[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

2014-03-24 Thread valparint
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: New Orleans

Contributed by: Dave Gheesling

http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp
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Re: [meteorite-list] huge stony iron probably mesosedrite,22700 gr

2014-03-24 Thread Graham Ensor
Looks a lot like Esterville Azizcan't wait to see a slice from
that. Congratulations.

Graham

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:46 AM, habibi abdelaziz azizhab...@yahoo.com wrote:


  dear listoids ,
 it has been a while since my last post,
 im back home and back to photo,and back to list and meteorite!!!
 enjoy, a huge mesosedrite 22700 gr complete stone with huge amount of iron , 
 the max measured in an iron with my magnetimeter,
 and also one meteorite never seen a structure like that before in any 
 meteorite.!!!


 http://www.flickr.com/photos/azizhabibi


 habibi aziz
 box 70 erfoud 52200 morroco
 phone. 21235576145
 fax.21235576170
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[meteorite-list] Eldorado Valley DCA???

2014-03-24 Thread Jim Wooddell

Hi all!

Have I missed this or is it a new DCA?Does anyone know what date it 
was created?


Jim

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[meteorite-list] AD: Early Labenne Sahara numbered specimen + 211g Gebel Kamil + others

2014-03-24 Thread Martin Goff
Hi all,

I have a few pieces up for sale including an early Labenne numbered Sahara
find, a nice shape 211g Gebel Kamil and a Limited edition Meteorite Men
Brenham in lucite collectable with certificate. I also have an original
publication on the French Hainault fall. All can be seen on my website,
link below.  Please take a look if interested :-)

( http://msg-meteorites.co.uk/tradesale)

Cheers

Martin

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Re: [meteorite-list] Ontario Fall Area Calculation 18MAR2014 Event

2014-03-24 Thread Michael Farmer
I am pretty sure this one will be found and I certainly think there are some 
nice stones on the ground. Location is perfect for hunting, just farms.
Grimsby all over again, and Rob and I both found great stones there. I am a tad 
busy to head up there though:)
Michael Farmer

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 On Mar 22, 2014, at 3:22 PM, Rob Wesel nakhla...@comcast.net wrote:
 
 Keeping it fun I'm gonna side with Darryl on this one, Team PB  Phil have an 
 uncanny ability to motivate, educate, canvass and generally get the job done. 
  When I saw the Western PR yesterday I thought to myself just a matter of 
 time now.
 
 Rocky Road works fine.
 
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 From: Darryl Pitt dar...@dof3.com
 Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 9:12 AM
 To: Jim Wooddell jim.woodd...@suddenlink.net
 Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
 Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Ontario Fall Area Calculation 18MAR2014 Event
 
 
 Hi,
 
 I'm gonna bet large on Peter, Phil and the crew at University of Western 
 Ontario to come up with something
 
 One gallonRocky Road.   ;-)
 
 
 
 
 
 On Mar 22, 2014, at 11:54 AM, Jim Wooddell wrote:
 
 Hi Dirk!
 
 Interesting.  I looked and figured nothing survived.
 
 I do not see anything real impressive on the sky cams, although a solution 
 is obviously going to be there from that group of cameras which I will 
 assume are dialed in with calibrated data files.
 The 1 camera where the event occurred almost overhead does not indicate to 
 me anything majorily impressive.  While it is a beautiful capturethey 
 all are if it's overhead.
 I have read that sonic stations do not have much of anything.
 I have read that radar is pretty much not there.
 So the main break up was about 65km and went dark at about 35km?
 
 Do you have any other data to support survival?
 
 Enjoying watching the frenzy and folks getting all hyped up! I bet nothing 
 will be found the other day and I backed that bet up in that if I am wrong, 
 I will gladly eat 1/2 gallon of ice cream!
 Of course, I truly hope I am wrong!
 
 Best!
 
