[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day
Lake Labyrinth http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpod.asp __ 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/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Russia to Restart Planetary Exploration with Mars Probe (Phobos-Grunt)
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n/07phobosgrunt/ Russia to restart planetary exploration with Mars probe BY STEPHEN CLARK SPACEFLIGHT NOW November 7, 2011 Russia will launch a probe to a moon of Mars on Tuesday, resuming the country's exploration of the solar system after funding woes and mission failures hindered progress over the last two decades. The ambitious Phobos-Grunt mission, first conceived in the 1990s, will attempt to enter orbit around Mars, land on the Red Planet's potato-shaped moon Phobos, collect samples and return to Earth. Grunt means soil in Russian. Russia has tried to land on Phobos before, but two probes launched in 1988 failed before they reached their goal. The failure, coupled with another embarrassing Mars mission malfunction in 1996, spelled the decline of the Russian planetary exploration program until now. Liftoff is scheduled for 2016:03 GMT (3:16:03 p.m. EST) Tuesday aboard a Zenit 2FG rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. After a nine-minute ascent into Earth orbit powered by the two-stage Zenit booster, the payload's main propulsion unit will fire twice to aim toward Mars. The spacecraft's rocket system is based on the Fregat upper stage, a restartable hydrazine-fueled device often used to place satellites into high-altitude orbits around Earth. Phobos-Grunt should be on course to Mars following the propulsion unit's second firing at 0120 GMT Wednesday (8:20 p.m. EST Tuesday), according to Roscosmos, the Russian space agency. Loaded with propellant, a Chinese orbiter and scientific experiments, the intricate spacecraft weighs in at 29,000 pounds. It reach Mars in October 2012 and fire its rocket pack once more to slide into orbit around the Red Planet. Then the craft will jettison the propulsion unit and deploy China's Yinghuo 1 orbiter, which rides piggyback on Phobos-Grunt for the journey there. By early 2013, Phobos-Grunt will approach Phobos and study the moon with remote sensing instruments, giving Russian scientists data needed to select a landing site. Using a laser altimeter and radar navigation sensor, Phobos-Grunt is expected to descend to the surface of the moon in February 2013. Because of the weak gravity field at Phobos, the probe must make a gentle landing with little margin for error. After scooping up rock with a robot arm and placing the samples in a canister, Phobos-Grunt's return capsule will depart the moon and target a landing back on Earth in August 2014 with nearly a half-pound of soil. After sending its samples back to Earth, Phobos-Grunt's core spacecraft will remain on Phobos for a continued science mission for up to a year. Any one of these critical stages goes wrong, and the whole mission is compromised, said Francis Rocard, the manager of solar system exploration at CNES, the French space agency. In addition to its partnership with China, Russia is also receiving help from Ukraine, France and other European countries. Phobos-Grunt also carries a payload from the Planetary Society, the U.S. space advocacy group. The Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment, or LIFE, will demonstrate whether microorganisms can survive long-term space journeys, testing an important part of the transpermia hypothesis, which states that life can travel between planets inside rocks. Russia hopes to pull off the Phobos-Grunt project for $163 million, a bargain in today's world of multi-billion dollar space missions. NASA's blueprint for bringing back samples from the surface of Mars could cost up to $10 billion, according to some estimates. But Phobos is easier to reach than the Martian surface, and scientists believe the moon's rocky exterior could harbor material blasted away from the Red Planet by violent asteroid or comet impacts. Soil from Phobos could tell scientists not only about Mars, but also how the planet's two asteroid-like moons formed. Scientists say Phobos and Deimos, the smaller of the two, could be asteroids captured by Martian gravity or could have been ejected from Mars by an impact long ago. The oddball Phobos is scarred by craters and fractures and measures 16 miles across on its longest axis. Phobos-Grunt mission will mark Russia's return to interplanetary exploration after a 15-year hiatus following the failure of another Mars launch in 1996. That mission, named Mars 96, fell back to Earth after a launch failure in November 1996. The former Soviet Union achieved a series of milestones in interplanetary exploration, including the first successful landing of a robotic probe on another planet with a mission to Venus in 1970. The Soviet space program also returned samples from the moon with a series of unmanned missions. __ 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/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] 75th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society
