Eric Olson wrote:
but NWA meteorites were a completely different story with maybe 10% of
what was here last year. The price I had to pay (on 40+Kg) after a
lot of > negotiating was up 50% over last year.
I noticed a lack of nice large unclassified NWA at similar prices to
last year. Similar l
Martin Wrote:
Due to the climate here in Central Europe meteorites decay rapidely,
we have
no suitable or arid hunting grounds and the only place with good
chances to
find one is the Morasko strewnfield in Poland.
Hi List,
I know Martin, was referring to central Europe, but how about Spain -
are th
I would like report a field nickel test that I'm using. I've been
frustrated in the past trying to test 'suspect' irons in the field, and I
suspect I'm not alone. I have seen in the met list archives
discussion of field nickel tests. All tests reported were discouraging,
and that the litmus
Dear Mike;
What struck me most was the premium crust condition on a clear majority
of the specimens. WOW!
Very nice job.
Dave F.
JKGwilliam wrote:
Very impressing Mike...very impressive.
John Gwilliam
At 09:21 PM 2/21/2005, Michael Farmer wrote:
Well folks,
It has been months in the making, but I
Very impressing Mike...very impressive.
John Gwilliam
At 09:21 PM 2/21/2005, Michael Farmer wrote:
Well folks,
It has been months in the making, but I have uploaded the start of my
completely new website!
This is the start of my collection page, please take a look, and let us
know what you think
Dear Californian's with meteorites;
Due to recent floods and rains, you may need to mail me your meteorites
for safe keeping.
I live in the high desert as you know, and it is pretty dry up here.
Good luck keeping your babies dry!
It was 44 degrees, sunny all day and no wind.
tropical~rocky mou
Hello,
I was just catching up on the February, 2005 issue of
Sky and Telesope and in it, there is an interesting article
on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. On page 36, the article
mentions solar-wind discoloration of asteroids. I have
sometimes wondered whether the solar wind affects the
color of
Well folks,
It has been months in the making, but I have uploaded the start of my
completely new website!
This is the start of my collection page, please take a look, and let us know
what you think of these select pieces.
Mike Farmer
http://www.meteoriteguy.com/collection.htm
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All,
ANyone interested in thinsection images please take a loom at my latest
image. Taken through my homemade cross polarizer with a canon SD300 digital
camera. Camera attached to my scopes eyepiece and the scope was at 20
power. The image is from a thin section I amde from and unclassified N
I would like report a field nickel test that I'm using. I've been
frustrated in the past trying to test 'suspect' irons in the field, and I
suspect I'm not alone. I have seen in the met list archives
discussion of field nickel tests. All tests reported were discouraging,
and that the litmus
Hi Bernd and the List,
Blog is short for web log.
Regards, Larry
At 11:51 AM 2/21/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Dirk, Michael, and List,
> Blogs are from annomyous sources and the
> person who is posting remains unknown.
I found this in my "Concise Dictionary of Slang and
Unconventional Engl
Hi Sterling,
> It reminds me of the Days Before the Web, when there was no
> www ... Yes, there was an InterNet for more than a decade before
> Al Gore invented the Web or Steve Jobs invented the HyperText-
> MarkupLanguage, and the sites on it were BBS's, or Bulletin
> Board Systems...
You can g
Hi Jeff,
>Unique (Cuba)
Is there no "Very Unique"
I just realized the perfect name:
Enigma (Georgia, USA, a small town near Tifton; pop 869)
(Look at the pop #, as in NWA 869)
-Walter
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From: "Jeff Grossman" <[EMAIL PR
It's been said that we should appreciate the metlist as it is. This blog is
just a reminder of what could be and why that's true. Conflict here has always
been minimal in comparison to most lists and all the participants on this list
should be applauded for their self control. Even the metlist m
Most blogs are sadly un-monitored shouting matches for Hippocrates who do
not have the guts to say what they will print to your face. A monitored,
closed list for people with the same interests will always be best.
IMHA
CharlyV
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Whoever created this one knows our little List very well and
is having fun with us, but it'll be gone e'er long, so enjoy it!
Sterling Webb
Enjoy what?
Some idiot pretenting to be that person and tarnishing some ones reputation,
that is no having fun.
