Re: [meteorite-list] Elementary school presentation tips?

2006-02-14 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy/fossilalgae.com
Dear Gary, Anita, List; As a veteran of a dozen or more meteorite show and tell lectures, some with powerpoint (some with over a hundred people)I see a little twist that distresses me somewhat. Gettting directions, or ideas is a grand thing but...you will come across much more

[meteorite-list] Recent Holbrook expedition

2006-02-14 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy/fossilalgae.com
Dear Mark, Dave, Mike and Bill; What is this I hear you were shown up at the field trip to the Holbrook strewnfield recently ? Well guys, shouldn't ah let a girl come alongleast THAT one ;-) DAve F. skunked at Holbrook __ Meteorite-list mailing

Re: [meteorite-list] the rock from mars

2006-02-19 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy/fossilalgae.com
Good evening List, Steve; Allan Hills, ALHA, further information in Rocks From Space, p. 319-323. Oh, and it is a rock star! Dave F. (also a rock star) Steve Arnold, Chicago!! wrote: Good evening list.I just picked up a most interesting book.It is called,A ROCK FROM MARS.It is written by kathy

Re: AW: [meteorite-list] Best ALH84001 Meteorite Book

2006-02-20 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy/fossilalgae.com
Dear Martin, List, Ask Bob Haaghe is a top of the pile trader... Dave F. Martin Altmann wrote: May I ask a hypothetical question? It would be interesting to know, how collectors dealers would estimate a gram price for ALH84001 if it would be available. Buckleboo! Martin

Re: [meteorite-list] Okay, who can identify this?

2006-02-22 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
this one sure looks like a Wyoming oolitic chert to me. The limey oolites (calcium carbonate acretions actually) have been completely replaced by the silica from the rich volcanic ash that fell here. The material is hard enough to take a fine polish, and cuts tough as well as hard (hardness

Re: [meteorite-list] re: Problems with ebay

2006-02-23 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Internet explorer and netscape are both working for me at eBayI do run virus scans, have updated spyware and delete cookines regularly...there is so much crud on the net... Dave F. (my other computer is a main frame ;-) Marco Langbroek wrote: its from yesterday I have problems to enter

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Group Purchase Idea...

2006-02-24 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear Bob, List, ART; I am wondering.seems offers to sell and to purchase are forms of investment and selling off investmentswhat's the fine hair doing in the meteorite investment soup? Maybe this rule on non offerings could be explained further by one with the rulings, Art? Are you

[meteorite-list] ADD delete: Meteorite Dealer's Morroccan Tap Dancing Shoes

2006-02-25 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
For sale as an investment in your future, Moroccan Meteorite Dealers tap dancing shoes. Find out what's really changed in Afrcia. Let these shoes tell you the path to prosperity. More bizzar by the minute! Top Secret notion in the soles...makes them rare, hard to find, and planetary that

[meteorite-list] Appology and a cartoon book investment tip: DELETE

2006-02-25 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear fans of the hot desert song and dance troupe; I appologize, seems every time the topic goes to money to invest in meteorites, world travel, hot desert meteorites; the band jumps up, the circus music starts and I go into a trance of Mr. Crab arguing with Spongebob and Squidward... no,

Re: [meteorite-list] WARNING: New twist on eBay spoof (scam)

2006-03-04 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear Ron, List; I have experience this exact same spoof problem with ebay a few times last fall. What seems to work for me with ebay issues/spoofs is to only answer the emails in your message box on the secure my ebay page. I have not tried the ebay tool bar security option that they tout

Re: [meteorite-list] Yet another ebay scam

2006-03-06 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear Walter, List; Another great thing to do if you are in any doubt if it is a spammer...check the user ID of the sender...normally they will not even be in the system as they have stolen a closed out eBay ID that has been closed for months/years. This is pretty easy if there is any doubt of

Re: [meteorite-list] enough already

2006-03-11 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Huh, what's that? More meteorite specimens, Geeze! Let it go? Let it die and just go! DF Steve Arnold, Chicago!! wrote: I seem to remember last year at this time,the jump all over steve arnold parade was hitting high pitch fever.Well it seems it is starting again.All because I send out to

Re: [meteorite-list] enough already

2006-03-11 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Hello, I am Elton, I am a meteorohaulic Dear Elton, List; I am Dave, a stromatolite and meteorohaulic... Do you think Steve will sell the camera? Dave F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Arnold, Chicago!! wrote: I seem to remember last year at this time,the jump all over steve arnold

