[meteorite-list] AD - KAYUNWAR auctions on ebay

2006-10-13 Thread Fred Caillou Noir
Dear All, We currently have some great meteorites on ebay that you can see at: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ50QQsassZkayunwar They will start ending in about 36 hours and some of them are not far from their $0.99 satrting price... As usual you will find a wide selection of Saharan

Re: [meteorite-list] Venus May Have Once Had A Moon

2006-10-13 Thread tett
Sterling, Thank you for your grain of salt for me to take into consideration when reviewing Tom's treatise on planetary issues. Yes, a double dose of caution is needed. His arguments that gravity has a speed can be convincing at first blush but one needs to consider the law of conservation

Re: [meteorite-list] Kobe

2006-10-13 Thread drtanuki
Dear List and David, To set the record straight for everyone the price is/was 10K/gr for mg fragments, not 10 million per gram LOL. Thanks David for catching my typing error. Thank you. Sincerely, Dirk...TokyoDavid Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List,I was reminded by Dirk that the selling

Re: Re-2: [meteorite-list] Some clicks from other meteorites

2006-10-13 Thread M come Meteorite Meteorites
Hi Matteo, Bernd and list members, I was also amazed at the images you took earlier today. Beautiful! Also this image of the fly is really fantastic, you say its only 3mm big. I am sure there will be many members asking Santa for this fantastic program. Thank you for sharing, Moni The price

[meteorite-list] Who has the rarest of them all?

2006-10-13 Thread Dana L. Hawn
With little time to bid I only wish I could afford buy this gem. ha ha ha http://cgi.ebay.com/METEORITE_W0QQitemZ300034369553QQihZ020QQcategoryZ3239QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItemYa'll think this was a typo or a wishful thinker? ~Dana Hawn Louisville, IL How low will we go? Check out Yahoo!

Re: [meteorite-list] THE 5 BILLIONAIRES

2006-10-13 Thread drtanuki
Hello Steve and List, Since you or perhaps othershave the time to moniter the 5 Ducks, why don`t you follow up with their customers and ask them to check their purchases and provide information on how to test for a meteorite? Not to late for them to contact their credit card companies and put a

[meteorite-list] Does world-record meteorite await unearthing in Kansas?

2006-10-13 Thread Darren Garrison
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/15745494.htm Posted on Fri, Oct. 13, 2006 Does world-record meteorite await unearthing in Kansas? Scientists and the man who detected a large object beneath a wheat field may know today. By KEVIN MURPHY The Kansas City Star Something big

[meteorite-list] Meteorite story

2006-10-13 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear List; Our daily paper ran a story on the recent Colorado meteor occurrence written by Bill Hethcock of the Gazzette, and quoted Robert Ward as a meteorite collector and hunterRobert are you a list participant? ...Other folks had time to scamper up on the roof to watch the

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite story

2006-10-13 Thread Chris Peterson
How about this, from a British tourist who was driving across Arizona that night: We were travelling on our way from Winslow to Holbrook in Arizona on the Interstate 40 facing the Holbrook direction (I'm afraid I can't be any more specific than that because as visitors to the USA we were

[meteorite-list] First Detailed Pictures of Binary Asteroid Reveal Bizarre System

2006-10-13 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=986 First detailed pictures of asteroid reveal bizarre system University of Michigan October 12, 2006 ANN ARBOR, Mich. - The first detailed images of a binary asteroid system reveal a bizarre world where the highest points on the surface are

[meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: October 9-13, 2006

2006-10-13 Thread Ron Baalke
MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES October 9-13, 2006 o Feature of the Week: East Melas Chasma http://themis.asu.edu/feature o Collapse Features (Released 09 October 2006) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20061009a o Craters on Crater (Released 10 October 2006) http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20061010a o

Re: [meteorite-list] Does world-record meteorite await unearthing inKansas?

