[meteorite-list] Largest buzzard Coulee individual?

2011-10-13 Thread Martin Goff
Hi all, Does anyone know what the largest Buzzard Coulee individual found weighs? And also what the largest found that now resides outside of canada, i.e. the largest that was granted an export permit? Has anyone had an export permit refused due the size of the individual? I know there were not

[meteorite-list] TLC Series on Collectors

2011-10-13 Thread Paul Harris
Dear List, We were contact by TLC with the following inquiry. If anyone is interested in participating please reply OFF LIST. Thank you, Paul TLC Series on Collectors Message: HI! I am the Associate Producer for the new TLC series My Collection Obsession. We are currently casting for

[meteorite-list] New Review Paper About Impact Ejecta

2011-10-13 Thread Paul H.
There is a new review paper about impact ejecta. It is: Osinskia, G. R., L. L. Tornabenec, and R. A.F. Grievea, 2011, Impact ejecta emplacement on terrestrial planets. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. vol. 310, no. 3-4, pp. 167-181. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.08.012

[meteorite-list] ASU's Center for Meteorite Studies marks 50 years

2011-10-13 Thread Ruben Garcia
http://asunews.asu.edu/20111012_cms50 -- Rock On! Ruben Garcia Website: http://www.mr-meteorite.net Articles: http://www.meteorite.com/blog/ Videos: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=meteorfright#p/u __ Visit the Archives at

Re: [meteorite-list] ASU's Center for Meteorite Studies marks 50 years

2011-10-13 Thread Gary Fujihara
Aloha Ruben, thank you for sharing the news release announcing a great milestone for this trailblazing institute. The special public event on October 21st with a day-long symposium on meteoritics and cosmochemistry, along with Tim McCoy's presentation on the Dawn mission is certainly not to

[meteorite-list] Text needed

2011-10-13 Thread M come Meteorite
hello I am under search in pdf the article Ueber den Meteorit von Alessandria Schrauf, A. Annalen der Physik, vol. 194, Issue 2, pp.361-363 any of you have the pages speack of the Alessandria meteorite? Matteo M come Meteorite Meteoriti i...@mcomemeteorite.it http://www.mcomemeteorite.it

Re: [meteorite-list] Text needed

2011-10-13 Thread Sergey Vasiliev
Hi there, Here it is: http://zs.thulb.uni-jena.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/jportal_derivate_00142494/18631940212_ftp.pdf Regards, Sergey On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 4:59 PM, M come Meteorite i...@mcomemeteorite.it wrote:  hello I am under search in pdf the article Ueber den Meteorit von

[meteorite-list] ROSAT's Upcoming Reentry Greater Threat Than UARS

2011-10-13 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1110/12rosat/ Falling German satellite greater threat than UARS BY STEPHEN CLARK SPACEFLIGHT NOW October 12, 2011 Less than a month after NASA's falling UARS satellite grabbed the headlines, the German space agency says one of its abandoned satellites will

[meteorite-list] AD: 30 lot micro set of rarities

2011-10-13 Thread Mike Bandli
Dear List, This past weekend I listed a fun micro collection on eBay. The set is composed of 30 individual lots and can be seen at the top of this list: http://www.ebay.com/sch/historic-meteorites/m.html It was started at 99 cents with no reserve, so there is potential for a great bargain. The

[meteorite-list] Wet and Mild: Caltech Researchers Take the Temperature of Mars' Past (ALH84001)

2011-10-13 Thread Ron Baalke
http://news.caltech.edu/press_releases/13462 Wet and Mild: Caltech Researchers Take the Temperature of Mars' Past California Institute of Technology October 12, 2011 PASADENA, Calif. - Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have directly determined the surface

Re: [meteorite-list] Wet and Mild: Caltech Researchers Take the Temperature of Mars' Past (ALH84001)

2011-10-13 Thread Steve Dunklee
If the carbonates formed under the surface it may have taken years for them to form in a warm aquifer under the surface. At this time we still don't know enough to be certain. What I do know is the carbonates almost always form in the presence of water. At higher tempratures they tend to form

Re: [meteorite-list] TLC Series on Collectors

2011-10-13 Thread Richard A. Kowalski
As someone who has done plenty of TV and one who has had both great and really bad experiences with production crews and the final product, I'd urge a little caution before one leaps at the chance to be on TV. Especially if you are going to show off a high value collection on national TV...

Re: [meteorite-list] TLC Series on Collectors

2011-10-13 Thread Richard A. Kowalski
... so be sure you are treated with appropriately. I hate it when I change my thought in mid sentence. I bad at proof reading. Sorry. That of course should read: .. so be sure you are treated appropriately. Richard __ Visit the Archives at

Re: [meteorite-list] TLC Series on Collectors

2011-10-13 Thread Spaceguard
Well said Richard. We actually turn down more TV requests than we accept these days. Jay Tate The Spaceguard Centre On 13/10/2011 18:40, Richard A. Kowalski wrote: As someone who has done plenty of TV and one who has had both great and really bad experiences with production crews and the

[meteorite-list] Daring Russian Sample Return Mission to Phobos Aims For November Liftoff

2011-10-13 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.universetoday.com/89845/daring-russian-sample-return-mission-to-martian-moon-phobos-aims-for-november-liftoff/ Daring Russian Sample Return mission to Martian Moon Phobos aims for November Liftoff by Ken Kremer Universe Today October 13, 2011 In just over 3 weeks time, Russia

Re: [meteorite-list] Daring Russian Sample Return Mission to Phobos Aims For November Liftoff

2011-10-13 Thread MexicoDoug
August 2014: capsule will enter Earth's atmosphere at a speed of 12 kilometers per second. The capsule has neither parachute nor radio communication and will break its speed thanks to its conical shape Sounds like a GREAT hunt, both for the ~ 200 g of Phobos to be returned and for the

Re: [meteorite-list] Daring Russian Sample Return Mission to Phobos Aims For November Liftoff

2011-10-13 Thread Ed Deckert
Hi All, I have some questions about this. I realize that there are likely some limitations to be considered, and that this is an incredible undertaking, but 200 grams is not much material to bring back. Why the small payload? Would a greater sample weight negatively influence of the

Re: [meteorite-list] Daring Russian Sample Return Mission to Phobos Aims For November Liftoff

2011-10-13 Thread MexicoDoug
Don't know the details, but a robotic arm that drills and then lifts maximum of approximately 1cm cores and injectes them into sample analysis chambers as well as a return craft is a very complex piece of machinery, similar to the Russian undertaking of Luna when 170 g were last returned

Re: [meteorite-list] Daring Russian Sample Return Mission to Phobos Aims For November Liftoff

2011-10-13 Thread MexicoDoug
One other thing - Unless I'm mistaken, the escape velocity for Phobos-Grunt compared to that from the surface of Earth's Moon where the Lunar module was used, is in the same ratio as the Moon is to Earth. In other words, to escape the Martian system from Phobos you'd be looking at 1/6 the