[meteorite-list] AD: Many new NWA's on ebay
My move to Australia has been much more effort and expensive that I have expected but after 3 months I am finally all settled in now and have ebay up and running again. I have 134 meteorites now listed on ebay. Lots of unclassified NWAs at great prices. Some great prices on the fossil EL3 also. See my ebay user id AMUNRE and click meteorites in the store. Over half are newly listed in the last few hours so check now for first pickings Sincerely DEAN AMUNRE Or click here http://stores.ebay.com/DEANS-COLLECTIBLES-AND-GEMSTONES_Meteorites_W0QQ_fsubZ4QQ_sidZ1598024QQ_trksidZp4634Q2ec0Q2em322 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] FOR SALE:*REVISED LOWER PRICE* JaH 073 (99.1 gram) Meteorite from Oman w/ID Card
Hi All, I realized I had my JaH 073 Meteorite was set a bit to pricey on ebay. Have lowered the price $20.00-$25.00. Take a look again when you get a second. Ebay item #120593329079. Thank You, Kirk... - Original Message - From: Becky and Kirk ba...@chorus.net To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 8:08 AM Subject: FOR SALE: Jah 073 (99.1 gram) Meteorite from Oman w/ID Card Hi All, I have a very nice Oman JaH 073 Meteorite w/ID card, originally from Mark Bostick collection, up for auction on ebay. Please check it out when you get a minute---ebay #120593329079!! Thank you. Have a great weekend everyone! Kirk... __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid 21 Lutetia
Full resolution photos: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEM44DZOFBG_0.html My favorite is the one with Saturn in the background-- you can make out just a hint of the rings. If only there had been more megapixels to throw at the shot. It is a little more clear in negative: http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1913/lutesat.jpg __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid 21 Lutetia
Nice. Thanks for the link. I wonder why the flyby video simulation had the closest approach be of a fully sunlit face. - John John Kashuba Ontario, California -Original Message- From: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Darren Garrison Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 9:35 AM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid 21 Lutetia Full resolution photos: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEM44DZOFBG_0.html My favorite is the one with Saturn in the background-- you can make out just a hint of the rings. If only there had been more megapixels to throw at the shot. It is a little more clear in negative: http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1913/lutesat.jpg __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Rosetta Triumphs at Asteroid Lutetia
http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/SEM44DZOFBG_index_1.html Rosetta triumphs at asteroid Lutetia European Space Agency 10 July 2010 Asteroid Lutetia has been revealed as a battered world of many craters. ESA's Rosetta mission has returned the first close-up images of the asteroid showing it is most probably a primitive survivor from the violent birth of the Solar System. The flyby has been a spectacular success with Rosetta performing faultlessly. Closest approach took place at 18:10 CEST [1610 UTC], at a distance of 3162 km. The images show that Lutetia is heavily cratered, having suffered many impacts during its 4.5 billion years of existence. As Rosetta drew close, a giant bowl-shaped depression stretching across much of the asteroid rotated into view. The images confirm that Lutetia is an elongated body, with its longest side around 130km. The images come from OSIRIS instrument, which combines a wide angle and a narrow angle camera. At closest approach, details down to a scale of 60 metres can be seen over the entire surface of Lutetia. I think this is a very old object. Tonight we have seen a remnant of the Solar System's creation, says Holger Sierks, OSIRIS principal investigator, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Lindau. Rosetta raced past the asteroid at 15 km/s completing the flyby in just a minute. But the cameras and other instruments had been working for hours and in some cases days beforehand, and will continue afterwards. Shortly after closest approach, Rosetta began transmitting data to Earth for processing. Lutetia has been a mystery for many years. Ground-based telescopes have shown that the asteroid presents confusing characteristics. In some respects it resembles a C-type asteroid, a primitive body left over from the formation of the Solar System. In others, it looks like an M-type asteroid. These have been associated with iron meteorites, are usually reddish in colour and thought to be fragments of the cores of much larger objects. The new images and the data from Rosetta's other instruments will help to decide but not tonight. Compositional information will be needed for that. Rosetta operated a full suite of instruments at the encounter, including remote sensing and in-situ measurements. Some of the payload of its Philae lander were also switched on. Together they looked for evidence of a highly tenuous atmosphere, magnetic effects, and studied the surface composition as well as the asteroid's density. They also attempted to catch any dust grains that may have been floating in space near the asteroid for on-board analysis. The results from these instruments will come in time. The flyby marks the attainment of one of Rosetta's main scientific objectives. The spacecraft will now continue to its primary target, comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It will rendezvous with the comet in 2014, mapping it and studying it. It will then accompany the comet for months, from near the orbit of Jupiter down to its closest approach to the Sun. In November 2014, Rosetta will deploy Philae to land on the comet nucleus. Wunderbar! says David Southwood, ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration, It has been a great day for exploration, a great day for European science. The clockwork precision is a great tribute to the scientists and engineers in our Member States in our industry and, not least, in ESA itself. Roll on 2014 and our comet rendezvous. But for now, analysing the Lutetia data will now become the focus for the Rosetta instrument teams. Just twenty-four hours ago, Lutetia was a distant stranger. Now, thanks to Rosetta, it has become a close friend. [NOTE: Images and weblinks supporting this release are available at http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/SEM44DZOFBG_index_1.html] __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Rosetta Visits Asteroid Lutetia to Unlock Its Secrets