http://shrimp.anu.edu.au:16080/metsoc2012/Welcome.html The 75th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society will be held in Cairns Australia from 12 - 17 August 2012 Program: Schedule The program will probably follow a normal MetSoc Format running from Sunday evening (Ice Breaker) through to Friday lunchtime. The Scientific Program will consist of both oral and poster sessions. Sunday 12th Aug - Ice Breaker Monday, Tuesday - Scientific Program Wednesday morning - Plenary Session, Wednesday Afternoon Excursion. Thursday - Scientific Program Thursday Evening - Conference Dinner Friday 17th Aug Morning - Scientific Program Wednesday Excursion Seeing as we will be on the Barrier Reef, there is a possibility of getting a bulk discount if we go out on the reef together. There are also a variety of other trips we can do too. Post Conference Field Trip Meteor Craters of Australia Depending on interest, this could run for 1 to 2 weeks. Let us know if you're interested. __ 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/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Photos needed
the name of who have take the photo are write in the text of the photo, this is for all for who have give to me a photo for this book. matteo M come Meteorite Meteoriti i...@mcomemeteorite.it http://www.mcomemeteorite.it http://www.mcomemeteorite.eu Mindat Gallery http://www.mindat.org/gallery-5018.html ChinellatoPhoto Servizi Fotografici http://www.chinellatophoto.com Da: Alexander Seidel g...@gmx.net A: Mike Bandli fuzzf...@comcast.net, meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com, i...@mcomemeteorite.it Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Data: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:43:44 +0100 Oggetto: Re: [meteorite-list] Photos needed Christian died in a car crash, much too early, much too young! If you succeed in retrieving pics of his last Vienna museum visit, Matteo, I would very strongly suggest that you put his name as a (c) to them and, may be, as an act of integrity, you also ask his widow before publishing them, if you are able to somehow reach her. Unfortunately I don´t have her address at hands, but may be someone can help out here. Christian was a very fine guy, and a truly dedicated collector! I, and some other list members here, had the great pleasure of teaming up with him on a NHM Vienna visit only a few years ago, when and where he probably took the pics that you are now talking about. Alex Berlin/Germany Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 10:57:59 -0800 Von: Mike Bandli An: \'M come Meteorite\' , meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com CC: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Photos needed You can still access Christian's site and photos via the Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20090310145211/http://www.austromet.com/index2.ht ml You might also contact Russ Finney. He took some great photos at Vienna. Best wishes, Mike Bandli -- Mike Bandli Historic Meteorites www.HistoricMeteorites.com and join us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/Meteorites1 IMCA #5765 --- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. -Original Message- From: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of M come Meteorite Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 5:07 AM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Photos needed I am under search photos of the italian meteorites present in the Vienna Museum in high resolution. Unfortunately the unique I remember to have seen its the photos take by Christian Anger, but unfortunately Christian is no longer with us. If you have some of this please write to me via email thanks matteo M come Meteorite Meteoriti i...@mcomemeteorite.it http://www.mcomemeteorite.it http://www.mcomemeteorite.eu Mindat Gallery http://www.mindat.org/gallery-5018.html ChinellatoPhoto Servizi Fotografici http://www.chinellatophoto.com __ 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/listinfo/meteorite-list __ 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/listinfo/meteorite-list __ 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/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Recent GSA Papers and Publications About Carolina Bays
