[meteorite-list] *** AD: New Ebay Listing ***

2003-06-19 Thread Michel Franco
Dear list I have listed 21 individuals , classified but not yet published of L3.8 from 60 grams up to 2163 g. Many over 1 kg. All are crusted . Starting bid $1 and No Reserve like always in my auctions. I 'll be in Ensiheim this week end to present new original meteorites. Best regards.

[meteorite-list] FINAL: eBay sellers/buyers guide

2003-06-19 Thread Michael L Blood
Hi All, Below is the COMPLETE eBay buyers and sellers guide. This has all the information from all the other lists and I thank everyone for their help, especially Rob Wesel, who sent me his list and Dave Andrews who sent me the list compiled by Jake Delgaudio. These people, and

Re: [meteorite-list] Need help naming new group

2003-06-19 Thread Jeff Grossman
At 12:57 PM 6/18/2003, Adam Hupe wrote: Dear List, A lot of good suggestions for naming this new group are rolling in and we are pleased with the turn-out. We thought the NomCom had something to do with naming of meteorite groups because many submitted description titles have been changed after

Fw: [meteorite-list] Hey this one could be good

2003-06-19 Thread Rob Wesel
Ken Wrote http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2180108790 Rob, What did you find out? Is it possibly Willamette? (The guy is using your IMCA#) Best, Ken NO WAY! He asked about how to list it and I told him that he would be best to not put any name to it. I see he still

[meteorite-list] Olivine Diogenite Data

2003-06-19 Thread Adam Hupe
Hello Mark and List, It is funny that you mention thin-sections because we were thinking about making some. Olivine diogenites are quite fascinating under a petrologic scope. I still have a hard time telling the difference between orthopyroxene and olivine in thin-section. The olivine count

Re: [meteorite-list] Need help naming new group

2003-06-19 Thread David Freeman
Dear Dr. Grossman, Adam, and List members; As a growing amateur (and successful hunter)... (and amateur's make the hobby grow, and the growing hobby makes the dealers and collectors grow, and dealers and collectors growing make the science grow);I do use the words: ecrucite, diogenite,

[meteorite-list] Shooting Star-Tasmania

2003-06-19 Thread MrX3010
"It appears it was a giant shooting star which fell out of the sky and exploded into all different colours," Acting Sergeant Parker said..." "...However, there was also speculation the light display could have been a meteor, a satellite burning up or other space junk..." "It looked to me like

Re: [meteorite-list] Need help naming new group

2003-06-19 Thread Adam Hupe
Dear Jeff and List, Thank you Jeff for clearing up a very confusing issue. I guess we were still thinking 19th century in wanting to honor a pioneer in naming a new group. We assumed since no major changes to the HED group had been incorporated that the meteoritic community somehow wanted to

[meteorite-list] News in my collection site

2003-06-19 Thread M come Meteorite Meteorites
Hello all I have change some photos of meteorites, type CHANGXING, GAO, LOST CREEK, NADIABONDI, THUATHE, TRENZANO, VENGEROVO, HOLBROOK, MBALE, MOCS, SUIZHOU, TENHAM, DHOFAR 270, NWA 1807, TATAHOUINE, MORASKO, TOLUCA, SIKHOTE ALIN, DRONINO ( this is for sale ), NORTH CHILE, ESTHERVILLE, IMILAC,

[meteorite-list] Asteroid Impact Could Have Prompted Constantine's Conversion

2003-06-19 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_791768.html Asteroid impact could have prompted Constantine's conversion Ananova June 18, 2003 An asteroid which exploded like a nuclear bomb may have converted the Roman emperor Constantine to Christianity it is now being claimed. Scientists have

[meteorite-list] Crater Company Hosts Scientific Symposium On June 20

2003-06-19 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.azdailysun.com/non_sec/nav_includes/story.cfm?storyID=68058 Crater company hosts scientific symposium Friday Daily Sun (Arizona) June 19, 2003 Four generations of the Barringer family will be meeting in Flagstaff this weekend to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Daniel Moreau

[meteorite-list] Video from the Vitim bolide hypocenter

2003-06-19 Thread Robert Verish
--- Forward Message --- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 13:39:27 +0400 From: Andrei Ol'khovatov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: (meteorobs) More on the Vitim bolide Dear All, A brief video of from the Vitim bolide epicenter were shown today by TV in Russia. Again, I don't comment

[meteorite-list] No Access To Universty of Arkansas Museum Collection Without Staff, Director Says

2003-06-19 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.nwaonline.net/300773699760853.bsp No Access To UA Museum Collection Without Staff, Director Says Gentry: Items would be prone to damage without proper oversight By Johnathon Williams The Morning News (Arkansas) June 19, 2003 FAYETTEVILLE -- Johnnie Gentry, director of the

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Show Lights Up Tasmania

2003-06-19 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/19/1055828430461.html Meteorite show lights up Tasmania The Age (Australia) June 19, 2003 A meteorite is believed to be responsible for a spectacular celestial light show in Tasmania. The Tasmania Police switchboard was inundated just after 8pm

Re: [meteorite-list] Crater Company Hosts Scientific Symposium On June 20

2003-06-19 Thread Tom aka James Knudson
Hi list, As part of the centennial celebration, Barringer Crater Company is hosting a public scientific symposium on Friday at 7 p.m. at the Museum of Northern Arizona, 3101 N. Fort Valley Road. A scientific symposium The Barringers don't care about science, they are celebrating the

Re: [meteorite-list] No Access To Universty of Arkansas Museum Collection Wit...

2003-06-19 Thread LITIG8NSHARK
Good afternoon all, It is a terrible shame that the U of A museum is slated to be closed down for lack of funding to pay for the curating of the some seven million items in the museum. It seems to me that with seven million specimens/artifacts that a small bit of cannibalization might be in

[meteorite-list] intentions!

