[meteorite-list] LEFT OVER MUNICH SALE

2005-11-03 Thread dean bessey
I have some items that I can offer really cheap if somebody wants 100 kilos. I doubt that an offer this low will ever happen again so if anybody is interested in a large quantity of lower grade stuff cheap Email me for details. I also have a beautiful 9 kilo NWA iron for under a dollar a gram. I

RE: [meteorite-list] Mars VISION Meteorite on Ebay

2005-11-03 Thread mark ford
Maybe he'd take $666.666 for it? :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Garrison Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 3:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Meteorite-List Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mars VISION Meteorite on Ebay On Wed,

[meteorite-list] AD - Ebay auctions ending tonight

2005-11-03 Thread Jim Strope
Hello all. I have 10 ebay auctions ending tonight. There are some great specimens so even if you are not bidding you may enjoy looking at the photos: NWA 2627 Beautiful Winonaite slice. Photos do not do this specimen justice: Price is still VERY low:

[meteorite-list] 4WD Rental in the USA

2005-11-03 Thread Pelé Pierre-Marie
Hello to the List, A message for californian meteorite fans... That's a little bit off topic but I plan to go the US next year for a 3 weeks trip. I'll do some meteorite hunting and will start my journey from LA. I wish to rent a real 4WD (not a SUV... but better, as Range Rover, Jeep Wrangler,

Re: [meteorite-list] LEFT OVER MUNICH SALE

2005-11-03 Thread Michael Farmer
Let me know what you have and prices. Mike - Original Message - From: dean bessey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 3:06 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] LEFT OVER MUNICH SALE I have some items that I can offer really cheap if

[meteorite-list] Hayabusa Probe Prepares to Punch an Asteroid

2005-11-03 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8259 Hayabusa probe prepares to punch an asteroid Maggie McKee New Scientist 03 November 2005 Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft is set to perform the first of three daring rendezvous with a small asteroid on Friday, as planetary scientists puzzle over

[meteorite-list] MINERVA To Explore The Surface of Itokawa

2005-11-03 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.isas.ac.jp/e/snews/2005/1103.shtml MINERVA explores the surface of ITOKAWA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) November 3, 2005 MINERVA (MIcro/Nano Experimental Robot Vehicle for Asteroid) is a small robot lander whose weight is less than 600g. Although it is a tiny lander,

[meteorite-list] Google Earth, a wonderful tool for meteorite hunters

2005-11-03 Thread Pelé Pierre-Marie
Hello to the List, Some of you may already know the Google Earth free software. For those who don't, it's a software that enables you to visit virtually any place on earth. It's based on satellite pictures and overlaid with altitude datas. So you can get some cool 3D landscapes based on real

[meteorite-list] FindMeteorites.com acquired by Paul Jim of The Meteorite Exchange, Inc.

2005-11-03 Thread Paul Harris
Hello Everyone! Most of you don't know but Steve and I (Paul) go all the way back to late '96 or early '97. When Jim and I first started meteorite.com we had a page called Meteorite Kids. This was back in the days the Internet was innocent. I had my daughters on it and Steve had his daughter

[meteorite-list] Palestinians Hit by Sonic Boom Air Raids

2005-11-03 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1607450,00.html Palestinians hit by sonic boom air raids o UN condemns night noise attacks as indiscriminate o Agencies say they cause trauma and miscarriages Chris McGreal in Gaza The Guardian (United Kingdom) November 3, 2005 Israel is deploying

[meteorite-list] Sikhote-alin question

2005-11-03 Thread Jim Strope
Hi All. I just sold a 116 gram Sikhote-alin which has an unusual feature that the customer noticed and I had no explaination for. Take a look at the following photograph. Notice the two parallel lines on the left hand toward the middle. Does anyone have a guess as to what they may

Re: [meteorite-list] Google Earth, a wonderful tool for meteorite hunters

2005-11-03 Thread Darren Garrison
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 19:18:22 +0100 (CET), Pelé Pierre-Marie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - All meteorites of the world in a single file ; you can download the file on my website : http://www.meteor-center.com/meteorites.kmz This file doesn't seem to do anything to Google Earth for me.

