. These cannot be
placed on a map unless somebody can convince the finders, mainly the
Labennes, to release the data.
To the meteorite-list:
The NomCom is considering several changes to its Guidelines for Meteorite
Nomenclature. Because the changes may have a significant impact on some
people (positive, we hope), we are accepting public comments before the
Committee votes on them. If you are interested, pleas
Some of you may enjoy looking at a web page I decided to put
together. It's not done yet, but will be soon.
http://meteoriticalsociety.org/bulletin/areas/regions.html
jeff
Dr. Jeffrey N. Grossman
Chair, Meteorite Nomenclature Committee (Meteoritical Society)
US Geological Survey
954 National Cen
Here's a quote from Mittlefehldt's article in the 1998 Planetary
Materials volume:
"Howardites have long been known to be polymict breccias (Wahl
1952). More recently, numerous polymict breccias with bulk
compositions like those of eucrites have been recovered from Antarctica,
leading to recognit
Not gonna happen. The types-1 and -2 designations are archaic, even for
carbonaceous chondrites. The problem is that some type 3's are aqueously
altered and some type 2's are thermally metamorphosed. This is what
happens when you use one digit to signify two variables. Since the type
3.0-6
We'll update the provisional list in the next few months. It will be
posted on the web site when done.
jeff
At 11:29 AM 4/28/2004 +0200, Pierre-Marie PELE wrote:
Hello to the List.
I'ml searching any information for NWAs ranging from NWA 1957 to NWA 2999
and from NWA 3010 to 3200.
Why is there
Fresh H chondrites have 9-13 volume% metal plus sulfide, L chondrites have
6-7 vol% metal plus sulfide. But notice that a perfectly respectable H
chondrite with 9% only has slightly more metal+sulfide than a perfectly
respectable L with 7%. It's not always easy to distinguish on this
basis. T
he fray here, but since I shared my thoughts on
Mike's new meteorite classification (NWA 2092), and since we heard from
Jeff Grossman on the possible ambiguity of the exact meaning of this
classification, and since Mike wasn't able to share the classification
details, I felt compelled to inves
One of the reasons that type 7 ordinary chondrites are rare may be that
many researchers do not think the distinction between 6 and 7 is
significant and therefore never classify anything as type 7. As far as
anymeteorite called type "6/7" is concerned, don't forget that the slash in
a classifi
Metamorphic subtypes (the tenths place in the petrologic type) are
routinely determined in a variety of ways, some more accurate and
reliable than others. For a given meteorite, you have to look into
what was done before you can evaluate the usefulness of the assigned
number.
The most reliable me
This story is about the Wahba volcanic crater near Jeddah, not the Wabar
impact site.
jeff
At 10:55 PM 2/8/2004 -0700, Michael Farmer wrote:
This is not true! Waber is 18 hours in the sand dunes, and is small craters,
not larger than Meteor Crater.
What crap is this? Anyone elaborate?
Mike Farme
Dronino has been classified as an ungrouped ataxite by Vernadsky and
UCLA. It was in the last vote by the NomCom. I'll find out
tomorrow if it was actually approved (I didn't know of any serious
problems), but you can be confident in its classification as a real iron
meteorite.
jeff
At 02:38 AM
I don't know the status of this one. I can find out
Monday.
jeff
At 07:00 PM 11/15/2003 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
We are voting on "Dronino" now. Results should be announced very soon.
jeff
Thanks, Jeff. What about "Oum Rokba"? Did that ever receieve an NWA
We are voting on "Dronino" now. Results should be announced very soon.
jeff
At 01:44 AM 11/16/2003 +0200, Pekka Savolainen wrote:
Well,
all I have seen, is the article on the site of the Vernadsky Institute;
http://www.geokhi.ru/~meteorit/dronino1-e.html
"The Laboratory's analysis showed tha
Norbert stated the facts well about ungrouped and anomalous chondrites.
There are no rules or guidelines for grouping meteorites. However, a lot
of researchers subscribe to the idea, which I think originated with John
Wasson, that it takes 5 to sufficiently define the properties of a bunch of
At 11:43 PM 9/16/2003 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeff,
Thank you for the explanation and clarification that clans do not necessarily
tie two groups together...though they are thought to be related due to
similarities. So it goes something like this... (with a few questions at the
bottom).
Cla
At 10:30 PM 9/15/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2. If all these variations on CB's
and CH's are actually part of the CR clan,
then why don't we start with calling them CR's, and then give them a
suffix
of some kind to differentiate them CRL(low metal), CRB-1 and CRB-2,
CRH(high
metal), etc.. De
by the authors of these papers, and may be others), and has yet to
> arrive at a status of general acceptance by the scientific community?
> Should CH-BEN be abandoned? Are both of them valid side by side
> for the time being?
> Jeff Grossman, can you shed some light on this?
Whe
The relationship that you found was
documented in meteorites shortly after the first electron microprobes
became available to meteorite researchers. The landmark paper
was:
KEIL
K. and
FREDRIKSSON
K. (1964) The iron, magnesium, and calcium distribution in coexisting
olivines and rhombic pyroxenes
al sector. Commercial meteorites are still
overwhelmingly ordinary chondrites.
jeff
At 01:30 PM 8/8/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeff Grossman wrote:
<70% of all known meteorites are Antarctic
20% of all known meteorites have been collected
commercially.
The remaining 10% include all the
780 to NWA 816, and there are probably other gaps, too, in all the
numbers known so far. This surely is for good reason and perhaps Jeff
Grossman may comment on this, if he likes to do so.
