research by independent groups, and the data need to be
checked against each other and build more of a case before these theories
will get anywhere near mainstream thought. Go, scientific method!
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than something that displaces a lot of Pacific water? I believe
marble-sized is the minimum size for a meteorite to survive the plunge
through the atmosphere, but I don't know the parameters for "how bad is
bad".
Tracy Latimer
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Walter Branch wrote:
the first half hour, just as he was discussing
Tunguska and why there was no crater. If you have better radio reception
than us, give it a listen and see what you think.
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t cutting down on available storage
space again. Printing out and Organizing all the Useful Things would make
me crazy, so I'm asking someone else to do it for me :-D
My two NWAXXX,
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mean having to leave Maui...:-(
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...) and was saddened to notice that on
my birthday, September 12, there are no falls or finds. I hope that gets
corrected soon! Anyway, just for a conversation starter, who DOES have a
fall on their birthday? and which one?
Jealously,
Tracy Latimer
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ne's collection,
but eventually you need to branch out.
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There is a very interesting article about meteorite impact sites in the
June 15, 2002 issue of Science News, which we just got at our
library. Guess what I'm going to be reading on my lunch break!
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So as long ago as the Venus of Willendorf was made (50k years?) there were
meteorite collectors... since probably the moldavite came in as a trade
good from where it was originally collected. Kinda gives you a feeling of
continuity.
Tracy Latimer
Don't worry about reporting on the show in Europe unless it helps you cope
with the mess back at home. Do what you need to do back in AZ; the show
can wait. We hope all your friends and family are safe and were able to
get their things out of danger. Our thoughts are with you.
Tracy La
> Mike just replied to my letter. Unfortunately his home there as well as many
> friends and neighbors homes have burned.
Crap!!! Is there anything we can do? It's always an order of magnitude
worse when the disaster happens to someone you know.
Tr
rom space! With all the NWA stones, I'd be surprised
if no one was doing some experimentation.
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-- the ultimate status symbol: a ring with a polished piece of NWA482, or
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Gimme, gimme, gimme!
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p.s. the pix would be nice too.
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7;t have it yet, I'd still go with Norton.
My 2 grams (micromount),
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would remain, and second off, as a collector, HOW DO I
GET MY HANDS ON SOME OF THIS STUFF?!?!?This is WAY cool.
If anyone has more information, web links, comments, etc. I'd like to hear
about it. Thanks for letting me take up your bandwidth.
Tra
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, David Freeman wrote:
> Dear Rhett, Harlan, and List;
> My portales story is...the neatest piece that I saw was half buried in a
> living chunk of asphalt!
...as opposed to a DEAD chunk of asphalt?? :-) Still, cool story.
Trac
I got a few small pieces of Glorieta from Steve when he first offered them
to the List. They are small and unremarkably brown, unless you look at
them carefully and can distinguish a few small olivine crystals, rather
like shrapnel. They are not very rounded, being rather angular.
Tracy
crap again.
I don't mind the occasional ad for "Meteorite Thursday" et.al. (sorry,
Dean! ;-) but the rest of the stuff is just annoying.
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No, Bernd, I didn't even realize that the cut-off slice was pasted right
over top of some text. My browser only shows me the top half of the
image, and won't go down any further.
Tracy Latimer
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Bernd Pauli HD wrote:
> Hello All!
>
> Am I the only one who
problematic. I bought a
piece of Bilanga from Eduardo about 7 weeks ago. I know the check
cleared, but as to what the mail service is doing with his package, I
haven't a clue. At least once a year, one of my letters or packages will
vanish into the Bermuda Triangle of mail.
Tracy La
Does this mean I get to inquire if the uranium balls are depleted :-)
Tracy Latimer
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camp out, tell tall tales, and generally get silly. NOt unlike Tucson,
but without the benefit of meteorites. A nice break from routine for the
holiday.
Happy Memorial Day, to all those who celebrate it this week.
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case of Guinness. Get better soon (incidentally, HOW did you crack those
ribs?)
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to bust out the listing in the MetBull or other resource for Canyon
Diablo and write a short note explaining that the material in this box
DOES NOT fit the official description.