2003-06-19 Thread Tom aka James Knudson
Hello Good List, I can't stop myself, any time I hear the name Barringer, I go crazy! I do not care what Barringer did for science! Canyon Diablo is a great meteorite, one of the few that you can see the effects that it's fall caused. Barringer might of proved that Meteor Crater was an impact

RE: [meteorite-list] Need help naming new group

2003-06-19 Thread Dave Johnson
I guess you are never too old to learn. This greatly narrows down the choice of terms in naming this new group. Jeff may have won with the HED-clan peridotite which someday may be called a Vesta peridotite. This is much clearer than the term Olivine Diogenite. Perhaps just as a slightly

[meteorite-list] Killer Asteroids: A Real But Remote Risk?

2003-06-19 Thread Ron Baalke
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/06/0619_030619_killerasteroids.html Killer Asteroids: A Real But Remote Risk? By John Roach National Geographic News June 19, 2003 It is almost certain that Earth will be hit by an asteroid large enough to exterminate a large percentage of our

[meteorite-list] NP Article, 08-1883 Organic Carbon in Meteorites

2003-06-19 Thread MARK BOSTICK
Title: Reno Evening News City: Reno, Nevada Date: Friday, August 31, 1883 EDITORIAL NOTES Mons. Daubree has analysed a meteorite, which fell in the province of Eutre-Rios, in the Argentina Republic, and finds that it contains iron, lime, magnesia and carbon in an organic form. The last

[meteorite-list] NP Article, 04-02 1880 Death By Meteors

2003-06-19 Thread MARK BOSTICK
Title: Bismarck Tribune City: Bismarck, North Dakota Date: Friday, April 02, 1880 Death by Meteors Mr. Proctor wrote: "I have received several inquiries, some of them rather auxious inquiries, respecting the dangers to be fared from meteoric downfall. If we know the average number of meteoric

[meteorite-list] NP Article, 03-1882 Fall of a Meteor

2003-06-19 Thread MARK BOSTICK
Title: Stevens Point Daily Journal City: Stevens Point, Wisconsin Date: Saturday, March 18, 1882 Fall of a Meteor. An immense meteortie fell about fifty miles southeast of Fort Assinaboine, Arizona, on the night of the 10th inst., its glare lighting the country for many miles around. Four

[meteorite-list] NP Article, 09-1886 Meteor Falls in Charleston Bay

2003-06-19 Thread MARK BOSTICK
Title: Newark Daily Advocate City: Newark, Ohio Date: Tuesday, September 07, 1886 Page: 1 A Meteor Falls in Charleston Bay. CHARLESTON, S. C., Sept. 7. - But few people saw the meteor which fell in the bay here Sunday night. Three or four sailors describe it vividly. Mr. E. T. Riddick,

Re: [meteorite-list] intentions!

2003-06-19 Thread Steve Schoner
I have made my opinion known on this, and from personal experience, I found that they are not to this day really interested in science. I even heard one crater manager say, All the research that needs to have been done was done. But you won't ever hear a favorable mention of Dr. Nininger in any

[meteorite-list] Meteor Software

2003-06-19 Thread Ken O'Neill
Hi all, Firstly thanks to Steve Witt for your words of advice to me as "the new kid on the block". Got the book by O.R. Norton and love it. It was good to get the names to the faces on the photograph, I even managed torecognise Bob Haag on the Discovery Channel yesterday, and again in

[meteorite-list] The LAST FinaL version: eBay buyers and sellers guide

2003-06-19 Thread Michael L Blood
Amazing the number of people who notice they are not on the list or the information needs to be updated once the Final version is ready. (also, numerous individuals acted as though I were some sort of eBay scholar or eBay fanatic, and, of course, I must be familiar with their eBay name {I

Re: [meteorite-list] The LAST FinaL version: eBay buyers and sellers guide

2003-06-19 Thread Tom aka James Knudson
Michael, thanks for all the hard work you went through for all of us! Thanks, Tom The proudest member of the IMCA 6168 - Original Message - From: Michael L Blood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael L Blood [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meteorite List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 3:39 PM

Re: [meteorite-list] Need help naming new group

2003-06-19 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Not to be overly picky (ha!), but the chances that HED meteorites come directly from Vesta itself is very small. The orbital mechanics of getting a chunk from Vesta into an Earth-intersecting orbit are of such a very low probability that it is virtually impossible that the continuing rain

[meteorite-list] Ridiculously Beautiful New Meteorite

2003-06-19 Thread Adam Hupe
Dear List Members, A List member asked what else we had buried in our back yard (really a 7' X 4' safe). A lot of us are image hungry so we thought we would post some pictures of a new meteorite just out of classification. This is kind of a teaser for next weeks special. If it weren't for the

[meteorite-list] Stardust Successfully Completes Deep Space Maneuver

2003-06-19 Thread Ron Baalke
MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION PASADENA, CALIF. 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov DC Agle (818) 393-9011 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Donald Savage (202)

[meteorite-list] NWA 237

2003-06-19 Thread Steve Arnold, Chicago!!!
Hi ther list.I am just checking who happens to have the main mass of NWA 237!I know the tkw is only 61.6 grams.I have a 3.38 gram slice.I am looking to aquire some more if anyone has any forsale.Please let me know. steve arnold =

Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 237

2003-06-19 Thread MARK BOSTICK
Hello Steve and List, Steve wrote: Hi ther list.I am just checking who happens to have the main mass of NWA237!I know the tkw is only 61.6 grams.I have a 3.38 gram slice.I amlooking to aquire some more if anyone has any forsale.Please let me know. I think there was an error on the reporting of