[meteorite-list] Re NWA 482

2008-01-28 Thread Peter A Shugar
Alas and woe is me. I shall have to rethink how I let my students handle the meteorite specimens. One of them got a little careless and dropped my 10mg NWA 482 and it is no more! Would anyone on list have a specimen they can part with at a modest cost? It was my first and favorite planetary. I

[meteorite-list] lost in space

2008-01-28 Thread Peter A Shugar
If they were just a little magnetic, the outcome would be a lot different. Pete __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Re Kem Kem

2008-01-26 Thread Peter A Shugar
Hello list, Does anyone still have a one or two gram piece of good ol Kem Kem that I could buy? I don't want a large piece as my whole collection is geared for the 5 gram and under size. (These are more affordable.) Pete __

[meteorite-list] Mecurian Meteorite????

2008-01-22 Thread Peter A Shugar
So what meteorite did the esteemed Dr. Love say was a possible Meurcian Meteorite? I sure would like to know! Pete __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

[meteorite-list] most looked at

2008-01-21 Thread Peter A Shugar
---Meteorite of the day photos Pete - Original Message - From: Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 12:28 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] most popular meteorite Y'all, I've analyzed the webserver log files from the

[meteorite-list] most viewed

2008-01-21 Thread Peter A Shugar
Well I misunderstood the guessing game. So. recalculating with correct data, I vote Park, Forest. Pete __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

[meteorite-list] love that sentence

2008-01-14 Thread Peter A Shugar
Yeah, they wouldn't let him leave with the whole mass, but the would let him whack off a 107 Kg end slice and then leave!!! I find this to be a little outa kilter from normal. Huu!! Pete __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com

[meteorite-list] Question

2008-01-14 Thread Peter A Shugar
Hello list, Why is it that all the cool stuff comes up to buy after the payday has come and gone and before the next payday. All this talk of Drake Prototype Scalecubes and cool deals just before the Tucson show, And I is a money broker. I got my paycheck and now I is broker. o woe is me. I

[meteorite-list] NWA's

2008-01-12 Thread Peter A Shugar
Bob and the list, The need for NWA's is because the North West Africa as well as other areas provide a lot of the meteorites that we can then analize, giving rise to the various classifications. Not only that, but small NWA's make good giveaways for school children and adults. I've gotten one

[meteorite-list] Who needs college?

2008-01-11 Thread Peter A Shugar
I say to the list, who needs college? In the last couple of months, I have watched as learned men and women have posted on such diversified subjects as geology, physics, chemistry, and a host of other subjects. While I agree that there is some bickering back and forth amongst the list, there has

[meteorite-list] Still un answered question

2008-01-10 Thread Peter A Shugar
Still unanswered is the other question: And then there is little dinky Roosevelt Co, NM at just 2,455 sq miles and it has a staggering 109 meteorites, which comes to one for every 22.5 sq miles. What gives? They are of a wide variety of classifications, so it can't be turning every piece in

[meteorite-list] If I could pick my first one

2008-01-09 Thread Peter A Shugar
When I moved to Odessa, the Odessa crater was extremely difficult to get to. Actually, I didn't find out there was even a crater till I had been there about 4 years. One weekend, with nothing to do, I finally found the trailer beside the crater. There was a grizzly older gent who let me look

[meteorite-list] If I could pick my first one

2008-01-09 Thread Peter A Shugar
When I moved to Odessa, the Odessa crater was extremely difficult to get to. Actually, I didn't find out there was even a crater till I had been there about 4 years. One weekend, with nothing to do, I finally found the trailer beside the crater. There was a grizzly older gent who let me look

[meteorite-list] intriguing Question

2008-01-09 Thread Peter A Shugar
Hello, I'm the newbie, so please explain this to me. This is an intriguing question. I can't figure it out. I know the Sahara desert is about a galgillion square miles. Then there are the deserts in Calif., South America, the Antarctic continent and God only knows where else. Why don't I see any

