Hi, Rob, List,
In the field:
http://www.tunguska.ru/history/persone/krinov/
The Academician:
http://www.tstu.ru/eng/tambov/tambov_img/imena_img/levkoev.jpg
Sterling K. Webb
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Hi, Rob,
Betrayed by Google! The second URL below
is Igor Levkoev, not Yevgeny Krinov. My bad.
So only one photo found:
http://www.tunguska.ru/history/persone/krinov/
Sterling K. Webb
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Hi, Rob, List,
Saved by Google! Here's another photo of
Krinov:
http://www.tstu.ru/win/tambov/tambov_img/imena_img/krinov.jpg
which is the one I meant to get before being
Konfused by Kyrillic.
Sterling K. Webb
(or should that be &quo
thousands of years for
a meteorite hit on a plane...
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Chris Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Space ju
Every spot where one (or two or five) meteorite(s) fell
is an excellent spot to look for more! Assuming you could
locate these old Iron Find locations, that metal detector might
prove useful there.
On the other hand, Kansas is flat
Hi,
Thiz reportor neads an speell checher.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Darren Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 10:54 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Wow, nice tactites
http
Hi, Gerry
Go back one year in the List Archives to March 2-6, 2006.
You will find this topic talked to death (I helped). I posted.
Norm Lehrman posted. MexicoDoug posted. We kicked
around whether the LDG could be from the Kabira crater,
or any crater or impact, if it could be tektites when it
down through history. The method
of reverential "temples" of preservation failed; the method of
crass commercial valuation succeeded.
Sterling K. Webb
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spears topped with the severed
heads of curators... don't say I didn't warn you.
Sterling K. Webb
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To: "Sterling K. Webb" &l
Hi,
Stan is eBay seller "laserprogram" and has current
auctions open. I would think you could contact him
that way. "Ask Seller A Question," like about the Kurt
Lesker Vacuum Forepump Trap and Molecular Seive,
for example..
;t understand his language --
he's willing to fight back, so piling on will just keep it going.
Unless that's what you enjoy.
Sterling K. Webb
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To:
randparents
who came from similar, but quite American, hill country
also used to stew possum with cornbread dumplings
(minus the hot peppers). Or squirrels, if the possums
proved too wily, under the name of burgoo.
Some American food can be an acquired taste.
And I daily give thanks to the
ge!
As I flit through you hastily, soon to fall and be gone, what is this chant,
What am I myself but one of your meteors?
-Walt Whitman
(* John Brown)
Sterling K. Webb
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there's an unusual meteorite!
What I cannot explain is his meteorite's "paranormal"
properties! Can it read your mind? Well, maybe he means
"paramagnetic"?
Sterling K. Webb
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paint a "?"
on it, toss the throw-away oddities in it. Give it time...
Stack'em in the backyard in plastic milk crates. Use'em
to edge your garden. Something.
Sterling K. Webb
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otswana or anywhere else, like my back yard, where
would I go to get one? Inquiring minds want to know...
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Michael Farmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROT
st sandcovered area of the planet and
sees a large rock, ANY large rock, doesn't he check it?
Fred Olson said: "We did not see any igneous rocks in this area.
In fact there are not many rocks of any type in this area. If I remember
correctly it is part of the worlds
s.
A radical theory! Meteorites come from the Asteroid
Zone!!! No, wait... Is that a new idea?
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Rob McCafferty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Greg Hupe&qu
about Mercury to
be able to identify any rock as having come from there,
or not. We don't even know enough about Mercury to
be able to say whether they serve beer. If they do, I
guess that it will be, like Britain, warm beer, or m
e agents do when the end comes and the
enemy is breaking down the doors, when the nation is finally
collapsing forever and all hope is gone: BURN THE FILES.
Sterling K. Webb
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PS: What I want to see is the actual, unretouched photo
nts, the unconvinced remain unconvinced. It's
all annecdotal. It's vague and not specific enough. Haven't
you got any video?
