Re: [meteorite-list] Newly discovered meteorite could explain boominglife on Earth

Hi, Here's the LiveScience article: http://www.livescience.com/46563-new-meteorite-type-fossil-ordovician.html Geochemically, the meteorite falls into a class called the primitive achondrites, and most resembles a rare group of achondrites called the winonaites. But small differences in

[meteorite-list] How Many Meteorites Fall Each Year?

Dear Anne, Al, List, A long post on the question of how many meteorites fall each year was posted to The Meteorite List back in the year 2000. It can be found at: http://archive.today/Yx4Fc From that post, you can follow the thread forward and backward if you want to read all the discussion.

Re: [meteorite-list] Lunar Impact

John, List, Here are photos showing the landers and even footprint traces on the Moon: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1218958/Probe-photos-Apollo-l anding-sites-reveal-man-DID-walk-Moon.html 24 photos here: http://www.space.com/12796-photos-apollo-moon-landing-sites-lro.html

Re: [meteorite-list] A Managua, Nicaragua meteorite?

Kevin, List, It looks a great deal like the Carancas crater, although it's a little smaller, about 80% of its size. The test would be: are there meteorites scattered about? Good photo (official Army photo) found here:

Re: [meteorite-list] A Managua, Nicaragua meteorite?

-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Steinar Midtskogen via Meteorite-list Sent: Monday, September 08, 2014 10:53 AM To: Sterling K. Webb via Meteorite-list Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] A Managua, Nicaragua meteorite? Without ruling out that this is indeed a meteorite impact, I take

Re: [meteorite-list] A Managua, Nicaragua meteorite?

Marco, List, That's the best explanation for this crater that I've heard so far. When I posted about it, I didn't realize that Dirk Ross hadn't found any observations of fireballs, etc., or I'd have been as suspicious then as I am now... All I can contribute now is the 1947 hit song of the

[meteorite-list] Still Arguing About Pluto

List, The argument about Pluto The Planet or Pluto The Small Body continues: http://www.travelerstoday.com/articles/12524/20141002/pluto-planet-again-sta tus-2014-still-undecided-astronomy-debate-ongoing.htm The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said in a press release that a dwarf

Re: [meteorite-list] Still Arguing About Pluto

Larry, And a dwarf star is still a small star (whatever that means). This Dwarf-Star-thing is probly why our planetary system Doan Get No Respect and the Aliens never visit us... except in certain regions of The Internet. Sterling -- -Original

[meteorite-list] Where'd All This Water Come From?

List, The Earth was wet from the beginning... http://www.space.com/27603-solar-system-water-evidence-for-earth.html ...the meteorites did it. Sterling Webb __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list

[meteorite-list] New Meteoritic Evidence

List, Evidence of very early solar system magnetic fields found in chondrules of Semarkona: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meteorite-bears-evidence-of-magnet ic-fields-in-early-solar-system/ Though widely believed, this is the first actual proof of the existence of these magnetic

[meteorite-list] Sudbury --- Comet Impact?

List, A new study concludes that the Sudbury, Ontario, basin is an ancient impact crater caused by an icy-snowball model comet 1.85 billion years ago: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/18/sudbury-basin-comet-impact-crater_n _6168408.html This is advance publicity; the study won't be

Re: [meteorite-list] MASSSIVE Russian Event Asteroid? 14NOV2014

Marcin, List The Sverdlovsk region is quite isolated and dense with weapon development centers of all kinds. In 1979, a germ warfare agent, aerosolized anthrax spores, escaped from a laboratory where they were being manufactured in weaponized form and killed an uncertain number of people

Re: [meteorite-list] MASSSIVE Russian Event Asteroid? 14NOV2014

, and there is a pulse of light before the main event, just as the event in Russia. Best Regards, Ben Fisler, Phoenix Sent from my iPhone On Nov 19, 2014, at 10:52 PM, Sterling K. Webb via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: Marcin, List The Sverdlovsk region is quite

Re: [meteorite-list] Eight Billion 'Dark Asteroids' May Lurk in OortCloud

Ron, List, Don't fear, though: The team estimates that a planet-killing collision with such an object might happen only once every billion years or so. I've got a well-known quote for you... You've gotta ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk? Sterling Webb

Re: [meteorite-list] Dinosaurs were Not wiped out by a global firestorm??