 Jim
 
 
 On 3/21/2014 10:27 PM, drtanuki wrote:
 List,
  I have now posted my calculation result for the Ontario meteorite fall of 
 18MAR-
 estimated survived weight of up to 10 Kg. Least likely survived at 1KG. 
 Largest stone guess 300-500 gr.
 
 http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2014/03/breaking-news-ont-oh-meteor-18mar2014.html
 
 
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Re: [meteorite-list] Ontario Fall Area Calculation 18MAR2014 Event

2014-03-24 Thread Rob Matson
Hi Mike/All,

With 9 cameras recording this fall, the trajectory is known extremely well.
Unfortunately, the final ablated mass(es) are likely to be small, perhaps
totaling only a couple hundred grams. There ~are~ some possible radar
returns for the fall, though, so we might get lucky.  --Rob

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Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com; Jim Wooddell
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Ontario Fall Area Calculation 18MAR2014 Event

I am pretty sure this one will be found and I certainly think there are some
nice stones on the ground. Location is perfect for hunting, just farms.
Grimsby all over again, and Rob and I both found great stones there. I am a tad
busy to head up there though:)
Michael Farmer


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Re: [meteorite-list] huge stony iron probably mesosedrite,22700 gr

2014-03-24 Thread Anne Black
I am very sorry to disagree with you Graham, but no, it does not look 
like Estherville at all.

Here is a nice large slice of Estherville:
  http://www.impactika.com/catpix/AB749.jpg

What do you think?


Anne M. Black
www.IMPACTIKA.com
impact...@aol.com


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To: habibi abdelaziz azizhab...@yahoo.com
Cc: meteorite list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Mon, Mar 24, 2014 3:37 am
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] huge stony iron probably 
mesosedrite,22700 gr



Looks a lot like Esterville Azizcan't wait to see a slice from
that. Congratulations.

Graham

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:46 AM, habibi abdelaziz 
azizhab...@yahoo.com wrote:



 dear listoids ,
it has been a while since my last post,
im back home and back to photo,and back to list and meteorite!!!
enjoy, a huge mesosedrite 22700 gr complete stone with huge amount of 

iron ,
the max measured in an iron with my magnetimeter,

and also one meteorite never seen a structure like that before in any

meteorite.!!!



http://www.flickr.com/photos/azizhabibi


habibi aziz
box 70 erfoud 52200 morroco
phone. 21235576145
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Re: [meteorite-list] huge stony iron probably mesosedrite,22700 gr

2014-03-24 Thread Graham Ensor
I bow to your knowledge of Estherville Anne...perhaps you have seen
the exposed surface more than I havebut then has anybody seen a
slice of the lump Aziz has?...would love to see it if he has one.
Looking carefully at the surface features it seems to me it has a
similar distribution of metal and silicates that I saw on huge thick
slice of Estherville sold a few years backI had a real good look
at the surface in the auction room/viewing and should have bid on it.

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Anne Black impact...@aol.com wrote:
 I am very sorry to disagree with you Graham, but no, it does not look like
 Estherville at all.
 Here is a nice large slice of Estherville:
   http://www.impactika.com/catpix/AB749.jpg

 What do you think?


 Anne M. Black
 www.IMPACTIKA.com
 impact...@aol.com



 -Original Message-
 From: Graham Ensor graham.en...@gmail.com
 To: habibi abdelaziz azizhab...@yahoo.com
 Cc: meteorite list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
 Sent: Mon, Mar 24, 2014 3:37 am
 Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] huge stony iron probably mesosedrite,22700 gr


 Looks a lot like Esterville Azizcan't wait to see a slice from
 that. Congratulations.

 Graham

 On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:46 AM, habibi abdelaziz azizhab...@yahoo.com
 wrote:



  dear listoids ,
 it has been a while since my last post,
 im back home and back to photo,and back to list and meteorite!!!
 enjoy, a huge mesosedrite 22700 gr complete stone with huge amount of

 iron ,
 the max measured in an iron with my magnetimeter,

 and also one meteorite never seen a structure like that before in any

 meteorite.!!!



 http://www.flickr.com/photos/azizhabibi


 habibi aziz
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Re: [meteorite-list] huge stony iron probably mesosedrite,22700 gr

2014-03-24 Thread Habibi
u are absolutly right graham

anne the distribution on this big meso is almost like estherville!
slices will show up soon when its sold give it time guys
i think it will be even better
all the best
aziz 

Envoyé de mon iPhone

 Le 24 mars 2014 à 19:26, Graham Ensor graham.en...@gmail.com a écrit :
 
 I bow to your knowledge of Estherville Anne...perhaps you have seen
 the exposed surface more than I havebut then has anybody seen a
 slice of the lump Aziz has?...would love to see it if he has one.
 Looking carefully at the surface features it seems to me it has a
 similar distribution of metal and silicates that I saw on huge thick
 slice of Estherville sold a few years backI had a real good look
 at the surface in the auction room/viewing and should have bid on it.
 
