[meteorite-list] Ebay Tektite wrong
Auction - AWESOME CANYON DIABLO TEKTITE 307.08 GRAMS NR Descript - " The only thing I guarantee about this specimen, is that it is from the heart of the Diablo Canyon Scatterfield! I firmly believe it to be a "Tektite" (a mixture of meteorite/earth metals and silicates ejected from the crater by the force of impact). No doubt the Fusion Crust and stress lines on this Tektite are due to it being cast high enough in earth's atmosphere to have experienced "reentry."" Wow - A "tektite" that was ejected into space and still "landed" near the impacting crater - neat trick! ( I don't even believe "it" is from Diablo Canyon) Best, Ken Newton
[meteorite-list] * SALE * ROCKS FROM SPACE * SALE *
"ROCKS FROM SPACE" BUY IT!!! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1086729991 xoxoxox, MC
[meteorite-list] Thanks Mike!!!!
I just got my piece of Bensour in. I couldn't really afford a big piece but still wanted to get some. I got a beautiful 3+g fragment with one side covered in nice dark black crust. I can't believe I got such a cool piece for $14. Its beautiful! A little advice to anyone who doesn't have any yet, go pay however much you have to to get some. You won't be disappointed. Thanks again, Rhett Bourland www.asteroidmodels.com www.asteroidmodels.com/personal www.meteoritecollectors.org __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Microwave Can Tell If Life Existed On Mars
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/page.cfm?objectid=11753227method=full £1/2m microwave that can tell if life existed on Mars By Laura Davis Daily Post (United Kingdom) April 2, 2002 A TEAM of Liverpool scientists is investigating a piece of 100-year-old meteorite to see if life could have existed on Mars. The researchers are using the world's only microwave demagnetiser to change the magnetic field of the rock. This will show whether the temperature of the planet's surface was once high enough to sustain life. Prof John Shaw, director of the geomagnetism laboratory at Liverpool University, is leading the project. He said: Mars has the same composition as Earth and was formed at around the same time but, because it is smaller, it goes through its life cycle faster and cooled quicker. If Mars had a liquid core, like Earth, its convection currents would have made its surface warm enough for life-forms to exist on it long before life began on Earth. This can be researched by looking at the magnetic field of the rock. The meteorite that Dr Shaw's team is testing fell to Earth in June 1911. It landed in Alexandria, Egypt, where it is believed to have hit a dog, killing it instantly. Prof Shaw said: People saw it fall. It broke open into bits. It was so cold that they noticed frost had formed on it. The stones from the meteorite, known as Nakhla, ranged in size from 20kg to 1,813kg. Pieces of meteorite contain minerals which carry information on the magnetic field of the planet they have come from at the time when they were formed similar to a tape recording. By gradually heating the samples and then cooling them back down, scientists can measure this field. Traditionally, they have used the Thellier method which involves physically heating the sample to 600C. However, this causes chemical changes in the rock disrupting the results of the experiment. The microwave demagnetiser, built by Prof Shaw's team at a cost of £500,000, raises the temperature of the rock's magnetic system without heating the stone itself. They are the only researchers to have successfully developed this technique. Individual rock samples are placed in a cavity where they are bombarded with very high frequency microwaves for a 10-second period. The samples are heated in a series of steps to gradually demagnetise them. Eventually all the geomagnetic contamination from Earth is removed and the rock only contains the original magnetism from when it was formed on Mars. Results so far have revealed the planet had a magnetic field at the time the rock was formed 1,250m years ago. However, it did not have one 180m years ago. Dr Shaw said this indicates there could once have been life on Mars. He said: This means that Mars must originally have had a liquid core. These results suggest it is much more likely that there was life on Mars in the past. They also confirm our belief that Earth will one day cool to a similar extent and will no longer be able to sustain life. The research team plans to investigate a larger range of Mars rock samples as well as older meteorites which may have recorded the magnetic fields at the start of the universe. Liverpool University has been approached by various organisations, including American space agency Nasa, about selling the microwave demagnetiser. However, Dr Shaw said the laboratory planned to carry out further research before considering a sale. __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Thanks Mike!!!!
