[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Allende Contributed by: Stephan Kambach http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpod.asp __ 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] Canadian Meteorite Research Victim of Budget Cuts
Canada's cutting-edge meteorite research a victim of budget cuts (Funding for research tools and instruments from the NSERC will end next fall) by Tom Spears, Postmedia News, June 2, 2012 http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Canada+cutting+edge+meteorite+research+victim+budget+cuts/6720710/story.html and the Vancouver Sun at: http://www.vancouversun.com/business/technology/Canada+cutting+edge+meteorite+research+victim+budget+cuts/6720710/story.html Is Canada lost in space? by Tom Spears The Ottawa Citizen, April 29, 2012 http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Canada/6538084/story.html Yours, Paul H. __ 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: Some very scarely seen meteorites on ebay NOW
Hey List, I just got up some really rare, and some never seen on the market meteorites on Ebay. I am more prone to just cut these down into smaller pieces after a day or two for the ones that don't sell than to do this round in a Reverse Auction like the last round a couple of months ago. If you like any of these, but maybe they are just too big for you, let me know and I might be able to cut them for you. http://www.ebay.com/sch/arnoldmeteorites/m.html?hash=item3cc834c440item=261056939072pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0rt=nc_trksid=p4340.l2562 Also, I have some brand new Sutter's Mill Dust cards there on Ebay. And, last but not least we finally got our really cool Brick-N-Mortar store T-shirts up on Ebay. If you can't stop by to get one in person, here's your chance to grab one. And like Henry Ford said about the Model T: You can get it in any color you want, as long as it is black! But our model does come in 5 sizes. All here: http://www.ebay.com/sch/arnoldmeteorites/m.html?hash=item3cc834c440item=261056939072pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0rt=nc_trksid=p4340.l2562 Steve Arnold Host of Science Channel's TV Series Meteorite Men www.ScienceChannel.com Proprietor of Meteorites and More Meteorite Store in Eureka Springs, AR President Palladot Inc, Extra-terrestrial Gemstones www.Palladot.com Co-Founder Meteorite Cards, hot new collectible trading cards www.MeteoriteCards.com Facebook: MeteoriteMan Facebook: SteveArnoldMeteorite Facebook: Meteorite Men meteorh...@aol.com Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry __ 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] POP QUIZ ANSWER AND WINNER :)
Hello Listers I would like to thank everyone that submitted their answers for the POP QUIZ. The question was: Please tell me the meteorite sample that Biot used to compare samples from the L'Aigle meteorite fall in 1803 in France. Answer: Barbotan I would like to congratulate Mal B for being the first to submit the correct answer :) and he will be winning a Sutter's Mill meteorite sample. For those of you that like to read up on historic meteorite falls, I was able to obtain the report done by Biot on the L'Aigle fall and tried to have it translated from french to english at google translator and abstracted the section the talks about the meteorite sample Biot took with him to L'Aigle. Enjoy the read :) Shawn Alan IMCA 1633 http://www.ebay.com/sch/ph0t0phl0w/m.html? Before starting my research, I thought it necessary to classify systematically the facts on which (9) I ought to direct my comments primarily and accordingly I met in the following table: [From the existence of stone-cal weather in the hands of the inhabitants of the country. / Pes traces or debris that would have been left or caused by the meteor. [The mineralogical and geological circumstances of the country. RDU testimony of those who saw and heard the meteor. ^ From the testimony of those who heard the meteor without seeing it. ^ From the testimony of those who, being at the scene, sought and obtained information respecting the existence of the meteor and its effects. Before leaving, I collected these questions all the information I was able to procure. I prayed to the citizen Haiiy to kindly enlighten me with his knowledge of what concerned the mineralogy of the country I was going to go. The citizen Coquebert Montbret corresponding class, gives me the knowledge which I needed were on the physical geography of the country. Finally the citizen Fourcroy was willing to give me a copy of the letters he received the L’Aigle avpit relation to the appearance of the meteor. I left Paris on 7 Messidor, taking with me • a compass, a map of Cassini, and a sample of the meteoric stone of Barbotan, which had been handed over to the scene to our colleague Cuvier: I intended to use it as term of comparison, and see what it originally assigner orient the inhabitants of the canton where you disquiet he was dropped from similar. But I went not directly in this very place. If the explosion of the meteor had really been so violent that we annonçoit, we ought to have heard