Re: [meteorite-list] Sale~ Meteorite.net Domain Name for Sale

2007-08-29 Thread Pete Pete
$10,000.00 would buy a lot of meteorites! From: Web Mistress [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Sale~ Meteorite.net Domain Name for Sale Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:49:08 + Hello List Members, I am currently looking to sell the domain name

Re: [meteorite-list] Ancient bacteria could point to life on Mars

2007-08-29 Thread mark ford
Hi Sterling, Indeed, yes it would be nice to find Martian life! - though I always go back to the great ALH8... saga - front page news around the world, then two days later everyone went back to watching the football! So I doubt that finding alien life would actually resonate very much with most

Re: [meteorite-list] Ancient bacteria could point to life on Mars

2007-08-29 Thread mark ford
Why not? Remember these space probes are actually (in some cases even heated) sealed micro environments of their own, (nice for transporting extreemophile bugs! (+ The usual competition bugs have been half killed off). We know we have bugs on earth which can survive space travel, and there are

Re: [meteorite-list] Win A Meteorite or $50

2007-08-29 Thread Eric Wichman
Hello all, My name is Eric Wichman and I just recently started and run the new meteorite site MeteoriteWatch.com, and have been subscribed to the Meteorite-list now for a few weeks and have been reading it everyday. This is my first email to the list and I want to say it's great

[meteorite-list] AD: Update - Selling part of my collection

2007-08-29 Thread Frank Prochaska
I am continuing to offer for sale parts of my collection. I have recently added another 30 samples from the following meteorites: Abbott, Ahumada, Albin, Beaver Creek, Bilanga, Canyon Diablo, Cleo Springs, DaG 749, Gao, Happy Canyon, Imilac, Kenna, Laundry East, Molong, Mulga North, NWA 801,

[meteorite-list] AD: NEW meteorite coin, NWA 869 metal coin for sale.

2007-08-29 Thread Michael Farmer
Hi list-members. After nearly two months of endless travel, I am finally home and beginning to get some work done. I have received a long awaited shipment of new coins that Jim Strope and I just manufactured. They are the second in a series of coins we are making, the next being an incredible set

Re: [meteorite-list] Ancient bacteria could point to life on Mars

2007-08-29 Thread Rob McCafferty
Though I cling to my belief that Mars is a dead rock, the more time goes by the more I realise I know nothing. Still, it'd be nice to br right on something. This debate reminds me of Kim Stanley Robinson's books where a discovered microbe was declared probably terran. I seem to remember one of

[meteorite-list] Mars Rovers Begin New Observations on Changing Martian Atmosphere

2007-08-29 Thread Ron Baalke
http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20070829.065953time=07%2014%20PDTyear=2007public=0 Rovers Begin New Observations on Changing Martian Atmosphere CHICAGO, Aug. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mars rover scientists have launched a new long-term study on the Martian atmosphere with

[meteorite-list] Search for Meteorite in the Altai Continues

2007-08-29 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/4647/ Search for Meteorite in the Altai Continues Russia-InfoCentre August 29, 2007 Another expedition arrived to the Altai Republic to search for meteorite, which has fallen this January, and to talk with people, who witnessed this event. Expedition

[meteorite-list] New Images Reveal Threatening Conditions That Two Rovers Face in Giant Martian Dust Storm

2007-08-29 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug07/Mars.images.html New images reveal threatening conditions that two rovers face in giant Martian dust storm Cornell University Aug. 29, 2007 The mighty Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity continue to persevere in brutal conditions, as revealed in

[meteorite-list] HiRISE Camera Returns New View of Dark Pit on Mars

2007-08-29 Thread Ron Baalke
http://cms-test.opi.arizona.edu/node/15715 HiRISE CAMERA RETURNS NEW VIEW OF DARK PIT ON MARS -- AND ADDS 930 MORE IMAGES TO NASA SPACE MISSION ARCHIVE (From Lori Stiles, University Communications, 520-626-4402) - Aug. 29, 2007 Contact information,

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Questions

2007-08-29 Thread Walter Branch
Hello Everyone, I have had plenty of time recently to ponder things such as meteorites. I am also alone at home at present and am bored. Would some kind, more-knowledgeable-than-me soul help me with some meteoritical questions. For example, why does the rim of meteor crater appear squared

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Questions

2007-08-29 Thread Rob McCafferty
Meteor Crater is pretty much square. I believe weathering has a lot to do with it. Even a desert gets a fair bit of rain in 50,000 years. I think I read that the original crater has been half filled with weathered material though why it would be square following this is anyones guess. Why not (?)