Sterling K. Webb
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wer are dead, but that
all the potential heirs to power are also firmly under his
control; there is no child out there with a claim to
similar honors being raised by some other family to
someday threaten Augustus and the family he controls
for power. Of course, most of them will die before
they a
ower are dead, but that
all the potential heirs to power are also firmly under his
control; there is no child out there with a claim to
similar honors being raised by some other family to
someday threaten Augustus and the family he controls
for power. Of course, most of them will die before
the
er.
That would be a neat discovery which not even Moose
and Squirrel could spoil.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Darren Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, April 17,
Hi, Dave,
Thanks for the "Blast From The Past"!
I expected most of the things I found there,
the Great Leonids of 1833, L'Aigle, and so
forth, but there was one thing completely
new to me: the determination of the height
of meteors by Brandes and Benzenberg
(while still students!) in 1798, usi
have to set your email preferences in your email
program to sending in PLAIN TEXT as the default.
Then, whatever you sent to the List will be posted
right away.
Switch your email to PLAIN TEXT.
Sterling K. Webb
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vailing conditions and doesn't need
a special mechanism to account for it!
Sterling K. Webb
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To:
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 9:45 P
d
increase in the number of meteorites that fell 480 million years
ago compared to the meteorite influx today.
They used chromite instead of osmium for their analysis
because there was more of it, but the pattern was the same.
(I threw this in, E.P., because you'
d by closed circuit TV,
we would agree that both plumb bobs were effectively
parallel. But in reality, they would be at a 90 degree
angle to each other.
On Itokawa, if we were near the saddle, we could
see that we were standing at various funhouse
tain. At a mass of 5 Earths,
the surface of Gliese 581c is almost certain to be ocean,
100% water. And at 2.2 gravities, wave heights would
be less than half those of the Earth's ocean.
So, to summarize Gliese 581c: sunglasses, bulky
support hose, and lousy surfing.
Sterling K. Webb
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e first and closest thing to that we've actually
got evidence of. And it's next door, only 20 years
away by lightmobile...
Anybody got a lightmobile? (I'll chip in for the gas.)
Sterling K. Webb
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an't "know" what the planet
Gliese 581c is really like. We CAN guess the most
likely, most "average," most common planetary
outcome for a body this size this distance from
this star would be. Yes, Gliese 581c could be
an oddball. But that would be... odd.
Sterling K. W
ere,
as would other volatile elements in the crust; the
sheer mass of impactors would contribute a measurable
amount of exotics, like odd isotopes of noble
gasses to that new atmosphere... And the result
would be a lot like an odd place called Venus.
Sterling K. Webb
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7;ll chip in
for gas...)
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "GREG LINDH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "meteorite-list"
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Scient
Hi, Jerry, List,
Here's the abstract:
"The abundance of chlorine in the Earth
is highly depleted relative to carbonaceous
chondrites and solar abundances. Knowledge
of the Cl concentrations and distribution on
Earth is essential for understanding the origin
of these depletions. Large diff
Hi, List,
Last week, the lightest extrasolar planet;
this week, the heaviest!
Sterling K. Webb
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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070502_supermassive_planet.html
Astronomers Find Extrasolar Planet Heavyweight Champ
By Tariq Malik
hen ANOTHER
new extrasolar planet was discovered!
http://exoplanet.eu/planet.php?p1=XO-2&p2=b
Sorry, Marcin, it's not a meteorite, only another
lousy planet! :=)
Sterling K. Webb
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Hi,
The cows' names are Elsie and Elmer, like
the famed Borden Milk spokescattle of
yester-year. They mark out a landsailing course.
See: http://www.nalsa.org/Sept_News/sala.html
This organization is apparently NOT associated
with PETA...
Sterling K.
ks up, the smaller pieces will slow down more
quickly and that may reduce the total ablative loss,
if the breakup is not too early nor too late.
A 90% loss is probably more like the minimum...
Whoops! Just saw Chris's post. I will just point at
it and finish up with --- &
way up
from the bottom). If I am not mistaken, I think
the meteorite is the brown object on the floor just
to the right of the stand."
