Re: [meteorite-list] East Coast Meteor and MN Meteor 1MAR2011

2011-03-01 Thread Shawn Alan
Count and Listers, I feel for you I didnt see anything tonight and I live in NYC. Hope a meteorite came from this fireball :) Can we say its time for a new American fall? Shawn Alan IMCA 1633 eBaystore http://shop.ebay.com/photophlow/m.html [meteorite-list] East Coast Meteor and MN Meteor

Re: [meteorite-list] East Coast Meteor and MN Meteor 1MAR2011

2011-03-01 Thread Count Deiro
Hello Dirk and Listers, I've been staring up at the sky for monthsHaven't seen s---. It seems more meteors are clobbering the East Coast than bombs fell on London during WW2. It's about G-- damn time we got a boomer out here in Nevada. One of those big ass bolides detonating and fragging an

Re: [meteorite-list] What's Hitting Earth?

2011-03-01 Thread Meteorites USA
Hi Robert, I got it... Looks like a great idea... ;) I just haven't had time to reply yet. Eric On 3/1/2011 7:55 PM, meteoritefin...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Mike, I actually made 2 posts with 2 different links to this story exactly 22 hours ago ( see the List archives). They DO show up in the Li

Re: [meteorite-list] What's Hitting Earth?

2011-03-01 Thread meteoritefinder
Hi Mike, I actually made 2 posts with 2 different links to this story exactly 22 hours ago ( see the List archives). They DO show up in the List archives, and I got the email as a subscriber to the List. But I thought it was very strange that NOBODY replied or talked about it all day today. I t

[meteorite-list] East Coast Meteor and MN Meteor 1MAR2011

2011-03-01 Thread drtanuki
Dear List, Reports are coming in about two meteors observed tonight. NY, NJ, PA, VA, DC Meteor ~9:40pm EST 1MAR2011 http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2011/03/breaking-news-ny-nj-pa-meteor-1mar2011.html Minn. Green Meteor 7:25pm CST 1MAR2011 http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2011/0

Re: [meteorite-list] What's Hitting Earth?

2011-03-01 Thread Becky and Kirk
This new computer system sounds really great! Should for sure aid & help in tracking down Meteorite falls---and very quickly at that! Kirk.:-) - Original Message - From: "Michael Gilmer" To: Cc: "Ron Baalke" ; "Meteorite Mailing List" Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 9:02 PM Subj

Re: [meteorite-list] What's Hitting Earth?

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Gilmer
Hi Robert, Ron and List, I never saw your previous post about this Robert. It was never delivered to me. I wonder if anyone else on the list saw it, or was it some kind of fluke? So, some of this camera network is online now? And more importantly, how is the data going to be shared? Best rega

Re: [meteorite-list] What's Hitting Earth?

2011-03-01 Thread meteoritefinder
Yeah, Ron, like you, I thought this was newsworthy and I posted this to the List about 20 hrs ago. But no discussion here at all since then. Strange. Robert Woolard Sent from my iPhone On Mar 1, 2011, at 7:21 PM, Ron Baalke wrote: > > http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011

Re: [meteorite-list] trade offer (AD0

2011-03-01 Thread michael cottingham
dream on... On Mar 1, 2011, at 5:17 PM, steve arnold wrote: > Hi list.For all you oriented iron guys and gals,I have a 5 gram oriented > sikhote-alin with a great rollover lip and a .534 gram individual of > sacramento > 005 that has a rollover lip and 2 impact craters.It is rated in the top 10

[meteorite-list] Abundant Ammonia Found in Antarctic Meteorite Aids Life's Origins

2011-03-01 Thread Ron Baalke
http://asunews.asu.edu/20110301_ammonia Abundant ammonia aids life's origins Arizona State University March 01, 2011 An important discovery has been made with respect to the possible inventory of molecules available to the early Earth. Scientists led by Sandra Pizzarello, a research professor a

[meteorite-list] What's Hitting Earth?

2011-03-01 Thread Ron Baalke
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/01mar_meteornetwork/ What's Hitting Earth? NASA Science News March 1, 2011: Every day about 100 tons of meteoroids -- fragments of dust and gravel and sometimes even big rocks - enter the Earth's atmosphere. Stand out under the stars for

[meteorite-list] (AD) Ebay Auctions

2011-03-01 Thread mafer
Greetings List I have some aution ending really soon, check them out here: http://shop.ebay.com/refamat/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=50&_sop=12 Mark Ferguson __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteo

[meteorite-list] trade offer (AD0

2011-03-01 Thread steve arnold
Hi list.For all you oriented iron guys and gals,I have a 5 gram oriented sikhote-alin with a great rollover lip and a .534 gram individual of sacramento 005 that has a rollover lip and 2 impact craters.It is rated in the top 10 of smallest oriented meteorites.I am looking for a 2 to 4 gram indiv

Re: [meteorite-list] News confirmed - NASA landed on VESTA !

2011-03-01 Thread cdtucson
Marcin, Thank you for that. This is some special meteorite you have here. According to this study linked below. This indeed may prove to be from a deep crater from Vesta. And it has quartz! Very rare in a meteorite. http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2011/pdf/1984.pdf very cool. Carl -- Carl

[meteorite-list] Pawnee meteorite lore

2011-03-01 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi all - I spent some time reading through Adrienne Major's book "Fossil Legends of the First Americans" recently. It's not too bad, and she nearly spans the two worlds, but sadly did not realize that the peoples remembered impacts, and thus failed to entirely grasp simple concepts like uktena

[meteorite-list] AD - Auctions Ending; Planetary and More!

2011-03-01 Thread Adam Hupe
Dear List Members, I have 54 great auctions ending this evening. All were started at just 99 cents with no reserve. There are many very nice planetary specimens listed. Some of the items do not yet have an opening bid while others are currently priced very low. Lots of great material so

[meteorite-list] AD: NWA 859 Taza full slice 72.7g with rare kamazite bundles

2011-03-01 Thread Mirko Graul
Dear List Members, I have listed on ebay a great fantastic full slice of NWA 859 Taza. This large and perfect prepared slice shows on both sides thick kamazite bundles!! Such bundles are found in Taza very rare. Who should be missing a slice. Here is the chance. http://cgi.ebay.com/Meteorite-NWA

Re: [meteorite-list] News confirmed - NASA landed on VESTA !

2011-03-01 Thread Jeff Kuyken
My *guess* is that it is probably more stones of the Eucrite-IMB that has been floating around for the last couple of years or so which also tend to be small stones. There may be more than one type of Eucrite-IMB out there though. Maybe those who have had similar material classified could chime