A while ago, Richard Murray posted some link to the abstracts and PDF files for recent Geological Society of America (GSA) talks and posters by Michael E. Davias and Jeanette L. Gilbride about the Carolina Bays. Below are a few more recent GSA talks and posters about the Carolina Bays. Moore, C.M., and M.J. Brooks, 2011, Evidence for Widespread Eolian Activity in the Coastal Plain Uplands of North and South Carolina Revealed by High-Resolution LiDAR Data. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. v. 43, No. 2, p. 76. http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2010NE/finalprogram/abstract_168767.htm PDF file of poster at http://www.srarp.org/posters/dune_2011.pdf Moore, C.M. M. J. Brooks, A.H. Ivester and T.A. Ferguson, 2011, Geoarchaeological Investigations of Carolina Bays in South Carolina: Methodological Approaches for Interpreting Site Formation Processes, Archaeostratigraphy and Geochronology. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. v. 42, no. 1, p. 70. http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2011SE/finalprogram/abstract_184990.htm PDF file of poster at http://www.srarp.org/posters/bay_2010.pdf Hoeflein, F. J. IV, 2011, Observations Concerning the Possible origin of Barfield Bay: is There Evidence of an Impact Event? Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. vol. 43, no. 2, p. 4 http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2011SE/finalprogram/abstract_185029.htm Larberg, A., and K. Stewartm, 2011, A LiDAR-Based Relationship Between Carolina Bays and Coeval Sand Dunes. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. vol. 43, no. 2, p. 66 http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2011SE/finalprogram/abstract_185844.htm Some recent Carolina Bays publications: Brooks, M. J., B. E. Taylor, and A. H. Ivester, 2010, Carolina Bays: Time Capsules of Culture and Climate Change. Southeastern Archaeology. vol. 29. no. 1, pp. 146-163. http://www.profilescience.com/publications/ http://www.scribd.com/doc/47490704/Carolina-Bays-Time-Capsules-of-Culture-and-Climate-Change-Southeastern-Archaeology Carter, M. W.,, A. K. Bondurant, and C. R. Berquist, JR., 2010, Geologic Map of the Chesterfield Quadrangle. Open File Report no. 10-06, Virginia Division of Geology and Mineral Resources, Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, Richmond, Virginia. http://www.dmme.virginia.gov/DMR3/newpubs.shtml http://www.dmme.virginia.gov/DMR3/dmrpdfs/OFR_10-06.pdf Ramsey, K. W.. and J. L. Tomlinson, 2011, Geologic Map of the Harbeson Quadrangle, Delaware. Geologic Map series no. 17. Delaware geological Survey, Newark, Delaware. http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/handle/19716/9807 http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/bitstream/handle/19716/9807/Geomap17.pdf?sequence=1 Turner, J. R., 2010, A Geographic Ontology and GIS Model for Carolina Bays. Unpublished Masters thesis, Department of Geography and Planning, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina. http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/listing.aspx?id=4819 http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/asu/f/Turner,%20Jacob_2010_Thesis.pdf Old publications, which are now available as PDf files are: Ramsey, K. W., 1997, Geology of the Milford and Mispillion River Quadrangles, Delaware. Report of Investigations no. 55. Delaware Geological Survey, Newark, Delaware. 40 pp. http://www.dgs.udel.edu/publications/ri55-geology-milford-and-mispillion-river-quadrangles http://www.dgs.udel.edu/sites/dgs.udel.edu/files/publications/ri55e.pdf Ramsey, K. W., 1993, Geology of the Milford and Mispillion River Quadrangles, Delaware. Geologic Map series no. 8. Delaware geological Survey, Newark, Delaware. http://www.dgs.udel.edu/publications/gm8-geology-milford-and-mispillion-river-quadrangles-delaware http://www.dgs.udel.edu/sites/dgs.udel.edu/files/publications/geomap8.pdf Yours, Paul H. __ 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/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] White House: No Evidence That ETs Have Reached Out To Touch Us -- Or Even Exist
http://www.aol.com/2011/11/08/white-house-says-no-et-evidence_n_1081731.html#s307060title=Lanterns White House: No Evidence That ETs Have Reached Out To Touch Us -- Or Even Exist Posted: 11/8/11 10:09 AM ET share this story 7 0 0 There's no evidence of any extraterrestrial life and no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public's eye. And there you have it, straight from the White House's mouth, so to speak. UFO aficionados, skeptics and believers alike have waited patiently since September to see how the Obama administration would respond to two petitions under the new We the People program. According to the official response written and released Friday evening by Phil Larson at the White House Office of Science Technology Policy, while the government is saying it has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race, the door is still open to the possibility and search efforts of life outside our planet. And those efforts include the ongoing Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence -- or SETI -- which uses ground-based telescopes to try and tune in to signals from