2006-10-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, All, If the object Arnold found is a meteorite, it could be twice as big as the Hoba meteorite If an iron (like Hoba) and twice as big (in all dimensions), it would weigh 518 tons. You could find that by the gravity anomaly! Seriously, that's awfully hefty for a meteorite main mass,

Re: [meteorite-list] First Detailed Pictures of Binary Asteroid Reveal Bizarre System

2006-10-13 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:55:50 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: Another interesting finding is that the two bodies in the asteroid system are orbiting so closely that they are caught in each other's gravitational pull. Wow. Who would have thought two bodies orbiting each other would be effected by

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite story

2006-10-13 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:26:56 -0600, you wrote: Dear List; Our daily paper ran a story on the recent Colorado meteor occurrence written by Bill Hethcock of the Gazzette, and quoted Robert Ward as a meteorite collector and hunterRobert are you a list participant? That Ward story has cropped

[meteorite-list] Stalking the Wily Shattercone

2006-10-13 Thread Paul
While browsing the Internet, I came across a paper, which provides a very nice summary of the different criteria, which can be use to authenticate a impact structure. The paper is: French, B. M., 2005, Stalking the Wily Shattercone: A Critical Guide for Impact-Crater Hunters. Impacts in the

Re: [meteorite-list] Who has the rarest of them all?

2006-10-13 Thread Impactika
In a message dated 10/13/2006 9:46:59 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With little time to bid I only wish I could afford buy this gem. ha ha ha http:// cgi.ebay.com/METEORITE_W0QQitemZ300034369553QQihZ020QQcategoryZ3239QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Ya'll think this was a

[meteorite-list] Tucson 2007 Events

2006-10-13 Thread Notkin
Dear Listees: Greetings all. I've been on the road for ages, and while I was away several friends and colleagues emailed to ask me about Tucson 2007 show dates, so I thought it would be a good time to post what we have so far. As many of you are aware, Michael Blood, Allan Lang, Steve

[meteorite-list] Mars Exploration Rovers Update - October 13, 2006

2006-10-13 Thread Ron Baalke
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html SPIRIT UPDATE: Spirit Studies Layers of Volcanic Rock - sol 977-981, October 13, 2006: Spirit is healthy and continues to make progress on a winter science campaign of experiments. In parallel with normal planning, a special team has been

Re: [meteorite-list] Kobe - Latest information (AD)

2006-10-13 Thread Michael L Blood
Hi all, Through the kindness of Dirk Ross, I am able to offer the collecting community (or any interested institutions) the last of the fragments of this exceptionally rare material at as low a price as the material has ever been sold. Only 3 fragments remain. Read the information and see the

[meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - October 14, 2006

2006-10-13 Thread SPACEROCKSINC
http://www.spacerocksinc.com/October_14.html __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Rock and Gem Article + Alien Metal?

2006-10-13 Thread Notkin
Dear Listees: Greetings all from sunny Tucson -- the all-sunshine/no-winter city. The current (November '06) issue of Rock and Gem includes a feature article by Mark Mathosian entitled Collecting Rocks from Space: Tips for Beginning Collectors, pgs 80-82,90. It's an entry level article with

Re: [meteorite-list] Rock and Gem Article + Alien Metal?

2006-10-13 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, In Wasson's 1974 analysis, he found 9.0 ppm.Ga, 52.3 ppm.Ge, and 2.7 ppm. Ir. It's probably that trace of iridium that the writer is referring to, since it's been so touted as the marker of extraterrestiality in the K-T boundary, proof of Chicxulub, and so forth. He musta missed the

RE:[meteorite-list] Does world-record meteorite await unearthing in Ka nsas?

2006-10-13 Thread Steve Schoner
Humm, I wonder if Arnold re-discovered my re-discovered model T (c. 1909) that I found long after someone buried it untold years ago... I remember diging a hole by hand nearly 7 feet deep. Steve Schoner IMCA #r4470 [meteorite-list] Does world-record meteorite await unearthing in Kansas?

Re: [meteorite-list] Rock and Gem Article + Alien Metal?

2006-10-13 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:03:25 -0700, you wrote: The Estherville (Iowa) meteorite is composed of iron, nickel, phosphorous, sulfur, and some unknown alien metal. Might have been confusing metals with minerals. This list contains several minerals found in meteorites but never (yet) found on