the noise at a considerable distance. It was therefore consistent with the rules of criticism to take first information in remote locations, on this extraordinary noise, on the day and time that we had heard, to follow directions, and I be led by the testimony until the very spot where it was said that the meteor had exploded. I was to gather and to a large extent of country, comparable renseignemcns 5 because of the noise and the circumstances of the explosion, the evidence ought to agree, somewhere they were collected. Besides all stories related to meteoric masses are preceded their fall by the appearance of a ball of fire. It was important to know if the meteor of the L’Aigle had been accompanied by the same circumstances, and it was near the scene of the explosion that I could make sure. [meteorite-list] POP QUIZ FRIDAYS Shawn Alan photophlow at yahoo.com Fri Jun 29 18:52:05 EDT 2012 * Previous message: [meteorite-list] AD : Acapulcoite for sale * Next message: [meteorite-list] (meteorite) Sonic booms over coastal San Diego, CA * Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Hello Listers I hope people are staying cool today, its a scorcher out in NYC and across the country. Today is POP QUIZ FRIDAY and here's the name of the game. Be the 1st Lister to email me off the List with the correct answer and win a free Sutter's Mill meteorite micro sample. Question: Please tell me the meteorite sample that Biot used to compare samples from the L'Aigle meteorite fall in 1803 in France. Good Luck :) Shawn Alan IMCA 1633 eBay Store http://www.ebay.com/sch/ph0t0phl0w/m.html? http://www.meteoritefalls.com/ __ 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] [Meteorites] http://phys.org/news184402061.html
Not taking from what Pete said, lonsdalite isn't a newly identified mineral, per se. It has been around a few years but the explanation as to how both types of crystals formed during entry is bogus. Boron nitrate may or may not be formed on exposure to atmospheric nitrogen-- but it would only be on the surface and not in the interior. I haven't read the background on boron nitrate's formation conditions but I can't imagine a scenario that could impart any nitrogen into the COLD interior during entry. Either way the text for this report doesn't pass the smell test. As to lonsdaleite, entry pressures short of cosmic velocity impact with the ground are not high enough to create this polymorph of carbon. It is far more probable that lonsdalite is literally burned up in the presence of atmospheric oxygen as fast as it is uncovered. Lonsdalite is the mineral form found in carbonados. Its pentamount hardness is why drill bit manufacturers had to embed them uncut directly in the the bit casting. Until the recently found technique cutting/burning with a laser, there was nothing that could cut them. Another case of a out of work sports writer moonlighting as a science writer perhaps? If this is the researcher's real belief then he is advocating a whole new arm of physics/chemistry. Elton On 6/30/12, pshu...@messengersfromthecosmos.com pshu...@messengersfromthecosmos.com wrote: Hello list, The implications of these findings are, to say the least, staggering. has this been confirmed in other Ureilite meteorites? Such as Novo Urie, or others? For years, diamonds were the standard of hardness, and now that's all out the window Pete __ 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] [Meteorites] http://phys.org/news184402061.html
Errata: Boron NITRIDE ( BN) not nitrATE (B(NO3)3)--(Bad spell checker-- Bad, bad!) On 7/1/12, MstrEman mstre...@gmail.com wrote: Not taking from what Pete said, lonsdalite isn't a newly identified mineral, per se. It has been around a few years but the explanation as to how both types of crystals formed during entry is bogus. Boron nitrate may or may not be formed on exposure to atmospheric nitrogen-- but it would only be on the surface and not in the interior. I haven't read the background on boron nitrate's formation conditions but I can't imagine a scenario that could impart any nitrogen into the COLD interior during entry. Either way the text for this report doesn't pass the smell test. As to lonsdaleite, entry pressures short of cosmic velocity impact with the ground are not high enough to create this polymorph of carbon. It is far more probable that lonsdalite is literally burned up in the presence of atmospheric oxygen as fast as it is uncovered. Lonsdalite is the mineral form found in carbonados. Its pentamount hardness is why drill bit manufacturers had to embed them uncut directly in the the bit casting. Until the recently found technique cutting/burning with a laser, there was nothing that could cut them. Another case of a out of work sports writer moonlighting as a science writer perhaps? If this is the researcher's real belief then he is advocating a whole new arm of physics/chemistry. Elton On 6/30/12, pshu...@messengersfromthecosmos.com pshu...@messengersfromthecosmos.com wrote: Hello list, The implications of these findings are, to say the least, staggering. has this been confirmed in other Ureilite meteorites? Such as Novo Urie, or others? For years, diamonds were the standard of hardness, and now that's all out the window Pete __ 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] [Meteorites] http://phys.org/news184402061.html
