A meteorite is a small particle of matter that falls to Earth, and the
last one to reportedly strike the area hit in Lake County in 1918.
Because of such rarity, meteorites are very valuable, and in some cases,
one gram of a meteorite can be valued at $10,000.
just great! if there WAS a fall in
NWA 2115 olivine diogenite-
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Hola, Stan would seem completely right to me. I just have one question,
though. I remember being fascinated with the idea of building a
supersensitive microphone as a kid, the kind that could hear a bird at 1000
feet and a whisper in the next room, etc. I
AFIK it has never been done before but the hyugens probe on cassini is
equiped with a mic and will transmit sounds back home
most other spacecraft havent been sent to anyplace with an atmosphere to
speak of, so sound transmissions would be pointless as (conventionally
speaking) sound doesnt
If I get it I would make casts of the stone, one given to the owner, one to
New Zealand for the planetarium, and others for sale.
so then i assume there are no legal issues with the exportation of the stone
(as there would be in neightbooring australia)
Experts believe the meteorite, a chunk of an asteroid, could be worth
more
than $6,300, the newspaper said.
worth more than 6300$ is a pretty open ended statement, isnt it?
I dont know if any of the people who routinely chase falls will publuically
say what they typically pay for items, but
I sense a little(?) hypocrisy here. It would seem
to me that archeologists have been the greatest
looters of all time concerning artifacts.I haven't
seen any reports of any of the major museums around
the world scrambling to return the treasures taken out
of other countries. Whether it
(Export of anything from Libya without a
permit from the U.S. Customs Service is
also illegal because trade with it is
still embargoed because of its status as
a state sponsor of terrorism.)
this is currently untrue. you can export all you want from Libya now without
state department aproval.
that prompted your post.
Stan
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that the fall that generated those pieces was from a chunk of diogenite
that was at a transition zone close to a magam gas release that created the
vesicles in some of the material, but not in all of it. Sound like cool
stuff Stan.
my main question actually wasnt really about the fact that I have
well, VERY loosely speaking essentially all nickle iron meteroties could be
said to be stainless steel, no?
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while the more rare ones are comprised of solid
And as for NASA selling Apollo Mission collected specimens
if they could get $5 million per gram for them... I'm afraid you
lose. Even if they would fetch $1 billion per gram, NASA
_cannot_ sell them by law. Price isn't an issue in that regard.
They are property of the U.S. Government (i.e. all
I recently purchased a few small stones of a unbrecciated monomict
diogenite. They all had a fair bit of weathering and little or no fusion
crust present. One of the stones had fairly severe surface pitting. I had
assumed that this was wind erosion, and decided to cut it up to make a few
nice
to
say the piece in question is not something that I would go dipping into a
container of phosphoric acid just to see what happens..
Thanks in advance..
stan
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I was going to post to the list about Ivan a week ago, but decided to wait,
however this post makes me a bit worried. I havent had any response to my
emails in almost a month, regarding a 3.2 kg sikhote i won off of ebay...
From what I know, Ivan is a great guy... Anyone hear from him recently?
at low temperture and pressure water tends to sublime, ie change directly to
the gas phase from a solid, as opposed to melt, then boil away, so unless
the water was liquified by impact, a comet wouldnt be a good source of free
liquid water on mars..
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the photo did change... earlier it was a 400 some gram piece of what looked
like nwa 1836... now the price is 500$ higher (but the weight went up by
500g so i guess it's ok :) )
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*snip scarey acetone nightmare*. I probably had bad luck in that I might
be somewhat oversensitive to the stuff,
A HECK of alot more than just 'somewhat oversensitive' I would say. Plenty
of people handle acetone exposure to no ill effect, such as auto shop
workers, nail techs at bueaty salons,
dho 008 is being sold by the guys from CometShop as an L3.2 however i have
seen refrences to it as an H/L3-4 does anyone have any additional
insight into the classification of this stone?
TIA
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if the odds were still at 1000:1 against, I'd put down 1000 quid on the off
chance that there was life on mars I know that doesnt directly answer
your question, but if there are any bookies... errr... bet takers out there,
contact me off list.. :)
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Have all other groups sterilized previous martian landers? if not then the
planet has already been contaminated.
Whasnt it LDEF that came back home and much to scientists surprise
terrestrial organisms that werent removed from the structure (ie they were
NOT intended payloads) prior to launch
Any hallucinations of price fixing are worthy of a hash pipe.
my two cents as a buyer: price fixing isnt something that requires multiple
parties to be involved in, given the relativly small and exotic nature of
the buisness / hobby of meteorites. If a dealer buys all of a particular
find,
What this statement means is that it is not going to be offered for sale to
the public at $2.80 a gram when $5.00 a gram was paid in the field. This
stunt was pulled in the past in order for one dealer to prove a point to
another without consideration for collectors and other dealers who took a
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Second , What have you against these two gentlemen. *snip*
What, some uninformed joker trashing Ron Farrell and the bravest meteorite
hunter and dealer of quality meteorites in history, Bob Haag
not to put words in anyone's mouth, but I bet ya a nickle
What you've got to remember is that even the most sophisticated
computer modeling is, at heart, just highly refined
guesswork! Not only do we not have actual experience with impacts, if one
actually happened tomorrow, there would be
nobody on hand to observe it scientifically, take
Ahh, but here's where you're mistaken. Many of the most important
variables determining the long-term effects of an impact are unknown
and unknowable.