another world. Larson's response also mentions the Kepler spacecraft in Earth's orbit, searching for Earth-like planets, and the upcoming Mars Science Laboratory, a car-size vehicle that will explore the geology of the red planet to look for any of the building blocks of life. Undoubtedly, the minions who believe that Earth has already been visited by at least one race of extraterrestrials -- citing photographic, film, video tape, radar returns and landing traces as evidence -- will surely be disappointed with the White House's no evidence stance. Steven Bassett, who penned the first alien disclosure petition in September, isn't satisfied with the White House response and has announced on his Paradigm Research Group site his intention of filing another petition. The [White House] response was unacceptable. Much feedback is likely. PRG will begin to pre-promote a new petition relevant to the Disclosure process ... and will continue to keep the Disclosure issue front and center within this attempt at participatory democracy by the Obama administration, Bassett wrote. If someone, like Bassett, isn't happy with the response given by the Obama administration, he or she can turn right around and file a new petition with no restrictions. There's no reason someone couldn't submit a second petition, White House spokesman Matt Lehrich told The Huffington Post in an e-mail Monday. If it crosses the threshold [of 25,000 signatures], it will get a response. Obviously, if the petition is very similar, it may garner a similar response. Any backlash to the White House ET response will most likely come from people and organizations who will point to the thousands of pages of previously classified government documents about UFOs -- many of which clearly indicate that some UFO encounters with military forces and airline pilots in the past were considered so important that they weren't disclosed to the public. Of course, anything in the sky that can't be identified is a UFO. Experts, government officials and military personnel have often been unable to explain away sightings. That doesn't prove the existence of ETs, but it convinces many that we are not alone in the universe. They have got bases all over the world now, you know. They've been coming here ever since 1946 when the scientists first started bouncing radar beams off of the moon. And they have been living and working among us in vast quantities ever since. The government knows all about 'em. Well, they are people just like us, from within our own solar system. Except that their society is more highly evolved. I mean, they don't have no wars, they got no monetary system, they don't have any leaders because I mean each man is a leader. I mean each man ... because of their technology they are able to feed, clothe, house and transport themselves equally and with no effort. Why don't they reveal themselves to us is because if they did it would cause a general panic. Now, I mean, we still have leaders upon whom we rely for the release this information. These leaders have decided to repress this information because of the tremendous shock that it would cause to our antiquated systems. Now, the result of this has been that the Venusians have contacted people at all walks of life, all walks of life. It would be a devastating blow to our antiquated systems. So now Venusians are meeting with people in all walks of life in an advisory capacity. For once, man will have a god-like control over his own destiny. He will have a chance to transcend and to evolve with some equality for all. - Phil Whitmer
[meteorite-list] NASA To Hold Media Briefing About Upcoming Mars Rover Launch (MSL)
Nov. 8, 2011 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.br...@nasa.gov Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Calif. 818-354-6278 guy.webs...@jpl.nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-230 NASA TO HOLD MEDIA BRIEFING ABOUT UPCOMING MARS ROVER LAUNCH WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media briefing at 1 p.m. EST on Thursday, Nov. 10, to discuss the upcoming launch of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), the largest and most capable rover to be sent to another planet. The televised briefing will take place in the agency's television studio at NASA Headquarters, located at 300 E St. S.W. in Washington. The MSL mission is scheduled to launch at 10:25 a.m. EST on Nov. 25. The launch period extends to Dec. 18. The spacecraft will deliver a car-size rover named Curiosity to the surface of Mars in August 2012. Briefing Participants are: -- Doug McCuistion, director, Mars Program, NASA Headquarters, Washington -- Ashwin Vasavada, MSL deputy project scientist, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif. -- Pete Theisinger, MSL project manager, JPL Media planning to attend the briefing must contact dwayne.c.br...@nasa.gov to gain access to the event. Reporters may ask questions from participating NASA locations or by telephone. To reserve a telephone line, contact steve.e.c...@nasa.gov. For NASA TV streaming video, scheduling and downlink information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv For more information about the mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/msl -end- __ 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/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Meteorite Central Flashback
