[meteorite-list] test...delete

2006-08-17 Thread MexicoDoug
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Re: [meteorite-list] AD- ebay auction Lamb shape meteorite from theoutback of Kazakstan

2006-08-17 Thread Paul Barford
> Lamb shape meteorite from the outback of Kazakstan. Looks more like a chunk of iron slag hastily put on sale to me. Paul Barford __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-

Re: [meteorite-list] AD- ebay auction Lamb shape meteorite from the outback of Kazakstan

2006-08-17 Thread Darren Garrison
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:36:32 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >Lamb shape meteorite from the outback of Kazakstan. > >Listing URL: >http://cm.ebay.com/cm/ck/1065-29296-2357-0?uid=337247812&site=0&ver=LCA080805&item=160020219223&lk=URL > > Is this a bd auction?

[meteorite-list] AD- ebay auction Lamb shape meteorite from the outback of Kazakstan

2006-08-17 Thread Arriere Ban
Dear meteorite list members, please pay your kind attention: Lamb shape meteorite from the outback of Kazakstan. Listing URL: http://cm.ebay.com/cm/ck/1065-29296-2357-0?uid=337247812&site=0&ver=LCA080805&item=160020219223&lk=URL Thank you, hope you find this interesting! Best Regards Victor

[meteorite-list] Task force to monitor asteroid threats

2006-08-17 Thread Darren Garrison
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14395543/ Task force to monitor asteroid threats Astronomers focus on worries about impact catastrophe The Associated Press Updated: 3:14 p.m. ET Aug 17, 2006 PRAGUE, Czech Republic - They’re out there, hidden among a haze of stars — killer asteroids. Now the world’s

Re: Re: [meteorite-list] NEW PLANETARY NAMES

2006-08-17 Thread Darren Garrison
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:59:55 -0400, you wrote: >Oh... Why name the planets after a god/godess? What's wrong with Bernhard, >Mary, Ann, Richard, Mike, etc. etc. Tradition, I suppose. But if they name too many objects, they may have to start looking for other sources. Like maybe naming them fro

Re: [meteorite-list] NEW PLANETARY NAMES

2006-08-17 Thread Dave Carothers
Oh... Why name the planets after a god/godess? What's wrong with Bernhard, Mary, Ann, Richard, Mike, etc. etc. Dave - Original Message - From: "Dave Carothers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Meteorite List" Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:37 PM Sub

Re: [meteorite-list] NEW PLANETARY NAMES

2006-08-17 Thread Dave Carothers
Sterling, et. al., I know you're looking for a female name, but if we're going to have additional planets to contend with, I think we need a planet named "Bob". Dave - Original Message - From: "Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Meteorite List" Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006

[meteorite-list] NEW PLANETARY NAMES

2006-08-17 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, All, If the new system passes the vote, we've got some naming to do! Larry Lebofsky wrote (off-list): "We need another female planet (not sure Xena counts)." There is one glaringly obvious classical divinity name for 2003UB313 -- ERIS, the Greek goddess of DISCORD! She started the

Re: [meteorite-list] Re:New Impact Crater

2006-08-17 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, In all fairness, I should point out that Johnny stops using commas in his list after the first item, so he probably meant: "impactite, tekti[t]e[s], shatter cones, shocked quartz, and comet fragments" as the elements in his list. The pond looks to me to be no more than 1500 feet across, bu

Re: [meteorite-list] Re:New Impact Crater

2006-08-17 Thread Darren Garrison
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:19:54 -0700, you wrote: >"There is no separate write up on the crater other than the documentaion >naming it Tonko Astrobleme to honor me as the discoverer." Digging through Google for mentions of the "Tonko Astrobleme" answers the question posed earlier as to wherther or

Re: [meteorite-list] Re:New Impact Crater

2006-08-17 Thread Sterling K. Webb
JKG, Think there's little doubt Johnny Tonko named the Tonko Astrobleme to honor Johnny Tonko. If pressed, I'm sure he could come up with a website by Johnny Tonko naming the Tonko Astrobleme in honor of Johnny Tonko. The "astrobleme" is a small pond surrounded by conifers in a cold bu

Re: [meteorite-list] Re:New Impact Crater

2006-08-17 Thread JKGwilliam
Thanks for the link Chuck. I took some time and looked through the data base and found no mention of a "Tonko Astrobleme." This seems odd to me since the finder of the supposed comet crater , Johnny Tonko, made the following statement on a gold prospector and meteorite forum (NuggentShooter F

Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomers Sharply Divided on New Planet Definition

2006-08-17 Thread Darren Garrison
They forgot a quote: "Eight is Enough!" -- Dick Van Patten http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075500/ __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Astronomers Sharply Divided on New Planet Definition

