Re: [meteorite-list] Slow to Approve New Members

2003-08-20 Thread Walter Branch
Hi Adam and List, Contrary to your experience, I unsubscribed from the list earlier this year and it took nearly two weeks for me to re-subscribe, after three or four unreplied emails. I know of another long time list member who had the same problem with a longer time span, and this

Re: [meteorite-list] Slow to Approve New Members

2003-08-20 Thread Dave Andrews
Walter Branch wrote: Hi Adam and List, Contrary to your experience, I unsubscribed from the list earlier this year and it took nearly two weeks for me to re-subscribe, after three or four unreplied emails. Hi Walter and list, I just changed my email address a couple of days ago, but if

Re: [meteorite-list] Slow to Approve New Members

2003-08-20 Thread Robert Woolard
Hello Walter, Adam, and List, I have just read with interest the recent emails concerning problems with admissions to the list, and would like to ask a few questions. First, let me say that NO offense WHAT-SO-EVER is meant toward Art or anyone! I have no knowledge at all in regard to

Re: [meteorite-list] Nakhla - What was turned to ash?

2003-08-20 Thread Steve Schoner
Oh, Oh... The Dog topic lives... Long live the dog. Steve Schoner/ams --- Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of them fell on a dog at Denshal, leaving it like ashes in the moment. Why can't this be interpreted as the meteorite fracturing into many small fragments aka

[meteorite-list] Slow to Approve New Members

2003-08-20 Thread mary kashuba
Dear List, I was admitted to the list a half hour ago. That was twelve hours after my application. John Kashuba Ontario, California

[meteorite-list] Mars Global Surveyor Images - August 14-20, 2003

2003-08-20 Thread Ron Baalke
MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES August 14-20, 2003 The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now available: o Dust-Raising Event in Noachis (Released 14 August 2003) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2003/08/14/index.html o

[meteorite-list] Boeing EDD Awarded Electric Propulsion Contract for Dawn Mission

2003-08-20 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2003/q3/nr_030818s.html Boeing EDD Awarded Electric Propulsion Contract for NASA Mission Boeing News Release August 18, 2003 ST. LOUIS - Boeing [NYSE:BA] has been awarded a contract by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to provide the electric propulsion

[meteorite-list] Scientists Say 'Nannoballs' Could Be Tiniest Life Form

2003-08-20 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/6562301.htm Scientists say `nannoballs' could be tiniest life form BY ALEXANDRA WITZE The Dallas Morning News August 18, 2003 (KRT) - Nannobacteria could be the smallest living things on Earth, a Lilliputian oddity worthy of listing in the

Re: [meteorite-list] Nakhla - What was turned to ash?

2003-08-20 Thread Howard Wu
Hi List and dog lovers, If that dog ever existed, does anyone know what kind of dog this would be. That is what breed of dog is common to Nakhla Egypt? Howard Wu Steve Schoner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, Oh...The "Dog" topic lives...Long live the dog.Steve Schoner/ams--- Ron Baalke <[EMAIL

[meteorite-list] Ion Engine Operation of Hayabusa - July 25, 2003

2003-08-20 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.isas.ac.jp/e/new/release/2003/07_02.html Ion Engine Operation of Hayabusa ISAS July 25, 2003 Launched on May 9, 2003, the asteroid explorer Hayabusa is now cruising smoothly at a velocity of about 300,000km/day. In other words, the communication delay to the explorer is increasing by

[meteorite-list] Europe's Moon Mission To Scan Giant Crater

2003-08-20 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns4065 Europe's Moon mission to scan giant crater Stuart Clark New Scientist August 18, 2003 Europe's first mission to the Moon is set to scrutinise the largest crater in the Solar System, looking for a new type of Moon rock. It will also be on

[meteorite-list] ESA Sees Stardust Storms Heading For Solar System

2003-08-20 Thread Ron Baalke
European Space Agency Science News Release SNR 13-2003 Paris, France 18 August 2003 ESA sees stardust storms heading for Solar System Until ten years ago, most astronomers did not believe stardust could enter our Solar System. Then ESA's Ulysses spaceprobe discovered minute

Re: [meteorite-list] Scientists Say 'Nannoballs' Could Be Tiniest Life Form

2003-08-20 Thread Pekka Savolainen
Hello, Ron and the list, in Finland in the university of Kuopio Ph.D., M.D. Olavi Kajander has made study with these beauties; "Stone Forming Unique Agents." http://www.uku.fi/laitokset/biokem/ollinano.html Some scientists belive, some dont... take care, pekka Ron Baalke wrote:

[meteorite-list] NASA Seeks Public Suggestions For Mars Photos

2003-08-20 Thread Ron Baalke
Donald Savage Headquarters, Washington (Phone: 202/358-1547) August 20, 2003 Guy Webster (Phone: 818/354-6278) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. RELEASE: 03-273 NASA SEEKS PUBLIC SUGGESTIONS FOR MARS PHOTOS Earth comes closer to Mars this month than it has in

Re: [meteorite-list] Slow to Approve New Members

2003-08-20 Thread Walter Branch
Hi Dave, Thanks. I will pass that along. -Walter -- www.branchmeteorites.com Walter Branch, Ph.D. Branch Meteorites PO Box 60492 Savannah, GA 31420 - Original Message - From: Dave Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Walter Branch [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[meteorite-list] Shirokovsky - WANTED

2003-08-20 Thread Tim Heitz
Hello Everyone, I'm looking for aslice of Shirokovsky for sale. Regards, Tim Heitz

[meteorite-list] Meteorie Contest, Free Gold Basin Postcard

2003-08-20 Thread MARK BOSTICK
Hello Everyone, First if you are part of the Meteorite Central mailing list, and my mailing list you are getting this twice. Please delete one. I haven't done a meteorite contest in a while and needa name for my current project so I thought. Why not do both together. So..welcome to Meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorie Contest, Free Gold Basin Postcard

2003-08-20 Thread David Freeman
Hi Mark, How about something with Harlow in it, Harvey H's middle name? Or Haagmunster, .His name was Diablo, Canyon Diablo...Wasn't just Gibeon's bible. My name is Odessa, Odessa Texas, a proud texan name. I can see I am having fun at your expense. My cartoon is

Re: [meteorite-list] Nakhla - What was turned to ash?

2003-08-20 Thread Ron Baalke
I believe that 'Ashes' in Arabic is 'Al-qali' meaning 'the thing that was roasted' it would be interesting to read the original translation; I bet it's been misinterpreted... Here are some other possible interpretations from the 'left like ashes' phrase when it gets translated from Arabic:

Re: [meteorite-list] Nakhla - What was turned to ash?

2003-08-20 Thread Ron Baalke
One of them fell on a dog at Denshal, leaving it like ashes in the moment. Why can't this be interpreted as the meteorite fracturing into many small fragments aka ashes as in a friable portion of what elsewhere sank up a meter into the ground? Why must this assume that the dog

[meteorite-list] Mars Shows

2003-08-20 Thread Bob Martino
All, Totally off-topic, but I cannot resist a shameless plug. I am giving a talk at Flandrau Planetarium in Tucson, AZ for the limited weeks of the Mars Opposition. It runs every Saturday night at 8:30 PM from last week until September 27th. There will be special sessions on the night of August