I guess we have a misunderstanding here then, because I was referring to the
predictability of prompt effects of such an impact, ie initial
-- specifically the
duration of
nuclear winter, Stan wrote:
In the event of a large impact, we would need to build an enclosure
that
protects food crops from the environment, and provides an alternate
source
of energy to the crops. Rice isn't going to grow if the sun is blacked
out
for
1000
There is certainly several months of
food supply probably at least two years out there. Everything doesn't come
out
of a can, the fields wouldn't be totally destroyed worldwide.
I would guess there would be one 'growing season' of food out there.
presumably there would be enough time to harvest
I'd have to disagree from 2 standpoints:
It's hard to imagine even the third world countries surviving and growing
food when it's -30 degrees C, even if their survival skills where better on
average than those in developed countries.
eskimos, north canadians, and people in siberia, (as well as
We might not be able to do anything about the impact, as in preventing it,
but surely there would be alot that could be done to lessen catestrophic
damage. If the impact was known about 18 hours in adavnce, I'd be willing to
bet that very shortly afterwards, with the resources of the entire
)
Early warning would definitely be helpful so we could sell off our
collections before the bottom falls out the meteorite market!
Howard
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We might not be able to do anything about the impact, as in preventing it,
but surely there would be alot that could be done
The main mass Nels had on his web site was cut off of a 1100 gram individual
aparently. If the Hupes found an additional 334 grams, then tht would place
the total at some 1400 maybe 1500 grams...
FYI no point in trying to negotiate over the price of the piece that was at
tucson... it's already
Finally, the IMCA, if going that route, can play the same game as ebay:
While all of our members are in good standing, the organization is not
responsible for the comments of the anti fraud squad section of the
website, and
provides it only as a convenient free service to interchange feedback
This seller didn't realize he might be taking on the State of Texas with
this apparant fraud!
By the way, we have NOT made payment, and are attempting to ascertain how
to proceed with this without using an escrow service.
An email has been sent to the seller (glassface1) advising him that he
I can sue you AND win (if you dont provide a defense to the court) because I
didnt like the shirt you wore the day of the auction in tucson. ANYONE and
sue ANYONE for ANYTHING, however, and this is a big however, most
jurisdictions in the us have statutes that make the plaintif liable for the
By the way, the maximum weight for a stone to reach the
ground is less than for an iron, only 40 tons or so. That's a
stone roughly spheroidal and about 25 feet in diameter! So, if
you notice a fusion crusted rock, say, 9 meters across, be
sure and check it with a
, and no hint of fusion crust even ever having existed on the stuff I
got from Blaine...
Just wanted to set the record straight...
Stan
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the main
mass of his offerings for Stan to look at...it did not have any crust as I
remember.
if the nwa 3099 is being compared to the 200ish g piece of l/ll3 I bought
from Blain, i can pretty safely say there is no comparison. the stuff I got
from Blain looks totally diffrent in terms of matrix
Mike,
Someone posting stupid photoshop photos on a little traveled website is NOT
a 'problem'. If thats the biggest thing you have to worry about, then I
certainly envy you. Personally I worry about things like 'how am I going to
pay for that next kilo of martian meteorite' or 'where is the
I agree. These guys that defend Matteo, are
anonymous...Stan...Brahindavethey use hotmail and netscape addresses,
but have a much larger ISP. If you are paying these ISP's for such a
service (Internet Providers), why use Hotmail and Netscape? Don't they
have email services for you
I know I rarely contribute to this list, so I may be oversteping some bounds
by posting on this matter, but here goes, my two cents
Everyone had quite a good laugh at tucson at matteos expense. Is it really
that unexpected for him to strike back with some photoshop fun of his own?
If you
I'm curious if there would be much intrest in slices of Tatahouine, about
25x35mm on a side, in the ballpark of about 50 to 100$ per slice...
TIA
Stan
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specimens, most of which I got back in
the days when prices were fairly low and am just curious as to what some of
the irons run nowadays in case the Lottery decides to make a visit!
Thanks a bunch,
Stan
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Hi,
Back in the mid 80's I spent several months working in Nigeria.
Outside the hotel was a market where you could buy souvenirs. One trader
had a large basket filled with fist sized black rocks that had a sign
Thunder Stones that he was selling for about $3 each. I asked the fellow
what they
Hi,
Is there anyone out there who is an expert on Desert Varnish. How
long it takes to form and what causes it? Is it typical in all desert
environments?
Thanks,
Stan Szalkowski
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Hi,
I have a Campo del Ciello that is rapidly disintegrating. Does
anyone know how to stop this?
Thanks,
Stan
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