[meteorite-list] Holmes17P

2008-01-04 Thread Peter A Shugar
Hello list, It seems that Comet Holmes 17P still has a few surprises up it's sleave. Check this link out. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,311868,00.html Pete __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list

[meteorite-list] Greetings

2007-12-31 Thread Peter A Shugar
From a new comer, to all those who mentor us newbies, I wish each and every one one of you all the best that the stars have to offer. To you, Sterling, many thanks for the post on the fusor. It'll probably take me about 6 weeks to get thru all the side tracks as well as the fusor. I can't

[meteorite-list] Question

2007-12-30 Thread Peter A Shugar
Hello List, I have a question. Years ago when tv's were young one of the problems was that the acceleration of electrons from the cathode to the plate the screen was that when the electron collided with the screen, Xrays were generated. Granted that the level was not near as large as what

[meteorite-list] re question

2007-12-30 Thread Peter A Shugar
Chris, It was just a thought. I'm not up on all this High Level math and stuff. When I got my degree, we barely had transistors, no IC's and computers were a to die for item. Our computers were tube opperated, big as all getout, could add 2+2 and sometimes it got 4 as the answer. Pete

[meteorite-list] Samples

2007-12-27 Thread Peter A Shugar
Hello Listies, Maybe someone can answer this for me. Where did the 20% value come from to classify a meteorite? If a meteorite were found that, say , was 1.2 grams, unpaired with anything else, then the sample must needs be .24 grams, if I've figured right. This is a very significant portion of

[meteorite-list] Question

2007-12-26 Thread Peter A Shugar
EP, What if this meteorite were to have come down on a portion of a glacier that was over what is now water? What if any evidence would be left? I used to live in Alaska from the very early 60's ( I think it was 1962) till 1975 or 76. I spent just over two years above the Artic circle at

[meteorite-list] Jason

2007-12-25 Thread Peter A Shugar
Jason, In public I say this- As you should have seen, it was address to an individual, and not to the list. Therefore it was intended not to be for everyone but for just the one person. What happened was that I pushed the wrong button. Even I make mistakes. This Is the very reason That I

[meteorite-list] Jason

2007-12-24 Thread Peter A Shugar
Sterling, Is it just me? Or is jason about two tacos and a burrito short of a combination plate? Pete __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

[meteorite-list] Stuff

2007-12-24 Thread Peter A Shugar
It was not meant to offensive, but more of a comment on his stubborn refusal to look at tons of evidence that is so contrary to only his view. Or put this way, Jason against the world. If you can't convince the world to adopt your way of seeing things, then maybe it's time for you to change your

[meteorite-list] Teaching Meteorites

2007-12-24 Thread Peter A Shugar
Give me some time, (about a week) and I'll try to get a starter primer for you. Pete __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Near Misses

2007-12-19 Thread Peter A Shugar
Hello list, Stated in it's smplest terms, the near miss will preturb the oribital parametersof the smaller body way more than the much larger earth. Yes ! However- The only way that the object will come back to haunt our placid life here on earth is IF the orbital parameter dealing in

[meteorite-list] near miss stuff

2007-12-19 Thread Peter A Shugar
Hello list, Stated in it's smplest terms, the near miss will preturb the oribital parametersof the smaller body way more than the much larger earth. Yes ! However- The only way that the object will come back to haunt our placid life here on earth is IF the orbital parameter dealing in

[meteorite-list] near miss

2007-12-19 Thread Peter A Shugar
Hello list, Stated in it's smplest terms, the near miss will preturb the oribital parametersof the smaller body way more than the much larger earth. Yes ! However- The only way that the object will come back to haunt our placid life here on earth is IF the orbital parameter dealing in

[meteorite-list] Mammoths tusks

2007-12-14 Thread Peter A Shugar
Listen up list Once and for all, this is what happened!! The eight Mammoths and the Bisom decided to go to the Mammoths equivalent of a tatoo shop and had the little iron thingies put in their tusks and skull much like today's youth put rings and studs in places I can't even mention just to