Alex
Berlin, Germany
P.S., on a side note: I wonder why that meteorite once inofficially
sold under the name
Let's refine the numbers a bit. Pretty much the start of hot desert
collecting
was in 1998. Of the numbers you quote above how many are since the start
of 1998? Do the same pairing numbers Lindstrom estimated apply to the
non-ordinary-chondrites? I don't have access to a database so Jeff if
g institute? Or is this
a sort of a nonsense question, from the viewpoint of the NomCom... :-)
Btw: this is, what I was thinking of when I made that P.S. remark
about that "Begaa" stone with my last post.
Alex
Berlin, Germany
Jeff Grossman wrote:
>
> This meteorite is listed in the
Without taking sides in this debate, I can help get the statistics straight.
73% of classified and published meteorites are Antarctic (source Metbase
v6.0, total 20,366 of 27,732 meteorites ).
Of the remaining meteorites, ~56% (~4100) of them are in numbered series
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The NomCom would recognize classifications done by anybody with a proven
track record in meteorite geochemistry and petrology. Several
members of the dealer community have described meteorites from their own
analyses. These dealers understand that the NomCom may ask for a
second opinion on descr
ogenite" or, a
better alternative, "HED-clan peridotite" serve to identify both the
mineralogy and parent body.
jeff
- Original Message -
From: "Jeff Grossman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 5:23 AM
Subject
New groups names are not a NomCom issue, although there are people who
think it should be. Group names come into being through consensus. Many
group names have died at birth, never being adopted by anybody other that
the person who wrote the initial publication (e.g., F chondrites, CA
chondri
Sorry to disappoint you, but Joel's Iron was named long before there was a
NomCom. This name would indeed violate the modern Guidelines for Meteorite
Nomenclature had it been found recently. There are other meteorites with
similar "grandfathered" names, e.g.. Lutschaunig's Stone, Holland's Sto
Mike,
The Meteoritical Society is not an authority on geographic names. The
NomCom does the best it can in approving names for meteorites based on
geographic names, but mistakes do get made. We often have to rely on
people with local knowledge of the find area (or the submitter of the
meteor
Dear list and Ms. Kallis,
Let me reiterate the statements we made.
"The petrology and geochemistry of this object strongly suggest that it has
a terrestrial
origin." (http://meteoriticalsociety.org/bulletin/shirokovsky.pdf)
and, in my email to the list on 2 June 2003:
"There is at present no
No way Felix is 3.2. Jones and Scott (1990) had it at 3.2, but more recent
data show it to be significantly higher. Kainsaz is a solid 3.2, and all
properties of Felix show it to be more equilibrated than Kainsaz. Data on
TL (Sears) and on amoeboid olivine inclusions (Chizmadia) show Felix to
Hi all,
The Nomenclature Committee has issued the following statement on the
"Shirokovsky pallasite."
http://meteoriticalsociety.org/bulletin/shirokovsky.pdf
Much of this is based on what many of you have already seen on the Russian
web site.
Bottom line: There is at present no evidence other
Hi all. I am posting the following message to the List on behalf of
Dr. Meenakshi Wadhwa, the Curator of Meteorites at the Field museum.
-jeff
-
To Mike Farmer
riginal Message -
From: "Jeff Grossman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Petrologic types and point values
> No, it's simple. The decimals divide petrologic type 3 into ten finer
&g
No, it's simple. The decimals divide petrologic type 3 into ten finer
divisions. They are meant to convey a sense of relative metamorphic grade,
just as the original 3-4-5-6 numbers did. The reason this was done for
type 3 and not for 4-5-6 is that the differences between a low-type-3 (now
3
There are a number of factors that cause the proportion of irons to vary
from place to place. Four important ones are frequency of pairing
of finds, human cultural effects, differential weathering rates, and
recognizability.
Places like NWA produce many, many separately numbered meteorites that
a
hit the ground, it was
called a meteorite.
Rosie
- Original Message -
From: "Jeff Grossman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Appropriate terminology?
> Frank, etc.,
>
> Nope. Y
Mars) as compared
to meteorites found on Earth? Any one have any ideas?
Thanks,
Frank
- Original Message -
From: Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Appropriate terminology?
>
Alan Rubin and I advocated calling all of these things "meteorites" no
matter what body they were found on. Our definition was as follows, quoting
from the article:
"A meteorite is a natural solid object that was transported by natural
means from the body on which it formed to a region outside
Bernd and list:
Bench Crater & Hadley Rille are not lunar meteorites. See the
only published paper on this subject, and a fine one at that!
Rubin A.E. and Grossman J. N., 1998, What is a meteorite? The pursuit of
a comprehensive definition. Meteorite!, v.4 no. 3, 24-25.
The adjective indicates t
This came from an email exchange I had two years ago with one of the
people who reported the meteorite to the NomCom:
"The right pronunciation of Gujba is Gu- like in goofy=gu(fi), -j-
in gin=g(in) and -ba like bar=ba(r).
Using English consonant symbols it should be like that:
g like get, bigger,
We're voting on tons of new meteorites this week. These will be released
as soon as they are approved and ready for print, certainly by the new year.
-jeff
At 01:59 PM 12/7/2002, M come Meteorite Meteorites wrote:
Hello all
When exit the new issue No news, no updates
Regards
Matteo
The meteors were quite nice here. We had scattered high, thin clouds,
limiting magnitude around 4 outside my house in the Washington suburbs.
Between 4 and 5 am local time I saw about 50, including one "head-on",
something I've never seen before.
Between 5 and 5:30 the rate increased to around
Dear list,
I apologize for posting the anagram with the s*** word. It was not a good
choice. A better anagram would have been "THIS ALIEN OK."
For those of you who are trying to come up with good ones, note the
guidelines from the anagram nomenclature committee,
http://www.anagramgenius.com/
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