Re: [meteorite-list] What are we doing? Ahhhh!

2008-01-15 Thread Don Rawlings
WE are not doing anything. Blame the news media that only tells the sensational stories. That email does not even deserve a reply. NO email that asks how rich am I now deserves a reply. Suppose you help this guy get his meteorite verified and classified. Is he going to reward you for your

Re: [meteorite-list] What are we doing? Ahhhh!

2008-01-15 Thread AL Mitterling
Hi Ruben and all, People who think their rock is worth $300,000 or millions is because of hype by the news media. They will mention some rare type specimen which sold for or which is estimated by some personnel of some museum, school or college (and probably don't have the foggiest notion of

[meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - January 15, 2008

2008-01-15 Thread Michael Johnson
http://www.rocksfromspace.org/January_15_2008.html __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] INTERSTELLAR DISASTER!

2008-01-15 Thread Jerry
A definite winner. Check it out Jerry Flaherty - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 1:07 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] INTERSTELLAR DISASTER! On Mon, 14 Jan 2008

[meteorite-list] RFS Picture of the Day - Mark Crawford's NWA 4680

2008-01-15 Thread bernd . pauli
Hello Mark, Michael J., and List, NWA 4680 is one of my favorite meteorites from Carsten Giessler. It's a beautiful, fresh, brecciated L4-6 chondrite (S3; W1) with a TKW of 3830 gr. I have a complete slice and a broken individual. The latter has frothy, warty, black fusion crust with delicate

[meteorite-list] [Fwd: [alllpl] MESSENGER Post Flyby Assessment]

2008-01-15 Thread lebofsky
Hi All: In case your are interested in images from MESSENGER, it appears that the lines are busy, so the spacecraft download is delayed a little. Larry Original Message Subject: [alllpl] MESSENGER Post Flyby Assessment From:Mary

[meteorite-list] MESSENGER's First Look at Mercury's Previously Unseen Side

2008-01-15 Thread Ron Baalke
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/status_report_01_15_08_2.html MESSENGER Mission News January 15, 2008 MESSENGER's First Look at Mercury's Previously Unseen Side When Mariner 10 flew past Mercury three times in 1974 and 1975, the same hemisphere was in sunlight during each encounter. As

[meteorite-list] Life on Earth 'Began on a Radioactive Beach'

2008-01-15 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILSgrid=xml=/earth/2008/01/09/scibeach109.xml Life on Earth 'began on a radioactive beach' By Nic Fleming The Telegraph (United Kingdom) January 9, 2008 Life on Earth began on a radioactive beach, a scientist claimed today. According to

[meteorite-list] AD: 2 Sweet Auctions on EBay Started

2008-01-15 Thread Don Merchant
Hi List. I have put up 2 more Auctions on EBay ending in 5 days. For those of you who missed out on my group of rare meteorite stamps I have listed another set which includes a Beautiful 10.32gm Oriented Sikhote-Alin Meteorite that represents the Sikhote Alin Stamp in the auction!

[meteorite-list] IMAGES OF MERCURY

2008-01-15 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, All, The delayed data download of images and data from the Messenger flyby of Mercury has apparently begun. The first (small) image has been posted at the Messenger Gallery: http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/sciencePhotos/ I imagine it will take some days before we have a variety of good

Re: [meteorite-list] Life on Earth 'Began on a Radioactive Beach'

2008-01-15 Thread Charles Viau
Interesting, however most CC's we have studied, especially Allende and Murchison are loaded with these complex molecules (amino acids). The planet was pelted with CC's long before there were any oceans and then when oceans did form, those complex molecules would have been dissolved into the ocean

[meteorite-list] QMIG update

2008-01-15 Thread Bob WALKER
Listoids Hola Update at http://qmig..org and the mirror at http://qmig.net Some heavy reading in the new links on the news webpage Any of youse kleverer doyens of the meteorite scientific community want to gander at all the scientific results and venture an opinion on wot is paired or not

[meteorite-list] Perhaps there is a need for a meteorite FAQ

2008-01-15 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi all - Reading this letter from China, it seems to me... We need a page pointing to classification services, explaining the basics to folks - including current price ranges. We need pages with accumulated cutting wisdom... We need some pages with accumulated knowledge on rust prevention...

[meteorite-list] AD - Lots of Updates.

2008-01-15 Thread Impactika
Hello List, I am very busy preparing for the Tucson Show, less than 3 weeks away. For those of you going to Tucson, I will be in The InnSuites, room 230, just like last year, from February 2 to February 16, and I will have a lot of new rare historical pieces, and of course the Santa Rosa!

[meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - January 16, 2008

2008-01-15 Thread SPACEROCKSINC
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