Hope this helps; it SUCKS to be taken.
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Butte Meteorite" people when I indicated I thought I had gotten bad goods.
So much for their integrity!
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false value!) Once you sign up, you also will have access to the little
"Seal of IMCA Approval" to post on your auctions, and Fernlea is
definitely deserving of that seal. Also being in the company of some
pretty nifty fellow collectors and dealers.
So go ahead and sign up, and we
ement "As a member of IMCA, I guarantee
that all material I sell is of genuine meteorite origin, with 100% money
back if dissatisfied. Look for our seal as an assurance of quality."
Tracy Latimer
--Ignorance is curable. Stoopid is forever.--
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I just got a nice thin slice of Putorano; unfortunately, the travails of
travel caused it to break in three before I got it! Has anyone else
noticed a tendency for their Putorano to crumble or break, and if so, what
are they doing about it (besides being VERY VERY gentle to their slices?)
Tracy
recovered and carted away.
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a metal ladder on the outside of one of the obervatories on top of
Haleakala, but was immediately lost in the surrounding cinders. Wonder
how dey figger it was a meteorite, when they nevah spot da buggah!
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Thank you for finding this for us -- for the benefit of all who don't have
access to this magazine at all. Too bad no one apparently thought to
collect and keep the "aerolite" that killed this fellow. Smoking
meteorite gun!
Tracy Latimer
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Alan Pickup wr
e are
also a couple of rare book dealers who say they have this issue available,
if some one wants it badly enough to shell out some large dinero.
Tracy Latimer
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, TMS/TNS/HRC wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> This is a post I received off of another list I subscribe to fo
ced a Beanie Baby collector to a new hobby.
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conch in the canal! You will also develop the "Sanibel stoop" from
beachcombing for an incredible selection of shells.
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Ya know, you can probably build a really keen fallout shelter out of
uncatalogued NWA and Sahara meteorites. Dean, how's your supply? You may
be in great demand soon...;-)
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quent access to at work is text-only. An increasing number of
point-and-click interfaces don't work well with text-only, as anyone who's
tried to use one with ebay knows!
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That sounds like the best explanation I've heard yet. I do live in Kihei,
so if there was something like that last night due up from us, that's
probably it. It was as bright or slightly brighter than Venus for about
15 seconds, then slowly dimmed before disappearing.
Tra
t
not drifting, before slowly dimming and going out. Unfortunately, "almost
directly overhead" will probably put it in the Molokai Channel, rather
than anyplace near me, if it survived at all :-/
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ent.
Besides, I only have 2 Ohio meteorites in my collection (Powellsville and
New Concord, although I'm always looking for more!) and 1 Hawaiian one
(Honolulu; Palolo Valley seems to have vanished off the radar for
collecting.) Does that have a bearing on anything? :-)
Tracy Latimer
#x27;t the
only ones that will tie your tongue in knots!
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So does that make my LL3.3 a Y3.3 or a J3.3? :-)
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Ideally, we could get native speakers from the regions in question to give
us the "last word" in pronunciation of various meteorite names. That way,
no one would be subjected to my mangling of Chassigny or Tissemoumine!
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l and wind for 20 minutes of maybe-viewing before the comet sets at
this latitude :-) For an island that has such great tourist appeal, we
haven't had much amateur astronomy appeal lately.
Tracy Latimer
--admits to being a cosmic wimpout--
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Anyone who wants to send my meteorites back to space will be met at the
door by my trained attack cat Snowball's Chance, and my overchronied
paintball gun. Exceptions might be made if I am allowed to go along to
personally supervise their re-release into the wild. >:-)
Tracy
What about black on white shirts for some, and white on black or dark blue
shirts for others? I'd buy one of each! Doesn't really matter if they're
golf shirts or regular t-shirts to me.
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r Egg Hunt at my library; we got a rare but
welcome rain overnight, and our garden area is SQUISHY. Must go hide
plastic eggs now...
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Well, poop! This is what happens whe I don't check my e-mail often
enough. Congrats to the winner of the Great Gao Giveaway; as it turns
out, I got the title of the album, not the song :-( D'oh!