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1007/10rosetta/ Rosetta visits mysterious asteroid to unlock its secrets BY STEPHEN CLARK SPACEFLIGHT NOW July 10, 2010 Europe's Rosetta spacecraft flew less than 2,000 miles from asteroid Lutetia Saturday, snapping pictures of the new world and collecting bonus science on a primitive relic of the solar system. Lutetia was unknown before the flyby, and scientists hoped Rosetta would refine estimates of its size, chemical composition and origin. Rosetta took more than 400 pictures of Lutetia, and the craft's other instruments were programmed to map the asteroid's chemical make-up, probe its interior and search for an atmosphere. The first results from the flyby were from Rosetta's OSIRIS camera. Check out a gallery http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1007/10lutetia/ of images from Saturday's encounter. I'm startled by the images, said Rita Schulz, Rosetta's project scientist at the European Space Agency. These are fantastic and exciting pictures, and we should not forget that these are just a few images of all the data that will come down from this instrument, the OSIRIS camera, and this is just one of the many instruments that actually measured during this flyby. Saturday's encounter made Lutetia the largest asteroid ever studied up-close by a spacecraft. The sharpest pictures of Lutetia appear to show grooves, landslides and boulder fields, according to Holger Sierks, OSIRIS principal investigator at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Lindau, Germany. It's a new world discovered by Rosetta, and it will keep scientists busy for years, Sierks said. Engineers inside the European Space Operations Center in Germany confirmed the flyby went as planned at 1610 GMT (12:10 p.m. EDT) Earth time. It took more than 25 minutes for radio signals to travel across the solar system from Rosetta, meaning the closest approach actually occurred at 1544 GMT (11:44 a.m. EDT). Rosetta was aiming for a point 1,965 miles from Lutetia and a relative velocity of 33,500 mph. The flyby occurred more than 280 million miles from Earth. ESA unveiled the first high-resolution images of Lutetia in a ceremony at 2100 GMT (5 p.m. EDT). Flight planners added the Lutetia flyby to Rosetta's $1.2 billion mission as an opportunity to gather ancillary science as the probe flies toward comet Churyuomov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta will orbit the periodic comet for more than a year, observing the icy body from orbit and dropping a small lander to its surface. This is just the beginning, said David Southwood, ESA's director of science and robotic exploration. If this is the way the thing begins, try and imagine how it's going to end. It is an historic day, Europe, once again, proving that it can do major steps in solar system exploration. Rosetta also visited asteroid Steins in 2008, but the much larger Lutetia offered a chance for ground-breaking science. Of the two asteroid flybys that we were able to sneak in on the way to the comet, Lutetia has always been our main asteroid target because we believe this will provide us with the most precious information about how the planets have formed, and what the status of the material was like during the period of planet formation, Schulz said before the flyby. Despite its maximum diameter of about 80 miles, Lutetia's exact shape and mineral make-up was still a mystery to scientists before Rosetta's visit. The probe confirmed Lutetia has a slightly elongated shape, but it will be several more weeks before scientists know its chemical composition. Lutetia was discovered in 1852, but the best pictures of the asteroid from telescopes on Earth and in space only show a pixelated object. The best guess is Lutetia is a C-type asteroid, meaning it has stayed relatively untouched through most of the violent 4.6-billion-year history of the solar system. C-type asteroids are dark and rich in carbon and organic molecules. Scientists believe they are leftover relics from the formation of the solar system. If it does turn out to be a C-type, which we all hope, then we have a large object which is rather pristine showing us what the solar system was like shortly after the planets formed, said Rita Schulz, Rosetta's project scientist, before the Saturday's flyby. But some measurements suggest Lutetia could harbor metals, a signature of an M-type asteroid. Schulz said metallic M-type asteroids formed from rock from the interior of a larger body after massive collisions fractured the parent object. It can't be, at the same time, a C-type and an M-type asteroid because they are so different that it is not possible, Schulz said. This is a riddle that we can solve only by visiting this object because the indications from all the observations we have right now are not conclusive enough that anyone would dare to say this is for sure a C-type asteroid. Rosetta's task Saturday was to shed light on these fundamental questions. The spacecraft was supposed
Re: [meteorite-list] Sylacauga - affordable sizes AD
Hi all, I have decided to break up the last piece of the Smithsonian trade Partslice of Sylacauga to make pieces available for every sized collection. For the next 48 hrs (or, until they sell out) they will be available at under 1/2 price. As each item sells, I will mark it sold on the web page, so, if you Go there from this ad, whatever pieces you see not marked SOLD are Still available. Each piece will come in a labeled membrane display box and include A Certificate of Authenticity with a photo of the particular specimen as Part of the certificate and will also include a copy of the Smithsonian Label. The photos alone are worth checking out: http://michaelbloodmeteorites.com/Sylacauga.html Warm Regards, Michael __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] FW: ¿ Flatest complete meteo rite ?