Re: [meteorite-list] Desert Varnish formation

2006-03-11 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear Kevin; YIKES! I found the Waynesword site just yesterday. His information on early Earth and the connection with meteorites seems really interesting. His other surf able information to living stromatolites makes me think that there is some slim chance that recent (maybe a few million

Re: [meteorite-list] International shipping isssues

2006-04-01 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear List members; I don't know if there are other list members who work at the postal system but my experience after 7 months is (you may quote me) we are all very lucky the mail gets delivered at all on some days. Never put anything in an envelope that is thicker than three sheets of

Re: [meteorite-list] WARNING! fake pallasites

2006-04-11 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear List, Here is just another great reason to keep your best dealers in business by only purchasing from them. DF harlan trammell wrote: WARNING: there are loads of pallasites out there that have been RESTORED with epoxy, etc. for sale. - make sure that you ask if a piece has been

[meteorite-list] No news on Erfoud meteorites

2006-04-17 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear List; I just did a check up on google to Morocco news and came up dry, no news of a meteorite fall has been entered in Moroccan news yet, nothing on google either. Dave F. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] TAGISH LAKE NEWS / Question to List

2006-04-23 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear Darryl, List; After following the Tagish Lake scientific boondoggle, it is rather interesting to see the government so interested in this one now. Too bad they let so much go to the bottom of the lake, it would be a better deal per gram price! Dave F. Darryl Pitt wrote: TAGISH LAKE

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite List

2006-04-24 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear Jay; Well, after 8 years of talking and living meteorites, some of us don't have a great deal to say any more. We try to spend a great deal more time in the field HUNTING METEORITES instead of buying them. So, there isn't much to say other than the bickering and complaining about the

Re: [meteorite-list] Treasure Hunters

2006-04-26 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
A little anal lately aren't we??? df Thaddeus Besedin wrote: Oh great - another glorification of looting (relic hunting)! Do Any of the Brenham pits get at least a cursory record of their possible prehistoric components? I'm justifiablyand unassailably an enemy of the

[meteorite-list] Treasure Hunters

2006-04-27 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. What have YOU done to preserve science? And, what do you have in your collection that you shouldn't have (meaning anything that wasn't correctly scientifically removed)? Exactly what are your credentials to be knowledgeable to whine..? It is very easy for those stoic office

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Pallasite ID

2006-05-01 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear All; I have just completed reading my copy of Meteorite Hunter by Roy A. Gallant. This is an excellent book on some of the great Russian meteorite craters/falls. I have two of the craters/falls represented in my collection. Book relates history and local geology, cultures, and is a

[meteorite-list] New price of hunting meteorites!

2006-05-02 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear List; Here's the new price of hunting meteorites in SW Wyoming. regular unleaded $2.41 diesel 2.51 premium 2.61 real cost: driving for ever and not finding any. Best, Dave F. __ Meteorite-list mailing list

[meteorite-list] Hilly billy vs flat land jokes

2006-05-03 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear List; I have been recently pondering some areas with steep inclines that erode faster than the flats below them. I guess the sides of the ridges are at a 45 degree X 400 foot elevation. I keep going back to the thought that anything having fallen in the past century or so would have

Re: [meteorite-list] Ebay seller AZPotpourri

2006-05-05 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear All; So what ever happened to the IMCA and Ebay thing where the two were on the same page so this fraudulent seller could be banned from ebay for commiting such a noticable fraudulent auction? Did anything ever become of the idea??? Dave F. mjwy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List,

Re: [meteorite-list] Strange meteorite stories wanted

2006-05-09 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear Chris, List; My favorite he-be je-be story is of my experience with the "Rock Springs" L-6. I hunted meteorites here in SW Wyoming for 5 years. Never found a one. I went to the big Tucson show and pick up a copy of Meteorites A to Z where long time friend Anne Black has signed "to the

Re: [meteorite-list] re: triolite in chondrites?

2005-04-26 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Nor trilobite! DF - Original Message - From: Matson, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: met list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 5:18 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] re: triolite in chondrites? A Google search with triolite is not likely to turn up nearly as

Re: [meteorite-list] Best all around meteorite books

2005-04-26 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
What, no H.H. Ninninger books? Find A Falling Star is very worthy of having in one's collection, and will pull at one's heart to see his devotion to the meteorite world. A must to any real meteorite book list. Just my 2 cents, Dave F. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: stan

Re: [meteorite-list] Some sick people!!!