Hello Listers, I think a couple days ago someone had said they did a way back machine on someones website and I decided to do that with Meteorite Central. Take a look at the link. The snap shot was taken on Jan 10th 1998. At that tim,e I was in high school wondering about what c I was going to buy at the muzik store. Time goes by fast. http://web.archive.org/web/19980110185227/http://meteoritecentral.com/ Shawn Alan IMCA 1633 eBay story http://www.ebay.com/sch/ph0t0phl0w/m.html __ 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/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] White House: No Evidence That ETs Have Reached Out To Touch Us -- Or Even Exist
Phil, Good one. It is sometimes difficult to prove some things exist. Even if they do. The way they can doctor pictures and video these days I imagine the proof bar is pretty high these days in the ET debate. Looks like we're going to need an actual body at this point. And take God for example. Believers think the world is all the proof you need whereas disbelievers cannot prove he doesn't exist. If there is life elsewhere one might expect it to be on the moon. I mean they say the moon was once part of Earth. If that is so then why is there no life there? Earth has life almost everywhere and yet the moon has none anywhere. This not only adds to the other discredits of the origin of the moon theory but, it does equally the life elsewhere theory. The moon even has the same oxygen and it is also not flat. Yes, we can prove the Earth is not flat. Although each theory has it's own circular argument. Neither one will ever prove or disprove the other. Because we were not there when the moon formed and we have yet to find a shred of life elsewhere. Not even a peep (SETI) . And to say there must be life out there is the same argument stated about God. There must be a God. In any event I think Earth is great. God or chance did something right. 2 more cents, Carl meteoritemax -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. dorifry dori...@embarqmail.com wrote: http://www.aol.com/2011/11/08/white-house-says-no-et-evidence_n_1081731.html#s307060title=Lanterns White House: No Evidence That ETs Have Reached Out To Touch Us -- Or Even Exist Posted: 11/8/11 10:09 AM ET share this story 7 0 0 There's no evidence of any extraterrestrial life and no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public's eye. And there you have it, straight from the White House's mouth, so to speak. UFO aficionados, skeptics and believers alike have waited patiently since September to see how the Obama administration would respond to two petitions under the new We the People program. According to the official response written and released Friday evening by Phil Larson at the White House Office of Science Technology Policy, while the government is saying it has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race, the door is still open to the possibility and search efforts of life outside our planet. And those efforts include the ongoing Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence -- or SETI -- which uses ground-based telescopes to try and tune in to signals from another world. Larson's response also mentions the Kepler spacecraft in Earth's orbit, searching for Earth-like planets, and the upcoming Mars Science Laboratory, a car-size vehicle that will explore the geology of the red planet to look for any of the building blocks of life. Undoubtedly, the minions who believe that Earth has already been visited by at least one race of extraterrestrials -- citing photographic, film, video tape, radar returns and landing traces as evidence -- will surely be disappointed with the White House's no evidence stance. Steven Bassett, who penned the first alien disclosure petition in September, isn't satisfied with the White House response and has announced on his Paradigm Research Group site his intention of filing another petition. The [White House] response was unacceptable. Much feedback is likely. PRG will begin to pre-promote a new petition relevant to the Disclosure process ... and will continue to keep the Disclosure issue front and center within this attempt at participatory democracy by the Obama administration, Bassett wrote. If someone, like Bassett, isn't happy with the response given by the Obama administration, he or she can turn right around and file a new petition with no restrictions. There's no reason someone