List, Somehow I doubt a laboratory barbeque is a good test of a global hypothesis. I'm sure if I could tinker with their fire-starter aparatus I could get it to ignite a mass of live branches just fine. I do it in my back yard with a butane pocket lighter every fall. I bet the experiment

[meteorite-list] Mars Life?

List, New study on signs of (ancient?) life on Mars about to be published. Advance description at: http://www.space.com/28194-mars-rover-curiosity-photos-ancient-life.html? Sterling K. Webb __ Visit the Archives at

Re: [meteorite-list] UK Scientists: Aliens May Have Sent Space Seeds ToCreate Life On Earth

Shawn, List, This stuff: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/03/aliens-send-space-seed-to-earth_n_6 608582.html is just more of the same old Wickramasinghe nonsense, like the red rain of Kerala State (India), which was nothing but bat blood in rain water, and the more recent Diatoms from Outer

Re: [meteorite-list] F.A. Paneth - Radioactive Decay Processes and theAge of Meteorites

Guys, Paneth is writing this in 1928 because that is when George Gamov worked out the quantum mechanics of radioactive decay, particularly of the uranium and thorium series. Paneth is merely appreciating the possibilitie. There are dating possibilities because, while all the radioactive

Re: [meteorite-list] Photos: See Five Fireballs That Lit Up ColoradoSkies March 11

Shawn, List, PS was this a fall? Not until you (or somebody) picks up a rock from it in their hand. Then it's a fall... Sterling - -Original Message- From: Meteorite-list [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Shawn

[meteorite-list] Life on Titan?

List, Possible mechanism for cellular life on Saturn's (and the solar system's) largest moon, Titan, is suggested: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-02/cu-la022715.php In more molecular detail: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e1400067 But, like everything on Titan,

Re: [meteorite-list] New, 124 miles in Diameter, Lunar Crater Discovered

Mark, List, Other aviators have lunar craters named after them, noteably Charles Lindberg, John Henry Tower, and V. V. Bondarenko, the last because he also lost his life in the business, as did Earhart. You said: Earhart was, at best, a mediocre aviator whose notariety resulted... from an

Re: [meteorite-list] Accepting Inquiries From Accredited Scientific or Educational Institutions...

You are severely underpricing your punctuation. Really good comma's are worth at least two bucks a pair. A proper semi-colon should be $1.00 to $1.50. You should work up a detailed price list... Sterling Webb -- -Original Message- From:

Re: [meteorite-list] Methane detected in meteorites adds fuel tolife on Mars theories

Bob, List, The table may be set, but the diners are not in evidence. Early Mars may have had any amount of methane, but the analysis of Martian rocks (in the form of Martian meteorites), shows a rough equality of the Carbon-13 isotope with the Carbon-12 isotope. Life has a preferential

Re: [meteorite-list] Philae Comet Lander Awakes from Hibernation

Hi, List, Someone should get started on a children's book, to be entitled: The Little Lander That Could Sterling Webb -Original Message- From: Meteorite-list [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Paul H. via

Re: [meteorite-list] Changes In 14C and Impacts

Paul, Ed, List, The village is actually named Kitscoty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitscoty Kitscoty is named after a village in Kent (U.K.) with a famous stone megalithic structure, so while Googling for a Kitscoty Structure you have to distinguish which Kitscoty and what kind of

[meteorite-list] Hit by a mneteorite lately?

List: Moody Jacobs shows a giant bruise on the side his patient, Ann Hodges, after she became the only person in history to have been struck by a meteorite: http://dailylifestyle.com/rare-never-seen-historical-photos/45/ Sterling Webb __ Visit

[meteorite-list] Hit by a meteorite lately?

[meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] on behalf of Sterling K. Webb via Meteorite-list [meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com] Sent: August 12, 2015 10:43 PM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Hit by a mneteorite lately? List: Moody Jacobs shows a giant bruise

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars to have its own neighborhood meteorite7-Eleven

Shawn, List, I believe the first 7-11 in space will be found on the minor planet 1254870 Exxon-Mobil. Sterling Webb -- -Original Message- From: Meteorite-list [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Shawn

[meteorite-list] Granitic Conntinental Crust on Mars

Dear List, Curiosity rover finds evidence of Mars' primitive [granitic] continental crust: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150714142051.htm The first discovery of a potential continental crust on Mars. Now, I'm trying to calculate the speed with which a Martian Granite

[meteorite-list] Houston, We Have GEOLOGY!

Dear List, Behold, the First Closeup Pictures From the Pluto Flyby Are Here http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/behold-first-closeup-pictures-p luto-flyby-are-here-180955934/#RCIFFlhitGcKgUWc.99 Color Intensification images of Pluto and Charon:

[meteorite-list] The Fix Is In

Gary, Rob, List, Thanks to the link-fixers. Blessed are they because they save us all from cut'n'paste... Sterling __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com

[meteorite-list] Pluto Flyover Movie TinyURL

List, Pluto flyover movie animation is in this article, but resists giving up a separate URL. Here's the TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/p3kfy7q Sterling Webb __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at

[meteorite-list] Pluto Flyover Movie

List, Pluto flyover movie animation is in this article, but resists giving up a separate URL: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/07/17/pluto_and_charon_more_c lose_ups.html Sterling Webb __ Visit our Facebook page

Re: [meteorite-list] Changes in radiants over time

E.P., List, Most of this is straight from the Wikipedia; it's just the basics, but they say it so well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_shower#Radiant_point Meteor "streams" are dust and particles shed by comets and strung out along the comet's orbit. Some of these orbits intersect

Re: [meteorite-list] The Dunning-Kruger effect

List, Paul, The opposite of the Dunning- Kruger Effect is this: "When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one."

Re: [meteorite-list] Lunar Lava Tubes Could Protect Astronauts

Paul, List, The earliest references on the Marius Hills lava tubes go back to 1971-2. See the references in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_lava_tube Then, there was a quiet among publications; one in 1992, but then after 2000, a flurry of lava tube publications, as you can see in the

Re: [meteorite-list] Correction to

Hi, Paul, List, > In "The Aliens are Silent Because > They are Dead," I wrote [summarizing]: > "The aliens are silent because they're > dead. Life on other planets would > probably go extinct soon after its > origin, due to runaway heating or > cooling on their fledgling planets." It seems

Re: [meteorite-list] Looking for an article on Santa Rosa

The best article I could find was: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2004/pdf/5038.pdf Stering Webb -- -Original Message- From: Meteorite-list [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Rob Wesel via

Re: [meteorite-list] Tom Phillips Meteorite Micro Visions Screensaver

Hi, MikeG, List While this is not the specific screensaver you're looking for, it is a meteoritically themed screensaver and very "impactful" and entertaining: http://www.fourmilab.ch/craters/ After the screensaver pause interval has passed, craters start appearing on your screen. It was

Re: [meteorite-list] Tom Phillips Meteorite Micro Visions Screensaver

Hi, MikeG, List While this is not the specific screensaver you're looking for, it is a meteoritically themed screensaver and very "impactful" and entertaining: http://www.fourmilab.ch/craters/ After the screensaver pause interval has passed, craters start appearing on your screen. It was

Re: [meteorite-list] Star's Bizarre Optical Antics at Least a Century Old

Hi, "Alien civilization still on the table"? Somehow I doubt an advanced alien civilization would screw around with their own star. They might, if they were less than scrupulous, do it to somebody else's star. Or maybe they have found a way to continously extract energy from a nearby