 On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Anne Black impact...@aol.com wrote:
 I am very sorry to disagree with you Graham, but no, it does not look like
 Estherville at all.
 Here is a nice large slice of Estherville:
  http://www.impactika.com/catpix/AB749.jpg
 
 What do you think?
 
 
 Anne M. Black
 www.IMPACTIKA.com
 impact...@aol.com
 
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Graham Ensor graham.en...@gmail.com
 To: habibi abdelaziz azizhab...@yahoo.com
 Cc: meteorite list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
 Sent: Mon, Mar 24, 2014 3:37 am
 Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] huge stony iron probably mesosedrite,22700 gr
 
 
 Looks a lot like Esterville Azizcan't wait to see a slice from
 that. Congratulations.
 
 Graham
 
 On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:46 AM, habibi abdelaziz azizhab...@yahoo.com
 wrote:
 
 
 
 dear listoids ,
 it has been a while since my last post,
 im back home and back to photo,and back to list and meteorite!!!
 enjoy, a huge mesosedrite 22700 gr complete stone with huge amount of
 
 iron ,
 the max measured in an iron with my magnetimeter,
 
 and also one meteorite never seen a structure like that before in any
 
 meteorite.!!!
 
 
 
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/azizhabibi
 
 
 habibi aziz
 box 70 erfoud 52200 morroco
 phone. 21235576145
 fax.21235576170
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Re: [meteorite-list] huge stony iron probably mesosedrite,22700 gr

2014-03-24 Thread Graham Ensor
Aziz...I assume we are all talking about the same stoneare the
first five shots on your album anything to do with the
mesosideritethe main mass looks totally different to any of those
shotsor is it just a sample from an unusual lithology in the main
mass.

Great stone by the way,

Graham

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:46 AM, habibi abdelaziz azizhab...@yahoo.com wrote:


  dear listoids ,
 it has been a while since my last post,
 im back home and back to photo,and back to list and meteorite!!!
 enjoy, a huge mesosedrite 22700 gr complete stone with huge amount of iron , 
 the max measured in an iron with my magnetimeter,
 and also one meteorite never seen a structure like that before in any 
 meteorite.!!!


 http://www.flickr.com/photos/azizhabibi


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Re: [meteorite-list] huge stony iron probably mesosedrite,22700 gr

2014-03-24 Thread Habibi
the 5 first photo are from a new unknowen meteorite that is never seen before
the 22700 gr is huge it s difrent
yes its a very rare find never seen before in meteoritics
thanks
axuz


Envoyé de mon iPhone

 Le 24 mars 2014 à 19:30, Graham Ensor graham.en...@gmail.com a écrit :
 
 Aziz...I assume we are all talking about the same stoneare the
 first five shots on your album anything to do with the
 mesosideritethe main mass looks totally different to any of those
 shotsor is it just a sample from an unusual lithology in the main
 mass.
 
 Great stone by the way,
 
 Graham
 
 On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:46 AM, habibi abdelaziz azizhab...@yahoo.com 
 wrote:
 
 
 dear listoids ,
 it has been a while since my last post,
 im back home and back to photo,and back to list and meteorite!!!
 enjoy, a huge mesosedrite 22700 gr complete stone with huge amount of iron , 
 the max measured in an iron with my magnetimeter,
 and also one meteorite never seen a structure like that before in any 
 meteorite.!!!
 
 
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/azizhabibi
 
 
 habibi aziz
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[meteorite-list] Mars Rover Opportunity Update: March 13-19, 2014

2014-03-24 Thread Ron Baalke

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html#opportunity

OPPORTUNITY UPDATE:  Helpful Wind Cleans Solar Panels - sols 3603-3609, 
Mar. 13, 2014-Mar. 19, 2014:

Opportunity is exploring 'Murray Ridge' on Solander Point, part of the
rim of Endeavour Crater.