2005-04-26 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
When one wrassels with pigs DF - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tom Knudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: met list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 8:53 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Some sick people!!! The blog is

Re: [meteorite-list] Best all around meteorite books

2005-04-26 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Oops, what about Robert Haag's picture book, and Kevin K's book, both worthy of beginning and intermediate book lists. Dave F. Friend of the Library...seriously, Sweetwater Co. Library System. - Original Message - From: Dave Freeman mjwy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; stan

Re: [meteorite-list] Best all around meteorite books

2005-04-26 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Too much meat tends to be binding...if not a bit boring; I prefer the omnivorious approach. Winter storm for tomorrow, meteorite hunting season's closing again! Time to read a good meteorite book next to the fire. Dave F. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dave Freeman mjwy

Re: [meteorite-list] Don't worry, I am leaving.

2005-04-27 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
SO.I VISITED THE BLOG THE VERY FIRST DAY, SAW THE undesirables THAT LIVE THERE, AND HAVE NOT BEEN BACK... WHAT IS THAT HARD TO UNDERSTAND ...or what? Every hear the popular slang phrase: don't go there?.. mmm.don't go there. Another favorite is stupid is as stupid does, Forest

Re: [meteorite-list] the blog/IMCA LIST

2005-04-27 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Oops! FORMER IMCA MEMBER 6728... There ol steve. your sign off hasn't changed yet? df - Original Message - From: Steve Arnold, Chicago!!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 2:33 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] the blog/IMCA LIST Hi

Re: [meteorite-list] Collection page has been updated.

2005-04-29 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear Mike; I just read the whole site and had to get a towel to wipe the druel from my chin! Extremely nice site, really excellent and exciting stories. Very well done! I keep wondering if I am missing by not swinging my detector more even though I am cold hunting areas with no rocks Dave F.

Re: [meteorite-list] Steve I thought you were going to control yourpostings?

2005-05-01 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear Al, List; SHUNNING IDIOTS... now that's an idea. Worked on Farrel... He who's name we do not speak! (the shadow df) - Original Message - From: AL Mitterling [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael L Blood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com; drtanuki

Re: [meteorite-list] WHY, WHY, WHY does this posting bother everyone so much???

2005-05-01 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear Ssteve; Why, Ssteve WHY? - Original Message - From: stan . [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 1:01 PM Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] WHY, WHY,WHY does this posting bother everyone so much??? And most of all I do

Re: [meteorite-list] Steve's Posts

2005-05-01 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Hi John, List, Make that 27..Let's discuss Ssteves Id ego and super ego. Maybe its the meteorites that cause it... DF - Original Message - From: JKGwilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Thomas Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 9:30 PM

Re: [meteorite-list] Rubin, UCLA and fraud????

2005-05-03 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
government cover-up that all green cheese is from marsgive wide berth...koo-koo. Now of course if you would like to believe him df - Original Message - From: Tom Knudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: met list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 8:25 AM Subject:

Re: [meteorite-list] Proof about Matteo

2005-05-03 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Maybe is other monkey, mario daniel!!! df - Original Message - From: Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 10:49 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Proof about Matteo

Re: [meteorite-list] givaway update

2005-05-07 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear Eric; Very well put. Excellent idea! We may have to nominate you and that idea for a Harvey Award! Dave F. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 11:46 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] givaway update Steve

Re: [meteorite-list] Steve Arnold

2005-05-07 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
I agree with Norm, stupid is as stupid does, I prefer Sponge BoB to Ssteve DF - Original Message - From: Norman Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 5:00 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Steve Arnold Dana,

Re: [meteorite-list] MeteoriteTimes for May is now up.

2005-05-08 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
, work it, then come back and let's hear your opinion. Starving Miners Alumni, Dave Freeman mjwy - Original Message - From: Tom Knudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bob Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 9:12 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Who's still got their first meteorite?

2007-03-12 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear List; I have my first meteorite yet, a CD that is 135 grams. I paid $1 a gram at that time back in 1998. Dave F. Pat Brown wrote: Hi Ruben and the List, This is a great topic. I still have the first meteorite I purchased. It is a small Canyon Diablo. I also have the first meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] Not and Idea for list to think about - Thanks for the fe...

2007-03-15 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Bravo Ken! My having shared a Tucson dinner table with these two gentlemen of the meteorite society exposed me to two of the finest high morality collectors that we may ever meet. They donate their time to us at a level that not many others do. Paul and Jim are as pristine as a new fusion

Re: [meteorite-list] Question: Just How ...?