Hola Jason. Thanks for your reply and pictures. The stone in the first picture, is what we are talking about : flat shaped meteoritesand we second you in that irons appear to withstand the stresses of entry much better...so... to have in our hands...a very small flat stone individualis really a miracle...due to its more difficult chances to get that shape and survive the fierceness of ablation. As soon as we can , will take a picture of our very little flat stoneperhaps a not seldom seen... very, very flatened meteorite. Hasta la vista, larense Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:51:56 -0700 Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] ¿ Flatest complete meteorite ? From: meteorite...@gmail.com To: gian...@hotmail.com Hey, I think thin stones are much more interesting since irons appear to withstand the stresses of entry much better. http://picasaweb.google.com/MeteoriteKid/Chondrites#5419119330382934882 http://www.flickr.com/photos/cameteoritefinder/2336579916/in/set-72157594532840297/ But irons do take on some pretty cool shapes - http://www.flickr.com/photos/cameteoritefinder/2336468460/in/set-72157594532840297/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/cameteoritefinder/2427477818/in/set-72157594532840297/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/cameteoritefinder/2427516464/in/set-72157594532840297/ Those are some of the cooler-shaped ones that we have, but I've seen some nicer ones - you might try to find some high-resolution photos of Cabin Creek... Regards, Jason On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 5:31 PM, gian gallo wrote: Hola to all. Wondering about this¿ How is the flatest, complete ( or almost complete ) crusted ( or sand blasted ) meteorite individual that any of this list fanaticos.have ever had in their hands ?We know the many odd shapes meteorites havehearted, with holes, and many more.any reply with a picture, is welcome.it is really amazing that a money coin shaped meteorite, could be found...due to the ablation process. Hasta la vista, larense _ __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list _ __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Looking for someone to etch delicate irons
Dear List, I am looking for someone, preferably in the US, who can etch three very rare, small irons for me. It is a delicate situation as two of them are falls and have very delicate and fragile crust. The third has museum numbers painted and I am positive they would be lost under the chemicals. They may need some minor polishing too. If you are experienced with this situation, please contact me and I can give you more details. Many thanks! Mike Bandli -- Mike Bandli Historic Meteorites www.HistoricMeteorites.com or join us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/meteorite1 IMCA #5765 -- __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] AD: 65mg ORGUEIL, Lost City, NWA 998, Almahata Sitta (2008TC3), Orgueil, TAGISH LAKE ending on eBay!
Hello Listers, I have some great meteorites ending in the next day on eBay and also would like to feature a 65mg Orgueil meteorite for sale. First up are the items on eBay LOST CITY meteorite .18g - 1st photo fall in USA, RARE. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=260630640956ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT ORGUEIL meteorite, very rare historic fall-1864, HOAX meteorite! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=260630645793ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT ALMAHATA SITTA meteorite 2008TC3 seen from space rare! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=260632134010ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT TAGISH LAKE meteorite LOT with fusion crust rare! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=260630644110ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT NWA 998, rare Mars/Martian Nakhlite meteorite. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=260630642919ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT TAGISH LAKE meteorite with fusion crust, rare!!! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=260630642074ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT ORGUEIL meteorite 9mg, very rare historic fall-1864! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=260632747420ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT TAGISH LAKE meteorite 20mg-nanodiamonds present, rare!! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=260630646654ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT For other great buys cheek out my eBaystore http://shop.ebay.com/photophlow/m.html?_nkw=_armrs=1_from=_ipg=_trksid=p4340 Up for sale is a 65mg Orgueil meteorite, I am not sure I have seen anything at this size that has sold on the List or eBay for while. Most of the Orgueil meteorites I have seen be 10mg and under, get this gem before its gone for good. Please email me off the list with your best offer and no trades with this one please. Suggested retail value is $650 or high cause of the rarity and size of this meteorite. Here are 2 links to the 65mg Orgueil meteorite http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/4784736641_cfb029a5a9_b.jpg http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4081/4785368046_f60104bede_b.jpg Thank you Shawn Alan IMCA 1633 eBaystore http://shop.ebay.com/photophlow/m.html?_nkw=_armrs=1_from=_ipg=_trksid=p4340 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
