Re: [meteorite-list] Microtektites from Antarctica

2009-04-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, The article states: ...the Ivory Coast strewn field (1.10 + or- 0.05 Ma). However the latter has no extension south of the equator so these microtektites must form an extension of the Australasian field. The Botsumtwi crater (which is in Ghana not the Ivory Coast) is virtually ON the

[meteorite-list] Major web site updates - AD

2009-04-07 Thread The Earth's memory
Dear list Members, We hope you're all doing well ! it has been a long time since we made changes on our web site www.meteorite.fr so, we just spent two weeks taking pictures and writting descriptions for more than 600 specimens we added on our pages. If you have time, please take a look. If

Re: [meteorite-list] Banishment -OT was 2 arrested update

2009-04-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
And in Massachusetts they passed a law requiring citizens to hang or otherwise execute any Rhode Islanders found in Massachusetts. This was in 1659. The law was not repealed until the 1970's, when an enterprising defense attorney whose client was accused of shooting to death a man from... you

Re: [meteorite-list] Major web site updates - AD

2009-04-07 Thread STARSANDSCOPES
Fantastic site! It's like going to a museum! Tom In a message dated 4/7/2009 12:26:04 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time, i...@meteorite.fr writes: Dear list Members, We hope you're all doing well ! it has been a long time since we made changes on our web site www.meteorite.fr so, we just

[meteorite-list] North Central California/Yuba, NV Bolide 7APR09

2009-04-07 Thread drtanuki
Dear List, A new bolide has just been reported seen over California and Nevada. http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/ Dirk Ross...Tokyo __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Questions about accretion.

2009-04-07 Thread Meteorites USA
Thanks Rob! Great response. That pretty much sums it up for me and answers just about everything I was curious about in that email. You mentioned... ..If the rock is big enough, (which provides enough radioactive material to generate the heat AND enough lying over the middle to prevent the

[meteorite-list] Itsy bitsy teeny weeny basaltic meteorite

2009-04-07 Thread Darren Garrison
Yellow polkadots unlikely. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7985788.stm Tiny rock excites astrochemists A unique micrometeorite found in Antarctica is challenging ideas about how planets can form. Detailed analysis has shown that the sample, known as MM40, has a chemical composition

[meteorite-list] Meteoritics

2009-04-07 Thread peterscherff
Hi, I am looking for a run of the journal Meteoritics and its successor publication. Does anyone have a set for sale? Thanks, Peter Scherff __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

[meteorite-list] Note to anyone searching for the VA Beach fireball

2009-04-07 Thread Fries, Marc D
Howdy all I haven¹t heard from anyone searching for meteorites from the Virginia Beach fireball from last week, so I¹ll post this for general consumption. If anyone is there, could you collect samples of meteorite particles for analysis? By that I mean covering a magnet with Saran Wrap (or

Re: [meteorite-list] Note to anyone searching for the VA Beach fireball

2009-04-07 Thread Fries, Marc D
Should read ...from the southwest... ground on the southern tip of the Delmarva peninsula with the help of strong winds from the southeast, and even if all the sizable pieces turn out to be __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing

Re: [meteorite-list] Questions about accretion.

2009-04-07 Thread Jerry Flaherty
Just a smigen bigger than not enough? - Original Message - From: Meteorites USA e...@meteoritesusa.com To: rob_mccaffe...@yahoo.com; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 12:40 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Questions about accretion. Thanks Rob! Great

[meteorite-list] (ad) I have added a couple items to the web site. Brenham translucent pallasite full slice and Meteorite knife Bowie style

2009-04-07 Thread Mike Miller
Hello everyone if you are in the market for a killer green translucent slice of Brenham and you want a big full slice you better not wait. This is the only one that I am selling that will be this large and the crystals are well some of the best I have seen. I also added the largest Glorieta Bowie

Re: [meteorite-list] Questions about accretion.

2009-04-07 Thread Rob McCafferty
According to O. Richard Norton's Encyclopedia of Meteorites 2002, 100-200km (abstract page for chapter 9) Rob --- On Tue, 4/7/09, Meteorites USA e...@meteoritesusa.com wrote: From: Meteorites USA e...@meteoritesusa.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Questions about accretion. To:

[meteorite-list] NASA Selects Material for Orion Spacecraft Heat Shield

2009-04-07 Thread Ron Baalke
April 06, 2009 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.c...@nasa.gov Jane Beitler National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, Colo. 303-492-1497 jbeit...@nsidc.org RELEASE: 09-079 SATELLITES SHOW ARCTIC LITERALLY ON THIN ICE WASHINGTON -- The latest Arctic sea ice

[meteorite-list] NASA Selects Material for Orion Spacecraft Heat Shield

2009-04-07 Thread Ron Baalke
April 7, 2009 Ashley Edwards/Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1756/0668 ashley.edward...@nasa.gov, grey.hautaluom...@nasa.gov Kylie Clem Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kylie.s.c...@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-080 NASA SELECTS MATERIAL FOR ORION SPACECRAFT HEAT

[meteorite-list] Mars Exploration Rovers Update - March 26-31, 2009

2009-04-07 Thread Ron Baalke
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html SPIRIT UPDATE: More Bright Soil Exposed by Driving - sols 1859-1864, March 26-31, 2009: Spirit is running under new flight software, version R9.3, and all is working well. The rover continued driving around the west of Home Plate. A drive on

[meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - April 7, 2009

2009-04-07 Thread SPACEROCKSINC
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[meteorite-list] FREE LL4 material for XRD use

2009-04-07 Thread Greg Catterton
I have just had some slices cut of an LL4 (based on preliminary testing) and have some cutting fragments that would do well for XRD study. I would be willing to offer some free to educational institutions for study/testing. Anyone interested, please contact me off list. I have a limited amount

[meteorite-list] Monthly Favourite - March 2009

2009-04-07 Thread Jeff Kuyken
http://www.meteorites.com.au/favourite/march2009.html Cheers, Jeff __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Calgary Fireball

2009-04-07 Thread Meteorites USA
Anyone have any other info on this one? Calgary Fireball Colourful start to commute as fireball explodes in sky UPDATED: 2009-04-01 02:30:19 MST By KATIE SCHNEIDER The commute to work got a little bit brighter yesterday when a multi-coloured

Re: [meteorite-list] Questions about accretion. Part 1 Aluminium 26, and Asteroid ages

2009-04-07 Thread Mr EMan
My ISP continues to lose much of my email else send them in huge batches. Some additional points to what was discussed thus far: Iron migration to the core of a heat building/holding sized body is a buoyancy issue and gravity driven so long as the iron remains molten. Accretion probably

Re: [meteorite-list] Questions about accretion. Part 2 UAE, Shock wave distribution proto Solar System

2009-04-07 Thread Mr EMan
There was a question regarding the sorting of elements and why for example common chondrules had more iron than did Carbonaceous chondrites. The reason for the difference also includes why we use isotope ratios to determine from where a parent body probably formed within the solar system.

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