On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 22:40:28 -0700, Rob Wesel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Someone on the list had also mentioned the possibility that a CAI could be
conical allowing chondritic material to fill the cone. The cone, when sliced
would look like chondritic material completely encapsulated within a CAI.
Dear List Members,
We have received some replies about the Mystery Object Contest and had a
winner 2 days ago. Congratulations to Jeff Pringle, who will receive soon a
slice of one of our Saharan finds. Jeff has been very fast and accurate!
We thank all of you, who took part to the contest and
Hi Steve,
I sent you a couple of off list emails when you posted on this the other
day, you may have missed them so I will resend it
BTW the URL for BIMS is www.bimsociety.org
Best,
Mark Ford
(Chairman BIMS)
(British and Irish Meteorite Society)
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From:
Hi All,
I had some feedbacks about the pictures that do not appear with Internet
Explorer on my webpage showing the meteorites that I have for sale. It works
with Netscape and also with Mozilla.
I am sorry about this problem, which I can't understand so far... as they
appear when I check with
Hi list.I just got my 92 gram slice of campo silicate from mike miller.A
thing of beauty.BUT,my original question was never answerd.Is there a TKW
for this fine looking silicate piece?It looks alike lueders.Please ,any
info will make my mind rest.
Hi All...
The following exceptional auctions are ending tonight:
NWA 482 Lunar specimen with fusion crust plus NWA 482 thin section. Rarely
offered with fusion crust:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=6535445054
NWA 998 Martian specimen with fusion crust plus NWA 998
SSTTEEVVEEYY:
Here we go again. Thanks for telling us about your latest acquisition! We
have all have been waiting on the edge of our chairs for your report. This is
the THIRD time you have asked this same question of the list, and no one has
answered. Most people with ANY brain would not
Greetings List
For the longest time now, I have heard that WD-40 contains water and must
not be used on meteorites.
Well, I got an email about its uses and decided to follow up since its
susposed to stand for water displacement - 40th formula. Pretty much,
that was the chemist's intentions too!
Hello all,
After the discussion on the list regarding the classification of NWA 2653
(primitive ungrouped achondrite) I thought I'd just share my
observations of a small slice I purchased from Rob. The polish is so
mirror perfect that under the scope at 10x and 30x I was able to look
'deep'
TEST
--
Mauro Ianeselli - ITALY
IMCA #2122 http://www.imca.cc
AAT http://www.astrofilitrentini.it
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This is interesting and I should address this with the makers then since
the MSDS states that WD-40 is made from naptha and hydrotreated heavy
mineral oil.
It may be the accessory ingredients which are inert which cause this
problem.
I'll get back to the list once I have an answer from the
Mark,
Interesting, you have to bear in mind though that WD-40 is a low cost
mass produced product, I doubt it gets 'dried', and is certainly not
Anhydrous. Bearing in mind it is essentially a natural volatile organic
solvent with a few additives, (c9-c11+) i.e a petrochemical
(by)product, it
The best stuff that I've found is G - 96. It can be found at most gun
stores. It protects the best and also smells much better. A bunch of us on
the East Coast of USA use it for years with good turn out. If you can't get
it, let me know and I can send you some.
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Some old memories of WD-40 from my museum conservation days.
But you had better check these out with from source:
It is made from fish oil.
It contains a lacquer, which remains after the oils depart, which might be
helpful for meteorite preservation but
which gums up fine lubricating jobs like
Dolores Beasley/Marta Metelko
Headquarters, Washington June 2, 2005
(Phone: 202/358-1753/1642)
Whitney Clavin
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
(Phone: 818/354-4673)
RELEASE: 05-139
NASA'S SPACE EYES FOCUS ON DEEP IMPACT TARGET
On July 4, NASA's Deep
Hello Nicholas and list
Here is the email I got back from the people who make it.
Dear Mark,
WD-40 does not contain any water.
Best regards,
Eva Zabowski
Consumer Relations
WD-40 Company
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Thanks Bob-
The photos just don't do them justice. A polish of this caliber is truly
rare, Tom is to be commended for his work in both preparation and
microphotography. Amazing that in images on the CD-ROM taken at 1800x one
can not find any polishing marks. He is a master. Still some slices
Hi List, someone asked me this question, and since the list has so many
people, who between them knows just about everything, I thought I would ask
you!
