[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

2015-08-14 Thread Paul Swartz via Meteorite-list
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Mundrabilla Contributed by: Paul Swartz http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=08/14/2015 __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at

Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 5000 Thinnest Slices Ever Produced - AD

2015-08-14 Thread wahlperry--- via Meteorite-list
Hey Greg, Great web site. It is always nice to look at all the meteorite pictures! Sonny -Original Message- From: Greg Hupe via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com To: meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wed, Aug 12, 2015 12:34 pm Subject:

[meteorite-list] Retractable meteorite cane found while hunting for meteorites.

2015-08-14 Thread wahlperry--- via Meteorite-list
Hi All, I have been out exploring areas in Nevada and Utah for meteorites and photo opportunities. It is amazing how many unique treasures you are able to find. Not to mention the wildlife and weather events. I hope to post a few pictures later. I did find a retractable meteorite cane on a

[meteorite-list] Have you been hit by a meteorite lately?

2015-08-14 Thread Kevin Kichinka via Meteorite-list
Andres Bordeleau writes, Generally speaking, I am *extremely* suspicious about the claims of people being hit by meteorites. Or dogs. Kevin Kichinka Rio Oro, Santa Ana, Costa Rica 'The Global Meteorite Price Report - 2015' 'The Art of Collecting Meteorites' (Amazon or Nook) mars...@gmail.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Retractable meteorite cane found while huntingformeteorites.

2015-08-14 Thread John Lutzon via Meteorite-list
Without doubt, from a couch collectors point of view, such hunting treks mostly remain among family and friends---many hunters out there have many stories (some sad) and I would like see more of these adventures put to pen and/or pics so others may vicariously live the hunt. Adam, thank you

[meteorite-list] AD-Cheap Moon Rocks in ebay auctions ending Sat, Aug 15

2015-08-14 Thread Gary Fujihara via Meteorite-list
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Re: [meteorite-list] June Nevada Trip Questions

2015-08-14 Thread Raremeteorites via Meteorite-list
Dear List Memebers, There has been several questions regarding my June Nevada trip report so I will post the same answer I gave an intereseted list member. Thank you for the interest. We would have searched dry lake beds but the weather didn't cooperate. Every lake bed we passed was filled

Re: [meteorite-list] Retractable meteorite cane found while hunting formeteorites.

2015-08-14 Thread Art Jones via Meteorite-list
Greg, Sonny, List; I think the next best thing to the feeling that you're walking in a remote area where no one has been, is that you're walking in a remote area where a compadre has been! -Art -Original Message- From: Meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] June Nevada Trip Questions

2015-08-14 Thread Raremeteorites via Meteorite-list
An expert geologist and List Member corrected me. I called a horizontal mine a shaft when it should be called an adit. In mining terminology, shafts are vertical, adits are horizontal You are never too old to learn. I am more interested in placer gold than hard rock mining. Gold

Re: [meteorite-list] Retractable meteorite cane found while hunting formeteorites.

2015-08-14 Thread Greg Hupe via Meteorite-list
I agree, Art. And knowing that where you have found a fellow meteorite hunter's tools he or she picked up the meteorite before you got there! ;-) Best Regards, Greg Greg Hupe The Hupe Collection gmh...@centurylink.net www.NaturesVault.net (Online Catalog Reference Site)

Re: [meteorite-list] Retractable meteorite cane found while hunting formeteorites.

2015-08-14 Thread Greg Hupe via Meteorite-list
That's cool, Sonny. In February I found a SOG knife on a dry lake bed in Nevada while 'finding' meteorites and mentioned I found a knife. A friend asked if it was a, Gray SOG knife found on Dry Lake Sure enough it was his that he lost two years prior and that it was a special gift

Re: [meteorite-list] Retractable meteorite cane found while hunting formeteorites.

2015-08-14 Thread Raremeteorites via Meteorite-list
Zann and I returned a digital camera that we found to an exceedingly successful and reclusive meteorite hunter. That is how we met and gained the trust of an original Team LunarRock member and true desert rat, Action Jackson We had the pleasure of having him join in on the tail end of the

[meteorite-list] Texas meteorite collection for sale

2015-08-14 Thread Pete Shugar via Meteorite-list
For sale: depending on how you count, 99 to 107 locations in Texas, ranging from micros to nice sized samples. Excel list on request. $2000 firm plus shipping. Car dying, need to replace. I paid over 2700 for this collection piecemeal over the years. original COAS lost in fire but almost all coa

Re: [meteorite-list] Retractable meteorite cane found whilehuntingformeteorites.

2015-08-14 Thread Raremeteorites via Meteorite-list
John, you are in luck. The stone has been found. I remember seeing first light on NWA 5000 in the Summer of 2007. I knew it was lunar the second I saw a sample of it under my microscope, even before sending it out for classification. It was difficult to contain my excitement until

Re: [meteorite-list] Retractable meteorite cane found while hunting formeteorites.

2015-08-14 Thread wahlperry--- via Meteorite-list
Hi Art and List, That is so true. I really enjoy spending my time exploring the deserts. I can't wait to see what the forecasted El Nino rains will uncover in the desert Southwest. I found some sea shells out in the middle of the sand dunes (of all places). I assume they were transported

Re: [meteorite-list] Retractable meteorite cane found whilehuntingformeteorites.

2015-08-14 Thread Greg Hupe via Meteorite-list
Hi John and All, Here are a few of my hunts with family and friends I put together on my web site a couple years ago. It will offer up a nice variety of hunting conditions that should thrill even the those who have no desire to get off the couch, or unable by no fault of their own. It is fun

[meteorite-list] Like meteorites, lightning bolts can reshape rocks

2015-08-14 Thread Shawn Alan via Meteorite-list
Hello Listers Well I just want to meteorites please :) Enjoy Shawn Alan IMCA 1633 ebay store http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633ny/m.html Website http://meteoritefalls.com Like meteorites, lightning bolts can reshape rocks Around the globe, lightning flashes 44 times a second. Contrast that