couldn't submit a second petition, White House spokesman Matt Lehrich told The Huffington Post in an e-mail Monday. If it crosses the threshold [of 25,000 signatures], it will get a response. Obviously, if the petition is very similar, it may garner a similar response. Any backlash to the White House ET response will most likely come from people and organizations who will point to the thousands of pages of previously classified government documents about UFOs -- many of which clearly indicate that some UFO encounters with military forces and airline pilots in the past were considered so important that they weren't disclosed to the public. Of course, anything in the sky that can't be identified is a UFO. Experts, government officials and military personnel have often been unable to explain away sightings. That
Re: [meteorite-list] Giant asteroid to pass close to Earth Tuesday
List: Does this increase the chance of having a meteorite fall? Greg S http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/08/us/asteroid-flyby/index.html?hpt=hp_c2 Giant asteroid to pass close to Earth Tuesday updated 2:55 PM EST, Tue November 8, 2011 Earth's close encounter with an asteroid The closest approach will occur at 6:28 p.m. ET TuesdayThe asteroid will pass within 202,000 miles of Earth, NASA saysThe space rock poses no threat of an Earth collision(CNN) -- An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier will pass Earth to within eight-tenths of the distance of the moon Tuesday, the closest approach to Earth of an object this size in more than 30 years.The closest approach will occur at 6:28 p.m. ET when the asteroid passes within 202,000 miles of our planet, NASA said.Follow space and science news on Light YearsThe space agency classified the asteroid as a potentially hazardous object. Asteroid to pass close to EarthIf the asteroid were to crash into Earth, it could cause a 4,000 megaton blast and a magnitude 7.0 earthquake, according to scientists at Purdue University. If it fell into the ocean, it could cause a 70-foot high tsunami within 60 miles of the crash site, the experts said.Podcast: Asteroid close encounterHowever, the space rock, called Asteroid 2005 YU55, poses no threat of an Earth collision, according to NASA's Near Earth Object Program.NASA plans to study the asteroid with the Goldstone radar antennas in California's Mojave Desert. Goldstone antennas are very sensitive radio telescopes used to investigate quasars, radar mapping of planets and comets.Astronomer: No need to worry about this oneScientists plan to reconstruct the shape of the asteroid with a resolution as fine as 13 feet (4 meters) using the antennas. Several days of high resolution operations are also scheduled at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.Share your view of the asteroidIt will also provide a rare opportunity for amateur astronomers to directly observe an asteroid with optical telescopes. __ 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/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Russian Mars Mission Leaves Earth on Zenit Rocket
Russian Mars mission leaves Earth on Zenit rocket Spaceflightnow.com November 8, 2011 Russia launched launch a probe to a moon of Mars at 2016 GMT (3:16 p.m. EST) Tuesday, resuming the country's exploration of the solar system after funding woes and mission failures hindered progress over the last two decades. A rocket pack should place the Phobos-Grunt sample return mission on course to the Red Planet by 0120 GMT (8:20 p.m. EST). __ 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/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] NASA Releases Radar Movie of Asteroid 2005 YU55
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-346 NASA Releases Radar Movie of Asteroid 2005 YU55 Jet Propulsion Laboratory November 08, 2011 PASADENA, Calif. -- Scientists working with the 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have generated a short movie clip of asteroid 2005 YU55. The images were generated from data collected at Goldstone on Nov. 7, 2011, between 11:24 a.m. and 1:35 p.m. PST (2:24 p.m. and 4:35 p.m. EST). They are the highest-resolution images ever generated by radar of a near-Earth object. The short movie clip can be found at: http://1.usa.gov/uVJvmS_ . Each of the six frames required 20 minutes of data collection by the Goldstone radar. At the time, 2005 YU55 was approximately 860,000 miles (1.38 million kilometers) away from Earth. Resolution is 4 meters per pixel. The movie shows the small subset of images obtained at Goldstone on November 7 that have finished processing. By animating a sequence of radar images, we can see more surface detail than is visible otherwise, said radar astronomer Lance Benner, the principal investigator for the 2005 YU55 observations, from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The animation reveals a number of puzzling structures