Re: [meteorite-list] Ablation Zone 5 Layers...Not

2009-11-23 Thread debfred
List, I think Jason has done a fine job with his position with which I agree. I don't want to beat a dead horse but Here are published definitions of fusion crusts on irons. “Fusion Crust” Definition from Glossary of Geology 2nd edition 1980; American Geological Institute, Falls Church,

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2009-11-23 Thread Marcin Cimala
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Re: [meteorite-list] Crust Descriptions...was Ablation

2009-11-23 Thread MEM
Certainly the best collection of observations set to text I've seen. Thanks for digging up the details Fred. This also goes into detail as to the kind of structures that can be seen over the various faces of the meteoroids orientations. One exception: Yes glassy is a term used to describe

[meteorite-list] Meteorite lights up Gauteng sky

2009-11-23 Thread Michael Groetz
Meteorite lights up Gauteng sky http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/article204795.ece Amazed Johannesburg and Pretoria residents could hardly believe their eyes when a five-second lightning flash, thought to be a meteorite, lit up the night sky in a dazzling display of light at about 11pm on

Re: [meteorite-list] What is or is not a chondrule?

2009-11-23 Thread MEM
Walter your email is not yahoo friendly so here is the answer via the list. Hello Walter, I don't know if you ever got an answer to your question but I had it marked for follow up. Chondrules, while usually more spherical, can be ovoid or ellipsoid and occasionally doubled. Current theory on

Re: [meteorite-list] What is or is not a chondrule?

2009-11-23 Thread Carl 's
Hi Elton, I couldn't help notice Walter originally asked this question way back July 6, 2006.:) I don't have a point but thought it was funny. Carl Elton wrote: ...I don't know if you ever got an answer to your question but I had it marked for follow up...

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2009-11-23 Thread Adam Hupe
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Re: [meteorite-list] Ablation Zone 5 Layers...AND Crust

2009-11-23 Thread Greg Stanley
Elton and List: I just wanted to point out that in much of the literature (and on the web) it is stated that there is a fusion crust on irons, so I do not think this is the your argument.  It is how the term is should be used.  I think you make many valid points and I have done some reading

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2009-11-23 Thread robert cucchiara
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2009-11-23 Thread E.P. Grondine
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[meteorite-list] Galileo's missing fingers found in jar

2009-11-23 Thread Meteorites USA
Related and morbid but interesting... ...(CNN) -- Two fingers cut from the hand of Italian astronomer Galileo nearly 300 years ago have been rediscovered more than a century after they were last seen, an Italian museum director said Monday... CNN World: Galileo's missing fingers found in jar

Re: [meteorite-list] Galileo's missing fingers found in jar

2009-11-23 Thread Mike Hankey
can't wait till they hit ebay! On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Meteorites USA e...@meteoritesusa.com wrote: Related and morbid but interesting... ...(CNN) -- Two fingers cut from the hand of Italian astronomer Galileo nearly 300 years ago have been rediscovered more than a century after they

Re: [meteorite-list] Galileo's missing fingers found in jar

2009-11-23 Thread Mark Crawford
Don't laugh (and yes, OT): http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/23/mussolinis_brain/ M Mike Hankey wrote: can't wait till they hit ebay! On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Meteorites USA e...@meteoritesusa.com wrote: Related and morbid but interesting... ...(CNN) -- Two fingers cut from

Re: [meteorite-list] Galileo's missing fingers found in jar

2009-11-23 Thread Martin Altmann
Don't laugh neither: Search for: relic* -medal* -rosary -icon -statue -water -image And there for the 1st class relics. Each week. In German ebay it's forbidden to sell body parts. And there someone should still say, that meteorite collecting is a weird hobby... Martin -Ursprüngliche

Re: [meteorite-list] Galileo's missing fingers found in jar

2009-11-23 Thread ensoramanda
Hi Mike, All The fingers and tooth are already on ebay. Item number 350275205445 ;-) Graham, UK Mike Hankey mike.han...@gmail.com wrote: can't wait till they hit ebay! On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Meteorites USA e...@meteoritesusa.com wrote: Related and morbid but

[meteorite-list] Free Spirit: Third Extrication Drive Ends With Wheel Stall

2009-11-23 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-173 Free Spirit: Third Extrication Drive Ends With Wheel Stall Jet Propulsion Laboratory November 23, 2009 Spirit experienced a wheel stall with the right-rear wheel during the second step of a two-step drive on Sol 2092 (Saturday, Nov. 21).

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Re: [meteorite-list] Ablation Zone 5 Layers...AND Crust

2009-11-23 Thread Pete Shugar
Now there's a $27.87 dollar word if I ever heard one-autodidactly One who is self taught. WOW - Original Message - From: MEM mstrema...@yahoo.com To: altm...@meteorite-martin.de; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com; Greg Stanley stanleygr...@hotmail.com Sent: Monday,

[meteorite-list] GPS Photographing Meteorites in the field

2009-11-23 Thread Richard Kowalski
Some months ago I went on my first meteorite hunt and hope to try my hand at it again in the not too distant future. On my first hunting trip I used my automotive unit, since it easily fit into my pocket. My other GPS is an aviation unit and is much larger and heavier. Obviously neither is

Re: [meteorite-list] What is or is not a chondrule?

2009-11-23 Thread Jeff Kuyken
Better late than never I always say. It was an interesting post too. Thanks, Jeff - Original Message - From: Carl 's carloselgua...@hotmail.com To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 1:28 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What is or is not a