2006-08-17 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060817_planet_support.html Astronomers Sharply Divided on New Planet Definition By Robert Roy Britt space.com 17 August 2006 A 12-person committee representing the world's largest group of planetary scientists today threw its support behind a new planet-def

[meteorite-list] Planetary mnemonic

2006-08-17 Thread Francis Graham
Yes, a planetary mnemonic could be devised that includes Pluto, Quaoar, Sedna, Charon and Xena: My Very Eerie Mom Cries Just Since Uncle Ned Perished Chaoticly to Quite Sedate X-Rays. The symbol for Ceres is established; Quaoar and Sedna's symbols I cannot imagine, , but for Xena a female

Re: [meteorite-list] NOT PLANETS, PLANEMOS

2006-08-17 Thread Larry Lebofsky
I continue to break my promises. The original committee that could not come up with a definition for planet did state (I assume from some ohter IAU group working on the other end with large planets) that there are no free-floating planets. Below deuterium burning (brown dwarf) you are a sub-bro

[meteorite-list] Re: THE PLANETARY VOTE

2006-08-17 Thread Larry Lebofsky
Sterling: Comments below: Quoting "Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, List, Larry, > > > The vote of the planet definition being on August 24th, > Space.com ran an article about, not the definition: the vote, > just like it was FoxNews reporting on an election. The full article

[meteorite-list] NOT PLANETS, PLANEMOS

2006-08-17 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Extra-solar astronomers have planet problems of their own: is a star that's not a star a planet? Or is a planet that's not a star a star? Or, nobody loves a fat jupiterian... http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060605_planemos.html You couldn't find a better word than Plan E Moes?

[meteorite-list] THE PLANETARY VOTE

2006-08-17 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, List, Larry, The vote of the planet definition being on August 24th, Space.com ran an article about, not the definition: the vote, just like it was FoxNews reporting on an election. The full article is reproduced below. But just like real TV, I'm going to indulge in lots of "color comm

[meteorite-list] AD - Auctions about to end on ebay

2006-08-17 Thread Fred Caillou Noir
Dear Meteorites' fans, Kayunwar's auctions on ebay will end in two days and I must say that there are really great stuff this week, such as: - the one before the last full slice of DaG 947 (16.2g) with fusion crust in the edges - a nice 2.7g partslice of Tioulaoualene (CV3) - a 2.08g partslice of

[meteorite-list] Re: Ad Ebay, Book & NWA sales

2006-08-17 Thread meteoriteplaya
Hi All I have several sales going on at once. My first is some Ebay auctions ending in a few hours. See them all here; http://makeashorterlink.com/?T2961539D I have included some pallasites; Fukang, Imilac Glorieta Mountain a nice slice from Steve Schoners original find; http://makeashorterlink.

[meteorite-list] Double List Postings

2006-08-17 Thread Sterling K. Webb
The best part of double list postings is seeing the double list postings about double list postings. I love recursion, up to a . Sterling K. Webb __ Meteorite-list mailing list

[meteorite-list] Double List Postings

2006-08-17 Thread Metorman46
Yes,i have been double posted many times in the past two days.But delete still works. herman. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] THE NEW SOLAR SYSTEM

2006-08-17 Thread Darren Garrison
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:58:21 -0500, you wrote: >Hi, All, > > >Even before the vote, I found a nice graphic >depiction of the New Solar System with the planets >well drawn and to correct scale by size if not Check out these scale models: http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=474753 _

[meteorite-list] SMART-1 Impact: Last Call For Ground Based Observations

2006-08-17 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMTU0Z7QQE_index_0.html SMART-1 impact: last call for ground based observations European Space Agency 17 August 2006 If you are a professional or amateur astronomer and want to contribute to the final phase of the SMART-1 mission, join ESA on the impact ground observat

RE: [meteorite-list] forget about yesterday

2006-08-17 Thread moni Waiblinger-Seabridge
Hi All, and Adam and Michael. and keep it off the list! That would really mean you solved the issues. Thanks, Moni From: Michael Farmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] forget about yesterday Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:22:57 -0700 (PDT) Ok,

[meteorite-list] forget about yesterday

2006-08-17 Thread Michael Farmer
Ok, here goes. I had a long nearly two hour phone call to Adam Hupe last night. We solved some issues, and cleared the air. We both pushed each others buttons today and a fight ensued. Most of you know us, so this is nothing new, we both know how to do it like pro's. Adam took offense at my post

Re: [meteorite-list] 53 planets, soon to be 80

2006-08-17 Thread Darren Garrison
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:13:54 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: > >80. Crikey! I don't fancy trying to write a mnemonic >for that one! >Kids will graduate from school simply by being able to >remember the first 75, I'm sure. I was thinking of how some Science Fiction movies and series like to do those r