Re: [meteorite-list] Oriented vs Orientated

Rob, You bet "desalinization" would become one [a word], but the world has beaten you to it: desalinization. (n.d.). The American HeritageR New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Retrieved May 09, 2016 from Dictionary.com: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/desalinization It's

[meteorite-list] Home World

List, We're all familiar with the famous "blue marble" photo of the Earth supposedy taken by Apollo. (It was actually patched together for use as a publicity shot.) But, there is (now) a true "blue marble" camera that photographs the Earth from a million miles out, the Earth

[meteorite-list] We Have A Neghbor

Hi, We have a neghboring planet only 4 light years away. It's small, earthlike, in the habitable zone of its star, yada-yada. Everybody's going crazy... Me too. We could have a fleet of microprobes there (40 years at 10% of lightspeed) before the end of this century, no sweat.

Re: [meteorite-list] The World's Second Largest Meteorite

akhla.Dog.Meteorites www.facebook.com/Rob.Wesel -- We are the music makers... and we are the dreamers of the dreams. Willy Wonka, 1971 ------ From: "Sterling K. Webb via Meteorite-list" <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> Sent

[meteorite-list] The World's Second Largest Meteorite

List, A 34-ton iron has been found in the Campo del Cielo region of Argentina: http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=332776 The meteorite was found on Sept. 10 in the town of Gancedo, 1,085 km north of Buenos Aires, Mario Vesconi, president of the Astronomy

[meteorite-list] FW: Meteorite hit pear on tree:)

Paul Gessler and List, Since the late unpleasantness between your ancestral Gessler and Herr Tell started up around 1307 A.D., but the Twannberg iron was only discovered on May 9, 1984 in a barley field near Twann, after it had been plowed up (that's Twannberg I), it seems to me unlikely

Re: [meteorite-list] We Have A Neighbor

Hi, Paul, List, Not to be overly picky, but it's MR. WEBB, not Mrs. Webb... Mr. Sterling Webb --- From: Meteorite-list [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Paul via Meteorite-list Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 7:48 PM

[meteorite-list] Another, Different Chicxulub Theory

Dear List, "Scientists Say Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Made Earth's Surface Act Like Liquid:" http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/22/503013290/scientists-say-d inosaur-killing-asteroid-made-earths-surface-act-like-liquid "...recently published in the journal "Science." Deep drilled

Re: [meteorite-list] Hunting Arizona's Newest Strewn Field

Rob, Ruben, List, Virtually EVERY digital camera and photo-enabled phone made in the last 5 years or more encodes what's called EXIF data for every photo taken. That includes the GPS data for the photo location (among many other types of data). Here's a good free program that addresses

[meteorite-list] Meteorites Date Jupiter's Formation

Dear List, "Meteorites are made up from two genetically distinct nebular reservoirs that coexisted but remained separated between 1 million and 3-4 million years after the solar system formed." https://phys.org/news/2017-06-evidence-jupiter-oldest-planet-solar.html

[meteorite-list] Alien Minerals

Listees, "Alien Minerals Discovered at Ancient Meteorite Strike Site in Scotland:" http://www.newsweek.com/skye-meteorites-alien-mineral-749103 "Geologists have uncovered mineral forms never before seen on Earth at the site of a sixty million-year-old meteorite strike on the Isle of

Re: [meteorite-list] What Happens If China Makes First Contact?

