[meteorite-list] Meteoritical Bulletin Update : Natun Balijan fall approved (India, Jun 05, 2017) and many new NWAs

2019-03-10 Thread Galactic Stone & Ironworks via Meteorite-list
Hi Listees, There was a Met Bull update today. The Natun Balijan fall has been approved, along with over a dozen NWA's (most of them are achondrites). Entry for Natun Balijan - https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=69174 Other new approvals - https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.ph

[meteorite-list] Meteoritical Bulletin Update : Natun Balijan fall approved (India, Jun 05, 2017)

2019-03-10 Thread Galactic Stone & Ironworks via Meteorite-list
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[meteorite-list] Graham Hancock Claims Los Angeles Fossils Are Linked to Younger Dryas Comet.

2019-03-10 Thread Paul via Meteorite-list
Graham Hancock Claims Los Angeles Fossils Are Linked to Younger Dryas Comet. Jason Colavito, March 7, 2019 http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/graham-hancock-claims-los-angeles-fossils-are-linked-to-younger-dryas-comet The original article is: Trove of Ice-Age Fossils Found in LA Subway Dig Martin

Re: [meteorite-list] Why carbonaceous chondrites? (A "thank you" to Mr. Horejsi)

2019-03-10 Thread Michael Doran via Meteorite-list
Another excellent description -- Martin definitely has a way with words. The loaf of bread metaphor also comes into play when I try to describe to friends my preference for specimens that are "thin" end-cuts. They usually say, "Oh, like the heel of a loaf a bread?" -- I say yes, but also explain

Re: [meteorite-list] Why carbonaceous chondrites? (A "thank you" to Mr. Horejsi)

2019-03-10 Thread Galactic Stone & Ironworks via Meteorite-list
Dammit Frank, now I am hungry and want meteorite bread! Maybe someone we know will slice some up with his new meteorite knives -- --- Galactic Stone & Ironworks : www.galactic-stone.com Instagram : www.instagram.com/gal

Re: [meteorite-list] Why carbonaceous chondrites? (A "thank you" to Mr. Horejsi)

2019-03-10 Thread Frank Cressy via Meteorite-list
Hello Michael, Martin does have a great way of describing meteorites.  My favorite was his way of describing the Cumberland Falls aubrite comparing an individual stone to a bread loaf, writing that many were sliced up like loaves of bread, resembling not "the rectangular blocks we Americans cal

[meteorite-list] Why carbonaceous chondrites? (A "thank you" to Mr. Horejsi)

2019-03-10 Thread Michael Doran via Meteorite-list
My friends often ask me "What got you interested in meteorites?"  I honestly don't have a good answer to that question.  I do, however, know precisely when and how I was inspired to focus on carbonaceous chondrites. As a newbie to the hobby (cough, obsession), I was reading through back issues

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[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

2019-03-10 Thread Paul Swartz via Meteorite-list
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Chug Chug 008 Contributed by: Timur Kryachko http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=03/10/2019 __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at http://www.meteorite