E Man, Pete, List, Lonsdalite is the mineral form found in carbonados... Not a mineralogist, even an amateur one, but the statement that seems to say that carbonados are made of lonsdaleite:made my nose tickle, so I went to the consensus source. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonado Carbonado, commonly known as the Black Diamond, is a natural polycrystalline diamond found in alluvial deposits in the Central African Republic and Brazil.. .No distinctive high-pressure minerals, including the hexagonal carbon polymorph, lonsdaleite, have been found as inclusions in carbonados, although such inclusions might be expected if carbonados formed by meteorite impact. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonsdaleite Lonsdaleite occurs as microscopic crystals associated with diamond in several meteorites: Canyon Diablo, Kenna, and Allan Hills 77283. It has also been reported from the Tunguska impact site. It also naturally occurring in non-bolide diamond placer deposits in the Sakha Republic. It has also been found in sediments dated to 12,900 years ago, at Lake Cutizeo, in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico... What am I missing? Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: MstrEman mstre...@gmail.com To: pshu...@messengersfromthecosmos.com Cc: The List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2012 9:33 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] [Meteorites] http://phys.org/news184402061.html Not taking from what Pete said, lonsdalite isn't a newly identified mineral, per se. It has been around a few years but the explanation as to how both types of crystals formed during entry is bogus. Boron nitrate may or may not be formed on exposure to atmospheric nitrogen-- but it would only be on the surface and not in the interior. I haven't read the background on boron nitrate's formation conditions but I can't imagine a scenario that could impart any nitrogen into the COLD interior during entry. Either way the text for this report doesn't pass the smell test. As to lonsdaleite, entry pressures short of cosmic velocity impact with the ground are not high enough to create this polymorph of carbon. It is far more probable that lonsdalite is literally burned up in the presence of atmospheric oxygen as fast as it is uncovered. Lonsdalite is the mineral form found in carbonados. Its pentamount hardness is why drill bit manufacturers had to embed them uncut directly in the the bit casting. Until the recently found technique cutting/burning with a laser, there was nothing that could cut them. Another case of a out of work sports writer moonlighting as a science writer perhaps? If this is the researcher's real belief then he is advocating a whole new arm of physics/chemistry. Elton On 6/30/12, pshu...@messengersfromthecosmos.com pshu...@messengersfromthecosmos.com wrote: Hello list, The implications of these findings are, to say the least, staggering. has this been confirmed in other Ureilite meteorites? Such as Novo Urie, or others? For years, diamonds were the standard of hardness, and now that's all out the window Pete __ 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] AD: 24 Hour Auction Run and Nice Sale * Thanks
Hello, We are still slowly recovering from my Daughter's death. It is a slow process and once again just wanted to say THANK YOU ALL for the support. I have been able to do a little work, and here are the efforts: Thanks, Michael Cottingham ALL SALE ITEMS HERE: http://stores.ebay.com/voyage-botanica-natural-history ALL AUCTIONS HERE: http://shop.ebay.com:80/merchant/meteorite-collector_W0QQLHQ5fAuctionZ1QQ __ 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] July 2012 Monthly Updates now up!!
Hi List and hope all of your are keeping cool with the hot temps most of the country are experiencing! My monthly July 2012 updates on my Website are now up. * One point of interest is The Black Hole Mystery Video of the Month called Deadly Comets and Meteors by the History Channel. This video is absolutely incredible and covers a bit on meteorites as well. Trust me it is worth watching and very educational and can be found by clicking the link below: * http://www.ctreasurescwonders.com/secret_video.html * July 2012 Cosmic Treasure of the Month is also posted, sent in from a collector here in the United States showing off his Favorite Meteorite Piece http://www.ctreasurescwonders.com/monthly_meteorite.html * Also the Flash from the Past Photo of the Month is up. http://www.ctreasurescwonders.com/astro_met_news_back-up.html * Lastly, the Image of the Month is also up. http://www.ctreasurescwonders.com/menu_1.html * All very educational and for everyone! Hope you all enjoy and have a great rest of the week and fantastic weekend ahead! Sincerely Don Merchant Founder-Cosmic Treasures Celestial Wonders www.ctreasurescwonders.com IMCA #0960 __ 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