on the surface that we don't yet understand. To date, we've seen less than one half of the surface, so we expect more surprises. The trajectory of asteroid 2005 YU55 is well understood. At the point of closest approach today at 3:28 p.m. PST (6:28 p.m. EST/2328 UTC), it was no closer than 201,700 miles (324,600 kilometers), as measured from the center of Earth. The gravitational influence of the asteroid will have no detectable effect on anything here on Earth, including our planet's tides or tectonic plates. Although 2005 YU55 is in an orbit that regularly brings it to the vicinity of Earth (and Venus and Mars), the 2011 encounter with Earth is the closest this space rock has come for at least the last 200 years. The last time a space rock as big came as close to Earth was in 1976, although astronomers did not know about the flyby at the time. The next known approach of an asteroid this large will be in 2028. NASA detects, tracks and characterizes asteroids and comets passing close to Earth using both ground- and space-based telescopes. The Near-Earth Object Observations Program, commonly called Spaceguard, discovers these objects, characterizes a subset of them, and plots their orbits to determine if any could be potentially hazardous to our planet. JPL manages the Near-Earth Object Program Office for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. More information about asteroids and near-Earth objects is at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch . More information about asteroid radar research is at: http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/ . More information about the Deep Space Network is at: http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn . DC Agle 818-393-9011 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. a...@jpl.nasa.gov Dwayne Brown 202-358-1726 NASA Headquarters, Washington dwayne.c.br...@nasa.gov 2011-346 __ 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/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Battered Tharsis Tholus Volcano on Mars (Mars Express)
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMIU8TWLUG_index_0.html Battered Tharsis Tholus volcano on Mars European Space Agency 8 November 2011 [Image} The latest image released from Mars Express reveals a large extinct volcano that has been battered and deformed over the aeons. By Earthly standards, Tharsis Tholus is a giant, towering 8 km above the surrounding terrain, with a base stretching over 155 x 125 km. Yet on Mars, it is just an average-sized volcano. What marks it out as unusual is its battered condition. Shown here in images taken by the HRSC high-resolution stereo camera on ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, the volcanic edifice has been marked by dramatic events. At least two large sections have collapsed around its eastern and western flanks during its four-billion-year history and these catastrophes are now visible as scarps up to several kilometres high. The main feature of Tharsis Tholus is, however, the caldera in its centre. It has an almost circular outline, about 32 x 34 km, and is ringed by faults that have allowed the caldera floor to subside by as much as 2.7 km. [Image} Tharsis Tholus in context It is thought that the volcano emptied its magma chamber during eruptions and, as the lava ran out onto the surface, the chamber roof was no longer able to support its own weight. So, the volcano collapsed, forming the large caldera. November is a busy month for Mars exploration: Russia and NASA both plan launches this month. Russia's Phobos-Soil (formerly known as Phobos-Grunt) is designed to land on Phobos, the larger of Mars' two moons, to collect samples, and return them to Earth in 2014. It also carries the first Chinese spacecraft to Mars, Yinghuo-1. Mars Express HRSC digital elevation models of Phobos were used by Russian scientists to assess the mission's potential landing sites and ESA is also providing telecommunications support for both Phobos-Soil and Yinghuo-1. In return, the European scientific community will have access to data obtained by both spacecraft. NASA's mission is the Mars Science Laboratory, a large rover known as Curiosity, with experiments designed to detect organic molecules - past or present - on the Red Planet. Also worth noting is the simulated Mars mission, Mars500, which ended on Friday when the hatch was opened for the first time since June 2010. For 520 days, the international crew had been working in a simulated spacecraft in Moscow. [Image] Tharsis Tholus in perspective [Image[ Tharsis Tholus in perspective [Image] Tharsis Tholus in perspective [Image] Tharsis Tholus in perspective [Image] Tharsis Tholus in perspective [Image] Tharsis Tholis in high resolution [Image] Tharsis Tholus in 3D __ 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/listinfo/meteorite-list
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