[meteorite-list] Marquez, TX ??

2003-07-09 Thread Impactika
Hello List-members, I have just received an email from a person who lives near the "Marquez, TX impact site"  and is looking for breccia and shattercones from that site. Marquez, TX ?? A search on Google revealed that it does exist. Has anyone ever visited the site? or seen breccia and shatt

RE: [meteorite-list] DOD Satellites Detect March 2003 Bolide Over Park Forest

2003-07-09 Thread Frank Prochaska
Hello list, Would it be possible for someone to get enough data from the DOD satellite detection to determine initial velocity, final velocity at extintion, and altitude at extintion to help resolve (wishful thinking, I know) this part of the Park Forest debate? Is this something that the DOD mig

Re: [meteorite-list] Ad Super Weekly Rare Material Special Plus Bonuses

2003-07-09 Thread Adam Hupe
Thank you Mark, Hello List,   Greg spent a lot of time on these so I will forward this post to him.  It nice once in while to receive a compliment and I am sure Greg will appreciate it.  Thank you to everybody who has placed an order on these.  The response has been very good so far and we tr

Re: [meteorite-list] Ad Super Weekly Rare Material Special Plus Bonuses

2003-07-09 Thread MARK BOSTICK
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[meteorite-list] remove ITALOCUBN from list asap

2003-07-09 Thread Italocubn
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2003-07-09 Thread Italocubn
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Re: Fw: [meteorite-list] Where Did The Moon Come From?

2003-07-09 Thread Marcia Swanson
On Wed., July 9th, Tom wrote..Hey! Don't you think it would be cool if that happenned? Right Tom.. and it all makes PERFECT sense! That just about says it all. Wouldn't it be ridiculous for mankind to take billions of years, only to have to concede the fact that this all, could not have ha

[meteorite-list] new updated website

2003-07-09 Thread Steve Arnold, Chicago!!!
Good evening list.I have updated my website again with 12 new meteorites.I added a 5th stone pageat page.And on it are 9 new stones.Also I added a new Nevada stone on my nevada meteorite.It is DEVIL PEAK!Look at your liesure. steve arnold ===

[meteorite-list] OT- BUT IMPORTANT Ebay problem with feedback

2003-07-09 Thread Mark Miconi
Sorry that this is off topic but I though I would share this for the sellers on the list. I have found that feedback that I left for bidders on 7/4/03 did not show up on their feedback comments in at least 2 occasions. It shows in my feedback that I left for them in my "Feedback Left For Oth

[meteorite-list] Ad Super Weekly Rare Material Special Plus Bonuses

2003-07-09 Thread Adam Hupe
Dear List Members, It is our pleasure to announce the completion of a limited series "Garza Wrecking Ball Impact Artifact Display Kit." The idea behind these kits is to help offset the enormous costs involved in building a portable display of the bedroom that was destroyed in the Garza home by a

[meteorite-list] Mars Rover Opportunity Mission Status - July 9, 2003

2003-07-09 Thread Ron Baalke
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Re: [meteorite-list] PARK FOREST THIN SECTIONS

2003-07-09 Thread Michael L Blood
These look good, Rob, but do you have a photo through cross polarized light? Thanks, Michael on 7/9/03 3:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have some Park Forest thin sections, starting them out on eBay, please have > a > look. > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.

[meteorite-list] PARK FOREST THIN SECTIONS

2003-07-09 Thread nakhladog
I have some Park Forest thin sections, starting them out on eBay, please have a look. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2183059656&category=3239&rd=1 If you want to dodge the bids I will sell for $65 + $4 shipping each up through the close of the auction. -- Rob Wesel -

[meteorite-list] Concerned Citizens Ask for Congressional Action on Near Earth Objects

2003-07-09 Thread Ron Baalke
http://space.com/scienceastronomy/neo_letter_030709.html Concerned Citizens Ask for Congressional Action on Near Earth Objects By Leonard David space.com 09 July 2003 A distinguished group of Americans joined together to send a unique request to Congressional leaders Wednesday -- a request that

