RE: [meteorite-list] Some of you may have a free rare earth magnet

2005-08-17 Thread mark ford
Yeah, I know from experience about never keeping a magnet in your wallet! This got me thinking, what about converting one of those credit card torches into a pocket electromagnet? by replacing the LED with a small coil of wire covered in epoxy glue, Just a thought - then you have a pocket

[meteorite-list] RE: RC's age of the universe???

2005-08-17 Thread Norbert Classen
Hi Sterling, Martin All, Martin H. wrote: The question has risen: I wonder why the RC church would have such a huge collection of items which contradicts their doctrine that the universe is only 6,000 to 10,000 years old... Does anyone have a reference for the assumption that

Re: [meteorite-list] RE: RC's age of the universe???

2005-08-17 Thread Martin Altmann
Objection, Euer Ehren! Bishop Ussher, who calculated the day of the creation was an anglican protestant from Ireland. And if I remember right, in Spencer Tracy's The trial of the Hulk, the opponent was a protestant zealot. I for my part never met a catholic priest with had doubts on the age of

Re: [meteorite-list] RE: RC's age of the universe???

2005-08-17 Thread Darren Garrison
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:49:28 +0200, Martin Altmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And if I remember right, in Spencer Tracy's The trial of the Hulk, the opponent was a protestant zealot. Huh? Spencer Tracy isn't in The Trial of the Hulk. Are you sure that you aren't confusing him with Luffa Rigno?

[meteorite-list] Blanket meteorite

2005-08-17 Thread McCartney Taylor
This is a request for help. I'm doing research on the Blanket, Texas 1909 meteorite fall. Specifically, I'm needing fall location information. There is little documentation of this fall. The local newspaper has archives but there was a tornado the day before this meteorite fell and the

[meteorite-list] Mars Exploration Rover Update - August 16, 2005

2005-08-17 Thread Ron Baalke
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html SPIRIT UPDATE: Spirit Continues to Climb - sol 565-571, Aug 16, 2005: Spirit has completed investigations with its robotic arm on Assemblée rock. The investigation included pictures taken with the microscopic imager, 92 hours of Moessbauer

[meteorite-list] Mars Global Surveyor Images: August 11-17, 2005

2005-08-17 Thread Ron Baalke
MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES August 11-17, 2005 The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now available: o Severely-Dipping Layers (Released 11 August 2005) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/08/11 o Polar Layers (Released

[meteorite-list] NWA 869 fa fs #'s????

2005-08-17 Thread Tom Knudson
Hello List, if there is still anyone out there. Does anyone happen to know the fa and fs of NWA 869 ? Thanks, Tom peregrineflier __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Isheyevo - Bright Blue/Green Inclusio n

2005-08-17 Thread Ingo Herkstroeter
Very strange Jeff! Let me think about it a while. Thanks for showing this interesting thing to us! Ingo/Germany --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- Von: Jeff Kuyken [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: [meteorite-list] Isheyevo - Bright Blue/Green

RE: [meteorite-list] Isheyevo - Bright Blue/Green Inclusion

2005-08-17 Thread Pete Pete
Apatite? From: Jeff Kuyken [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Isheyevo - Bright Blue/Green Inclusion Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 00:01:03 +1000 G'day Folks, Some of you may know how I like to find unusual things in meteorites. As if

[meteorite-list] AD - NEW Angrite and Others - Auctions Ending

2005-08-17 Thread Greg Hupe
Dear List Members, Just a quick note to let those who are interested that I have many excellent meteorite auctions ending in a few hours, many still at just 99 cents. I also have NEW Angrite, NWA 2999 that have the Buy it Now option. This is one unique Angrite and about one third of what I

[meteorite-list] Need a help to identify image

2005-08-17 Thread Sergey Vasiliev
Hello List, My friend from Russia sent me an image what he found on one of the Russian's online auctions. It was stated as a meteorite and it is for sale. I can recall this image and I went trough several meteowrong pages but I was not able to find it. Does anybody else see this image before?

[meteorite-list] Centimeter cube need

2005-08-17 Thread M come Meteorite Meteorites
Hello I need a centimeter cube type the specimen show in the photo of my collection http://it.geocities.com/mcomemeteoritecollection/Seymchan4.JPG or if not the same a similar. Write in private, thanks Matteo M come Meteorite - Matteo Chinellato Via Triestina 126/A - 30030 - TESSERA,

Re-2: [meteorite-list] Blanket meteorite

2005-08-17 Thread bernd . pauli
Martin wrote: The Catalogue of Meteorite has litttle info on Blanket, and lists no TKW. David New added up the listed weights in known collections. Right! Here's the info I have: 2.9 kg, Chicago, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. (main masses of 3 of the stones). 1815g, Washington, U.S. Nat. Mus. 84g,

Re: [meteorite-list] Isheyevo - Bright Blue/Green Inclusion

2005-08-17 Thread Martin H.
Cool Discovery Jeff! I guess we now have evidence that LGM (little green man) really stands for little green mineral. Hey, green is green. Good enough for me. Cheers, Martin --- Jeff Kuyken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day Folks, Some of you may know how I like to find unusual things in

[meteorite-list] Slice holders

2005-08-17 Thread MarkF
Hello List I ran across a fairly inexpensive way to keep smaller slices and pices without the worry of PVC. They're coin holders called Kointain®, and are made specificly for coins which are also affected by PVC breaking down. Heres what they look like and although they do not provide the

Re: [meteorite-list] Isheyevo - Bright Blue/Green Inclusion

2005-08-17 Thread Jeff Kuyken
Apatite? No thanks... just had breakfast! ;-) But seriously, to answer some of the questions. It's not from cutting nor from polishing. The endcut was only polished on emery paper and the colour is solid through the inclusion. In fact I think it actually got a little larger as I got slightly

RE: [meteorite-list] Some of you may have a free rare earth magnet

2005-08-17 Thread Charles Viau
Better yet, There are millions of old hard disks out there piled high in junk boxes. Each contains a pair of rare-earth Neodymium magnets, many of which are so powerful they can suspend 50 to 100 pounds of steel. Put one on your refrigerator, and you will need a pair of pliers to remove it. Try

[meteorite-list] Now that's what I call manuverability!

2005-08-17 Thread Darren Garrison
Now this has to be some tricky driving! http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0817t-space-ON.html Can meteorites collide with the space station, another student asked. Yes, [NASA Flight Engineer and Science Officer John Phillips while he was aboard the space station] said, though, we can