During desert storm, the DOD often shutdown the GPS satellites at various
times, because Iraq was using them also. The question is: Since we
Steve Arnold, Chicago!!! wrote:
I just cannot seem to put 2 and 2 together
Possibly the greatest understatement ever seen in the annals (anal,
too!) of meteorite communication
Would someone translate this pedantic prose of mine to the person asking
this question?
If he
GPS was never shut down during Desert Storm. The accuracy was selectively
degraded, however (not enough to severely impact most users). Since
Selective Availability was switched off a few years ago, the government has
pledged to maintain a pretty high degree of availability and accuracy. This
Dear List:
I just want to make a few points clear since NWA 3133, one of our meteorites
was brought up again. We spend a lot of time and money researching our
material and all of our descriptions and images are copyrighted. We checked
with ebay and they honor all copyright laws and in some cases
Dear Stan and List,
NAU has not made a formal statement in regards to any pairing status. The
lack of data from other suspected pairings has caused the University of
Washington, the original classifier not to comment and pairings remain
uncertain. If you check the latest Meteoritical Bulletin
This sort of pairing question is not really the domain of the NomCom. It
has to be worked out in the literature. Once the meteorites are announced,
which these now are, we do not consider publication of supplemental
information like pairings. The exception would be if somebody wanted to
Dear Stan and List,
NAU has not made a formal statement in regards to any pairing status.
forgive me for taking issue with the generally accepted definition of the
term 'formal statement' but i dont see how much more formal you get than
posting something on your website for the entire
So, this seems to me to possibly represent a case of a heterogeneous
layer of a common asteroid, with one area having experienced more
intense heating with accompanying partial melting (NWA 3133 = PAC),
while an adjacent area experienced only enough heat to produce the
properties of a
Hi Mark,
Did they sum it up in 6 words?? I would like to know why it doesn't
contain water. If they have tanks that sit empty for any length of time
there is bound to be some moisture from that alone. While it may be true
it contains very little moisture (so the customer relations can state
Dear List,
My last comments. The so-called official descriptions posted by Stan to the
List which are now in the archives differ greatly than what is now posted in
the bulletin. Apparently the description of NWA 1839 has been upgraded
since then. Admittedly, I only looked at the header and
Hello list.I have been getting alot of new meteorites for my collection
and I have some doubles, so I thought before I go on vacation next week,I
would offer up a few freebies.Here is what is going bye-bye:NWA 1933 2.21
gram slice,HUCKITTA 8.5 gram fragment,SAU 001 7.7 gram individual,and NWA
788
My last comments. The so-called official descriptions posted by Stan to
the
List which are now in the archives differ greatly than what is now posted
in
the bulletin.
For the record I never claimed to have an 'offical' description, so called
or otherwise. Infact my ebay auctions went to
Hi, Tom,
Chris did a great job of answering your GPS question, but I want to add to
your statement that Iraq was using them also. You are probably referring to a
memory of news stories from the spring of 2003 about the Iraq (Saddam)
government buying lots of expensive Russian-made GPS
Hi Stan.
I will not comment on the pairing issue again as long as their is sufficient
scientific data to back it up. Stan, I sense you are trying to create some
kind of an argument instead of a debate here. I talk to Dr. Bunch almost
daily so I do not appreciate your insinuations that I have no
Hi again list.All 4 pieces have found new homes and I want to thank all 4
people who responded.I have a question regarding OWNING apollo
material.Why can we not own any of this material?If any of us were lucky
enuff to own even a speck,what would this be worth?It is a question that
has been eating
Hi AdamIf your description was used in a
scientific journal or published article then anyone
can use it as long as they cite the proper source-that
is just the way scientific literature is used. If, on
the other hand, it was a prosaic description written
by you and used in your ebay ad then
Hello List, I have a rare double veined slice of Franconia on ebay, it is a
pretty cool slice, the last of the veined slices if you want to check it
out.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=3239item=6537117962;
rd=1
Thanks, Tom
peregrineflier
Hello John and Adam,
For the record, it is against the law to use someone elses copyrighted
material on the internet for commercial purposes. The Digital Millennium
Copyright Act does not apply to non-commercial uses however, at least
that's the way I read it. You can generally submit a
Adam,
I'd like to quote Dick Cheney here, but I'll show the list some respect
instead and refrain from using the same explicative he was reported using by
the press.
you LITERALLY had the cahones to PUBLICALLY call me a liar over the
'collection in a slice' photo I posted, and then you
Steve Arnold, Chicago!!! steve_arnol60120 at yahoo.com
Fri May 27 18:13:17 EDT 2005
Well I am taking the advise of mr.herr martin
and take my sales to YAHOOGROUPS to make advertisements concerning
meteorites.I am truly sorry for all the socalled spam I have been giving
the list.It will not happen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If it is made from Kerosene then I can understand why
it could
contain water (every burn a kerosene heater?