[meteorite-list] Chondrule Formation

2003-07-09 Thread Walter Branch
Hello Everyone,   Nice collection of papers dealing with the formation of chondrules in meteorites:   http://ads.harvard.edu/books/chto/   BTW, I am now selling smaller slices of NWA 482 (lunar meteorite) for half their usual asking price.   http://branchmeteorites.com/sale/salenwa482.html  

Fwd: [meteorite-list] Re: Park Forest- Strewn Field map- by Atul Kumar

2003-07-09 Thread Thetoprok
--- Begin Message --- LARRY CAN YOU POST THIS EMAIL BELOW ON MET CENTRAL- I CANNOT POST EVEN THOUGH I  CAN RECIEVE THEM. THANKS ATUL Dear List I have  examined   and catalogued  approx 100 plus stones greater than  25 gms from this fall,concentrating mostly in the area south o

Re: Fw: [meteorite-list] Where Did The Moon Come From?

2003-07-09 Thread Howard Wu
As I recall from the discovery channel the moon had orbited alot closer to the earth and has been drifting further away overtime. So he/she put us here just in time to see annular and total eclipes. In another billion years it would be to late.   Howard WuPekka Savolainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

RE: [meteorite-list] DOD Satellites Detect March 2003 Bolide Over Park Forest

2003-07-09 Thread Dave Johnson
Hello Al and list, If the meteor did extinguish below 7000 feet as my observation and the NWS data suggest (fireball seen below the cloud deck and the NWS stated that the cloud deck base height was 7000 feet at that time), then a very low retardation point would not be out of the question. Dave

[meteorite-list] Ad Chico Impact Melt macros/ micro

2003-07-09 Thread harlan trammell
i have 2 chico impact melt macros and one micro for sale. they are sawed. macros are 1.2 and 1.7g  @ $30 ea. , micro is .7g  @ $15. all feature classic chico bubble holes, metal, etc.. provides hours of entertainment w/ 10x loupe. free shipping anywhere up to $4 usd. pix on request.MSN 8 helps ELI

[meteorite-list] Satellites Hunt For Buried Treasure

2003-07-09 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns3923 Satellites hunt for buried treasure Hazel Morris New Scientist July 9, 2003 In a first for radar sensing, researchers have proved the technology can locate and identify buried objects. Their technique could be used in the hunt for archaeol

Re: Fw: [meteorite-list] Where Did The Moon Come From?

2003-07-09 Thread Pekka Savolainen
Well, Einstein said, God doesn´t roll dices, Hawking makes the whole creator questonable. Anyway, the creator should have had some knowledge in physichs, if the speed of the moon would have been over 11,2 km:s / sec, it would be now somewhere else...;- The philosophic point in all of this is, when

Fw: [meteorite-list] Where Did The Moon Come From?

2003-07-09 Thread Tom aka James Knudson
Hello List, Boy this is neat, just think, a giant asteroid struck the earth, sent debris into space and it formed our Moon. Not only that, it formed the perfect distance from the earth (by chance) to perfectly block out the sun during an eclipse. What are the odds of that? Any closer or furthe

[meteorite-list] Re: Park Forest- Strewn Field map- by Atul Kumar

2003-07-09 Thread Atul Kumar
LARRY CAN YOU POST THIS EMAIL BELOW ON MET CENTRAL- I CANNOT POST EVEN THOUGH I  CAN RECIEVE THEM. THANKS ATUL Dear List I have  examined   and catalogued  approx 100 plus stones greater than  25 gms from this fall,concentrating mostly in the area south of Park Forest.  The

Re: [meteorite-list] DOD Satellites Detect March 2003 Bolide Over Park Forest

2003-07-09 Thread almitt
Hi Mike and all, Michael Farmer wrote: >>Yes, and is not Chicago called "The Windy City" ? << All though it is windy in Chicago from the lake, the term comes from politics as there are a lot of windy candidates. Besides winds perhaps the break up might have had some something to do with fragmen

Re: [meteorite-list] DOD Satellites Detect March 2003 Bolide Over Park Forest

2003-07-09 Thread Pekka Savolainen
If the wind data is still available, it may be good to model the fall with winds in different altitudes. It´s quite amusing, how strong the effect of the wind could be in smaller fragments. We had a very promising bolide in Finland in February, and in first modellings we forgot the wind. In t

[meteorite-list] Alien Link To SARS Debunked

2003-07-09 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,6729061%255E911,00.html Alien link to SARS debunked By JUDY SKATSSOON The Advertiser (Australia) July 10, 2003 SUGGESTIONS that SARS came from outer space were unbelievably implausible, one of the world's leading authorities on the v

[meteorite-list] Where Did The Moon Come From?