[meteorite-list] Fireball

2007-12-14 Thread Peter A Shugar
Hello list, Does anyone have any info on a fireball breaking up over the Arizona-New Mexico border moving from North to South in 1985 or maybe early 1986. It was just North of Inerstate 10 more to the Arizona side of the border. I saw this but did not make any notes of the day or time,

[meteorite-list] Non-Meteorite

2007-12-11 Thread Peter A Shugar
dingity dangity I hope someone had a camera handy. That would make a good photo. Pete __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] LA 002

2007-12-11 Thread Peter A Shugar
The links would be so much better IF they were different, BUT both links are the same!! Pete __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

[meteorite-list] Fw: holy grail of martian meteorites

2007-12-11 Thread Peter A Shugar
- Original Message - From: Robert Verish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite-list Meteoritecentral meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 6:17 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] holy grail of martian meteorites Amazing how fast time flies. Doesn't seem that long

[meteorite-list] Holy Grail

2007-12-09 Thread Peter A Shugar
My primary collection is Texas, of which I have 42. So for me the Holy Grail is any Texas that I don't have. As to your question, I only have 2 Martians NWA 998 and NWA 1195 and I can't decide which is my favorite. They both display very well. While I'm at the NWA 482 is by far the best Lunar

[meteorite-list] Holy Grail

2007-12-09 Thread Peter A Shugar
And when all is said and done at the end of the day, it's still in the eye of the beholder Pete __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

[meteorite-list] Input, must have input

2007-12-04 Thread Peter A Shugar
Doug, Tracy, et all Doug, I like the way you analyze the situation. To the best of my knowledge, you have correctly put it. How did you think of the flip as it crossed the pole? One step further--- it must flip at each pole crossing, ie North and South. An excellent example of deductive

[meteorite-list] Another thought

2007-12-04 Thread Peter A Shugar
List, There is only one place in nature space that I can think of the will have the energy as well as the magnetic strength to magnetize a meteorite. This is the most dreaded of all situations, a Black Hole. Only one bug in the equation, getting the heck outa there and to the Earth in one

[meteorite-list] yet another thought

2007-12-04 Thread Peter A Shugar
When the sun gives a large flare, what if the meteorite passed thru the flame portion of the flare? Does the flare have enough energy to magnetize a meteorite? The flare energy is typicaly 10 to the 27th ergs per second. That ought to be enough energy to light at least a couple of light bulbs

[meteorite-list] More data

2007-12-03 Thread Peter A Shugar
Mike, Consider this. When the meteorite or iron comes into the magnetic field of the magnet, it is attracted to the magnet. This could be construed as the first stroke of the piece on the magnet. The piece needs to be stroked in the same direction a number of times to become a magnet, so with

[meteorite-list] more data

2007-12-03 Thread Peter A Shugar
Mike, Consider this. When the meteorite or iron comes into the magnetic field of the magnet, it is attracted to the magnet. This could be construed as the first stroke of the piece on the magnet. The piece needs to be stroked in the same direction a number of times to become a magnet, so with

[meteorite-list] Magnetic Meteorites

2007-12-03 Thread Peter A Shugar
If someone with the equipment will cut me a one inch long, quarter inch square piece of either an Odessa, Nantan, Gibeon, Sikhote Alin, or Campo, then I shall retire to my laboratory and conduct the requisite experiments to answer, hopefully, the question at hand. Pete

[meteorite-list] data reply

2007-12-03 Thread Peter A Shugar
Listies, This is just the reason that I stated in my first post, I bow to those with meteorite knowledge, as I have been collecting my ! to 3 gram Texas meteorites shameless plug for Texas meteorites for about a year and a half.. I can only speak for earth bound physics as I am too old to

[meteorite-list] Magnetic Meteorites?

2007-12-02 Thread Peter A Shugar
I am new to the list. I've been reading the list for about a month now. I just wanted to weigh in on the magnetic meteorite. I am a retired Electronics Engineer, so this is somewhat in my field of expertise. From what I know, when you say all meteorites are magnetic, what you mean is the

[meteorite-list] Magnetic

2007-12-02 Thread Peter A Shugar
You've got it exactly right Ken Pete __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list