Tracy Latimer
--whose husband has the largest collection of Weird Al albu
This one is "Strange Angels" by Laurie Anderson. Too bad I missed her in
concert earlier this month here!
Tracy Latimer
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, harlan trammell wrote:
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>
>
> "Last nite i saw a host of angels...
> and they were all singing different song
simply
is full of frass-ite.
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he desert have largely covered over the original crater now, and years of
being picked over have greatly reduced the number of "pearls" to be easily
found, although some still come out of the area. I got mine from Anne at
Impactika, she may still have some, or picture
u for the reverification. Time to say bad
things to geopaleo_guy.
Tracy Latimer
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and Fredericksburg. Whole irons seem largely immune, but
my Ghubara slice started oozing within a couple of months, and I have to
keep it either dried or pickled. Good luck with preserving your
collection.
Tracy Latimer
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, dbeatty wrote:
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> Hello all,
> I'm c
the other hand,
is spalling off tiny flakes; that has to be a reversal of the usual!
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bly be the
same.
Seems that the only thing that comes from "Eagle Butt" is... eagle
doo-doo? Related to frass-ite?
I do note that geopaleo_guy has stopped selling "Eagle Butte Meteorites".
I have not heard back from him regarding my e-mail; I think it's about
ti
I think all the list members, if given the chance, would line up with
bells on :-)
Tracy Latimer
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, colin wade wrote:
> hi list
>
> any sponsors for a meteorite hunt on Mars?
>
> allthebest
>
> Col ;-)
>
> - Original Message -
been at least 4 other major extinctions, marked by the disappearance
of up to 95% of organisms from the fossil record. Trouble is, we don't
have any "hard" evidence that any of these were caused by a big impact.
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He got my check o.k. for the chip of Honolulu (yay!); it just took a while
to clear. I suspect that the U.S. Snail is at least partly to blame, as
whenever I send mail out from HI, it often is delayed, and sometimes even
disappears without a trace :-(
Tracy Latimer
Michael, Dean, and anyone else who has been throwing a tantrum,
Do I have to separate you two? DO I???!?!?
If you two can't behave, I'm turning the car around RIGHT NOW and
we're going home.
Really.
Tracy Latimer
--"The flesh peeled back from her skull, and flames shot
No!! NO I'm going to be the most off!!!
How do you judge something like that?
Tracy Latimer
--wondering if she should change her guess to Chassignite--
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Radosevich, Dave wrote:
> I say its a " Iron IIAB "
>
> Dave
>
> Do I wi
Just for GPs, I'll be an oddball and say... EL6.
For no good reason (Besides, maybe I'll get lucky.)
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s the preferred
explanation" and
"Unless you got the license plate number, I'm not interested in reports of
flying saucers" (with apologies to Sir Arthur C. Clarke)
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This is the text of an email message I sent to the Crawfords, the people
who are selling the Eagle Butte meteorites. We'll see what their response
might be.
Tracy Latimer
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 20:26:55 +
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Subject: Re:
;I am submitting this rock to XYZ for independent verification." I'm
willing to burn the feedback, if it keeps anyone else
from making the same error.
Tracy Latimer
--Tired of turning the other cheek--
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s the teaching method doesn't hurt anyone or
anything, if it causes someone to learn, it's successful. Does anyone
here who doesn't regularly use Avagadro's Number remember it or its
significance without a catchy jingle learned in C
ubsidizing the dig?
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things.
If you find out anything new, maybe you can write up your experiment and
submit it as a followup to the first magazine article! :-)
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could be done about this. I suppose the only cure is knowledge and
caution.
I'm supposed to know better, so I will simply laugh at myself. Ruefully.
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les of a metallic meteorite to
fracture or smack one with a hammer; if you whacked a Sikhote hard enough
to break it in one shot, would it show any type of crystal structure along
the broken edge?