Re: [meteorite-list] Sikhote-alin question

2005-11-03 Thread Matt Morgan
Those are probably the crystal face boundaries that have been burned out. Seen that before. Matt Jim Strope wrote: Hi All. I just sold a 116 gram Sikhote-alin which has an unusual feature that the customer noticed and I had no explaination for. Take a look at the following

Re: [meteorite-list] Sikhote-alin question

2005-11-03 Thread Jim Strope
Thanks Matt I knew that there had to be plenty of people on this list smarter than me !!! I will forward the answer to the buyer. Best Wishes Jim Strope 421 Fourth Street Glen Dale, WV 26038 http://www.catchafallingstar.com - Original Message - From: Matt

Re-2: [meteorite-list] Sikhote-alin question

2005-11-03 Thread bernd . pauli
Matt wrote: Those are probably the crystal face boundaries that have been burned out. Seen that before. http://209.238.151.128/sa116d.JPG Hi Jim, Matt and List, You can even slightly notice these crystal face boundaries on the right where they haven't burned out yet but were very close to

Re: [meteorite-list] Sikhote-alin question

2005-11-03 Thread bernd . pauli
Hi again, On page 1128, Buchwald calls these features octahedral parting. On page 1129, there is a picture of a 4.4 kg fragment from impact hole no. 30 with a fracture that follows Widmanstaetten boundaries. Reference: BUCHWALD V.F. (1975) Iron Meteorites, Vol. 3

[meteorite-list] Google Earth, a wonderful tool for meteorite hunters

2005-11-03 Thread Pelé Pierre-Marie
Hello again, hello Darren, Yes, there's a problem with my file. Here's the link from MetBull to show all meteorites of the world (11327, excluding Antarct ones) which should fix the problem. Click on the link below. After Google Earth opens, you can do a Save As and save all the meteorites

Re: [meteorite-list] Google Earth, a wonderful tool for meteorite hunters

2005-11-03 Thread Jeff Grossman
The Meteoritical Bulletin database actually does more than this... if you do a query that gives you a list of meteorites, you can click map all at the head of the column with the little earth symbols in it and Google Earth will map all of them at once for you. Try it, for example, on this

[meteorite-list] Where is Lahmada 016?

2005-11-03 Thread Alexander Seidel
Listees, I have got a question regarding the whereabouts of a Western Sahara find of the pre-NWA times, namely LAHMADA 016. This one was formally classified by A. Saxton of Milton Keynes, Open University, has been published in MetBull 84, and is in the possession of an anonymous person (..or may

[meteorite-list] Announcing MeteoriteClassifieds.com + 2 Free Ads

2005-11-03 Thread Paul Harris
Hello Everyone! Jim and I are pleased to announce our new site www.MeteoriteClassifieds.com. We have taken Steve's concept of matching the collector's wants with the Dealers inventory, and googlized it, and sprinkled a little ebay on it. How many of us use Google or some other search engine

AW: [meteorite-list] Sikhote-alin question

2005-11-03 Thread Andreas Gren
Hi Jim, Matt, Bernd, Hi List, I was wondering about a similar phenomena at a very thin piece of Sikhote, I bought last week at the Munich Mineral show . This seems to be the phenomena in a reflected image!?! Take a look : www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/SikhoteAlin.jpg Here are two images from a

[meteorite-list] Andi's Sikhote-Alins and a SA anecdote ;-)

2005-11-03 Thread bernd . pauli
Andi wrote: a very thin piece of Sikhote I bought last week at the Munich Mineral show www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/SikhoteAlin.jpg Beautiful, almost arrow-shaped piece. Sincere congrats! Yes, that seems to be the same phenomenon. Judging from its real dimensions that you kindly added, the

[meteorite-list] Fireball Sightings (Taurids Meteor Shower)

2005-11-03 Thread Ron Baalke
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/03nov_taurids.htm Fireball Sightings NASA Science News November 3, 2005 Earth is orbiting through a swarm of space debris that may be producing an unusual number of nighttime fireballs. November 3, 2005: I thought some wise guy was shining a spotlight

[meteorite-list] 69th Annual Meeting of the Meteortrical Society

2005-11-03 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2006 69th Annual Meeting of the Meteortrical Society 06-11 August 2006 Zurich, Switzerland Hosted by: Department of Earth Sciences ETH Zürich, Switzerland Sponsored by: ETH Zürich Swiss National Science Foundation Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences

[meteorite-list] Article on panspermia and Martian meteorites from Nov. 2005 Scientific American

2005-11-03 Thread Darren Garrison
http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/marsperm.zip __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list