[meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - January 08, 2008

2008-01-08 Thread SPACEROCKSINC
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Re: [meteorite-list] 10 Reasons Why Everyone Should Own A Meteorite!

2008-01-08 Thread AL Mitterling
Hi Rhonda and all, My first specimen was Canyon Diablo oxide but when I started to seriously collect, I bought a Canyon Diablo, Imilac and Allende CV3. Not bad first choices. Today with lunar material available I think that I would purchase a nice lunar specimen as those are truly unique and

Re: [meteorite-list] RFS Picture of the Day Jan. 8 / weird properties of NWA 2965

2008-01-08 Thread Bob King
Hi Jeff and all, This is a wonderful photo of the type of radial pyroxene chondrules I've seen in NWA 2965 and its cohorts. Very nice job Jeff. This is certainly a curious meteorite. I've been passing a magnet over the slices in my collection and have noticed a few things. The pale, grey speckled a

Re: [meteorite-list] 10 Reasons Why Everyone Should Own A Meteorite!

2008-01-08 Thread mexicodoug
Rhonda wrote: "I'm not sure you have to have a metorite in your posession to be in love with metorites ... want the first one to be special and I can't figure out what exactly it should be." Dear Rhonda and List friends, This was one topic that was (for me) really not meteorite related at all,

Re: [meteorite-list] 10 Reasons Why Everyone Should Own A Meteorite!

2008-01-08 Thread tracy latimer
Mark, help yourself to the popcorn, and please get me some Junior Mints... I just got my Masters about a month ago. In the congratulatory gifts I received, and the Christmas haul that followed, I was able to divide them neatly into 2 piles: those that were library-related, and those that were

[meteorite-list] Comment on Fireston rebuttal

2008-01-08 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi all - The review team did a good job, but... We also have the peoples' accounts to deal with. It seems to me that there was no reason for them to create such extraordinary parts of their histories, unless some extraordinary and memorable event actually happened. I think we have a rough idea

Re: [meteorite-list] RFS Picture of the Day Jan. 8 / weird properties of NWA ...

2008-01-08 Thread STARSANDSCOPES
Hi Bob and list, I agree with Bob. The "Blue Phase" seems like a different material than the "Brown Phase" Not just magnetic attraction but chondrule occurrence and microscopic grain structures seem different as well. Could it be a breccia? Also does any one have a slice with both materi

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorites/hunting

2008-01-08 Thread Pat Brown
Hello Fellow Listoids, Let's add Prof. Susan W. Kieffer University Walgreen Fellow CAS Professor of Geology Professor of Physics University of Illinois to our list of Women in Meteoritics Pat Brown --- Notkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Twink posted: > > > Anne, now that you are ret

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Impact article

2008-01-08 Thread Larry & Twink Monrad
A friend here in Oro Valley just sent this to me, thought I would share for what it might be worth. See link for complete article and cartoon. Twink Monrad Southwest Archaeology Today for Jan. 8, 2008 Southwestern Archaeology Making the News - A Service of the Center For Desert Archaeolog

[meteorite-list] Mars Impact Seems Less Likely (Asteroid 2007 WD5)

2008-01-08 Thread Ron Baalke
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news155.html Mars Impact Seems Less Likely Steve Chesley, Paul Chodas and Don Yeomans NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office January 8, 2008 We have updated the orbit of 2007 WD5 using new observations from the 3.5-meter telescope at the Calar Alto Observatory in

[meteorite-list] Forget the Meteorites - It Was Insects That Did For The Dinosaurs

2008-01-08 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jan/07/dinosaurs Forget the meteorites - it was insects that did for the dinosaurs James Randerson The Guardian (United Kingdom) January 7 2008 They were the most imposing and terrifying creatures that have ever walked on the surface of the Earth, but ac

[meteorite-list] Object Seen Streaking Over Florida

2008-01-08 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=5419908&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1 What was that flying object? MyFox Orland January 7, 2008 POINCIANA, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) -- FOX 35 viewer, Alexandra Gregory captured these spectacular images of an o