Humidity goes up!).
Al,
The humidity goes up because the hydrogen in the
hydrocarbons contained in kerosene reacts with oxygen
in the air to produce water during
Dear List;
With an environmental back ground and years of playing keep-out with
hydrocarbons and our ground water (large affinity each direction
here)I still wonder why WD-40 still fits in the hydrocarbon
group..like the first half of the word says hydrodoh!
Not on my meteorites,
Hi list!
A couple days ago I got my biggest meteorite
shipment so far. Both in price, weight and numbers.
I bought a 13 kg, 300 pieces mixed NWA:s from Eric
Olson, a great seller. He sent me the packet in the
beginning of mars. After a month I expected it to
arrive but then I started to get
You said What now?
Send some to me. I'll help you cut em up and see whats inside :-)
Bob
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From: Göran Axelsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 7:32 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] And now what?
Hi list!
A
Stan,
For some reason you will say and do anything to create trouble for us. Your
self proclaimed pairings caused problems with us and the Aronsons in Tucson.
You claimed a Ureilite in the Aronson's possession was the same as material
we already had in order to try and screw up a deal. The
Don't need help with cutting, that's the fun part of it. To see what's
been hidden from the beginning of the solar system.
It's the official classification that's hard to do.
But thanks for volunteering anyhow. I know what a sacrifice
it would be for you ;-)
(I must get my electron microscope
The top of my email says meteorite-list not YAHOOGROUPSGUESS THE
HERD CHANGED HIS SPOTS AGAIN.
DF
Bob Holmes wrote:
Steve Arnold, Chicago!!! steve_arnol60120 at yahoo.com
Fri May 27 18:13:17 EDT 2005
Well I am taking the advise of mr.herr martin
and take my sales to YAHOOGROUPS to make
Steve Arnold (Elgin, IL) wrote:
OWNING apollo material.Why can we not own any of this material?
Steve,Let me provide you with a brief review of a book. Robert Haag was
quoted as remarking Three Thumbs, Way Way, Up ! I also recommend the book
to
you. Let me include a couple of quotes:
On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 20:07:30 -0400, David Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Copyright Act does not apply to non-commercial uses however, at least
that's the way I read it. You can generally submit a complaint to the
infringer's server and he will probably lose his account. The servers do
I meant to say that the website host will probably remove the account. I
have done this myself and they respect the DCMA. No, not the ISPs, I
misspoke.
David
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For some reason you will say and do anything to create trouble for us.
Your
self proclaimed pairings caused problems with us and the Aronsons in
Tucson.
You claimed a Ureilite in the Aronson's possession was the same as material
we already had in order to try and screw up a deal. The
On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 21:08:53 -0400, David Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I meant to say that the website host will probably remove the account. I
have done this myself and they respect the DCMA. No, not the ISPs, I
misspoke.
Okay, that's somewhat more reasonable. I was under the impression
i need the following blades: 6"x .006 x .5" arbor sintered or plated 8"x .012 x 5/8" arbor sintered. ANYBODY ou there GOT A SOURCE that can DELIVER?!
i will be gradually switching over to yahoo mail (it has 100 FREE megs of storage). please cc to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Steve Arnold, Chicago!!! wrote:
...I have a question regarding OWNING apollo material.Why can we not
own any of this material?
The reason is is is against federal law for private ownership of Apollo
samples. There seems to be some loopholes for dust which for a time
was confiscated by NASA
clearing some stuff out- nice, polished, 20g+ nwa half-stone( cheap/ great to throw @ neighbor's barking dog [make yer own hammer]) forthe first kid, etc.. who canpost the artist+ album of these lyrics on this list (that's the first post i recieve onbased MY isp w/ right answer):
We go waiting
Harlan,
The album is Wild, the song is Star, and the artist is
Erasure.
Thomas
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clearing some stuff out- nice, polished, 20g+ nwa
half-stone( cheap/ great to throw @ neighbor's barking
dog [make yer own hammer]) for
Hello List
Possibly one of the sources of the idea that WD-40 contains water is my
preservation page. The reason I wrote this was personal experience. When I
was starting out in the business, I bought a gallon can of WD-40 at the
hardware store. I poured it into a glass container to treat
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