Re: [meteorite-list] 'Plutons' Push Planet Total Up To 12-- Mike Brown's view

2006-08-17 Thread Larry Lebofsky
Hi again Darren: Mike Brown makes some interesting and valid points. Others have too. No system is going to be perfect. We are dealing with Mother Nature and she has her own rules. However, I am confused by some of what he says. He says that he had nothing to do with the writing of the resolut

Re: [meteorite-list] 53 planets, soon to be 80

2006-08-17 Thread Gerald Flaherty
THAT SHOULD BE ENOUGH Jerry Flaherty - Original Message - From: "Darren Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 6:59 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] 53 planets, soon to be 80 By the "if it is round, and not orbiting another planet, it's a planet" definition, ou

RE: [meteorite-list] Double List Postings?

2006-08-17 Thread mark ford
No ... :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Strope Sent: 17 August 2006 12:24 To: Meteorite Central Subject: [meteorite-list] Double List Postings? Is anyone else getting double postings from the list? Several times over the past wee

RE: [meteorite-list] Double List Postings?

2006-08-17 Thread mark ford
No... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Strope Sent: 17 August 2006 12:24 To: Meteorite Central Subject: [meteorite-list] Double List Postings? Is anyone else getting double postings from the list? Several times over the past week, I

Re: [meteorite-list] Double List Postings?

2006-08-17 Thread Fred Caillou Noir
Yes, I also had some but for me it was this morning here in Lyon, France! Cheers Fred - Original Message - From: "Jim Strope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Meteorite Central" Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 1:24 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Double List Postings? > Is anyone else getting doubl

Re: [meteorite-list] Planets Galore

2006-08-17 Thread Michael L Blood
As an Anthropologist and Sociologist I find myself more interested in WHO considers these changes in nomenclature desirable and who considers them undesirable. As for myself, I consider sweeping changes such as this highly undesirable. This fits in with several elements dealing with human p

Re: [meteorite-list] Double List Postings?

2006-08-17 Thread Michael L Blood
You guys are either up incredibly early, or, like me, up very late. Michael on 8/17/06 4:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 8/17/2006 7:24:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Is anyone else getting double postings from the l

[meteorite-list] Planets Galore

2006-08-17 Thread Francis Graham
Dear List: I enjoyed the debate and conversation on this list on the subject of what a definition of a planet is. It was not acrimonious and personal, and was very interesting and worthwhile. Many of us do not care if Ceres is a planet or even if the old Apollo rocket stages are called planets

Re: [meteorite-list] Double List Postings?

2006-08-17 Thread SPACEROCKSINC
In a message dated 8/17/2006 7:24:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is anyone else getting double postings from the list? Several times over the past week, I have received a group of emails which had already come through the previous day or two days before. __

[meteorite-list] Double List Postings?

2006-08-17 Thread Jim Strope
Is anyone else getting double postings from the list? Several times over the past week, I have received a group of emails which had already come through the previous day or two days before. Jim Strope 421 Fourth Street Glen Dale, WV 26038 http://www.catchafallingstar.com _

[meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - August 17, 2006

2006-08-17 Thread SPACEROCKSINC
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Re: [meteorite-list] 53 planets, soon to be 80

2006-08-17 Thread Rob McCafferty
80. Crikey! I don't fancy trying to write a mnemonic for that one! Kids will graduate from school simply by being able to remember the first 75, I'm sure. Rob McC > - Original Message - > From: "Darren Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 6:59 PM > Sub

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteor Shape

2006-08-17 Thread Chris Peterson
Hi Rick- It isn't really possible that you saw the shape of the meteor itself- at the largest it was probably less than a meter across, and at its end at least 30 km high. But meteors can produce some peculiar atmospheric effects- what you saw could have been that, or could have been a visual

[meteorite-list] Moss Meteorite - The uncut story...

2006-08-17 Thread Michael Mazur
Against my better judgement, I feel that I should report on my knowledge of the laws in Norway. It is clear that meteorites found on property belong to the land owner (although this has never been tested). The land owner can, of course, give permission, in which case, the meteorites belong to

[meteorite-list] AD some meteorites for auction on ebay

2006-08-17 Thread Christian Anger
Hi all, I have put some meteorites for auction on ebay A wonderful oriented looking Sikhote-Alin shrapnel, worth a look. My last Savik I fragments, Kilabo Individual, Gujba, Marlow, Maigatari-Danduma, Agpalilik see http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=008&item=180019165287 and

[meteorite-list] THE NEW SOLAR SYSTEM

2006-08-17 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, All, Even before the vote, I found a nice graphic depiction of the New Solar System with the planets well drawn and to correct scale by size if not distance. It's 1.24 MB jpeg, 5669x3500 pixels and would print up nicely if you need a small poster. http://tmp.4chan.org/hr/src/1155766127506