I can't of anybody more qualified to recognize
a big Brenham, so maybe it hasn't gon
tites
derived from deep sediments) which contradicts the
impact theory that derives them from surface deposits,
and so on. All the impact theories are different!
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Mike Fo
y. The NJO
"fell" or was dropped on January 3, 2007, so it's
had over a five month career as a meteorite and
got to do a gig at a University Museum. But it's
a has-been now.
Sterling K. Webb
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uspicious sources
like the (running) Bloomington woodchipper.
Sterling K. Webb
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meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
e chips from a very
small block that's been hanging around minding its own
business for most of the life of the solar system, waiting
four and a half billion years to accidently run into the Earth,
fall to the ground, be found by some crazy human who will
slice it open and say, "Wow, L
. The Nederland has 7 chondrite falls and
no chondrite finds. Proportioning the land area to Kansas, I can
only assume that if the Nederland were dusty dry, overgrown
with sunflowers, and had a Nininger, it would have about 25
chondrite finds!
Sterling K. Webb
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to fire up.
Don't Worry! There's lots of He3 in the top of the gas giant
planetary atmospheres, to be scooped up and fired. We'll have
all these little difficulties cleared up and be pumping out the
terawatts in no time. Check with me about the year 2250 and
I'll tell you how
t feature in the North
Sea (or is it only a salt basin?), with paper in Nature, etc.,
http://bromans.blogspot.com/2007/03/great-north-sea-impact-crater-vs-salt.html
maybe the pro-Impactisitas would pay for some testing?
Nothing like a handful of tektites to bolster your impact!
Sterling K. Webb
1069 g.
I couldn't find any mention
of the largest Vietnamite, but
here's a site with a study of 203
Vietnamese tektites:
http://www.edamgaard.dk/Copy%20of%20VietnamTektites%20edj.htm
Sterling K. Webb
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eld locations (except possibly Indochina)
the biggest, more spectacular specimens tend to be snapped up
(and traded up) FIRST, just like the biggest gold nuggets and
the biggest diamonds, when the field is identified as such, like
this 71 kilo gold nugget from 1869:
http://www.historyhill.com.au/Gol
Hi,
Yeah, that's us. From a Rough Neighborhood,
product of a Broken Home Star.
Oh, Yeah, we're Bad...
Sterling K. Webb
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To: &quo
y way to be sure is to
damage the item, I suspect.
Sterling K. Webb
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To: "Michael L Blood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Meteorite List&quo
ten found in
early Eocene deposits, is suitably durable, is extensively transported
by water, assumes fluid forms, and so forth. Amber can absorb
considerable calcium (buried with bird bones you said). If the
chief element of its composition is Carbon, you might have amber...
Sterling K. Webb
Hi, List,
Yes, the entrance gates here are topped with metallic
Stegosauruses. The grounds include a giant tyrannosaur
standing amid the trees, and a stone-lined lobby sports
varied sauropods. It could be like any other natural history
museum, luring families with the promise of exciting and
e
List,
The reason Americans talk about baseball is that
it provides a subject of endless discussion without
talking about SEX, POLITICS, or RELIGION. If
America hadn't invented baseball, we would never
have survived as a nation. In a pinch, meteorites
will also serve.
Sterling K.
ars do.
Doing the math, car hits suggests that the traditional
MORP value of 25,000 meteorites falling to Earth per year
grossly underestimates the Fall Rate which seems to be,
using conservative assumptions, between 60,000 and
80,000 per year for the planet as a whol
e
a look at the four "tektites," only one of which really
is a tektite.
http://www.newarkcampus.org/professional/osu/faculty/jstjohn/Looking-the-Same/Looking-the-Same.htm
Sterling K. Webb
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now
assigned to Cleveland ( q.v._ ); description, V.F. Buchwald (1975).
Trapped melt, J.T. Wasson (1999)."
So sayeth the NHM Catalogue of Meteorites. It's a IIIAB. Just
look up the CLEVELAND (Tennessee) met
r how many relatives
it may have in Tennessee!