[meteorite-list] AD: Free Meteorites From MeteoritesUSA.com

2008-01-08 Thread Eric Wichman
I just launched my new meteorites for sale website for those of you who are interested. A lot of members have asked me if I would do some sort of discount or promotion for my meteorites, or add some good inexpensive specimens. I'll do one even better than that! I'm giving away free meteorites

[meteorite-list] Whites GMT metal detector with accessories FOR SALE

2008-01-08 Thread Ruben Garcia
Hi all, I'm selling a gently used Whites GMT metal detector with accessories. It comes with 9" coil, extra 14" sierra coil and pole, also headphones, carrying bag and manual. Also both coils have coil covers! The detector is very gently used! The extras are well used but work fine. I'm asking $

[meteorite-list] 12 Reasons Why Everyone Should Own a Meteorite Calendar!

2008-01-08 Thread Jerry A. Wallace
Anne, Your list consists of only nine gracious and highly intelligent women. We will need at least an even dozen to produce the calendar "The Ladies of Meteorite Central." Unless we skip three months...or, use photos of three ladies twice in order to give the calendar the usual twelve months, wh

[meteorite-list] Astrophysicist Raises Odds of Asteroid Strike on Mars (2007 WD5)

2008-01-08 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/258025.html UAA researcher gives Mars bad news COLLISION: Astrophysicist raises odds of asteroid strike. By GEORGE BRYSON Anchorage Daily News January 8, 2008 The odds are it will miss. Still, there's a huge asteroid -- a massive rock about 160 feet lon

[meteorite-list] 12 Reasons Why Everyone Should Own A Meteorite Calendar!

2008-01-08 Thread Jerry A. Wallace
Anne, Your list consists of only nine gracious and highly intelligent women. We will need at least an even dozen to produce the calendar "The Ladies of Meteorite Central." Unless we skip three months...or, use photos of three ladies twice in order to give the calendar the usual twelve months, wh

Re: [meteorite-list] RFS Picture of the Day Jan. 8 / weirdproperties of NWA ...

2008-01-08 Thread Phil Morgan
I find it interesting that the blue material is usually mentioned as being less weathered but I've never seen any with visible metal but I have found shiny iron flecks in the brown material. My small blue stone was encased in more of a "rind" than any of my brown stones if that fact is interes

Re: [meteorite-list] RFS Picture of the Day Jan. 8 / weirdproperties of NWA ...

2008-01-08 Thread STARSANDSCOPES
Hi Phil, I have never found bright iron in any, but I have found brown phase from low to rather high magnetic pull while the blue has always been very week to almost none at all. Tom In a message dated 1/8/2008 8:02:29 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I find it intere

[meteorite-list] Accepting Offers for a "lot" of Mali Fragments

2008-01-08 Thread David & Kitt Deyarmin
I am accepting offers for an assortment of Mali / Erg Chek whole specimens and fragments. I'm selling these for another dealer and would like to sell the entire lot to one buyer if possible Some of these pieces are about 85% fully crusted You can view all of them by clicking this: http://i1

[meteorite-list] carbonado?

2008-01-08 Thread Michael Murray
Hi List, For those of you that enjoy the smaller details of these stones, I thought you might like to see a small inclusion I found. Octahedral carbon crystal sticking out of olivine matrix, possibly? Mike __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteo

[meteorite-list] Large meteorite slice, tiny photo

2008-01-08 Thread Darren Garrison
http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2008/jan/08/tcus-monnig-museum-acquires-big-slice-space-rock/ __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] carbonado? picture

2008-01-08 Thread Michael Murray
Sorry, forgot to attach link. Here 'tis... Mike http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p124/mmurray_02/carbon.jpg __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/me

[meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - January 09, 2008

2008-01-08 Thread SPACEROCKSINC
http://www.rocksfromspace.org/January_9_2008.html __ **Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp0030002489 __