Other than that, I'm pretty sure Eagle Butte (Button; I think I'm going to
call it that from now
If you are close enough, maybe you can go up and snoop around the Eagle
Butte astrobleme and see if you can find any bits of the "Eagle Butte
Meteorite" for yourself and help us resolve the current raging controversy
:-) At any rate, I'd bet you'll find some nice meteorwron
e news :-)
Political rhetoric maybe
Tracy Latimer
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, S.Singletary wrote:
> I just read the Feb. 8 Science paper, literally poured over it and I didn't
> find any mention of dating pieces of the CAIs. It dealt mostly with oxygen
> isotopes and some imp
27;s not unreasonable. Ranting about
it just makes you more suspect IMHO.
Tracy Latimer
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nut, and
wants to be there for the 200th anniversary of Trafalgar. Supposedly they
are restoring HMS Victory to sailing condition and will be taking her out
and _firing her guns._ Whoa.
Tracy Latimer
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Matson, Robert wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> << So, how many of us ha
inate one
of the first tests of meteoricity (is that a word?)
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(Honolulu) that I had been wishing
for for a LONG time. I paid more than someone else would have (I KNOW I
did, I bought it on ebay!) but now I have a very special meteorite and am
happy to have it.
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me know and I'll be happy to send it on. Of course, it it turns out to
be real, I'll expect the remnants back
Tracy Latimer
--having some serious doubts--
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, MARK BOSTICK wrote:
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>
> The seller has tried to trade some with me. I agreed
arning from showing it.
I also think this was the first time a large value had been placed on a
meteorite (about $10,000)
I vaguely recall reading this in the infamous Rocks from Space. If anyone
can clear up details I got wrong (and I probably made a lot of errors),
please
spamming the List with
it; I also received a piece of email from a bad address with the BadTrans
virus. Thank heaven for PINEmail!
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Cool! Uh, what should we be watching the skies for? Any information on
orbit of these impactors, are they heading for Earth, the Moon, Jupiter,
or ??? Comet, asteroid, incoming orbital junk?
Data, please.
Tracy Latimer
--wondering if she needs to duck 'n' cover--
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t. Highly recommended.
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er to read religious discussions, Evolution vs. Creation, James
Randi's latest hoax-busting, and News of the Weird. I'd like to keep this
one devoted to meteorites.
Thank you,
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e getting
around the "non-export of Canadian meteorites" restrictions :-)
Tracy Latimer
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Matteo Chinellato wrote:
> Hello all
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1068089590
>
> I have look on Catalogue of Meteorites but I no ha
e properly documented and analyzed by a reputable lab.
3. If the owner goes along with it, I'd like to see a small piece
of the FALL included in the prize.
Anyone else up for this? Tett, would you be willing to keep track of the
guesses and post the winner?
Tracy Latimer
--getting out
snowballs at each other.
Tracy Latimer
--from rainy -er, sunny- Hawaii--
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, meteorite1.net wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> You know the one about a snowballs chance in hell, well I am in
> Perris,California near March AFB & it is s
P-U!!! (genteely holding nose)
I'm going to try to find a higher caliber of jokes for this site. Prolly
.45, all things considered. Maybe elephant gun.
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bout 65MYA. Does anyone have any information on pieces
recovered, if any? Or would we just be looking at impactite, etc.?
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You found a Lunar? Hot damn!!
Looking forward to its writeup in the Meteorical Bulletin.
Tracy Latimer
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of my friends got a tiny chip of Zagami.
He is a sci-fi nut, and loves it, because this will probably be as close
as he ever gets to the Red Planet. One for the good guys...
Tracy Latimer
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They are called an ORRERY, and I have seen one in the A&E catalog. There
may also be one in one of the other Public TV or NPR catalogs; look online
under www.giftcatalog.com
Tracy Latimer
--can't resist being a LIBRARIAN, even on holiday--
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Rob and Colleen wrote:
ays the chance someone
wants a good specimen of meteorwrong ;-)
Tracy Latimer
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For small, ornery specimens... are baby food jars o.k.?
Tracy Latimer
--loves her micromounts, but still would love a nice ol' Esquel slab--
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LE KALIKIMAKA E HAUOLI MAKAHIKI HOU! (merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year!)
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