Sterling K. Webb
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From: harlan trammell
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: [mete
Hi, Paul,
Thanks for pointing out these papers. Fascinating
downloads. Lots of other interesting stuff in there
besides these three. Ok, I confess -- I downloaded
the whole book...
Thanks again.
Sterling K. Webb
left behind:
http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&safe=off&q=+site:images.jupiterimages.com+petroglyphs+sahara
You just got a freebie.
Sterling K. Webb
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day that
any real damage is done by the frantic stampede
to acquire knowledge is probably a day none
of us will ever live to see.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent:
ot; that are suspicious in a few cases.)
3. There is even less evidence that man-made carbon dioxide,
a tiny fraction of the carbon dioxide total, is climatically significant
in any way. (It's hard to have less evidence than NO evidence, so
I guess that's just for emphasis.)
4.
Michael,
It's a deal. If I have to hitch a ride in Kevin Cosner's
WaterWorld boat to get to Tuscon, boy, will my face
be red!
Sterling
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s erroneous "hockey stick"
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:2000_Year_Temperature_Comparison.png
A multitude of charts and graphs, very pretty but
what does it all mean is not always answered:
http://www.globalwarmingart.com/
Arctic warming, past and present (with professional reference
azy, a guy named Alfred Wegener who had the whacky
notion that continents moved around on the planet's surface.
Just a couple of wild and crazy guys...
Sterling K. Webb
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Give me The Rain Of Frogs anyday!
Sterling
(PS: Toads will do if you're short of frogs)
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From: "Michael L Blood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Allan Treiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Meteorite List"
nd visualization. Perhaps suitable candidates
go on the list for a light-sail fly-by probe.
Let's all be on our best behavior. Who knows? THEY
may be watching. Or is it THEM?
Sterling K. Webb
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a meteorite was cold enough to become
totally covered with rime ice, would they have
called it a "hailstone"?
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "tett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mic
nt to face. In the case of his
cause, it just appears simply to have not been true.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "GREG LINDH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "meteorite-list"
Sent: Monday, June
of heat.
That's what they used in 1902 -- calories; forget your joules.
You convert it.
Whatever causes Global Warming, I'm pretty sure it isn't
Meteorites...
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Dave C
people? Different
people? No way to know. And the GSS is considered
the premiere survey...
See, everybody is dumb, even the people doing the
surveys to find how dumb we are.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Chris
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This is the only way one can un-subscribe
from the List -- on-line or by email.
We are mere Listoids. De-Listing is too potent
a Weapon of Mass-Mail Destruction to be
proliferated among a World of unruly Listoids!
Sterli
ear in the journal Nature tomorrow,
if anyone who wants it has access. Meanwhile, we can put
a sedimentary Martian Meteorite on the list of things we want
the universe to give us for Christmas.
Sterling K. Webb
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And, like a fool, I forgot to ask for
a sedimentary Martian meteorite with
FOSSILS! I mean, as long as you're
asking, what harm could it have done?
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "samc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
e, for the
next, say, 10^17 seconds, and HERE I AM.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Mark Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Rob McCafferty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: ; "samc&q
uced the plume, but I think a sulfurous gas
more likely (as frequently seen in Earthly volcanoes).
Is there infrared spectroscopy available on this small
scale? It would be worthwhile to identify the substance because
we could then estimate long it would persist on the surface
and correspondingly g
very long time," but:
http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/mars_volcanoes_active.html
"The timeline proposed from studying the complex
Olympus Mons caldera suggests there have been lava
flows from intense volcanic activity within the past 2
mill
possibility of caves too
deep to have an access to the surface, the
chief limit on cave depth is gravity. Mars
could have much deeper caves than the
Earth does (it has mountains three times
higher). Would you believe a five-kilometer-
deep hole?
There's a great fut
ctive habitats
for human explorers is an old idea:
http://www.marssociety.org/portal/TMS_Library/Clifford_1997/view
It was also proposed for the Moon, back when we
thought the Moon had volcanoes.