2003-07-09 Thread Ron Baalke
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/7/7/4 Where did the Moon come from? Katie Pennicott Physics Web 3 July 2003 Astronomers believe that the Moon was formed when a Mars-sized body smashed into the Earth, ejecting matter into orbit and lengthening our day to its present value of 24 hours. Until

Re: [meteorite-list] Want a Piece of the Moon?

2003-07-09 Thread Howard Wu
Mark,   You'd buy French helium 3? I doubt they will be sell to us a decade from how. I did write them a month back and they sell for $750/g. That is  75% cheaper than a billion dollars a metric ton, the current bench mark. However  expect prices to rise with demand until Uranitian helium 3 arriv

[meteorite-list] Mars Global Surveyor Images - July 3-9, 2003

2003-07-09 Thread Ron Baalke
MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES July 3-9, 2003 The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now available: o Kaiser Dune Avalanches (Released 03 July 2003) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2003/07/03/index.html o (Released ndblown D

[meteorite-list] Park Planned for Wetumpka Impact Crater, Alabama

2003-07-09 Thread Paul
Montgomery Advertiser, Montgomery, Alabama  Park plan focuses on crater By Nick Lackeos, Montgomery Advertiser July, 9, 2003 http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/NEWS/StoryLocal2WETPARK09W.htm This article discusses park planned for Wetumpka Impact Crater in alabama. yours, Paul Baton Rouge

[meteorite-list] Ad eBay Park Forest Slices, one more time

2003-07-09 Thread Steve Witt
Greetings List,   I apologize for the use of bandwidth, but I've gotten requests by many of you for slices of Park Forest. I still have 11 auctions running on eBay that end tomorrow evening. Incredible slices all starting at $10 per gram. I will be addding some more spectacular pieces later today s

[meteorite-list] Want a Piece of the Moon?

2003-07-09 Thread mark ford
    Howard,   Howard Wrote : By the way. Where do you get your helium 3?      -Ah, now that would be telling! - Well ok since you ask http://www.helium-3.com/  of course!!       Mark F.  

Re: [meteorite-list] DOD Satellites Detect March 2003 Bolide Over Park Forest

2003-07-09 Thread Mark Langenfeld
> Yes, and is not Chicago called "The Windy City" ? > To me this strewnfield looks absolutely perfect, if not just a tad > scewed like (I think) by the wind. > Mike Farmer I suspect the winds aloft data are still readily available. Has anyone taken a look at this? Mark __

Re: [meteorite-list] Chicago Country Club Letters

2003-07-09 Thread Mark Miconi
Mark, I can not help in the search but will suggest one thing. In your letter I would suggest some sort of language that releases them from all liability if someone falls in a hole. Most places of this type want responsibility from you for damage and to be released from any liability from in

Re: [meteorite-list] Want a Piece of the Moon?

2003-07-09 Thread Howard Wu
Mark,   Before they start bring back tons of moon dirt I plan to sell my collection. Will use profits to buy earth rock to sell to decendants of space colonists.   Howard   By the way. Where do you get your helium 3?    mark ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:   Howard,   …. No, we would si

[meteorite-list] Chicago Country Club Letters

2003-07-09 Thread Mark Jackson
Dear List,   I am drafting letters to the Calumet, Ravisloe, Cherry Hills, Flossmoor, Idlewild and Olympia Fields Country Clubs seeking official permission to conduct scientific, non-destructive searches of thier grounds after the first snow of the season. I will emphasize our interest in leaving e

[meteorite-list] Want a Piece of the Moon?

2003-07-09 Thread mark ford
  Howard,   …. No, we would simply have another cheap supplier of He3 !!J   Mind you It would actually be far more profitable to just bring back moon rock, I am sure the first batch would sell for a couple of million bucks a gram.   It amazes me that considering the amount of money (