Re: [meteorite-list] Sale~ Meteorite.net Domain Name for Sale

2007-08-29 Thread Jerry
A real lot! Jerry Flaherty - Original Message - From: Pete Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 3:45 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Sale~ Meteorite.net Domain Name for Sale $10,000.00 would buy a lot of

Re: [meteorite-list] AD: NEW meteorite coin, NWA 869 metal coin for sale.

2007-08-29 Thread PolandMET
I think this should ba called MEDAL, becouse it is not coin, have no nominal (f.e. in USD) and it is not legal tender coin, so it have no value to coin collectors. I understand that it is like unclassified meteorite :) that not exist in Met. Bulletin. Ofcourse for us its nice addon to our

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Questions

2007-08-29 Thread Mark Abbott
My understanding is that the geology of that area is karst (i.e. limestone) , which forms in rectangular blocks. The transfer of the energy of the explosion was enhanced in some direction and not in others... resulting in the squarish shape. Mark Abbott Walter Branch wrote: Hello Everyone,

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Questions

2007-08-29 Thread star-bits
Walter branch wrote: Traveling over eons to make it to the inner solar system, how can a meteoroid stream stay intact enough to cause a tiny strewnfield on the Earth? I would not think that the Earth's gravitational field would be strong enough to do what Jupiter did. The small

[meteorite-list] NWA 869 coin

2007-08-29 Thread Don Kretz
Hey Mike, I'd like one of your new coins.Do you have #77 or 55 available? Thanks, Don. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] beating a dead horse?

2007-08-29 Thread Jerry
Vesta forms a nice isosoles triangle with moons of Jupiter. Jerry Flaherty __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] beating a dead horse?

2007-08-29 Thread Darren Garrison
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:11:47 -0400, you wrote: Vesta forms a nice isosoles triangle with moons of Jupiter. Don't tell that to THIS guy: http://stage6.divx.com/Outlaw-News/video/1529589/Mars,-the-Pyramids-and-Changes-in-the-Solar-System __

Re: [meteorite-list] beating a dead horse?

2007-08-29 Thread Jerry
Yea, but I FINALLY got a response Jerry Flaherty - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 10:24 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] beating a dead horse? On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:11:47

Re: [meteorite-list] beating a dead horse?

2007-08-29 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, http://stage6.divx.com/Outlaw-News/video/1529589/Mars,-the-Pyramids-and-Changes-in-the-Solar-System I yield to no one in my love of Free Speech, but I'm beginning to think that there should be, not a prohibition, but a limit on Drivel in Excess. I propose the enactment of Drivel

Re: [meteorite-list] beating a dead horse?

2007-08-29 Thread lebofsky
Hi All: To add to Jerry's comment, we saw Vesta tonight too (along with 35 students). Tomorrow it is a little further from Jupiter (2/3 the Moon's diameter), but is due North of Jupiter, about a bright as Callisto (faintest of Jupiter's 4 main satellites). Larry (just missing the rain that came

[meteorite-list] AD 364 Gram Uruacu Fragment

2007-08-29 Thread David Kitt Deyarmin
I just listed a nice fragment on ebay at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=330160830255ssPageName=STRK:MESE:ITih=014 It's a little bigger then a golf ball and it displays well from most angles Thanks __ Meteorite-list mailing

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Questions

2007-08-29 Thread Frank Prochaska
Hello Walter and List, Now these are the kinds of threads that I love on this list! I have comments or responses on three of the questions. The first is the color of diogenites. My tatahouine is definitely green, and my Bilanga is definitely not. I first got really interested in meteorites

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Questions

2007-08-29 Thread Maria Haas
Walter asked: Also, I have read that some meteoroids travel through space in streams and impact the Earth simultaneously (i.e., they have already broken up before they hit the Earth's atmosphere). How can this be? I would think that once a meteoroid has broken in space (most likely due to

[meteorite-list] Bassikounou Sale

2007-08-29 Thread dean bessey
I have a quantity of Bassikounou with nice crust. I actually didnt want this as I like cheap unclassified stuff but when me and my Moroccan partner was packing up after St Marie the box with the Bassikounou sort of went missing and we hadent been able to account for it the last couple of months.

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Questions

2007-08-29 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, All, This is the notion of meteoroid streams (as opposed to the meteor streams of a comet. Meteoroid streams would have an asteroidal origin. This idea was a big back-and-forth controversy in the XIXth century. One problem is that the term meteoroid streams is now being used for both