I believe it is pure jealo
If You are eBay user ID# laserprogram pls contact me
My emails to You returning
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Names I'd like to see for meteorites:
A-lien (Taiwan)
Avarice (after Avarice Mount, Australia)
Expensive (after Expensive Tank, New Mexico)
Impossible (after Impossible Canyon, Calif.)
Pandora (New Zealand)
Priceless (after the Priceless Mine, Ariz.)
Stolen (Norway)
Unique (Cuba)
Unknown (Zimbabwe)
Hi, Dave, Dirk, List!
That "bad neighborhood" the blog resides in is called the Real
World, the Home of the Crazies in the Land of the Fevered. It
reminds me of the Days Before the Web, when there was no www (the
only case of three words that only have three syllable
This meteorite blog looks the the work of Proud Tom, run amok.
Bill
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Dave,
I even heard (from a blogger ?) that some of the pieces bought from Bob were
sold again before the buyers left Tucson that weekend. While they were still
warm ya might say.
While I'm pretty sure I would never sell a piece in the immediate time after
just buying one from BH...I could see
Dear Dirk;
I have seen blog's in the past, and they are a rather fickle friend at
best. The car door is unlocked and the key is in the ignition. And the
beast is parked in an unsavory neighborhood, the unmoderated web. They
remind me of a perfectly good car without a steering wheel.
Sad part
Dear List, Here is a reply to Michael`s request.
Dirk Ross
--- Michael L Blood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:55:24 -0800
> Subject: more on meteoriteblog.com
> From: Michael L Blood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: drtanuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi Dirk,
> Thanks.
Hi Dirk,
Good to hear from you.
How does your statement below relate to your statement
less than 2 hrs ago claiming you did not set this up and it is
not yours?
Also, are you suggesting we should indulge a context
with racial slurs, obscenity & false identification because m
Dear Peter, List;
I am trying to contact Peter Scherff.
Can I get a phone number/address, please email me off list.
Thank you,
Dave Freeman
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> So far the meteoriteblog list isn`t creating anything positive
I am with Michael Blood on this one. It never will produce anything
positive with such a sordid fundament. As a German with a very shacky
recent history - the Nazi era - if someone doesn't get what I'm talking
about, I am very critic
Charlie and List,
Thanks for your posts concerning blogs. So far the
meteoriteblog list isn`t creating anything positive;
but given time I believe it will allow scandals, etc.
come out into the mainstream...so that buyers and
sellers will know what is happening behind their
backs.
The users of a
Michael,
While the description several listess have given of a blog, namely that
it is a personal web log, is accurate, it is perhaps also educatinal to
note that the bloggers are emerging as competitors to the mainstream
news media. The story at the link below illustrates the tremendous
impact th
All list members be warned:
The new meteorite "Blog" site has very, very quickly degenerated to
becoming a sewer in less than 30 posts.
In the first 30 minutes of existence, among other distasteful posts,
someone used "Jew" in the context of a racial slur and one person made
an obsc
Steve,
You wrote that Bob Haag told you three years ago that if you own 2
meteorites then you are considered a dealer?
Why would Bob Haag say such a ridiculous thing?
Bob
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From: "Steve Arnold, Chicago!!!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 10:44
If anyone sent me an email with a "picture of the day" from Jan. 1st - 28th
and haven't seen it posted please resend.
Even though I clicked on "Keep As New" AOL has somehow deleted all my emails.
Thanks for all your support!
Sincerely,
Michael Johnson
SPACE ROCKS, INC.
932 Hanging Rock Road
I sort of wish it wasnt set up in the meteoritehunters name.
Meteorite-hunter, meteoritehunter, and meteoritehunters are my ebay names,
meteoritehunter.com is mine, and [EMAIL PROTECTED] my email, so who is
it?
I am already getting emails from people asking me if it is my blog.
Mike Farmer
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Dear Dirk;
Yup, it's anyone's game. The only respondent has a profile I can not
locate. To set up my own blog is uncomprehendable (three attempts
and nothing yet)who designed this stuff any way.
Leave me to Art and the meteorite central crowd, the greatest group of
bloggers ev
List,
Someone unkown to me has set up a meteoriteblog at:
http://meteoritehunters.blogspot.com/
Blogaway.anything goes...I am not the owner or
creator of this blog. Dirk Ross...Tokyo
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"Blog" is short for weBLOG. Kind of an online diary, unvetted by anyone
but the poster(s).