I just got my piece from DEAN BESSEY and it's 5.1 grams The price was a big fat ZERO!!! Thanks Dean! Bessey's material looks alot better than Farmer's. xoxoxox, MC - Original Message - From: Rhett Bourland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 12:18 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Thanks Mike I just got my piece of Bensour in. I couldn't really afford a big piece but still wanted to get some. I got a beautiful 3+g fragment with one side covered in nice dark black crust. I can't believe I got such a cool piece for $14. Its beautiful! A little advice to anyone who doesn't have any yet, go pay however much you have to to get some. You won't be disappointed. Thanks again, Rhett Bourland www.asteroidmodels.com www.asteroidmodels.com/personal www.meteoritecollectors.org __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
RE: [meteorite-list] Thanks Mike!!!!
Hi Mikey, Hey, that's great!!! Don't forget the nice slice that Rob donated to the guess its type contest too. Sounds like Herbert got the best deal of all though. As for Dean's looking better than Mike's, that seems rather hard to believe. Granted, I know some falls can have pieces that look rather different I've not been able to tell much of a difference in the different pictures I've seen. Oh well, you've probably seen them both so would have a better idea. Glad to hear you like your piece! Rhett Bourland www.asteroidmodels.com www.asteroidmodels.com/personal www.meteoritecollectors.org -Original Message- From: Michael Casper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 11:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite List Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Thanks Mike I just got my piece from DEAN BESSEY and it's 5.1 grams The price was a big fat ZERO!!! Thanks Dean! Bessey's material looks alot better than Farmer's. xoxoxox, MC - Original Message - From: Rhett Bourland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 12:18 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Thanks Mike I just got my piece of Bensour in. I couldn't really afford a big piece but still wanted to get some. I got a beautiful 3+g fragment with one side covered in nice dark black crust. I can't believe I got such a cool piece for $14. Its beautiful! A little advice to anyone who doesn't have any yet, go pay however much you have to to get some. You won't be disappointed. Thanks again, Rhett Bourland www.asteroidmodels.com www.asteroidmodels.com/personal www.meteoritecollectors.org __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Thanks Mike!!!!
Send us all a photo Mike! Ive got to see this. - Original Message - From: Michael Casper [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 11:37 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Thanks Mike I just got my piece from DEAN BESSEY and it's 5.1 grams The price was a big fat ZERO!!! Thanks Dean! Bessey's material looks alot better than Farmer's. xoxoxox, MC - Original Message - From: Rhett Bourland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 12:18 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Thanks Mike I just got my piece of Bensour in. I couldn't really afford a big piece but still wanted to get some. I got a beautiful 3+g fragment with one side covered in nice dark black crust. I can't believe I got such a cool piece for $14. Its beautiful! A little advice to anyone who doesn't have any yet, go pay however much you have to to get some. You won't be disappointed. Thanks again, Rhett Bourland www.asteroidmodels.com www.asteroidmodels.com/personal www.meteoritecollectors.org __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Fusion Crust and Magnets
Hello List, Question: Is there anyway to do a Field or HomeLab test on a Fusion Crust to help rule out if it's a Meteorite oreven a Fusion Crust?. MAGNETS: If you are even thinking about buyingMagnets for that Field Test, then you see the site, northerntool.com and type up the key word " magnets " you won't belive what they have. Chuck IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here
Re: [meteorite-list] Thanks Mike!!!!
Why don't you crawl back under your rock. Jim Strope 421 Fourth Street Glen Dale, WV 26038 Catch a Falling Star Meteorites http://www.catchafallingstar.com From: Michael Casper [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Meteorite List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Thanks Mike Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 12:37:24 -0500 I just got my piece from DEAN BESSEY and it's 5.1 grams The price was a big fat ZERO!!! Thanks Dean! Bessey's material looks alot better than Farmer's. xoxoxox, MC - Original Message - From: Rhett Bourland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 12:18 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Thanks Mike I just got my piece of Bensour in. I couldn't really afford a big piece but still wanted to get some. I got a beautiful 3+g fragment with one side covered in nice dark black crust. I can't believe I got such a cool piece for $14. Its beautiful! A little advice to anyone who doesn't have any yet, go pay however much you have to to get some. You won't be disappointed. Thanks again, Rhett Bourland www.asteroidmodels.com www.asteroidmodels.com/personal www.meteoritecollectors.org __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Dr. David J. Roddy
Ourthoughts are with the late Dr. David J. Roddy. We will think of him often, also in the future, when we look at the print of his famous areal photo of Meteor Crater, hanging in our dining room. Farewell David Dieter Gabi Heinlein, Augsburg
Re: [meteorite-list] Thanks Mike!!!!