The rover continues to investigate the region called 'Cook Haven.' On
Sol 3603 (March 13, 2014), Opportunity completed the in-situ (contact)
analysis of a target called 'Augustine' with a Microscopic Imager (MI)
mosaic and a placement of the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS)
on the same. On the next two Sols, the rover conducted remote sensing
with the collection of Navigation Camera (Navcam) and Panoramic Camera
(Pancam) images and a measurement of atmospheric argon with the APXS.
Atmospheric opacity (tau) measurements using the Navcam were performed
in support of the InSIght mission. On Sol 3607 (March 17, 2014) a short
bump was planned to approach a target rock, called 'Sugarloaf.' However,
the drive stopped after just 2.3 meters (7.55 feet) due to the rover
sensing higher average current in three of the rover wheels. This was a
safety check to detect possible embedding events. Although the rover did
experience as much as 50% slip, there was no risk of embedding, just a
steep upward climb. Given the difficult terrain, the approach to
Sugarloaf would require multiple additional drives to be able to use the
robotic arm on the rock surface. So, the science team chose to document
Sugarloaf with more color imagery and to drive further south and west to
new targets. On Sol 3609 (March 19, 2014), Opportunity drove about 16.35
meters (53.64 feet) to the southwest. The rover experienced a solar
panel dust cleaning event between Sols 3605 and 3606 (March 15 and March
16, 2014). This resulted in about a 10% improvement in power production.

As of Sol 3609, the solar array energy production was 574 watt-hours
with an atmospheric opacity (Tau) of 0.450 and an improved solar array
dust factor of 0.777.

Total odometry is 24.10 miles (38.79 kilometers)
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[meteorite-list] Mars Rover Curiosoty's Next Stop Has Sandstone Variations

2014-03-24 Thread Ron Baalke


http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-090

NASA Mars Rover's Next Stop Has Sandstone Variations
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
March 24, 2014

Variations in the stuff that cements grains together in sandstone have 
shaped the landscape surrounding NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and could 
be a study topic at the mission's next science waypoint.

On a journey with many months yet to go toward prime destinations on the 
lower slope of Mount Sharp, Curiosity is approaching a site called the 
Kimberley. Scientists on the team picked this location last year as a 
likely place to pause for investigation. Its informal name comes from 
a northwestern Australia region known as the Kimberley. The Martian site's 
geological appeal, based on images taken from orbit, is that four types 
of terrain with different rock textures intersect there.

The orbital images didn't tell us what those rocks are, but now that 
Curiosity is getting closer, we're seeing a preview, said Curiosity Deputy 
Project Scientist Ashwin Vasavada of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 
Pasadena, Calif. The contrasting textures and durabilities of sandstones 
in this area are fascinating. While superficially similar, the rocks likely 
formed and evolved quite differently from each other.

The rocks that the Curiosity mission has studied most intensively so far 
are finer-grain mudstone, rather than sandstone. The rover found evidence 
for an ancient lakebed environment favorable for microbial life when it 
analyzed sample powder drilled from mudstone last year in an area called 
Yellowknife Bay.

The rover team is eager to inspect sandstone at the planned waypoint, 
now just 282 feet (86 meters) south of the rover. The pause for investigations 
at this site might include time for collecting rock-sample material with 
the rover's drill, for delivery to the laboratory instruments inside the 
vehicle.

Material filling the space between grains of sand in sandstone is called 
cement, whatever its composition. Characteristics of the cement can vary 
greatly, depending on the environmental history that affected the rock. 
Sandstones with some clay-mineral cements are quite soft. Tap them with 
a hammer and they crumble. Sandstones with quartz cement can be very hard. 
Hit them with a hammer and they ring.

A major issue for us now is to understand why some rocks resist erosion 
more than other rocks, epecially when they are so close to each other 
and are both likely to be sandstones, said Michael Malin of Malin Space 
Science Systems, San Diego. He is the principal investigator for the Mast 
Camera and the Mars Descent Camera on Curiosity.

Malin said that variations in cement material of sandstones could provide 
clues to different types of wet environmental conditions in the area's 
history.

As in the southwestern United States, understanding why some sandstones 
are harder than others could help explain the major shapes of the landscape 
where Curiosity is working inside Gale Crater on Mars. Erosion-resistant 
sandstone forms a capping layer of mesas and buttes. It could even hold 
hints about why Gale Crater has a large layered mountain, Mount Sharp, 
at its center.