Tracy Latimer
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Aloha -
That should be Ka'a'awa :-)
And as someone who lives in Volcano :-) ... I keep
looking at dark colored rocks on the ground - but
there are just too many
there are lapili from Kilauea, and Pele's tears - but
realistically, almost everything on the ground is WAY
younger than most (m
No, not one from Arabia or NWA.
Strange, it just shows how rare the Aubrites are.
Mike
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From: "Jamie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "meteorite list"
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 12:03 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Aubrites from the desert
Hi everyone,
Just wondering i
Hi everyone,
Just wondering if any Aubrites have been recovered from Africa yet.
Thanks,
Jamie
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On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 13:19, Michael L Blood wrote:
> Hi Dirk,
> If I understand correctly, "blog" is the term used outside
> the US for a web site.is that correct?
>From Google:
Definitions of Blog -- (weB LOG) on the Web:
A blog is basically a journal that is available o
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:42:36 -0800 (PST), drtanuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>lies, some urban ledgends). I do not know where the
>term "blog" came from. Blogs cover news that is not
It is short for weB LOG. As in a "log" on the "web". Basically fad of putting
a personal diary on
the net so
Dear List,
Harald actually had more but they were sent in an
email that I had overlooked. Here are more of his
answers. Thanks!! dirk...tokyo
--- "Harald Stehlik (VI/SEA)"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:01:02 +0100
> here we go: (all described only from meteorites
> y
Hello List,
> 22) wEtite (Fe1-xO)
This should read wüstite or wuestite!
Best wishes,
Bernd
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Hi List
Dirk wrote:
It derives from Web log.
There now we are all web geeks.or should that be beeks. :)
Mike
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> Michael,
> Thanks for your questions. Blogs are a new for
Hello Dirk, Michael, and List,
> Blogs are from annomyous sources and the
> person who is posting remains unknown.
I found this in my "Concise Dictionary of Slang and
Unconventional English" edited by Paul Beale:
blog (noun)
A servant-boy in one of the houses: Rugby Schoolboys:
from ca. 1860. A
Michael,
Thanks for your questions. Blogs are a new form of
media on the internetsuch as a tabloid or new form
of newspaper (some are biased, some factual, some
lies, some urban ledgends). I do not know where the
term "blog" came from. Blogs cover news that is not
covered in the mainstream
Hi Dirk,
If I understand correctly, "blog" is the term used outside
the US for a web site.is that correct? If so, do you know if it
is an acronym for something? - B.L.O.G. ?
RSVP
Thanks, Michael
PS: ALSO - Registered Mail used to consistantly cost me $25 to
Japan. T
- Original Message -
From: Michael Cottingham
To: Michael Cottingham
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 10:21 AM
Subject: 50% Off Sale/Auctions Also Ending today!
Hello,
I am offering another 50% Off Sale in My ebay store. ALL Buy it Now Items
are 50% off. Just click on the Buy it Now feat
> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:26:06 +0100
Harald Wrote:
The more common ones (not only in meteorites:
>
> Chromite (Fe++Cr2O4), Isometric - Hexoctahedral -
> H-M Symbol (4/m 3 2/m) Space Group: F d3m
> Halite (NaCl), Isometric - Hexoctahedral - H-M
> Symbol (4/m 3 2/m) Space
> Daubreelite
I remember that the village with the longuest mane (world record) is
somewhere in Whales. Obviously can't remember it (who can help ?)
They have a website too :
http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwantysiliogogogoch.co.uk/
Regards
Ken
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Dear List,
I had many replies from members of this list.
Bernd had the most complete list and wins the First
Prize. Harald Shehlik wins second prize because he
included more information, but his list did not
include as many cubic minerals as Bernd. Tom K. wins
the Proud Tom prize for his "Prou
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:00:09 +0100, Zelimir Gabelica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I remember that the village with the longuest mane (world record) is
>somewhere in Whales. Obviously can't remember it (who can help ?)
Google is your friend. http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/name.html
_
Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg!
...a name that would then probably be soon abbreviated as "15 g"? ..
