Re: [meteorite-list] Meteoroids Before Meteorites

2009-03-14 Thread Mr EMan
color but making a scientifically founded prediction will win out over tequilla or tarot cards 99.99% of the time.(OTSSWAG) Elton --- On Fri, 3/13/09, cdtuc...@cox.net cdtuc...@cox.net wrote: From: cdtuc...@cox.net cdtuc...@cox.net Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteoroids Before Meteorites

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteoroids Before Meteorites

2009-03-14 Thread Mr EMan
. Elton --- On Fri, 3/13/09, cdtuc...@cox.net cdtuc...@cox.net wrote: From: cdtuc...@cox.net cdtuc...@cox.net Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteoroids Before Meteorites To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com, Eric Wichman e...@meteoritewatch.com Date: Friday, March 13, 2009, 3:40 PM Eric

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteoroids Before Meteorites

2009-03-13 Thread Mr EMan
...@meteoritewatch.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteoroids Before Meteorites Hi all, While looking at photos of our most recent extraterrestrial visitor, the West meteorite, I was wondering what the meteoroid looked like while floating around in space... Look how nice and white this piece is on the inside

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteoroids Before Meteorites

2009-03-13 Thread ensoramanda
and following on from that...what would an iron meteroid/aseroid look like in spacewould there be any sign of metallic lustre or would space weathering have darkened the surface? Graham Ensor Eric Wichman e...@meteoritewatch.com wrote: Hi all, While looking at photos of our

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteoroids Before Meteorites

2009-03-13 Thread lebofsky
Hi Eric, Graham, etc: How many hours do you have? I do whole lectures on this subject. There are probably several experts out there listening to this whole conversation. My experience is probably several years out of date, but there have been a number of on-going discussions of what is space

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteoroids Before Meteorites

2009-03-13 Thread cdtucson
Eric, This is a very interesting question to me because ; How do we know what color these west rocks were prior to entering our Atmosphere?Maybe we don't? As seen in the video of the fall it looks to me that something came apart in mid-air. But maybe those are represented by only the broken

[meteorite-list] Meteoroids Before Meteorites

2009-03-12 Thread Eric Wichman
Hi all, While looking at photos of our most recent extraterrestrial visitor, the West meteorite, I was wondering what the meteoroid looked like while floating around in space... Look how nice and white this piece is on the inside. http://www.rocksfromspace.org/133g_Interior.JPG Fusion crust

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteoroids Before Meteorites

2009-03-12 Thread Chris Peterson
* Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com - Original Message - From: Eric Wichman e...@meteoritewatch.com To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:31 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteoroids Before Meteorites Hi all

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteoroids Before Meteorites

2009-03-12 Thread lebofsky
Hi Eric: Being an ordinary chondrite, West is probably similar in composition to the S asteroids that have a reflectivity of something like 15%. Larry On Thu, March 12, 2009 5:31 pm, Eric Wichman wrote: Hi all, While looking at photos of our most recent extraterrestrial visitor, the West