Dear Mr. Strope, Your nasty comment is not appreciated. I at least make contributions to the meteorite community. You just suck as much money as you can out of it like a nasty little parasite. Now git back in the closet... xoxox, MC - Original Message - From: Jim Strope [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Central [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 1:17 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Thanks Mike Why don't you crawl back under your rock. Jim Strope 421 Fourth Street Glen Dale, WV 26038 Catch a Falling Star Meteorites http://www.catchafallingstar.com From: Michael Casper [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Meteorite List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Thanks Mike Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 12:37:24 -0500 I just got my piece from DEAN BESSEY and it's 5.1 grams The price was a big fat ZERO!!! Thanks Dean! Bessey's material looks alot better than Farmer's. xoxoxox, MC - Original Message - From: Rhett Bourland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 12:18 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Thanks Mike I just got my piece of Bensour in. I couldn't really afford a big piece but still wanted to get some. I got a beautiful 3+g fragment with one side covered in nice dark black crust. I can't believe I got such a cool piece for $14. Its beautiful! A little advice to anyone who doesn't have any yet, go pay however much you have to to get some. You won't be disappointed. Thanks again, Rhett Bourland www.asteroidmodels.com www.asteroidmodels.com/personal www.meteoritecollectors.org __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Thanks Mike!!!!
Yes, you make contributions to the meteorite community all right NEGATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS And this statement is brought to you by a former dealer with no personal collection who always said everything is for sale. Sounds like you got a real passion for meteorites. Jim Strope 421 Fourth Street Glen Dale, WV 26038 Catch a Falling Star Meteorites http://www.catchafallingstar.com - Original Message - From: Michael Casper [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jim Strope [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite Central [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 1:42 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Thanks Mike Dear Mr. Strope, Your nasty comment is not appreciated. I at least make contributions to the meteorite community. You just suck as much money as you can out of it like a nasty little parasite. Now git back in the closet... xoxox, MC - Original Message - From: Jim Strope [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Central [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 1:17 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Thanks Mike Why don't you crawl back under your rock. Jim Strope 421 Fourth Street Glen Dale, WV 26038 Catch a Falling Star Meteorites http://www.catchafallingstar.com From: Michael Casper [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Meteorite List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Thanks Mike Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 12:37:24 -0500 I just got my piece from DEAN BESSEY and it's 5.1 grams The price was a big fat ZERO!!! Thanks Dean! Bessey's material looks alot better than Farmer's. xoxoxox, MC - Original Message - From: Rhett Bourland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 12:18 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Thanks Mike I just got my piece of Bensour in. I couldn't really afford a big piece but still wanted to get some. I got a beautiful 3+g fragment with one side covered in nice dark black crust. I can't believe I got such a cool piece for $14. Its beautiful! A little advice to anyone who doesn't have any yet, go pay however much you have to to get some. You won't be disappointed. Thanks again, Rhett Bourland www.asteroidmodels.com www.asteroidmodels.com/personal www.meteoritecollectors.org __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Re: KOFELSITE
