[meteorite-list] Just listed a few more AGUAS ZARCAS (CM2) Costa Rica fall

2019-05-13 Thread Ruben Garcia via Meteorite-list
Hi all, I've sold everything but these last few specimens. Take a look! https://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_odkw=&_ssn=mr-meteorite&item=223486191220&_osacat=0&ssPageName=STRK%3AMESELX%3AIT&_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=aguas&_sacat=0 -- Rock On! Ruben Garcia __

Re: [meteorite-list] Eugene Shoemaker Responsible for TV Coverage of Apollo 11 Moon Walk

2019-05-13 Thread DAN via Meteorite-list
That's an amazing experience. I always wondered if anyone actually saw an Apollo orbiting. It sounds like in a few years we might have another chance to make a similar observation, and this time I have a scope which is likely up to the task.Cheers, DAN  Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note®

Re: [meteorite-list] Eugene Shoemaker Responsible for TV Coverage of Apollo 11 Moon Walk

2019-05-13 Thread almitt2--- via Meteorite-list
Hi Dan and all, On one of the other Apollo missions, I had received some of the different times that the Apollo service module and command module would be over the terminator and possibly visible. I had a fairly good telescope at that time and looked and was able to see what appeared to be a

Re: [meteorite-list] Eugene Shoemaker Responsible for TV Coverage of Apollo 11 Moon Walk

2019-05-13 Thread DAN via Meteorite-list
I well remember sitting with my family as a teenager while watching the first moon landing. During Apollo 8's first trip to the moon there were rumors that one would be able to see the craft crossing the moon's terminator. I peered through my Tasco refractor in vain, while entranced by the

[meteorite-list] Newest bencubbinite Sierra Gorda 013 (CBa)

2019-05-13 Thread Timur Astronom via Meteorite-list
Dear List Members, In Olga's shop on Ebey ( moonlight-77) , the auction ends for the first on Ebay fragment of the new Chilean bencubbinite Sierra Gorda 013 (CBa):  https://www.ebay.com/itm/Carbonaceous-chondrite-bencubbinite-Sierra-Gorda-013-CBa-Chile-Rarest-3-6g/173896562355   This is perhaps

Re: [meteorite-list] Eugene Shoemaker Responsible for TV Coverage of Apollo 11 Moon Walk

2019-05-13 Thread almitt2--- via Meteorite-list
Greetings Paul and all, Couldn't read the whole article as there were ads popping up and keeping me from doing so but read a bit of the info there before I gave up. Might have been present in the article but Eugene Shoemaker helped train the Apollo Astronauts at Meteor Crater so they would have

[meteorite-list] Water Could Have Drowned the Earth If Not for Ancient Supernova

2019-05-13 Thread Paul via Meteorite-list
Water Could Have Drowned the Earth If Not for Ancient Supernova By Charles Q. Choi,Sopace_Com, February 12, 2019 https://www.space.com/supernova-explosion-earth-water-world.html The paper is; Lichtenberg, T., Golabek, G.J., Burn, R., Meyer, M.R., Alibert, Y., Gerya, T.V., and Mordasini, C., 2019

[meteorite-list] Eugene Shoemaker Responsible for TV Coverage of Apollo 11 Moon Walk

2019-05-13 Thread Paul via Meteorite-list
Mission control might never have witnessed Neil Armstrong take his first steps on the moon if it weren't for the vision of men like Eugene Shoemaker. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-almost-didnt-film-the-first-moon-landing/ Geologists Ivo Luccitta and Jerry Schaber say Shoemaker, who was th

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

2019-05-13 Thread Paul Swartz via Meteorite-list
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Aguas Zarcas Contributed by: Mike Farmer http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=05/13/2019 __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at http://www.meteorite-lis