Sterling K. Webb
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is based on the light intensity of
only those frequencies we see and only in proportion to
the strength with which we evaluate them.
But, if you're going to Eris, a couple of good flashlights
wouldn't be a bad idea... It's still cold,
though.
Sterling K. Webb
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WHAT! Let me get this straight.
Are you trying to suggest that
Spiderman ISN'T REAL?
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Darren Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "meteoritelist"
Sent
Rob wrote:
> Why do we instinctively modify
> innocuous technology to kill?
Millions of years of practice.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Rob McCafferty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Thu
Hi, All,
While waiting for the "real thing" to come along,
besides the cheap multi-colored centimeter cubes
for kiddies that are sold on eBay, there are these:
http://cgi.ebay.ie/LARGE-BAG-OF-500-SIZE-CUBES-new-unopened-size-10_W0QQitemZ330025235543QQihZ014QQcategoryZ46701QQcmdZViewItem
d the text of the eBay.ie listing thoroughly enough.
But perhaps they are made in a variety of sizes, since the
ones I found are 13 mm and Bryant's are 10 mm.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: &quo
tracking the M Giant stars
common in the older SDG and rare in the Milky Way. See:
http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~mfs4n/sgr/
On that webpage, there is a nice 4.5 Mb movie of the
interaction of the two galaxies, worth looking at (if you've
got bro
d email address...
And with your password, you can get to a page where
you can change your email address for the List. THAT
should switch you to your new address. It takes less time
to do than it does to explain...
Sterling K. Webb
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ts. The iron mine
at Pea Ridge, Missouri, is a known Olympic Dam-type
ore deposit. It would appear that rural Missouri would
supply many low-grade local ores with mixed contents.
(I found lots of references, all far too "geological" for
me!)
ersum
English:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_inflation
Of course that problem *shrinks* by comparison to
the difficulties of going through life as a scientist named
"Dr. Bizarro"!
Sterling K. Webb
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The balls are magnetite balls.
Somethimes with the white transparents glass balls you
can find some green balls that look like moldavite or
olivina fused samples..."
Much more fun to collect your own than to
buy it
r who it was. And another
list member told of leaving a water collector out during "shower
times" as a kid and collecting residue, but you're quite right --
it couldn't have been contemporaneous dust!
Sterling K. Webb
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less. Now, if you found a little 0.5 gram
rock in your gutter that, when sliced, showed
a bleb of metal... That would be a different story!
Nobody I know is that lucky!
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Bill&
the cameras,
radios, experiments, and other instruments, and weigh means
more force and energy is needed. My guess is that a Mars
Walker is a difficult and marginal thing. What I need now is
a long term weather report on Martian wind speeds... from
all over the planet.
Sterling K. Webb
ind or in any direction, to maneuver.
It could look for Martian meteorites, among the long list
of things to look for on Mars.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Chris Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent
Hi,
Forgive me for being less sensational than the AP.
This story had been in the news before, so I guess
the real news is that the AP saw fit to make it a story.
Always glad to have a meteorite make the news, even
if it takes almost two billion years to do it.
Sterling K. Webb
the equally unlikely
New Jersey Object of last winter. In this case, the hexagonal
holes in the object make it a dead giveaway, I would think.
Sterling K. Webb
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http://www.space.com/news/ap_070718_bayonne_update.html
Mystery Obje
, with that characteristically deeper profile.
Merewether is certainly more than big enough to be an explosive
crater. This does not say that it is, but if there's an objection that it is
"too small" to
t of the material.
A conglomerate of boulders and mud is not rigid, hence no
tilted rim is produced.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Charles O&#x
t was massive enough to have gotten some
remnants to the ground. The arc and the late, low-level
fragmentation also suggest a slower than usual entry
speed, another factor that aids getting fragments to the
ground.
It's a great video.
Sterli
Hi, All,
Media creativity. My congratulations to the TV
industry of Croatia (Hrvatska) for a SUPER-FAKE,
from one of the suckers. Didn't it look good at a
first casual glance? Nothing like the assumption of
honesty to dull your perceptions.
Sterling K.
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