I remember that the village with the longuest mane (world record) is
somewhere in Whales. Obviously can't remember it (who can help ?)
I just remember another remote place, a smal
And I have an idea, what you have to do first with the cash you're making
now with your stones.
An impatient Martin.
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To:
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 5:44 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] selling haag pieces
> Goo
Good morning list.I see some people have been or are trying to sell haag
pieces they got from tucson.Well that is thier right if they want to.I see
bob c. tried to sell some of his pieces and was unsucessful.I still get
people emailing me to sell my pieces.I continue to say no.I admit I did
put up
Nope, no photo available. I will try to get a picture of it and have someone
scan it for me but it may take awhile as it is not in my possession (yet!)
Anita
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From: Michael Farmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 10:29 AM
To: Anita Westlake; Met
It is highly possible to get an accurate id, since there were not so many
meteorites around at that time.
Photo?
Mike Farmer
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To:
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 8:16 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Identifying Meteorites w/out
For those searching in eastern Pennsylvania, how about:
Paradise
Bird In Hand
Blue Ball
and last but not leastIntercourse.
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Dear List:
Recently a few meteorite slices were donated to a local club in Georgia.
One of them does not have a label but we do know that they all originally
came from Ward's Scientific a long time ago. (Maybe 30-40 years ago?)
Is it possible to identify a known meteorite visually with some a
Or icy dead planet, at least:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7039
'Pack ice' suggests frozen sea on Mars
11:48 21 February 2005
NewScientist.com news service
Kelly Young
A frozen sea, surviving as blocks of pack ice, may lie just beneath the surface
of Mars, suggest
observations
Dear Dirk;
Why plant what so abundantly grows here?
Dave F. blobber
drtanuki wrote:
Dear List,
Is anyone interested in creating a Blog for
meteorites where rumor, lies, cheats, disinformation,
fact, fiction, humor (Proud Tom), theives of
meteorites, etc could be discussed? I do not have the
time
I woud like to see a meteorite fall by the shores of:
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg
Located in Webster Ma, at the boundary of Ma, Connecticut and Rhode
Island. Most popular( but probably not the most accurate) translation:
"You fish on your side, I fish on my side, and nobo
Hello Bernd,
It is well possible that untrapped noble gases are the source of the vesicles.
Dhofar 025 is a lunar regolith and so should contain large amounts of solar
type noble gases (He-4, Ne-20) due to its long-time exposure to the solar wind.
However, it contains only small amounts of sola
> Anyone have any thoughts regarding the nature
> of the vesicular clasts in the lunar Dho 025?
> The clasts themselves are a couple of mm across
> and contain numerous little bubbles / vesicles.
> I was wondering where the vesicles come from,
> what gases were trapped and so on !
These melt
Hi,
Dave Harris asked me to post this...
Anyone have any thoughts regarding the nature of the vesicular clasts in
the lunar Dho 025?
Looks like a black pumice stone inclusion! The clasts themseves are a
couple of mm across and contain numerous little bubbles/vesicles.
I was wondering where
Hi Dirk and list
I have in my collection two Nantan specimens with cubic crystals of
Magnetite (I make an x-ray diffraction on them so I'm 100% sure)
I had a 300g specimen in my collection for about 7 years, one day after
about 2 years, I picked it up and it split in two!, in the fracture,
almos
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Dear List,
Is anyone interested in creating a Blog for
meteorites where rumor, lies, cheats, disinformation,
fact, fiction, humor (Proud Tom), theives of
meteorites, etc could be discussed? I do not have the
time nor skills to create such a site. If anyone
decides to use this idea, please list
Oops,
I should have checked a map first. After all the talk about dry lakes I drifted
back to my days of desert scrounging. I can still SEE the heat. Unfortunately I
was unaware of meteorites then.
Thanks!
Bill
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Hi Bill,
I agree that Zzyzx would make a terrific meteorite name! (Zzyzx is
actually in California just off I-15). --Rob
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Subject: [meteorite-list] What's in a name?
Hi all,
The
Hi all,
The name that stands out in my mind is Zzyzx Nevada. I remember driving through
there the first time in a 60 Ford Falcon in August, no ac of course. When I
read the Zzyzx sign it defined my state of mind. Kind of like a frying short
circut. Little Cow Hole Mountain is nearby as well...
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