[meteorite-list] Vortex simulation, heavy reading for smoke trail study

2013-03-14 Thread Steve Dunklee
Enjoy http://www.unix.eng.ua.edu/~japalmore/papers/discrete_vortex_sim-RChen.pdf Cheers Steve Dunklee __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

2013-03-14 Thread valparint
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Itutinga Contributed by: Anne Black http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpod.asp __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Astrobiologists Find Stuff

2013-03-14 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Count, Just as there is nothing in Isaac Newton's little book on gravity that needs correcting despite its four-century age, the chemistry and physics of atmospheres hasn't changed in the half century since this other Isaac outlined the basics. The basics remain the basics. It's worth noting

Re: [meteorite-list] Astrobiologists Find Stuff

2013-03-14 Thread Mark Ford
Agreed, at present what we [know] is our type of life needs water (along with millions of other things), but also at present we [know] it also needs something (presumably closely) resembling an Earth with all its associated environmental and physical parameters and history in order to evolve.

Re: [meteorite-list] Astrobiologists Find Stuff

2013-03-14 Thread Count Deiro
Stirling, I'm on board with you through the first three paragraphs of your last, but I have to jump ship right from the first sentence of your fourth, cause you is sailing into ever shallowing water. Thereoretical considerations have changed and are changing as we speak about Asimov. We

Re: [meteorite-list] Vortex simulation, heavy reading for smoke trail study

2013-03-14 Thread Graham Ensor
Interesting Stevewhen you look at the Russian meteor trail there are two formed and it seemed to me that they would be created by one object as the simulations show. There was some talk at the time of two. G On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Steve Dunklee steve.dunk...@yahoo.com wrote: Enjoy

[meteorite-list] NASA Fireball Website Launches with New Russian Meteor Explosion Details

2013-03-14 Thread Jeff Kuyken
http://www.space.com/20216-russian-meteor-nasa-fireball-website.html NASA has launched a new website to share details of meteor explosion events as recorded by U.S. military sensors on secretive spacecraft, kicking off the project with new details of last month's fireball over Chelyabinsk,

[meteorite-list] Fw: Origin of chondrules

2013-03-14 Thread MEM
Didn't see this post make it out of the hopper so resending: A couple points as I haven't read the paper... There is a good explanation as to the origin of CAIs stemming from a bi-polar venting phase in the T-Tauri phase of out proto-sun right before it kicked off full fusion output.  During

Re: [meteorite-list] NASA Fireball Website Launches with New Russian

2013-03-14 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.space.com/20216-russian-meteor-nasa-fireball-website.html NASA has launched a new website to share details of meteor explosion events as recorded by U.S. military sensors on secretive spacecraft, kicking off the project with new details of last month's fireball over Chelyabinsk,

Re: [meteorite-list] NASA Fireball Website Launches with New Russian

2013-03-14 Thread Galactic Stone Ironworks
Hi Ron and List, Just a quick note - on the new page, if you click on images, you are taken to a page with a list of links to various photos. When you click on meteorite slideset, the link is broken. Best regards, MikeG -- - Web -

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2013-03-14 Thread Kevin Kichinka
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Re: [meteorite-list] Astrobiologists Find Stuff

2013-03-14 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Count, You said: ...Asimov was making a wild ass guess as to the 10,000 to one Oxygen/Chlorine ratio and he never presented one paper to support his hypothesis. Asimov wasn't presenting a scientific paper. He was writing a popular article in a popular magazine. There are no referencew in

Re: [meteorite-list] Astrobiologists Find Stuff

2013-03-14 Thread Michael Mulgrew
Sterling, Look deep underground (tough to do from Earth), any life remaining on Mars will likely be found there. Michael in so. Cal. On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Sterling K. Webb sterling_k_w...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Count, You said: ...Asimov was making a wild ass guess as to the

[meteorite-list] MBIQ Meteor Possible Detections 12 13 14MAR2013

2013-03-14 Thread drtanuki
Dear list, This is a work in progress and will become more accurate once the algorithms are refined. MBIQ Meteor Possible Detections 12 13 14MAR2013 http://mbiq.blogspot.jp/ Dirk Ross...Tokyo __ Visit the Archives at

[meteorite-list] Tokyo Magnetic Dust 14MAR2013 update-a possible explanation

2013-03-14 Thread drtanuki
Dear List, I MAY have found the cause of the magnetic dust with micro mica. It may be from recent eruptions from Sakurajima Volcano in Kyushu, Japan some 900kms from Tokyo. Lab analysis is pending. Tokyo Magnetic Dust 14MAR2013 update

Re: [meteorite-list] The Global Meteorite Price Report - 2013 - ad

2013-03-14 Thread Garry Stewart
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[meteorite-list] One Month On, Russia's Meteor Still A Hot Topic

2013-03-14 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-meteorite-chelyabinsk-findings/24927784.html One Month On, Russia's Meteor Still A Hot Topic Andy Heil Radio Free Europe March 13, 2013 It's been nearly a month since a fireball lit up the crisp blue skies over Ural Russia as an unusually large meteor

[meteorite-list] Congressional Hearing on Asteroid Threats Scheduled for March 19, 2013

2013-03-14 Thread Ron Baalke
http://science.house.gov/hearing/full-committee-hearing-threats-space-meteors-and-comets-part-1 Hearing will be Webcast live. **RESCHEDULED** Full Committee Hearing - Threats from Space: A Review of U.S. Government Efforts to Track and Mitigate Asteroids and Meteors, Part 1 2318 Rayburn

[meteorite-list] ExoMars: ESA and Roscosmos Set For 2016 2018 Mars Missions

2013-03-14 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/ExoMars_ESA_and_Roscosmos_set_for_Mars_missions ExoMars: ESA and Roscosmos set for Mars missions European Space Agency 14 March 2013 ESA and the Russian federal space agency, Roscosmos, have signed a formal agreement to work in partnership on

Re: [meteorite-list] Physics Questions (Having to Do, Theoretically, with Bolide Trajectories)

2013-03-14 Thread Peter Richards
Chris Peterson said: [re: a falling body]...How the body behaves depends on the drag force, which is proportional to the product of the coefficient of drag, the square of the body's aerodynamic cross section, the density of the air, and the square of the velocity. The cross section and the