I got some other Info on the Koefels Structure : MORE IMPACT AND IMPACT-LIKE STRUCTURES ON SIR-C RADAR; EUROPE, AFRICA, AND ARABIAN PENINSULA. J.F. McHone1 and R. Greeley2, Dept.of Geology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404. . [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] In April and again in October of 1994, the Spaceborne Radar Laboratory (SRL) was carried aloft on two separate missions aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour. The objective of these flights was to obtain high resolution multiwavelength and multipolarized (SIR-C X-SAR) radar images of a wide variety of preselected ground targets including several known impact structures. Impact scars are a fundamental interplanetary landform and the characterization of terrestrial craterforms using remote sensors is pertinent to the study of all coherent bodies in space. Both missions were sucessful and preliminary descriptions of numerous crater images derived from radar data have been reported [1,2]. As analysis of the growing inventory of processed images continues, several additional sites of interest have been detected. These newly identified images are of either previously known or suspected impact features, or they are of landforms which have radar signatures resembling impact structures. This report suppliments previous findings with descriptions of images over Europe, Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula. Koefels, Austria 47° 07'N; 010° 55'E 4 km dia. Oetztal valley in the Austrian Alps was originally selected as a SIRC/X-SAR Supersite in order to obtain repeated spaceborne radar coverage of alpine glaciers and their relation to global climate changes. The Koefels structure lies within this study area and is widely regarded as a probable impactgenerated feature [3]. It consists of a 4 km wide slump scar cut into the western wall of the Oetz River valley and a corresponding mass of fractured coherent rock and debris which partially dams the valley floor. Shock metamorphic features reported in components of this rock mass [4] have strenghtened the concept that the Koefels landslide event was triggered by meteoritic impact. On a radar scene generated during SRL-1, Data Take 78.00, Koefels is clearly imaged. Sides and upper ridge line of the slump scar are sharply defined by radar shadows and by slope effects along the valley wall. The terraced valley floor in the vicinity of the slump block is widened with thick, smooth-surfaced sediments which appear radar-dark compared to the radar-bright mass of fallen debris. Lunar and Planetary Science XXVIII 1149.PDF I attached the SRL1-Image with this email, but it was bigger than allowed. You can see it now on http://austromet.com/Koefels_SRL-1_Data_Take_78_00.jpg Greetings from Austria, Christian ** Ing. Christian ANGER Korngasse 6 2405 Bad Deutsch-Altenburg AUSTRIA email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Rare Leighlinbridge for sale
Hullo everyone, I have (or very soon will have) a 1.548g slice of the last fall of the Millennium, Leighlinbridge, Ireland, 28th Nov 1999, about 10pm... For those of you who do not know the story of this stone then I suggest http://fernlea.tripod.com/leighlin.html as your primary source! The official and accepted classification is L6 of shock stage S3 and weathering grade W0. This stuff is the Meteoritic equivalent of the Elgin Marbles - The Irish want it back but it was recovered by an English individual (you know who you are!) and curated by an English institution. The TKW is only 271g, and on a global scale Ireland is a small target to get this last-millennial fall! And only 40g have ever been released for sale - the remains are resting in the Natural History Museum. I am accepting the highest offer over $340 for this piece - not only that I also have a BBC Radio 4 interview which is most interesting - I think the er, animosity, towards us keeping this piece in England has upset some Irish scientists. Bite the cherry! -- In gentle decay, dave IMCA #0092 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for IMCA member contact) http://www.meteorites.ic24.net/index.html http://www.meteoritecollectors.org I have a proof that x^n+y^n=z^n never has integer solutions for n2. However, it won't fit into my signature file __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Mbale
Hi List, I was looking around alot of sites and was wondering, does anyone actually have any Mbale for sale? I cant seem to find too much of it and only place I really did find it was in the Bethany Sciences catalog (but no way I am ever buying anything from them). If anyone does actually have any please let me know as I would like to get some before the summer.Clear Skies Happy Hunting, Jay Haynes IMCA Member #:6905 www.geocities.com/cdnastronomer/meteorite.html Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: Click Here __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] * AUCTION * Rocks from Space * AUCTION *
This is it!My last 8 copies of "Rocks from Space" Signed by Richard and Dorothy!! Hurry and do it!! xoxox, MC http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1090001476 Click the above linkand DO IT!
[meteorite-list] * AUCTION * Rocks from Space * AUCTION *
This is it!My last 8 copies of "Rocks from Space" Signed by Richard and Dorothy!! Hurry and do it!! xoxox, MC http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1090001476 Click the above linkand DO IT!