Alfredo, Paul, List, I can suggest two recent (within a few decades) books on the whole question of Extraterrestial contact: "If the Universe is Teeming With Aliens, Where Is Every- body?" (2002) by Stephen Webb, presents in detail the arguments for 50 different explanations for the

[meteorite-list] Extra-terrestrial Hypatia stone rattles solar system status quo

Hi, Jeff, Mattias, List, Diamonds are formed deep within the Earth's mantle: between 100 km and 200 km below the surface at static temperatures of 900 - 1300 C. Pressures there are between 45 - 60 kilobars. A meteor impact, even a relatively small one (Meteor Crater) can generate 20-25

[meteorite-list] MICHIGAN METEOR

List, "Fireball Finds! Meteorite Fragments from Dazzling Michigan Meteor Found on Ice:" https://www.space.com/39442-michigan-meteor-fireball-meteorites-found.html Some nice pictures, too. Sterling Webb __ Visit our Facebook page

Re: [meteorite-list] Seafloor Data Point to Global Volcanism after Chicxulub Impact

Paul, List, The real mystery about Chicxulub is its SIZE for so recent a date. Or another way of putting it is to ask how an object that big could keep crossing the Earth's orbit for all those billions of years without deliverng us a good smack? There's a theory that Chixcy is a

[meteorite-list] OLDESTR IGNEOUS METEORITE

List, "Oldest-ever igneous meteorite contains clues to planet building blocks:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180806095218.htm "NWA 9 is the oldest-ever igneous meteorite recorded at 4.565 billion years... "The age of this meteorite is the oldest, igneous meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] Online Guidebook to Western Australian Impact Craters

Paul, List, I see they named a crater after Gene Shoemaker. That was nice of them. Sterling Webb [Forgot I can't send the List HTML; here is the Plain Text] - -Original Message- From: Meteorite-list [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com]

Re: [meteorite-list] Online Guidebook to Western Australian Impact Craters

Paul, List, I see they named a crater after Gene Shoemaker. That was nice of them. Sterling Webb - -Original Message- From: Meteorite-list [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Paul via Meteorite-list Sent: Monday, July

[meteorite-list] Meteorites Recovered From Ocean Bottom

List, It seems that Marc Fries (former list member) has recovered fragments from the fireball that passed over Seattle in March of this year... from the bottom of the Pacific! "Against all odds, NASA may have actually found a meteorite on the bottom of the ocean:"

[meteorite-list] STICKY TAPES

Anne, List, The absolute worst sticky tape to remove is Scotch No. 800 and similarly formulated varieties of clear packing tapes. Years ago, when my family ran a drugstore, we used Scotch No. 800 to wrap the label onto your pill bottles because you never want that kind of label to come

[meteorite-list] FIREBALL!

List, "Meteor size of minivan caused booming fireball over Washington:" https://www.slashgear.com/meteor-size-of-minivan-caused-booming-fireball-ove r-washington-09522832/ A piece made it

[meteorite-list] FIREBALL!

List, "Meteor size of minivan caused booming fireball over Washington:" https://www.slashgear.com/meteor-size-of-minivan-caused-booming-fireball-ove r-washington-09522832/ A piece made it to the ground, only the "ground" was the Pacific Ocean. Nice video of the bolide in the article,

Re: [meteorite-list] Why Extraterrestrial Life May Be More Unlikely Than Scientists Thought

List, Alfredo, A copy of this book (.pdf): "Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe" by Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee can be downloaded (free) from Simply type "rare earth peter ward" into the search box and click "Search." Peter Ward has a certain reknown as a

[meteorite-list] Tiangong-1 Down

List, The Tiangong-1 Space Habitat is down, in the South Pacific, at about 8:16 p.m. ET It is likely that all sales of Tiangong-1 debris has already been suspended... Sterling Webb __ Visit our Facebook page

[meteorite-list] ANOTHER MOON FORMATION THEORY

List, "Moon was made from spinning cloud of vaporised rock, say scientists:" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/moon-how-made-origin-vaporised-roc k-cloud-astrophysics-science-harvard-a8233006.html?utm_source=quora Sterling K. Webb __

[meteorite-list] SNAPSHOT OF EXTINCTION

Dear List, A site in the Hell Creek Formation (found in the SW part of South Dakota and elsewhere across the upper Midwest) has yielded a fossil site that seems to date to the exact day of the Chicxulub impact, or so it's claimed. The longest story with photos I found at The Daily Mail,