Re: [meteorite-list] 99th year Anniversary Holbrook Hunt – A Huge Success!

2011-07-17 Thread Ruben Garcia
Hi all, I've just received the exact figures from Jim and Wendy Wooddell - who were keeping track. So, here are a few numbers for you to think about as I prepare a short video about our hunt. Over 50 people attended. 45 people hunted on Saturday. 26 people found one or more meteorites. 13 peo

[meteorite-list] Noerdlingen - Ries

2011-07-17 Thread ted brattstrom
Aloha - I Heartily endorse a visit to Noerdlingen / the Ries Krater - and while you are at it, Steinheim isn't far away... spend the time to go to the top of the Daniel, visit the RiesKrater Museum (at 1 Eugene-Shoemaker-Platz), and walk the walls around the city - (At one of the gates, look

Re: [meteorite-list] 99th year Anniversary Holbrook Hunt – A Huge Success!

2011-07-17 Thread Mark Bowling
Hi everybody, Dad and I made it back home about an hour ago, after hunting from about 8:30 to 1:30.  This weekend was my uncle Rich's first meteorite hunt, and on the first day he found a chip.  But today as dad and uncle Rich got ready to drive over to pick me up and head home, uncle Rich foun

Re: [meteorite-list] OT Vesta

2011-07-17 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Dear Mushroom Men, ...fighting it out with Charlie's authors... Authors? There is but the ONE author, the late great Roald Dahl [Wing Commander Dahl, 1916 -- 1990], author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Matilda, The Witches, The Twits, C

[meteorite-list] NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around Asteroid Vesta

2011-07-17 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-212 NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around Asteroid Vesta Jet Propulsion Laboratory July 16, 2011 PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft on Saturday became the first probe ever to enter orbit around an object in the main asteroid belt

Re: [meteorite-list] 99th year Anniversary Holbrook Hunt – A Huge Success!

2011-07-17 Thread Count Deiro
Congrats to all making their first find. It do make your nipples hard! Great Trip Meister that Ruben guy. Guido -Original Message- >From: Jim Wooddell >Sent: Jul 17, 2011 5:56 PM >To: Ruben Garcia >Cc: Meteorite List >Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] 99th year Anniversary Holbrook Hunt –

Re: [meteorite-list] 99th year Anniversary Holbrook Hunt – A Huge Success!

2011-07-17 Thread Jim Wooddell
Hi all! Made it back to Parker. For some reason...really tired today. Would it be because Mark Bowling and Xu Zhang kept me up until 0130 this morning discussing everything and anything about Fire Balls! Anyway, compiling data and as it stands at this time: 82 total finds, total weight 439.1g

Re: [meteorite-list] OT Vesta

2011-07-17 Thread MexicoDoug
Well, Rob ok! Now, you are absolutely right about that. Curiously you've now picked my absolute favorite children's book of all time (Is it coincidence or did you know), which two kind and generous list members actually had me shaking in my shoes by giving me the entire mushroom planet series

Re: [meteorite-list] DAWN drives up to Vesta

2011-07-17 Thread MexicoDoug
Yes Matthias! Oompa-Loompas are originally from Bilanga-Yanga but have taken nicely to hide out in Bavaria. They originally came to Canyon Diablo but were chased off by the crater patrol and decided that Germany was more fun and the beer was better. In case Rob's film and children's book didn

[meteorite-list] OT Vesta

2011-07-17 Thread Rob Wesel
I'll give ya the crater (I didn't know that until now - Ries/Nördlingen being the filming site) but Vesta is more the territory of Mr. Bass and the little green people of the Mushroom Planet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Flight_to_the_Mushroom_Planet Rob Wesel --

Re: [meteorite-list] DAWN drives up to Vesta

2011-07-17 Thread Alexander Seidel
Nördlingen, Bavaria? Hey guys, here is some "official" stuff: http://www.noerdlingen.de/ISY/index.php?get=276 If you go there to visit the place, you will be fascinated! There is a guy on the so-called "Daniel" church tower shouting out some few old words every evening at the full hour, and if

Re: [meteorite-list] DAWN drives up to Vesta

2011-07-17 Thread Matthias Bärmann
Ah, Doug, unmasked! Found guilty to be hand in glove with these highly suspicious Oompa-Loompas! Tried to hide them as Bavarians! Not at all. They live around Nördlingen, yes, that's about 40 km from my home. But they talk . Suebian of course. The real extraterrestrial dialect. Even the

Re: [meteorite-list] DAWN drives up to Vesta

2011-07-17 Thread MexicoDoug
Hey Rob No way I'm wrong about the Oompa-Loompas living secretly at Ries Crater! They absolutely do according to the original movie :"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". My apologies for stealing ideas from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and forgetting how to spell Oompa-Loompa! Oopsa L

Re: [meteorite-list] 99th year Anniversary Holbrook Hunt – A Huge Success!

2011-07-17 Thread Greg Stanley
Congratulations to all that went, I wish I could have made it. Great job Ruben for setting this up and I'm looking forward to your videos and pics of this event. Greg S Sent from my iPhone On Jul 17, 2011, at 1:48 PM, Ruben Garcia wrote: > Hi all, > > While there are still some hunters in t

Re: [meteorite-list] New Kenya meteorite

2011-07-17 Thread Chris Spratt
So how many "official" falls are we at? Chris Spratt (Via my iPhone) __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/list

[meteorite-list] 99th year Anniversary Holbrook Hunt – A Huge Success!