Erosion-resistant capping layers that Curiosity has sometimes driven across 
during the rover's traverse since leaving Yellowknife Bay have also presented 
an engineering challenge for the mission. Some rocks within those layers 
have sharp points that have punched holes in the rover's aluminum wheels. 
One of the strategies the rover team has used to reduce the pace of wheel 
damage is choosing routes that avoid crossing the hard caprock, where 
feasible.

The wheel damage rate appears to have leveled off, thanks to a combination 
of route selection and careful driving, said JPL's Richard Rainen, mechanical 
engineering team leader for Curiosity. We're optimistic that we're doing 
OK now, though we know there will be challenging terrain to cross in the 
future.

The pace at which new holes have appeared in the wheels during recent 
drives is less than one-tenth what it was a few months ago. Activities 
with a test rover at JPL this month show that wheels with much more extensive 
damage than has been sustained by any of Curiosity's six wheels can still 
perform well. The holes in Curiosity's wheels are all in the thin aluminum 
skin between much thicker treads. These tests on Earth are using wheels 
so damaged that many treads are broken, but they still provide traction.

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Project is using Curiosity to assess ancient 
habitable environments and major changes in Martian environmental conditions. 
JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, 
built the rover and manages the project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate 
in Washington.

For more information about Curiosity, visit http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl 
, http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/. You can follow 
the mission on Facebook at 

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Link of the Week #1 : David Weir's Meteorite Studies

2014-03-24 Thread Galactic Stone Ironworks
Hi Listees,

This is the inaugural edition of what I hope will become a useful
weekly installment of meteorite websites of interest.  I will try to
provide an interesting link that is not an obvious choice.  In disc
jockey parlance, these links will be deep cuts - from the depths (de
profundis) of the world wide web.  It is my hope that the arbitrary
nature of the selection will make the results unpredictable and fun.

Boiler plate :

1) none of these sites will be commercial in nature.
2) all of these sites will be family-friendly and free of any
offensive material.
3) one site per week will be featured.
4) I am not accepting submissions or suggestions at this time, but I
may solicit them in the future.
5) have fun and please direct any positive comments to the List and
any negative comments to File 13.


This week's link (#1) : David Weir's Meteorite Studies
(http://www.meteoritestudies.com/)

Notes : this is the closest thing to an obvious choice that you will
ever see here.  Most meteorite enthusiasts know about this site, but
for the newbies and the handful of folks living under rocks, this is a
site that every person should have bookmarked.  Immensely useful.

Best regards and see you next week,

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[meteorite-list] new unknown meteorite never seen before

2014-03-24 Thread habibi abdelaziz
dear list
this small slice if not from the mesosedrite, this from a small ungrouped 
meteorite that i have never seen before
new achondrite ungrouped unknown not classified yet

http://www.flickr.com/photos/azizhabibi/13372166764/




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Re: [meteorite-list] new unknown meteorite never seen before

2014-03-24 Thread Habibi
yes cut marks
the meteorite is homogenous
thanks
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 Le 25 mars 2014 à 00:30, Paul Gessler cetu...@shaw.ca a écrit :
 
 Please tell me those are cut marks on the surface?
 Interesting material
 
 Paul G
 
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 Subject: [meteorite-list] new unknown meteorite never seen before
 
 dear list
 this small slice if not from the mesosedrite, this from a small ungrouped 
 meteorite that i have never seen before
 new achondrite ungrouped unknown not classified yet
 
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/azizhabibi/13372166764/
 
 
 
 
 habibi aziz
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 phone. 21235576145
 fax.21235576170
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Re: [meteorite-list] new unknown meteorite never seen before

2014-03-24 Thread Paul Gessler

Please tell me those are cut marks on the surface?
Interesting material

Paul G

-Original Message- 
From: habibi abdelaziz

Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 5:19 PM
To: meteorite list
Subject: [meteorite-list] new unknown meteorite never seen before

dear list
this small slice if not from the mesosedrite, this from a small ungrouped 
meteorite that i have never seen before

new achondrite ungrouped unknown not classified yet

http://www.flickr.com/photos/azizhabibi/13372166764/




habibi aziz
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phone. 21235576145
fax.21235576170
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2014-03-24 Thread Steve Witt





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