2007-03-15 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear Robert: Missed one! I was a diamond prospector and gold prospector in need of a new metal detector; and I found a White's metal detector dealer just three blocks from my house! My new associate says that I could find a meteorite besides gold and I was all earswith in a minute I was

Re: [meteorite-list] Not and Idea for list to think about - Thanks forthe feedba

2007-03-15 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Sohow long before a code was broken by all of disco ball sellers?.I guess a few days, is it worth the effort? DF tracy latimer wrote: I was one of the beta-test people who suggested a meteorite-list code to cut down on the fake tektites, disco balls, perfume, bad DVDs, etc. that

[meteorite-list] A short thesis on weathered NWA's and other thread killers

2007-03-18 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear List; I just received a hundred grams of some very weathered NWA's, at first I was not even sure they were meteorites at all. Mild attraction to a magnet but other than that, not a drop of crust, they looked like crumbled red to tan clay bricks that should have been thrown out in the

Re: [meteorite-list] Ancient Astroid

2007-03-20 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
I saw it. The world is a catastrophe. Then and now. Scaring us all to death. Dave F. Where's my umbrella! Gerald Flaherty wrote: Has anyone seen the National Geographic special called Ancient Astroid? It is a recent study of Libian Desert Glass attributing its origin to an atmospheric

Re: [meteorite-list] My Apologies to All

2007-03-20 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Not to be a retard but what does this two dollar word mean? vituperatives In an apology to all, shouldn't the apology be conprehendable to all? How about using a word we can understand. df Gary K. Foote wrote: Paul and List, Despite the contentious nature of some of the posts between

Re: [meteorite-list] RICHLAND, Final

2007-03-20 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
PLEASE TAKE THIS OFF THE LIST, WE DO NOT CARE AT THIS POINT...THE BATTLE DOES NOT INVOLVED THE LIST AT THIS POINT. PLEASE, FOR THE SAKE OF THE NEW LIST MEMBERS THAT ARE ALSO SICK OF THE BICKER MATCH. Dave F. Jason Utas wrote: Mike, All (...), I apologized to those who deserved it. After

Re: [meteorite-list] Forwarded AD - New Illinois Iron Meteorite?

2007-03-21 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear Friends; After the large episode of Earth Disasters last evening, I would also expect to see a Tunguska Iron Meteorite coming along shortly, stay tuned! Media is a good and bad thing. Full of many unscientific half truths though. Dave Freeman Sterling K. Webb wrote: Hi, All, Amazing

Re: [meteorite-list] Mr. Kramskoi Meteorite Offers from Russia

2007-03-21 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Make sure Matteo understands that he pays the shipping up front before you will ship! Great laugh, Dave F. Michael Farmer wrote: http://meteoriteguy.com/ebayauctionstockphotos/car.jpg Matteo, here is a photo of a Ferrari I have for sale. Send me 500 Euros, then I will send you a contract

Re: [meteorite-list] FW: Illinois meteorite

2007-03-21 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
member hoping it was a meteorite. Please do not post to the list each time someone brings you a meteorwrong that hasn't been tested. It wastes all of our time. Dave Freeman mjwy Rock Springs,WY Mr EMan wrote: Sigh...So we are back again to Irons having fusion crust. Sorry I don't see the fusion

Re: [meteorite-list] Fredericksburg meteorite and politics of science

2007-03-21 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear Steve; In both cases it appears as a case of this consortium thinking they were invincible and when in fact in the free enterprise world, money talks and well, we know what walks. Maybe Mr. Wasson's consortium needed to be burned a time or two to learn a lesson. He who hesitates is

Re: [meteorite-list] a question on fusion crust

2007-03-21 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
I think the archives will have a dozen pages of debate over this issue that was just recycled through the list about three weeks, three month, three season, three years ago We seem to have no clear winner as the minority screamed louder. Dave F. Michael Murray wrote: Hi List, Are you

Re: [meteorite-list] CALIFORNIA-REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL GEOLOGIST FINDS HOBBY WITH EBAY

2007-03-24 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear List; I proclaim to be of a wood collectors ilk. I have been tutored by Walter Wright, world renown paleo botanist from CA. This is wood, probably from So. Utah if I had a guess, possibly Henry Mountains location, Steve Hatch or Walt W. could verify better. I have some in my back

Re: [meteorite-list] Fusion crusts on stony meteorites

2007-03-24 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Well Dear Ladies; I find my personal friend, and buddy, Maria Haas from Michigan to be far superior a meteorite hunter than any of the other ladies on the list and especially from Michigan. Her large and excellent karma helps her find many meteoritesjust not in Michigan. Very best, Dave F.

[meteorite-list] Women in Meteorites!