2011-07-17 Thread Ruben Garcia
Hi all, While there are still some hunters in the field I can honestly say this has been a great success. Believe it or not, this was the most successful hunt I have personally witnessed in Holbrook. One hunter walked away with nearly a pound of beautiful - 99 year old -Holbrook meteorites. Yes,

Re: [meteorite-list] Lorton Meteorite: Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers

2011-07-17 Thread meteoriteguy.com
Yeah typo. Michael Sent from my iPhone On Jul 17, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Greg Hupé wrote: > Hi Mike, > > I think you meant to address your reply to "Eric", not one of us 'Greg's'. :) > You referred to "Greg" twice in your post, surely an innocent slip of the > keyboard. > > Best Regards, > Greg

Re: [meteorite-list] DAWN drives up to Vesta

2011-07-17 Thread Rob Wesel
Dude It's Oompa-Loompa and they live in Loompaland, not Vesta ‘Then you’ll know all about it,’ said Mr Wonka. ‘And oh, what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world — hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdo

[meteorite-list] New Kenya meteorite

2011-07-17 Thread e-mail ensoramanda
Another attempt at posting this to the list!!! More hereInteresting hearing them report about the Carancas "poisonings" at the end of the video I last posted! and in this they suggest the meteorite was spinning when it landed? http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Meteor+crashes+at+Kilimambogo/-/105

[meteorite-list] New Kenya meteorite

2011-07-17 Thread e-mail ensoramanda
Trying to send this again as does not seem to be getting to the listapologies if it gets through twice... Ok thenwho's flying out to look for more of this? ;-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsXtZpGTvok The locality as Kilimambogo between Thika and Kangunde (1 deg. 3 min. 46.3176 s

Re: [meteorite-list] Lorton Meteorite: Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers

2011-07-17 Thread Greg Hupé
Hi Mike, I think you meant to address your reply to "Eric", not one of us 'Greg's'. :) You referred to "Greg" twice in your post, surely an innocent slip of the keyboard. Best Regards, Greg Hupe -Original Message- From: Michael Farmer Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 7:24 PM To: Eric

Re: [meteorite-list] Lorton Meteorite: Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers

2011-07-17 Thread Gary Fujihara
I concur with both of you. Dr Tim McCoy is an honorable man and a dedicated researcher who has worked with and collaborated on many papers with scientists from my institute. I don't want to comment on the allegations made regarding the so-called smear campaign. I do want to say that as an Ame

Re: [meteorite-list] Lorton Meteorite: Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers

2011-07-17 Thread Greg Stanley
Michael: I agree as I personally know someone who works there, and each time I return to the DC area I visit and get to see the specimens there; last year I saw and held Lorton. It should be on display for everyone to see, as it is one of the very rare falls in the vicinity of DC. And note: th

Re: [meteorite-list] Lorton Meteorite: Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers

2011-07-17 Thread Michael Farmer
My god Greg, are you trying hard to burn whatever bridges you have left? I happen to know the people at the Smithsonian pretty well, several trips there over the last 10 years to view the collection and do exchanges with the museum, our NATIONAL COLLECTION of meteorites. I hardly think the Smith

[meteorite-list] Lorton rooftop

2011-07-17 Thread Michael Farmer
Jeff I am not trying to cause a dispute, but the fact is that the roofers patched the hole by putting shingles over it, pretty lame repair considering the first hail storm would punture through the thin layer of shingles. Robert did speak to them, and they actually repaired the hole right, by c

[meteorite-list] AD. Carancas and medal.

2011-07-17 Thread cdtucson
Please see my ebay sales. Carancas still at $.99 including a photo of Bob Haag. http://shop.ebay.com/meteoritemax/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=25 Thanks for looking. meteoritemax -- "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb

Re: [meteorite-list] DAWN drives up to Vesta

2011-07-17 Thread MexicoDoug
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Re: [meteorite-list] DAWN drives up to Vesta

2011-07-17 Thread Matthias Bärmann
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[meteorite-list] AD: Various meteorites ending in next few hours

2011-07-17 Thread Yinan Wang
Hi Everyone, Most of my meteorite auctions on ebay are ending in the next few hours. You can see everything here on my eBay store: http://stores.ebay.com/Devonian-Depot Amongst the highlights: Beenham - New Mexico - hard to find 10.1 gram piece; http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ite

Re: [meteorite-list] DAWN drives up to Vesta

2011-07-17 Thread MexicoDoug
Hi Mike, Clearly, orbit was achieved at least by yesterday, at some point probably while we were chattering about this. Since they basically drove up to Vesta and we don't know the outer limit with super accuracy there can be no real time congratulation announcement. So a few more significa

Re: [meteorite-list] AD nice specimen

2011-07-17 Thread Marc Fries
Just for the record, "M F" is not me. Cheers, Marc Fries Sent from my iPhone On Jul 17, 2011, at 5:49 AM, M F wrote: > > Hi to all > i hope everyone doing well . > I have lot of unclassified NWA meteorites 1550 gr chondrite for sale with > verry good price . if interested feel free to c

[meteorite-list] AD nice specimen

2011-07-17 Thread M F
Hi to all  i hope everyone doing well .  I have  lot of  unclassified NWA meteorites  1550 gr chondrite for sale with verry good price . if interested feel free to contact me offlist for the (pictures and price)  All my best     M F phon +212663398272

[meteorite-list] Evidence for Late Eocene Impact Generated Deposition, Georgia

2011-07-17 Thread Paul H.
PDF files concerning evidence for the Chesapeake bay impact in Georgia are available online. They are: Harris, R. S., 2003, Evidence for Impact-Generated Deposition on the Late Eocene Shore of Georgia. unpublished M.S. thesis, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. 116 pp. http://www.openthesis