[meteorite-list] * AUCTION * Rocks from Space * AUCTION *
This is it!My last 8 copies of "Rocks from Space" Signed by Richard and Dorothy!! Hurry and do it!! xoxox, MC http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1090001476 Click the above linkand DO IT!
[meteorite-list] Searching for Meteorites
Hello List, As I am preparing for the spring lawn moving season I decided to combine my favorite hobby with the mundane chore of mowing the yard. I am going to attach magnets to the sides and front of my mower in hopes of finding a treasure (meteorite) in my yard. Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. Take Care, Jason Phillips Rocks From Heaven.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Re: [meteoritecollectorsassociation] Searching for Meteorites
In a message dated 4/2/2002 8:08:59 PM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I am preparing for the spring lawn moving season I decided to combine my favorite hobby with the mundane chore of mowing the yard. I am going to attach magnets to the sides and front of my mower in hopes of finding a treasure (meteorite) in my yard. Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. YES! When you are done with your lawn, you can come do mine!! And we will split 50 / 50 anything you find :-) Anne Black IMCA #2356 www.IMPACTIKA.com e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [meteorite-list] * AUCTION * Rocks from Space * AUCTION *
Michael Casper is anything but Normal . - Original Message - From: Matteo Chinellato [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Casper [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 10:47 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] * AUCTION * Rocks from Space * AUCTION * 4 TIMES Normaly is only 1 Matteo --- Michael Casper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is it! My last 8 copies of Rocks from Space Signed by Richard and Dorothy!! Hurry and do it!! xoxox, MC http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1090001476 Click the above linkand DO IT! = M come Meteorite - Matteo Chinellato Via Triestina 126/A - 30030 - TESSERA, VENEZIA, ITALY Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sale Site: http://www.mcomemeteorite.com Collection Site: http://www.mcomemeteorite.info International Meteorite Collectors Association #2140 MSN Messanger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EBAY.COM:http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Searching for Meteorites, why not drive around!
Dear Jason, Anne, and Bob; Wouldn't it make more sence to pay someone to mow the lawn and spend the more valueable time ciferin' the square miles in size of the average strewnfield, calculate the number of strewnfields in the country, calculate how many miles of road one would have to drive down with a 7 foot magnetic bumper attached ... to cover that same amount of ground. I would much more rather ride around than mow the lawn. Besides, I only need a weed eater to mow my lawn, a magnet wouldn't work as good. Best, Dave F. Jason Phillips wrote: Hello List, As I am preparing for the spring lawn moving season I decided to combine my favorite hobby with the mundane chore of mowing the yard. I am going to attach magnets to the sides and front of my mower in hopes of finding a treasure (meteorite) in my yard. Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. Take Care, Jason Phillips Rocks From Heaven.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Searching for Meteorites
Hi, You may in for a great many magnetic mowing seasons! I'm quoting myself here (if I don't, who will?), from my prior post of Dec. 9, 2000, How Many Meteorites Fall? Taking the area of the Earth to be 5.1 x 10^8 km^2 and the meteorite flux to be 23,930 yr^-1, this yields the assumed collisional cross section of the earth to be 21,360 km^2 yr^-1. This rate means that one meteorite per year falls on an area of 21,320 square kilometers. The inverse function of this value is how long we have to wait for a meteorite to fall on a standard area, or the mean time to impact: 21,360 yr km^-2. To put this flux into perspective, if you owned a house with a half-acre yard, you would have to wait 10,552,000 years for a meteorite to fall in your front or back yard or on your roof! (On average, that is; it could happen tomorrow.) Of course, if the rate of fall is 10 times greater or if your yard is much bigger, you would only have to wait, on average, one million years! Sterling K. Webb :-D --- Jason Phillips wrote: Hello List, As I am preparing for the spring lawn moving season I decided to combine my favorite hobby with the mundane chore of mowing the yard. I am going to attach magnets to the sides and front of my mower in hopes of finding a treasure (meteorite) in my yard. Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. Take Care, Jason Phillips Rocks From Heaven.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