2007-03-26 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear List; I would like to publicly apologize to the greatest woman meteorite hunter of our modern time, Moni! I would not like to slight any one of my buddies! And apologies to the other dozen women in meteorites that are also there, Mrs. Arnold, Mrs. Lang, wives of all those who spend too

Re: [meteorite-list] CALIFORNIA-REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL GEOLOGIST - Final

2007-03-26 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear Ken, List; Inquiring minds want to know, did my call of So. Utah/Henry Mountains stand the location test with the neighborhood wood expert? I would brim with happiness to learn that one. Woodly, Dave F. Norm Lehrman wrote: Ken, Congrats to you for pursuing this to a conclusion.

[meteorite-list] OFF TOPIC DELETE MARCH MADNESS...snow slows meteorite madness!

2007-03-28 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear Mark, List; For those of us waiting for the recent winter storm to go away tomorrow afternoon so we can get back to meteorite hunting, There will be a fun time at 7 pm Mountain time as Wyoming Cowgirls whip Kansas State Wildcats in the semifinal round of the WNIT Go pokes! Dave F.

Re: [meteorite-list] H2 or L2 CLASS METEORITES

2007-03-29 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear Steve; Check the updated pages in your Meteorites A to Z For new list members, it is quite a useful book to determine classification information. It was authored by our own list members Anne Black and the Jensen brothers! I cherish my signed copy that brings me luck! DF steve arnold

Re: [meteorite-list] National Geographic Re-Airing Ancient Astroid, the ori...

2007-04-01 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
I viewed it last time around an thought it was a pinch of a stretch maybe.Some of the logic didn't seem to match my understanding of asteroids and meteorites. I think it is the pushing of an explanation that needs more scientific data to really be iron clad. Just my opinion, Dave

Re: [meteorite-list] Canyon Diablo

2007-04-03 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Hi Dennis, Moni, List; Maybe H.H.Ninninger made mention in Find A Falling Star. Good possibility. Dave F. Moni Waiblinger wrote: Hi Dennis and all, I haven't been there, actually I just won a piece of Canyon Diablo on ebay which I am going to make into a pendant. I know you asked for

Re: [meteorite-list] Commercialization, meteorite coins and other ridiculous wastes of time

2007-04-04 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
commodification Isn't that the act of installing indoor plumbing? DF. Thaddeus Besedin wrote: Jake, Indeed propaganda is important, but it should be provided at no charge if it is the preservation and dissemination of knowledge that is desired. A meteorite coin is no better a fetish than

Re: [meteorite-list] Matteo's Hatred SPAM

2007-04-05 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Last night, I ate spaghetti, with real 100% American feed lot beef in itThe spaghetti was made from real grain grown on the great American western plains, possibly Montana, or Eastern Wyoming, or Kansas or Nebraska. The tomato sauce was from tomato's grown in one of a dozen states that

Re: [meteorite-list] Metal Fragment That Hit Illinois Home Not A

2007-04-06 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
We did discuss it but the angle of entry, the velocity, tended to dismiss it right off. A pro baseball pitcher would have had to be standing on the running board of a helicopter to launch it successfully, and we all know it would be hard to pitch from a helicopter. Dave F Ron Baalke wrote:

Re: [meteorite-list] more meteorite talk,PLEASE

2007-04-06 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear Jerry, List; I was laughing so hard at Sstevees post that I had to take a sedative to calm down. I wanted to send him an email thanking him for a great laugh.I do not know if he realizes that this is how horridly we find his repeated posts on GAO (gao-ed to death already), or trade,

Re: [meteorite-list] Re Nevada picture of the day / April issue of Meteorite-Times

2007-04-06 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Good luck Bob! List, I would just die to know who is catching how many of my trout and where and what they are hitting on. I can ask my buddies but I fear it would be offensive if I asked strangers these questions. I guess I shall go hunt rocks in the morning, drive 5 miles to a good spot, or

[meteorite-list] Well, it's pretty sad, no-no, the child is a nine year old who is bored!

2007-04-07 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear Michael; Sorry to say, unless we have brand new-news, in the past 9 years, the list has covered all topics until the repeat of all topics has even become boring. The list archives is a great place to find all of that exciting information and talk and talk about meteorites you wish to

Re: [meteorite-list] Magnetic rock with free metal inclusions, any idea?

2007-04-07 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear Moser, It appears to be a nice piece of granite! The mineral structure formed at depth as the granite solidified slowly which allowed the crystals to form. If you look up granite in the Audobon Field Guide to Minerals you will see nice pictures in the rocks section which match up

Re: [meteorite-list] To the dreamers

2007-04-10 Thread Dave Freeman mjwy
Dear Gentlemen, List; I experienced an issue with two sides similar to this about ten years ago. Scientific rocks..ones to study, and pretty rocks...ones that require appreciation despite scientific importance. In the real world of total experience, one needs to ideally appreciate both.

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